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so why not scientists in academia?

What about the Super?

(unsettling music playing)

Fuchs, head down.

Do we really... do we really need that in the notes?

and your plain old regular Commie?

but by Lewis Strauss.

starting with Einstein. I told you about, uh, Einstein.

America and Russia

-(spool winds) -Oh.

You'll lose your job.

Interestingly enough,

No. None at all.

ROBERT: Not for long.

At Los Alamos, yes,

She'll be here.

that you actively opposed

Because we have every right...

They bring in a scientist, so what?

No. I admitted to him that I'd lied to Pash.

(thunder rumbling)

they say the building's too small for the cyclotron.

How could you know that? You got us into this.

because he expressed strong opinions.

-But then look... -(pulsing)

Just broke ground at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

When Pash first heard about Lomanitz,

And we'll be in an arms race.

As we begin, I believe you have

two years' worth of plutonium

Why would Hill come here to tear me down?

after the Soviet atomic test said

He knew his phone was tapped, he was followed everywhere...

We just don't know what it might do

How's it feel to be

"Ownership is theft."

seeing a world inside our world.

-Mr. Lomanitz? -Na.

With respect, Dr. Oppenheimer,

You'd have to deliver by ox cart.

I told her I couldn't...

I've informed General Groves you've been holding

...when did your strong moral convictions develop

(distant explosion)

(birds chirping)

as demonstrated in the Oppenheimer affair?

Uh, when they opened me up in Scotland, I was unconscious.

This is your community.

...emotionally immature...

"the purpose of this letter is to state my opinion

He said his name's Pash.

Look, it's not that. I've got a group coming.

He should be thanking me.

who climbed out of the ruins of their homes

increasingly out of sympathy with the (clears throat)

Then tell them to go to hell.

Build it? Oh, no. (chuckles)

If it's gone our way,

Setting fire to the atmosphere.

(telephone ringing)

(pensive music playing)

Hahn and Strassmann in Germany.

It has been put at somewhere between 50 and 100,000.

"he has since acted under a Soviet directive

I'd like the chance to cross-examine.

-You'll get your shot. -REPORTER 1: Please, sir.

The destroyer of worlds."

Are those safe distances?

of his loyalty and character?

into a practical weapons system

Don't you have somewhere to be?

but I did not endorse them.

What are you doing?

That's not what either of us is talking about.

May not be your fault, but it's your problem.

But how would you know

a terrible revelation of divine power.

contained detail of his activities in Berkeley.

-BORDEN: That is correct. -Prior to the writing

and you're neither, Lloyd.

ROBB: When did you see her after that?

You're aiming for the 6th?

it was not the preparation of a weapon.

-But you said... -Sorry, 18.

BOHR: What's the "J" stand for?

We're putting together a group to study feasibility...

had anything they wanted to pass on,

I don't understand what you want from me.

-It's not properly phrased. -Do you understand

Lewis, we can win this thing.

Fuchs, you take Teller's role.

Can you hear the music, Robert?

the actual mechanics of detonation.

110,000 at both.

Are we boring you, Edward?

CHEVALIER: You know who I ran into the other day?

the best assurance you're going to get is this.

So get out of Cambridge with its beakers and potions.

(Kitty laughing)

A month of my salary against ten bucks says it lights.

STRAUSS: Senator, I'd like to once again request

(sighs) just denying.

When we detonate an atomic device,

or one of Truman's guys. It was you.

with Frank and Kistiakowsky.

STRAUSS: A simple bureaucratic procedure.

Now let's calculate how much more destructive

I didn't ask you that, Doctor!

Uh, Secretary Stimson, if I may...

you ought to be aware of.

Met Lab in Chicago, under Szilard.

A bomb, Alvarez.

Or should we pivot?

Why would they have started a file

No board in this country should sit in judgment of a man

when you expressed those conclusions

on the shipment of isotopes to Norway,

It's happening, isn't it?

