This AI-assisted music video traces the origins of the atomic age—from the discovery of nuclear fission and the Einstein–Szilard letter urging U.S. action, through the Manhattan Project’s race to build a weapon, to the devastation and ethical aftershocks of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The piece follows J. Robert Oppenheimer and the network of scientists, engineers, and workers who transformed theoretical physics into world-altering reality, highlighting both the technical breakthroughs and the human consequences.

Concept & Storyline

• • The narrative opens with the realization that splitting the atom could release immense energy and a pivotal exchange between Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard. It then follows the Manhattan Project’s parallel paths: uranium enrichment and the plutonium implosion design, culminating in two distinct weapons. The closing sequence reflects on the bombings’ immediate impact and the enduring questions they left behind.

Research & Script Development

• • Using ChatGPT, I transformed my background research into historically grounded narration and lyric lines for a music-video format. I iterated prompts and revisions to ensure clarity, momentum, and emotional accuracy while keeping the science and chronology accessible to a general audience.

Music & Sound

• • With Suno AI, I set the script to a modern rock/electronic palette to mirror the story’s tension—innovation under pressure, moral conflict, and irreversible change. The beat and arrangement accent key turning points so the soundtrack carries both urgency and reflection.

Visual Design

• • I used ChatGPT to outline eleven scene beats aligned to the lyrics, then generated image prompts for each beat. Gemini rendered the scenes—laboratories, desert test sites, assembly lines, and post-blast cityscapes—so the visuals track the story’s arc from discovery to consequence.

Editing & Assembly

• • I cut the final piece in Adobe Premiere Rush, aligning vocal phrasing with on-screen moments, pacing transitions to the music, and layering captions and effects for continuity. The goal was a tight, cinematic flow that audiences can follow in one pass.

This project invites viewers to grasp both the brilliance and the burden of the Manhattan Project: how collaborative science solved unprecedented engineering problems—and how those solutions reshaped ethics, warfare, and global politics. By blending research with creative AI tools, the video makes a complex chapter of history vivid, memorable, and debate-worthy.

Tools used: ChatGPT (research adaptation, narration, lyric drafting), Suno AI (music/vocals), Gemini + ChatGPT (image concepts and prompts), Adobe Premiere Rush (editing).