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CAPTIONING MADE
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I WISH YOU'D THINK IT OVER, LAD.
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THERE IS NO PLACE BUT
BERLIN TO BE A PHYSICIST TODAY.
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ALL THE BEST PEOPLE ARE HERE.
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THIS WEEK, ALL THE
JEWISH LAWYERS
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AND JUDGES ARE DISMISSED.
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HOW LONG DO YOU
THINK IT WILL TAKE THEM
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TO GET TO THE PHYSICISTS?
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ENGLAND WILL BE
SMARTER THAN WE ARE.
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THEY'LL HAVE ROOM FOR
A MAN OF CONSCIENCE.
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AUF WIEDERSEHEN.
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I WILL MISS YOU.
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AS SOON AS YOU
FINISH YOUR STUDIES,
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THE MOMENT YOU GET YOUR DEGREE,
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LEAVE GERMANY, PLEASE.
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UNTIL THEN, I WILL
WORRY ABOUT YOU.
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HE'S REALLY MAKING TOO MUCH
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OF THIS POLITICAL
BUSINESS, YOU KNOW?
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MMM.
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TO SAVE MANKIND, MAYBE FIRST
HE HAS TO SAVE HIMSELF, HMM?
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SAY, WHAT DOES ALL THIS MEAN?
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FROM NOW ON, NOBODY LEAVES
GERMANY WITHOUT CLEARANCE.
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CLEARANCE? WHO FROM?
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NAZIS.
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YOU MEAN THAT
WAS THE LAST TRAIN?
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FOR GOD'S SAKES, WATCH
WHERE YOU'RE GOING.
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Dr. Szilard: WHEN YOU SAY THAT
ANY IDEA OF ATOMIC ENERGY
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IS A MERE DELUSION,
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HAVE YOU BY ANY
CHANCE READ H.G. WELLS,
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WHERE HE TALKS ABOUT
AN ATOMIC REACTION
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THAT UNLEASHES A LIMITLESS POWER
AND LEADS TO GLOBAL WARFARE?
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SIR, IF YOU WOULD JUST BE
SEATED... 200 CITIES DESTROYED
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BY THE "UNQUENCHABLE
CRIMSON CONFLAGRATIONS
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OF THE ATOMIC BOMBS."
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MR. WELLS IS A WRITER
OF SCIENCE FICTION
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WITH A VIVID IMAGINATION.
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TO SPLIT THE ATOM, TO
CAUSE A CHAIN REACTION,
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TO RELEASE UNLIMITED
POWER CANNOT BE.
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CANNOT?
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LORD RUTHERFORD,
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I KNOW THAT YOU ARE
ACKNOWLEDGED BY ALL
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TO BE THE WORLD'S
GREATEST PHYSICIST.
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BUT "CANNOT" IS A WORD ONE
DOES NOT OFTEN HEAR IN SCIENCE.
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ON THE CONTRARY, SIR,
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WHEN ONE IS DEALING
WITH A FIXED, IMMUTABLE,
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IRREDUCIBLE, ABSOLUTE
LAW OF PHYSICS,
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ONE WHICH SAYS
SOMETHING CANNOT BE,
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THEN IT CANNOT BE.
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IF YOU WERE A STUDENT
OF SCIENTIFIC FACT,
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UNLIKE YOUR MR. WELLS,
YOU'D KNOW THAT.
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ACTUALLY, LORD RUTHERFORD,
I AM A PHYSICIST MYSELF.
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THAT CANNOT BE, EITHER.
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IT WOULD VIOLATE THE
ABSOLUTE, IRREDUCIBLE,
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IMMUTABLE LAW OF COMMON SENSE.
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GOOD DAY.
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IT'S SAFE TO CROSS NOW, SIR.
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SIR?
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A FOREIGNER. HE'LL
WORK IT OUT FOR HIMSELF.
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SPLITTING THE ATOM...
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CAUSE A CHAIN REACTION...