He wanted the glorious,

laying out evidence that has already been before the board.

There, carefully.

Because she was still in love with me.

fire pushing outwards against its own gravity.

Well, I'd love to get more details.

We fire a chunk of fissionable material into a larger sphere

We compact the atoms together

not shut it down.

Head down, everyone.

was instantly and seriously burned.

...destroys the world.

FRANK: It worked.

-Edward, can I please... -It is more important.

securing enough uranium ore.

What did Borden have against Oppenheimer?

Teachers are unionized. Why not professors?

Just like I know Walther Bothe, von Weizsäcker, Diebner.

to the Spanish Civil War as late as 1942?

...troubled by visions of a hidden universe.

Senate really has no choice but to confirm you.

-but I messed it up. -(crowd laughs)

to fight the Bolsheviks.

Did Truman brief Stalin at Potsdam?

wasn't your most important policy disagreement

Did you have a Communist Party membership card?

and they won't understand it until they've used it.

Groupings of tiny energy waves bound together.

to misrepresent his former answers.

Algebra's like sheet music.

If you do decide to appeal,

who used all the tricks

Suppose that this board did not feel satisfied

So you could control me.

What do you know about quantum mechanics?

he knew he was vulnerable.

Have that dry-cleaned.

I send funds to colleagues in Germany to emigrate.

Why does that matter?

Mr. Garrison, this isn't a trial, as you are well aware.

NICHOLS: Take your time, use the entire file.

Of course. 'Scuse me, Kurt.

Do you two need anything?

(chuckles softly)

Lawrence, you embrace the revolution in physics.

that the Gray board permitted a prosecution.

I think you could be very happy here.

You served your country well.

(suspenseful music playing)

I have to do something.

-(chair scrapes) -Mrs. Oppenheimer.

"Three, more probably than not,

did you expend resources

Virtually everyone in the street,

and his name popped up.

Oppenheimer poisoned the scientists against me,

You must be Oppenheimer.

until you feel my boot on your balls.

is proving difficult to obtain is not my fault.

No more, no less.

(dramatic music playing)

They've done it. They've done it.

Compartmentalization. I understand completely.

Used his profile to influence policy.

we have to build up Los Alamos,

-the bomb will need a... -Uh-uh.

And if the Russians know about it already,

Can you run the calculations yourself?

and the regrettable lack of candor

Learn the ways of theory.

Lomanitz wound up working the railroad, laying track.

ROBERT: Well done.

Did you ever encounter Heisenberg again?

back in the bottle.

Uh, sorry, Admiral.

-I can relate to that. -Really?

GARRISON: Dr. Rabi, thank you for coming.

Ah, Barbara, good to see you

Now let's consider a star.

so if anyone has anything, speak now.

But while they have him, we don't.

Well, actually, my background's more...

-I'm Jean. -Robert.

...nuclear war, perhaps all war...

Explosives around the sphere blast inwards,

(suspenseful music plays)

I need to go to the lecture, sir.

required sending some money and receiving a card, no?

welcome to the Institute.

Well, my previous husband had died, and...

I didn't expect to see you today.

I know he took an intellectual interest

In Berkeley. You gave me an award.

Oh, and I don't?

or the voltage drops below one volt,

We need this kid. Fix it, will you?

Maybe they will.

But that proved not to be the case.

Let me know if you need any help with the English.

You were at my lecture.

we use hydrogen.

The glass. Stops the U.V.

we'll take it from here.

Which you seem convinced they already know.

Klaus Fuchs, the British scientist that you put

to see me before we left.

-Oh, no, not you, Oppenheimer. -(students laughing)

GRAY: Mr. Garrison, given that we on the board

perhaps you should turn your back on her.

What's his name?

even as he knew we'd have to.

Nobody can work under these conditions.

(scoffs) Because you're not just self-important,

may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle,

Dr. Oppenheimer, Klaus Fuchs.

-GROVES: Clearly. -KITTY: General.