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-has been approved. -It hasn't.
A pillar of fire 10,000 feet tall.
STRAUSS: Is it official?
Ouch.
'S funny.
who's an acquaintance of someone on the project.
You're a dilettante, a womanizer,
Can we hear this recording?
But first I had to go to Europe.
Near zero.
Everybody, mattresses.
-(siren wailing) -(uneasy music playing)
We're ahead. And with you here to help us, Niels.
Robert. Robert.
where they would target us.
(exhales deeply)
perhaps you can get me my security clearance
You're a scientist.
Well, you say that and then you call.
And wouldn't the Russians do anything
Forget I asked.
Well, you'd have to ask Mr. Hoover.
(applause)
What were you guys doing at Los Alamos?
(gripping music continues)
-I'm afraid so, sir. -All right.
the blast won't be as powerful.
that he could help.
-I'm a self-made man. -Ah.
Well, obviously.
if a hydrogen bomb's technically feasible.
ROBERT: Canyons of New Mexico.
more than 40 years ago now.
there's just no way.
I know that, thank you
But I can run the Manhattan Project.
(scofffs) You don't get to say no to me
BOHR: To talk about after.
in order to destroy Oppenheimer's effectiveness,
Detonators charged.
and the local Indians come up here for burial rites.
Uh, Jungian?
...will remember this day.
Frank and I are thinking of joining. Just the other day,
(Jean breathing heavily)
That's the sweet spot, gentlemen.
Germany's defeated.
I wrote that.
BETHE: No.
I would never put you in a room with Pash.
I would have done anything I was asked to do.
Nothing in our long-standing friendship
Why?
not that I agreed.
Well, he said,
So, you're a biologist.
I'm gonna try to reproduce it
Dr. Bush, I thought I was performing a service
to make that possible.
You could use a bottle of beer
ROBERT: Here comes the birthday boy.
but I'm certainly getting there now.
Why would we go to the middle of nowhere
liberal background.
to deny the renewal of your security clearance.
Eat.
-didn't you? -Yes.
Picasso, Stravinsky, Freud, Marx.
ROBERT: Dr. Lawrence, I presume?
ROBERT: Richard. Dr. Bush.
Albert.
The fact that we built this bomb
(Robert exhales)
Well, he hasn't.
who knows more about science than people.
Who were the holdouts?
...and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy.
Correct.
This is one of the most prestigious
Test
I'm sorry, Oppie, but there's a call.
I don't know if we can be trusted with such a weapon.
Please enjoy your party.
the most famous man in the world?
Yes, it is.
We go on the night of the 15th.
I seem to remember you demanding your brother come to Los Alamos.
My favorite response,
(telephone ringing)
A prophet can't be wrong. Not once.
Japan's not going to hold out alone.
You went back the next morning.
MAN (on speaker): Ninety seconds to detonation.
Well, you are...
Gray must see what Robb is doing.
living off beans and pancakes,
Your friend, Haakon Chevalier, the Communist.
-MORGAN: Thank you, Doctor. -ROBB: Thank you.
We do know that Dr. Hill will be here after lunch.
warning him the Germans could make a bomb,
This is a closed hearing.
Twenty minutes.
He has the most intuitive understanding
"And now I am become Death.
Theory will take you only so far.
We have an A-bomb and a whole series of it.
(students laughing)
the terrible secret of Los Alamos,
-You're from New Mexico? -No.
I've had a lot of secrets
No, it was... it was me.
on the project advise you
-what I'm getting at? -I do.
a couple of times. Eltenton.
when I got here this semester.
CHEVALIER: (chuckles) Well.
pilloried and put through an ordeal
I guarantee it's somewhere no one's been before.
I'm easy to blame for what happened to Robert.
Oh, my God.
He was no longer a government employee,
We cut down on staff, keep families together.
You have everyone convinced
GRAY: Thank you, General.
Sustained fission reactions in uranium.
A hydrogen bomb can be made to work, Oppie, you know that.
has failed to be confirmed since 1925.
take in the sheets.
(whispers): Poof.
Just remember...
Now, there are various aspects of this policy...
Are you saying we'll have to delay?
(mellow music continues)
Country needs us.
A vast and sudden chemical reaction.
Why get caught holding the knife yourself?
(clattering)
until I see very conclusive proof to the opposite.
to his friends,
I'm gonna head to base camp. Best of luck.
Nothing in our research over three years
you've done for your country?
Its only intended target would be the largest cities.
No, let's wait for the others.
-in my head for a long time. -(knock on door)
will be President Truman's last chance
That's not how weapons manufacture works, Szilard.
One point in space and time. And it comes together here.
The team hasn't slept in two nights.
Two months.
SENATOR PASTORE: Why were his Communist associations
And the Hanford plant made this much plutonium.
Where?
to provoke surrender?
-ROBB: What you, who? Who? -What I meant...
that my involvement with left-wing groups
You're a long way from Chicago, Leo.
we bombed an enemy that was essentially defeated.
Is that someone a member of the project?
-Thank you. -To Jackie?
would you clear Dr. Oppenheimer today?
Oppie! Oppie!
That'll work.
WOMAN: I got it, it's all right.
What the hell were you doing in Chicago?
my old student working for the Nazis.
Senator Thurmond asked me to say
-How so? -Well, if we use this weapon
Well, I'm not that subtle.
I'm sorry, I read it in the original German.
you tried to deny it was viable.
All right. (clears throat) Let's go.
(violent whooshing)
they're getting a divorce, so...
It won't.
Let me make this simple for you, gentlemen.
What have you found out?
on Oppenheimer's security clearance.
He took it.
Born here, but in 1918, he went back to Russia
Nothing good, no?
What for?
Why don't you have a Nobel Prize?
And then you humiliated him in front of Congress.
-Starting with New York. D.C. -RABI: That's fair.
to get him to run the Institute.
Accusations of a kind that I don't think belong here.
-Why? -I built the Pentagon.
-Why not? -(sighs)
Really? We'll fix that.
I think you knew him.
No, he should know you.
Well, then you would have built the H-bomb too,
I need answered here today.
Goddamn it.
Shall I come with you to Washington?
that when we push that button,
-Wonderful. -Thank you.
would contribute to national security.
you're actually important.
their differences in judgment on how the H-bomb
JEAN: Unexpected.
We'll have him killed.
Come on, Ruthie.
Then why did you come?
Wait, wait, wait.
as the great man of physics, and I was determined
As far as I know. As far as I know, yes.
It's important you not maintain or renew
Who's working on this in-in Berkeley?
WEATHERMAN: The wind's picking up at zero, not the rain.
without opening a can of worms.
Wanted to challenge myself.
initiated and carried through
She'll do fine.
two...
(music tempo increasing)
Robert, uh, my son and his fiancée are desperate to meet
...this won't be a fair fight.
And you share your findings with the Nazis.
A world of energy and paradox that not everyone can accept.
In a straight race, the Germans win.
(stomping intensifying)
(Heisenberg speaking German)
I believe this. And I shall believe it
-the F.A... -F.A.E.C.T.
(all laughing)
"Most scientists think the policy is stupid."
Now raise this fucking barrier.
ROBB: Are you familiar with the fact
we'll have a scientist appearing before the committee.
can we get back to the business at hand?
Might Mr. Nichols have given him access to the file?
That's you. You are the man for the job.
WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU DOING I CHICAGO??!!
on the export of isotopes to Norway,
What we meant, what I meant was...
in a context of Russia's not Germany.
Simple as that.
-with a list of witnesses. -Perhaps we are in need
Apparently our government's not sharing
And your work really begins.