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CANNOT.
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IT'S THE EXPLANATION, THE PROOF,
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HOW THE CHAIN REACTION WORKS.
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IN PRINCIPLE, YOU'RE SAYING.
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YEAH, IN PRINCIPLE, OF COURSE.
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I SEE.
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AND WHAT EXACTLY IS IT
YOU WISH TO DO WITH IT?
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I WISH TO ASSIGN
THE PATENT TO YOU,
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TO THE BRITISH WAR OFFICE.
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WHAT IS IT WE HAVE HERE?
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IT IS THE PROCESS BY WHICH
A CHAIN REACTION IS ACHIEVED,
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RELEASING UNLIMITED
POWER TO ILLUMINATE CITIES,
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RUN SHIPS, CREATE
FANTASTIC NEW EXPLOSIVES.
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"FANTASTIC," YOU SAY.
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EXCUSE ME, SIR.
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I HAVE LIVED IN GERMANY.
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HAVE YOU?
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HARDLY.
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I TAKE HITLER SERIOUSLY.
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I WAS ON THE LAST
TRAIN OUT OF BERLIN
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JUST BEFORE THEY SEALED IT OFF.
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EVEN IN ENGLAND,
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I KEEP TWO SUITCASES
PACKED AT ALL TIMES.
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REALLY?
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I HOPE YOU'LL TAKE ME SERIOUSLY,
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BECAUSE MY SUITCASES AND I
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ARE RUNNING OUT OF
PLACES TO GO NEXT.
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YES, OF COURSE.
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WELL, SIR, VERY GOOD.
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THANK YOU. IT'S ALL
COMPLETE HERE, IS IT?
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EVERYTHING EXCEPT
THE SPLITTABLE ELEMENT.
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I WOULD START WITH
BERYLLIUM AND URANIUM.
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WELL, THAT SHOULD DO IT THEN.
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THANK YOU VERY
MUCH INDEED, MR...
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DR. SZILARD.
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DR. SZILARD. SORRY.
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WELL, VERY GOOD TO
THINK OF US, I MUST SAY.
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HEY!
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SZILARD!
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HOW ARE YOU?
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DR. FERMI, SZILARD, MY
OLD HUNGARIAN FRIEND.
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SZILARD, FERMI, MY
NEW ITALIAN FRIEND.
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COME.
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SO, HE HAS TOLD YOU?
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YEAH.
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WHAT DID HE SAY?
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NUTS.
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WHAT DOES IT MEAN, "NUTS"?
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WHY DO YOU SAY "NUTS"?
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A CHAIN REACTION IN URANIUM
IS ONLY A REMOTE POSSIBILITY.
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HOW REMOTE?
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WELL... 10%.
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10%?
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IT'S NOT A REMOTE POSSIBILITY
IF IT MEANS WE MAY DIE OF IT.
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LISTEN, FERMI, YOU KNOW WHAT'S
HAPPENING WITH THE WORLD.
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AUSTRIA'S GONE.
CZECHOSLOVAKIA? GONE.
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WHO'S NEXT, HUH?
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ENGLAND? FRANCE?
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WE ARE REFUGEES, HUH?
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AFTER AMERICA, WHERE DO WE GO?
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PLEASE, GOD, WE NEED TO KNOW.
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DOES FISSION
PRODUCE THE NEUTRONS
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TO RELEASE THIS ENERGY?
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DO THE EXPERIMENTS
YOURSELF. I DON'T CARE.
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BECAUSE UNLESS YOU THINK
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THE PHYSICISTS IN GERMANY
ARE IDIOTS, WHICH THEY'RE NOT,
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UNLESS YOU THINK THAT
HITLER DOES NOT CARE
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ABOUT BEING ABLE TO TAKE
OVER THE WORLD, WHICH HE DOES...
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BASTA, BASTA. ENOUGH, SZILARD.
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I WILL DO THE EXPERIMENTS.
