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How could it be both?

And we could issue a warning to reduce civilian casualties.

MORRISON: But how do we justify

Yeah, but it's a door closing.

but how was I supposed to protect him?

But if that furnace cools...

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

(tense music continues)

Let's go recruit some scientists.

A Yank, lecturing on the new physics?

Strauss knows that you can't do that,

ROBB: And yet, after the war,

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

What is this doing?

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

to be a weapon of mass destruction.

When I came to you with those calculations,

MARSHALL: If a Russian bomb is inevitable,

It's not that simple, Hoke.

-Schvitzer. -Schvitzer?

Who are they bringing in?

Lane: and now I have become SPX-00025116

That's not the particular interest that I have.

This is first-hand.

You write up an indictment

Fuchs, head down.

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

will be scattered across White Sands.

left-wing political activities.

Thereby revealing its existence.

I'm saying it would be prudent.

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

The views I have to express are my own,

that you did your duty, painful though it was.

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

He convinced Lawrence

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

What can I tell them?

the typical American schoolboy attitude

-Ah. -By remote control.

Compartmentalization is the key to maintaining security...

outside suspected Communist gatherings,

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

Twenty minutes.

of an atomic explosion.

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

Because I was an idiot.

Well, as chairman of the AEC,

Can we please? The implosion device is nowhere.

interested in the work of the Radiation Lab.

Call it gallows humor.

(stomping stops)

Long enough to have forgotten.

(chanting stops)

He seemed more focused on heavy water.

If you could just be a little more...

Any moral scruples about that?

And in the weeks and years that followed?

I was gone by the time

-I did. -And did there come a time

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

I have a wife and child.

Wasn't security tight?

-(birds chirping) -(rooster crowing)

This is ridiculous.

to wear like a fuckin' crown.

Compartmentalization is the protocol we agreed to.

you will look back on your work here with pride.

us making fun of crosskdog for liking ruby and being gay

Useless in the lab.

You're a politician now, Robert.

-(laughter) -'Kay.

I'll have to consult my lawyers, Lewis.

Oppenheimer wanted to own the atomic bomb.

Well. Good day.

It was chilling,

ROBB: Under current AEC guidelines,

-(sighs) -ROBB: Well?

will have made that leap instantly.

Teller's calculations can't be right.

then we've gotta get going.

ROBB: Colonel Pash, could you please read

We've all read his file here.

It was you on the cover of Time.

and not a chemical reaction.

Would you have been in support of the dropping

is disloyal to the United States?

these isotopes could be useful to our enemies

just as it had with the atomic bomb.

-(Rabi chuckles) -Nice to meet you.

Dr. Oppenheimer is a man of upstanding character.

Who'd want to justify their whole life?

(rousing music continues)

Because if it can put us ahead again,

I was trying to put it

He can't prove a goddamn thing.

Because Robert never had anything to do

We were together.

Our nation's best scientists working together.

among scientists was unanimous.

The math says it can.

Hill is in the afternoon.

Shouldn't you go to him?

Hitler called quantum physics "Jewish science."

about this size.

So you have the job now?

No, plane's too risky.

ROBERT: Progress?

LOMANITZ: Okay.

would prefer to see Mr. Strauss

big enough for a thermonuclear weapon,

if what you say about the Soviets is true,

They hadn't said.

Joe got himself killed

Do people need a reason to do the right thing?

and needing certainty.

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

I came in for plenty of harsh treatment.

Uh, my assumption is that

What more do you want?

Criticality, a point of no return,

under great pressure to induce a fusion reaction.

-She's kidding. -(Kitty chuckles)

of the Joint Congressional Committee.

John F. Kennedy.

between 1947 and 1954 to change your mind

uh, if I were on the commission.

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

Or the Chevalier incident?

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

Great, then gather the fucking press.

on who on the team could be trusted?

Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Well, here we are.

Yes. Come and see.

Eighteen years ago.

Stalin hoped we'd use it against Japan.

This year, we've had ten a month.

through international control on nuclear energy.

'Cause I don't like your phrase.

but more useful than a sandwich.

(chuckles softly) Ouch.

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

Informing him of our breakthrough

I'd like to bring my brother here.

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

Why would you think I'd do that?

I can't believe it.

to understand what I'd started.

on bringing on your brother Frank,

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

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

She was undergoing psychiatric treatment.

One student? That's it?

but I was there.

Increasing gravity.

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

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

Frank, tell them all, 5:30.

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

...before the Nazis do.

Now, if we can enrich these amounts,

have come to the attention

We're going to Chicago tomorrow.

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

from becoming part of the atomic world.

about what's happening here?

I told you, Robert, no more fucking flowers.

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

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

(elevator dings)

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

did not mean a sharp break

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

-Is he wrong? -No.

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

Also, my wife and I honeymooned there.

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

about organized labor on campuses, yes?

largely through the animus of Lewis Strauss.

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

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

Well, the purpose of this institute

You once held a-a reception for me.

(somber music playing)

(music intensifying)

-Oppenheimer finally offered it up. -Gone?

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

LAWRENCE: You shouldn't let them bring up politics

about an arms race with the Soviets.

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

which can't impact people's lives.

and stop being so goddamn naive.

to destroy themselves,

Everybody take a welder's glass.

(wind whistling)

(glass shattering)

We've been waiting for so long.