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How could it be both?

(elevator dings)

MORRISON: But how do we justify

-(Rabi chuckles) -Nice to meet you.

It's not that simple, Hoke.

Yeah, but it's a door closing.

If you could just be a little more...

if what you say about the Soviets is true,

ROBB: And yet, after the war,

(glass shattering)

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

Because Robert never had anything to do

Teller's calculations can't be right.

I was gone by the time

these isotopes could be useful to our enemies

(rousing music continues)

He seemed more focused on heavy water.

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

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about this size.

which can't impact people's lives.

They hadn't said.

-Oppenheimer finally offered it up. -Gone?

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

Hill is in the afternoon.

about organized labor on campuses, yes?

She was undergoing psychiatric treatment.

I'd like to bring my brother here.

-(laughter) -'Kay.

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

outside suspected Communist gatherings,

-Is he wrong? -No.

of an atomic explosion.

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

(stomping stops)

left-wing political activities.

Shouldn't you go to him?

We were together.

will be scattered across White Sands.

and stop being so goddamn naive.

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

The math says it can.

Our nation's best scientists working together.

Lane: and now I have become SPX-00025116

Let's go recruit some scientists.

from becoming part of the atomic world.

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

Strauss knows that you can't do that,

about an arms race with the Soviets.

He convinced Lawrence

This is first-hand.

Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer.

under great pressure to induce a fusion reaction.

What is this doing?

Because I was an idiot.

The views I have to express are my own,

then we've gotta get going.

Also, my wife and I honeymooned there.

but how was I supposed to protect him?

It was you on the cover of Time.

Fuchs, head down.

Uh, my assumption is that

ROBB: Colonel Pash, could you please read

We're going to Chicago tomorrow.

among scientists was unanimous.

ROBB: Under current AEC guidelines,

Hitler called quantum physics "Jewish science."

-She's kidding. -(Kitty chuckles)

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

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

(chanting stops)

...before the Nazis do.

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

I'm saying it would be prudent.

No, plane's too risky.

Everybody take a welder's glass.

You write up an indictment

big enough for a thermonuclear weapon,

will have made that leap instantly.

Frank, tell them all, 5:30.

Do people need a reason to do the right thing?

Because if it can put us ahead again,

And in the weeks and years that followed?

I was trying to put it

of the Joint Congressional Committee.

And we could issue a warning to reduce civilian casualties.

(chuckles softly) Ouch.

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

I can't believe it.

to be a weapon of mass destruction.

between 1947 and 1954 to change your mind

Can we please? The implosion device is nowhere.

uh, if I were on the commission.

but more useful than a sandwich.

Now, if we can enrich these amounts,

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

ROBERT: Progress?

Who are they bringing in?

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

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

Long enough to have forgotten.

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

Yes. Come and see.

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

MARSHALL: If a Russian bomb is inevitable,

-Schvitzer. -Schvitzer?

on bringing on your brother Frank,

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

Would you have been in support of the dropping

have come to the attention

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

Joe got himself killed

to understand what I'd started.

Useless in the lab.

(somber music playing)

I'll have to consult my lawyers, Lewis.

interested in the work of the Radiation Lab.

Great, then gather the fucking press.

Twenty minutes.

We've been waiting for so long.

This is ridiculous.

the typical American schoolboy attitude

What more do you want?

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

Criticality, a point of no return,

is disloyal to the United States?

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

Dr. Oppenheimer is a man of upstanding character.

Informing him of our breakthrough

-Ah. -By remote control.

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

Increasing gravity.

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

Call it gallows humor.

I told you, Robert, no more fucking flowers.

-I did. -And did there come a time

just as it had with the atomic bomb.

Oppenheimer wanted to own the atomic bomb.

Well, the purpose of this institute

on who on the team could be trusted?

to destroy themselves,

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

You're a politician now, Robert.

(wind whistling)

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

Why would you think I'd do that?

LOMANITZ: Okay.

So you have the job now?

This year, we've had ten a month.

Stalin hoped we'd use it against Japan.

largely through the animus of Lewis Strauss.

You once held a-a reception for me.

LAWRENCE: You shouldn't let them bring up politics

One student? That's it?

Compartmentalization is the protocol we agreed to.

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

Eighteen years ago.

-(birds chirping) -(rooster crowing)

but I was there.

'Cause I don't like your phrase.

you will look back on your work here with pride.

Wasn't security tight?

John F. Kennedy.

to wear like a fuckin' crown.

Who'd want to justify their whole life?

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

I have a wife and child.

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

He can't prove a goddamn thing.

We've all read his file here.

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

Well. Good day.

us making fun of crosskdog for liking ruby and being gay

Or the Chevalier incident?

What can I tell them?

and needing certainty.

That's not the particular interest that I have.

Well, as chairman of the AEC,

When I came to you with those calculations,

Compartmentalization is the key to maintaining security...

and not a chemical reaction.

A Yank, lecturing on the new physics?

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

did not mean a sharp break

-(sighs) -ROBB: Well?

Any moral scruples about that?

It was chilling,

But if that furnace cools...

Thereby revealing its existence.

about what's happening here?

would prefer to see Mr. Strauss

that you did your duty, painful though it was.

Well, here we are.

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

through international control on nuclear energy.

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

(tense music continues)

I came in for plenty of harsh treatment.