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AND YOU CAN USE THE LAB, TOO.
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BARIUM IS READY?
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YEAH.
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URANIUM?
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EVERYTHING IS IN PLACE, WIGNER.
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REMOVE THE CADMIUM SHIELD.
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THE WORLD IS HEADED FOR TROUBLE.
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THE WORLD IS HEADED FOR GRIEF.
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A URANIUM CHAIN REACTION
HAD NEVER, TILL THIS MOMENT,
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OCCURRED TO ME.
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AND YOU SAY HAHN HAS ALREADY
SPLIT THE ATOM IN BERLIN?
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I'M SORRY, BUT IT'S GOING
TO TAKE ME A MOMENT
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TO GRASP THE IMPLICATIONS.
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IT'S... VERY
FRIGHTENING, ISN'T IT?
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YES, PROFESSOR EINSTEIN, IT IS.
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WELL, WHAT CAN I DO?
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PLEASE, YOU MUST TELL ME.
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WELL, WHAT WE ARE
MOST CONCERNED ABOUT
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IS GETTING THE AMERICAN
GOVERNMENT TO PAY ATTENTION.
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IT'S A HARD THING TO
PUT THIS IDEA ACROSS
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TO A MILITARY MIND.
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DO YOU THINK WE SHOULD APPROACH
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT DIRECTLY?
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YEAH.
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THIS IS VERY INTERESTING, ALEX.
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I WASN'T AWARE OF ANY OF THIS.
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YOU WANT MY REACTION?
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IT SEEMS A LITTLE
PREMATURE TO ME
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FOR US TO GET INVOLVED
IN ANYTHING LIKE THIS.
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I DON'T THINK SO.
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THEY JUST WANT FUNDING
FOR SOME EXPERIMENTS.
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I UNDERSTAND THE
GERMANS ARE WORKING ON IT.
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THEIR PHYSICISTS ARE EXCELLENT.
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AH, IT WILL BE EXPENSIVE, TOO.
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THAT'S ANOTHER THING.
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I'M NOT CONVINCED THE
GOVERNMENT SHOULD GET INVOLVED
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IN SUCH A COSTLY ENTERPRISE.
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MR. PRESIDENT, MAY
I TELL YOU A STORY?
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AH! ALEX, YOU KNOW
I LOVE YOUR STORIES.
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TELL ME TWO.
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JUST ONE, BUT THIS
HAPPENS TO BE TRUE.
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DURING THE NAPOLEONIC WARS,
A YOUNG AMERICAN INVENTOR
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OFFERED TO BUILD A
FLEET OF STEAMSHIPS
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WITH WHICH NAPOLEON
COULD INVADE ENGLAND.
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SHIPS WITHOUT SAILS?
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THIS SEEMED TO THE GREAT
NAPOLEON SO IMPOSSIBLE
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THAT HE SENT FULTON AWAY.
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HAD NAPOLEON MORE
IMAGINATION AND HUMILITY,
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HISTORY WOULD HAVE TAKEN
A VERY DIFFERENT COURSE.
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GET GENERAL WATSON, PLEASE.
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SO, WHAT YOU'RE AFTER
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IS TO SEE THAT THE
NAZIS DON'T BLOW US UP.
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PRECISELY.
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SIR?
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AH. THIS REQUIRES ACTION.
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I DON'T KNOW HOW IT HAPPENED,
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BUT FERMI AND SZILARD
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HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR AN
ANSWER FROM US FOR OVER A YEAR.
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FOR OVER A YEAR?
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IT SAYS THE GERMANS ARE
WAY AHEAD... SEEMS TO BE TRUE.
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BUREAUCRACY.
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F.D.R. SENT IT TO A
COMMITTEE. THEY SAT ON IT.
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WHAT ARE THEY ASKING FOR?
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SZILARD SAYS HE NEEDS $40,000
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TO EXPERIMENT ON A
CHAIN REACTION IN GRAPHITE.
