Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

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

Or the Chevalier incident?

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

these isotopes could be useful to our enemies

...before the Nazis do.

Who'd want to justify their whole life?

the typical American schoolboy attitude

(somber music playing)

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

of the Joint Congressional Committee.

Yeah, but it's a door closing.

You once held a-a reception for me.

will have made that leap instantly.

I was trying to put it

It's not that simple, Hoke.

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

Well, the purpose of this institute

Increasing gravity.

-Schvitzer. -Schvitzer?

-Ah. -By remote control.

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

Teller's calculations can't be right.

Well. Good day.

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

from becoming part of the atomic world.

I can't believe it.

Hitler called quantum physics "Jewish science."

interested in the work of the Radiation Lab.

Compartmentalization is the protocol we agreed to.

and stop being so goddamn naive.

LOMANITZ: Okay.

-(laughter) -'Kay.

(stomping stops)

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

He seemed more focused on heavy water.

if what you say about the Soviets is true,

(chanting stops)

I came in for plenty of harsh treatment.

(wind whistling)

The views I have to express are my own,

you will look back on your work here with pride.

would prefer to see Mr. Strauss

What is this doing?

largely through the animus of Lewis Strauss.

And we could issue a warning to reduce civilian casualties.

Also, my wife and I honeymooned there.

Why would you think I'd do that?

She was undergoing psychiatric treatment.

-I did. -And did there come a time

-She's kidding. -(Kitty chuckles)

(tense music continues)

ROBB: Under current AEC guidelines,

Informing him of our breakthrough

Eighteen years ago.

and needing certainty.

Hill is in the afternoon.

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

just as it had with the atomic bomb.

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

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

(music intensifying)

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

I'll have to consult my lawyers, Lewis.

Well, here we are.

big enough for a thermonuclear weapon,

ROBERT: Progress?

that you did your duty, painful though it was.

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

No, plane's too risky.

(glass shattering)

You're a politician now, Robert.

Oppenheimer wanted to own the atomic bomb.

about an arms race with the Soviets.

Useless in the lab.

Because if it can put us ahead again,

between 1947 and 1954 to change your mind

Shouldn't you go to him?

Joe got himself killed

Because I was an idiot.

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

Do people need a reason to do the right thing?

Well, as chairman of the AEC,

This year, we've had ten a month.

LAWRENCE: You shouldn't let them bring up politics

outside suspected Communist gatherings,

but I was there.

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

Now, if we can enrich these amounts,

Wasn't security tight?

among scientists was unanimous.

MARSHALL: If a Russian bomb is inevitable,

under great pressure to induce a fusion reaction.

is disloyal to the United States?

You write up an indictment

about organized labor on campuses, yes?

But if that furnace cools...

John F. Kennedy.

-(Rabi chuckles) -Nice to meet you.

Criticality, a point of no return,

Strauss knows that you can't do that,

to understand what I'd started.

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

but how was I supposed to protect him?

Frank, tell them all, 5:30.

Long enough to have forgotten.

'Cause I don't like your phrase.

then we've gotta get going.

I'd like to bring my brother here.

to be a weapon of mass destruction.

Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer.

-(birds chirping) -(rooster crowing)

-Oppenheimer finally offered it up. -Gone?

I'm saying it would be prudent.

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

We're going to Chicago tomorrow.

This is first-hand.

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

through international control on nuclear energy.

Stalin hoped we'd use it against Japan.

Call it gallows humor.

Would you have been in support of the dropping

Any moral scruples about that?

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

What can I tell them?

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

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

He convinced Lawrence

-Is he wrong? -No.

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

Compartmentalization is the key to maintaining security...

uh, if I were on the commission.

Can we please? The implosion device is nowhere.

which can't impact people's lives.

Let's go recruit some scientists.

We've been waiting for so long.

Yes. Come and see.

One student? That's it?

I told you, Robert, no more fucking flowers.

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

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

us making fun of crosskdog for liking ruby and being gay

When I came to you with those calculations,

What more do you want?

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

on who on the team could be trusted?

(rousing music continues)

to destroy themselves,

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

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

have come to the attention

about this size.

He can't prove a goddamn thing.

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

Who are they bringing in?

This is ridiculous.

We were together.

Because Robert never had anything to do

left-wing political activities.

(chuckles softly) Ouch.

So you have the job now?

The math says it can.

-(sighs) -ROBB: Well?

Great, then gather the fucking press.

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

It was chilling,

Fuchs, head down.

And in the weeks and years that followed?

If you could just be a little more...

ROBB: And yet, after the war,

Everybody take a welder's glass.

Our nation's best scientists working together.

and not a chemical reaction.

We've all read his file here.

ROBB: Colonel Pash, could you please read

(elevator dings)

of an atomic explosion.

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

Dr. Oppenheimer is a man of upstanding character.

I have a wife and child.

It was you on the cover of Time.

How could it be both?

Lane: and now I have become SPX-00025116

did not mean a sharp break

Thereby revealing its existence.

Twenty minutes.

Uh, my assumption is that

on bringing on your brother Frank,

I was gone by the time

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

to wear like a fuckin' crown.

They hadn't said.

will be scattered across White Sands.

MORRISON: But how do we justify

A Yank, lecturing on the new physics?

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

That's not the particular interest that I have.

but more useful than a sandwich.

about what's happening here?