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Eighteen years ago.

about this size.

Joe got himself killed

Compartmentalization is the protocol we agreed to.

about an arms race with the Soviets.

Or the Chevalier incident?

If it's truth, where's the disclosure?

ROBB: Under current AEC guidelines,

You're a politician now, Robert.

Because Robert never had anything to do

will be scattered across White Sands.

Because if it can put us ahead again,

Why would you think I'd do that?

It was chilling,

-Is he wrong? -No.

It was you on the cover of Time.

-Schvitzer. -Schvitzer?

This is ridiculous.

have come to the attention

I came in for plenty of harsh treatment.

-I don't know. -The Nazis have them.

-I did. -And did there come a time

What more do you want?

He seemed more focused on heavy water.

the development of the hydrogen bomb, weren't you?

Compartmentalization is the key to maintaining security...

of an atomic explosion.

about what's happening here?

We're going to Chicago tomorrow.

outside suspected Communist gatherings,

A Yank, lecturing on the new physics?

and stop being so goddamn naive.

Stalin hoped we'd use it against Japan.

I have a wife and child.

Well, they'll-they'll put everything they have and...

Let's go recruit some scientists.

Well. Good day.

if what you say about the Soviets is true,

(rousing music continues)

Would you have been in support of the dropping

largely through the animus of Lewis Strauss.

on who on the team could be trusted?

these isotopes could be useful to our enemies

left-wing political activities.

that you did your duty, painful though it was.

I told you, Robert, no more fucking flowers.

and I know what it means for the Nazis to have a bomb.

Twenty minutes.

Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer.

to be a weapon of mass destruction.

Useless in the lab.

...before the Nazis do.

-(sighs) -ROBB: Well?

I'll have to consult my lawyers, Lewis.

Who'd want to justify their whole life?

That's why I asked him to run the Institute,

and needing certainty.

-(laughter) -'Kay.

uh, if I were on the commission.

I'm starting to see where you got your reputation.

to wear like a fuckin' crown.

(somber music playing)

(scoffs) You don't get to say "no" to me.

Our nation's best scientists working together.

BETHE: No. No, no, no. No.

(music intensifying)

LOMANITZ: Okay.

ROBB: Colonel Pash, could you please read

I didn't. I was chair of the AEC,

among scientists was unanimous.

This is first-hand.

but how was I supposed to protect him?

about organized labor on campuses, yes?

MARSHALL: If a Russian bomb is inevitable,

The views I have to express are my own,

He can't prove a goddamn thing.

of the Joint Congressional Committee.

You write up an indictment

Long enough to have forgotten.

don't underestimate the psychological impact of a...

When I came to you with those calculations,

Criticality, a point of no return,

What can I tell them?

'Cause I don't like your phrase.

Now, if we can enrich these amounts,

We've signed up chemists, we've signed up engineers,

And in the weeks and years that followed?

I'd like to bring my brother here.

through international control on nuclear energy.

We've been waiting for so long.

our work here will ensure a peace mankind has never seen.

ROBB: And yet, after the war,

I'm saying it would be prudent.

Strauss knows that you can't do that,

Yes. Come and see.

(glass shattering)

Teller's calculations can't be right.

Hill is in the afternoon.

Thereby revealing its existence.

Frank, tell them all, 5:30.

under great pressure to induce a fusion reaction.

big enough for a thermonuclear weapon,

Call it gallows humor.

The math says it can.

I can't believe it.

We've all read his file here.

Shouldn't you go to him?

One student? That's it?

LAWRENCE: You shouldn't let them bring up politics

Increasing gravity.

will have made that leap instantly.

Well, the purpose of this institute

Lane: and now I have become SPX-00025116

-They can be discreet. -I don't like it.

to understand what I'd started.

Everybody take a welder's glass.

did not mean a sharp break

Hitler called quantum physics "Jewish science."

(chuckles softly) Ouch.

the typical American schoolboy attitude

-No, he hates me, not America. -You know, General,

but I was there.

MORRISON: But how do we justify

This year, we've had ten a month.

then we've gotta get going.

but more useful than a sandwich.

How could it be both?

you will look back on your work here with pride.

interested in the work of the Radiation Lab.

But if that furnace cools...

That's not the particular interest that I have.

She was undergoing psychiatric treatment.

Also, my wife and I honeymooned there.

The, uh, Japanese spoke of people who wore striped clothing

would prefer to see Mr. Strauss

which can't impact people's lives.

We were together.

Informing him of our breakthrough

Great, then gather the fucking press.

Would you please be so kind as to read it, sir?

us making fun of crosskdog for liking ruby and being gay

Fuchs, head down.

(elevator dings)

(chanting stops)

-I can't tell you. -Why not?

(tense music continues)

No, plane's too risky.

I just wish we had it in time to use against the Germans.

You once held a-a reception for me.

John F. Kennedy.

Wasn't security tight?

I was gone by the time

And we could issue a warning to reduce civilian casualties.

Do people need a reason to do the right thing?

(stomping stops)

-Uh, I'm not. -Oh, not yet.

from becoming part of the atomic world.

While I'm there next week, I'll drop in to see him.

is disloyal to the United States?

Uh, my assumption is that

and not a chemical reaction.

on bringing on your brother Frank,

If you could just be a little more...

"J. Robert Oppenheimer is an agent of the Soviet Union.

I won't take up too much of your time.

-(Rabi chuckles) -Nice to meet you.

Well, since we're going to need one anyway,

between 1947 and 1954 to change your mind

-She's kidding. -(Kitty chuckles)

Dr. Oppenheimer is a man of upstanding character.

Any moral scruples about that?

Do you know when the Soviets are gonna have the bomb?

So you have the job now?

-(birds chirping) -(rooster crowing)

What is this doing?

-(Robert chuckles) -(chuckles) That's him.

(wind whistling)

Oppenheimer wanted to own the atomic bomb.

Birth control is a little out of my jurisdiction, General.

Because I was an idiot.

Well, as chairman of the AEC,

But if we announce it and it fails to go off,

just as it had with the atomic bomb.

They hadn't said.

-Oppenheimer finally offered it up. -Gone?

Can we please? The implosion device is nowhere.

He convinced Lawrence

ROBERT: Progress?

I was trying to put it

Who are they bringing in?

It'll need a school, stores, a church.

to destroy themselves,

Well, here we are.

How could this man who saw so much be so blind?

-Is that... -ROBERT: Mrs. Serber, yes.

Yeah, but it's a door closing.

-Ah. -By remote control.

It's not that simple, Hoke.