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YOU THINK SZILARD AND
FERMI WILL BE WILLING
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TO MOVE TO CHICAGO, ARTHUR,
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WORK WITH YOU ON
DESIGNING A BOMB?
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THE WAY THEY FEEL ABOUT HITLER,
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I THINK THEY'LL DO
ANYTHING WE ASK THEM TO.
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WHAT WE NEED NOW IS EMERGENCY
FUNDING TO GET US STARTED.
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I'LL TALK TO THE
PRESIDENT TOMORROW.
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ERNEST, START URANIUM
PRODUCTION AT BERKELEY.
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IF WE'RE MAKING BOMBS,
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BETTER GET A MILITARY
MAN IN TO HEAD IT UP.
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THIS COULD TURN OUT TO
BE A PRETTY BIG PROJECT.
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GOOD IDEA.
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I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE
WE'VE SAT ON THIS A YEAR.
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CLOSER TO TWO. HOPE WE
HAVEN'T LOST TOO MUCH TIME.
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WE COULD BE IN THE WAR
ANY DAY NOW OURSELVES.
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SORRY I'M LATE.
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COLONEL.
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WELL, THAT'S THE LAST
TIME I'LL HAVE TO TESTIFY
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ON MILITARY
CONSTRUCTION PROGRAMS.
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HAVE YOU GOTTEN THE WORD?
I GOT MY OVERSEAS COMMAND.
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THANK YOU, CAPTAIN.
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LET'S HAVE SOME LUNCH.
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GROVES, OVERSEAS COMBAT IS OFF.
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THE SECRETARY OF
WAR HAS SELECTED YOU
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FOR A VERY IMPORTANT ASSIGNMENT.
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YOU CAN'T LEAVE WASHINGTON.
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SIR, I'VE SPENT MOST OF
MY CAREER IN WASHINGTON.
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I AM SICK OF WASHINGTON.
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I'VE BEEN ANGLING FOR MONTHS
TO GET THIS COMBAT-ENGINEERS JOB.
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OUR PROBLEM IS WE NEED
AN ORGANIZER AND BUILDER.
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YOU BUILT THE PENTAGON.
YOU CAN BUILD ANYTHING.
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WITH RESPECT, SIR,
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I'D LIKE TO GET OUT OF THE
CONSTRUCTION BUSINESS
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AND SEE SOME ACTION IN THIS WAR.
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IF YOU DO THIS JOB RIGHT,
IT COULD WIN THE WAR.
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OH, THAT THING.
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BASIC RESEARCH AND
DEVELOPMENT ARE DONE.
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YOU JUST HAVE TO TAKE
THE ROUGH DESIGNS,
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PUT THEM INTO FINAL
SHAPE, BUILD SOME PLANS,
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AND ORGANIZE AN OPERATING FORCE,
235
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AND YOUR JOB WILL BE
FINISHED AND THE WAR OVER.
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PART OF THE DEAL IS YOU'LL
BE MADE A BRIGADIER GENERAL.
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WELL, I'D WANT
THAT TO BE OFFICIAL
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BEFORE I STARTED THE JOB.
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I'LL BE WORKING WITH A BUNCH
OF ACADEMICS AND SCIENTISTS.
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MY POSITION WITH THEM
WILL BE A LOT STRONGER
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IF THEY THINK THEY'RE
DEALING WITH A GENERAL
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RIGHT FROM THE START,
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RATHER THAN SOME
NEWLY PROMOTED COLONEL.
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OH, COLONEL NICHOLS
IS ALREADY HERE, SIR.
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WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ALL THIS?
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Nichols: THEY JUST PUT ME ON
IT A COUPLE OF HOURS AGO, SIR.
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WELL, THEY TELL ME THAT THEY'VE
GOT ROUGH DESIGNS COMPLETED.
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ALL I'VE GOT TO DO IS
SLAP IT ALL TOGETHER.
