Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

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