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ALL RIGHT, WHERE ARE THE PLANS?
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MAYBE IN SOME SCIENTIST'S
HEAD SOMEWHERE, SIR.
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THEY DON'T EXIST.
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WHAT ABOUT FACTORIES,
PRODUCTION FACILITIES?
253
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NO, WE'D HAVE TO ACQUIRE
PLANNED SITES FIRST.
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THEY DON'T EVEN
HAVE FACTORY SITES?
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NO, SIR.
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RAW MATERIALS?
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NOPE, AND NO PRODUCTION
EQUIPMENT EITHER.
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WE'RE GONNA NEED ALL THE
URANIUM ORE WE CAN GET.
259
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WE MAY BE LUCKY THERE.
260
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THE BELGIANS MAY HAVE
SENT SOME TO NEW YORK
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BEFORE THE NAZIS
GOT THEIR HOOKS ON IT.
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GET IT.
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I'M GONNA GO SEE BUSH.
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OH, SHALL I CALL AND
TELL HIM YOU'RE COMING?
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NO, I'D LIKE TO SURPRISE HIM!
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YES, SIR.
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I'M GOING TO GET THE URANIUM.
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I'D BETTER.
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ARTHUR COMPTON AT CHICAGO
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COULD GIVE YOU A
STATUS REPORT ON DESIGN.
271
00:14:09,700 --> 00:14:11,100
WHAT ABOUT URANIUM RESEARCH?
272
00:14:11,100 --> 00:14:13,200
THAT'S BEING DONE BY
LAWRENCE AT BERKELEY.
273
00:14:13,300 --> 00:14:15,700
I UNDERSTAND YOU'RE
WORKING ON PLUTONIUM, AS WELL.
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TELL ME, WHAT
EXACTLY IS PLUTONIUM?
275
00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:20,600
I MEAN, IS IT A GAS, A SOLID,
ELECTRIC SUBSTANCE, WHAT?
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YOU'LL HAVE TO ASK
LAWRENCE DIRECTLY.
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I'M NOT SURE ANY OF US REALLY
KNOWS VERY MUCH ABOUT IT YET.
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I CAN SEE THAT.
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00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:34,900
IS THIS MEETING
REALLY NECESSARY?
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00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:36,900
NO, I COULD TELL THE
SECRETARY OF WAR,
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THE ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF,
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AND THE PRESIDENT'S
SCIENCE ADVISOR
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THAT YOU'RE TOO BUSY.
284
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AH, GENERAL SOMERVELL,
GOOD TO SEE YOU.
285
00:14:48,700 --> 00:14:50,900
COLONEL GROVES, I
DON'T BELIEVE YOU'VE MET
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THE SECRETARY OF
WAR, COLONEL STIMSON.
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IT'S GENERAL GROVES
NOW, COLONEL.
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OF COURSE.
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00:14:56,100 --> 00:14:57,700
YES, WELL, OUR HEARTIEST
CONGRATULATIONS.
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00:14:57,700 --> 00:14:59,400
WELL, LET'S GET
STARTED, SHALL WE?
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GENERAL.
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OUR FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS
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IS TO PUT TOGETHER
A TOP POLICY GROUP
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TO OVERSEE THE ATOMIC
PROJECT ON A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS.
295
00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:11,100
GENERAL MARSHALL AND
I SHALL BE FAR TOO BUSY
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00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:12,500
TO BE DIRECTLY INVOLVED.
297
00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:14,200
BUT WE THOUGHT A COMMITTEE
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OF SOME SEVEN TO NINE
OFFICERS OF THE ARMY...
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THAT'S TOO MANY.
300
00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:22,000
EXCUSE ME, SIR, THAT'S TOO MANY.
301
00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:25,800
I COULD KEEP THREE PEOPLE
REASONABLY WELL-INFORMED
302
00:15:25,900 --> 00:15:28,600
AND, OF COURSE,
GET THEIR ADVICE.
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00:15:28,700 --> 00:15:30,400
ALL RIGHT.
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00:15:30,500 --> 00:15:33,500
THREE OFFICERS IT IS.
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00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:34,700
FINE.
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00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:36,600
WELL, THAT'S SETTLED.
307
00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:39,700
NOW, I THINK WE'D
BETTER HAVE A CODE NAME.
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00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:42,500
WE GOT AN OFFICE IN
NEW YORK... MANHATTAN.
309
00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:44,100
WHAT ABOUT "MANHATTAN"?
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"MANHATTAN
ENGINEERING DISTRICT."
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"MANHATTAN PROJECT."
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00:15:50,100 --> 00:15:52,300
IS THAT OBSCURE ENOUGH?
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00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:55,000
WELL, GENERAL GROVES, AS
HEAD OF THE MANHATTAN PROJECT,
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00:15:55,100 --> 00:15:56,900
PERHAPS YOU'D BE
WILLING TO TELL US
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00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:58,500
A LITTLE SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
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00:15:58,500 --> 00:16:00,800
I'M GOING TO TENNESSEE
THIS AFTERNOON
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TO INSPECT A LARGE SITE
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WHERE WE HOPE TO
PRODUCE PURIFIED URANIUM...
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OAK RIDGE.
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00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:07,600
THEN THE LABORATORIES
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00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:10,100
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF
CHICAGO AND BERKELEY...
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00:16:10,100 --> 00:16:13,300
AS A MATTER OF FACT, IF I'M NO
LONGER NEEDED HERE, GENTLEMEN,
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00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:14,800
I WOULD LIKE TO BE EXCUSED.
324
00:16:14,900 --> 00:16:17,300
I'VE GOT TO GET OUT
OF UNIFORM BEFORE I GO.
325
00:16:18,900 --> 00:16:20,300
I'M SURE WE ALL
AGREE, GENTLEMEN...
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00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:21,600
THE FEWER QUESTIONS I'M ASKED
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00:16:21,700 --> 00:16:24,500
ABOUT WHERE I'M
GOING OR WHAT I'M DOING,
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00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:27,000
THE BETTER OUR SECURITY WILL BE.
329
00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:28,800
SO, IF THERE'S NOTHING ELSE...
330
00:16:28,900 --> 00:16:30,900
THANK YOU.
331
00:16:36,900 --> 00:16:38,100
GOOD MORNING, GENERAL.
332
00:16:39,700 --> 00:16:41,400
WELL, I TOLD YOU, WITH
GROVES IN CHARGE,
333
00:16:41,500 --> 00:16:42,900
YOU'D START TO GET THINGS DONE.
334
00:16:51,900 --> 00:16:54,100
WHY IS EVERYONE JUST
SITTING AROUND TALKING?
335
00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:55,400
WHY AREN'T THEY WORKING?
336
00:16:55,500 --> 00:16:57,400
THEY ARE... EXCHANGING
IDEAS, GENERAL.
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00:16:57,500 --> 00:16:59,000
THIS WAY.
338
00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:04,300
IS THIS CASE, WE CAN
EXPRESS THE FLUX JUST AS A...
339
00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:07,100
NO, NO, NO, NO. NOT
EVEN AS AN ESTIMATE.
340
00:17:09,900 --> 00:17:13,400
GENTLEMEN, I WANT YOU ALL
TO MEET GENERAL GROVES,
341
00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:17,300
WHO'S HEADING UP OUR ATOMIC
EFFORT FOR THE GOVERNMENT.
342
00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:20,300
HE'D LIKE A BRIEFING OF
WHAT WE'RE DOING DOWN HERE.
343
00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:23,100
SO, WHY DON'T, LEO, YOU
AND ENRICO HANDLE THIS?
344
00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:25,800
GENERAL, I'D LIKE YOU
TO MEET ENRICO FERMI.
345
00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:27,100
I'VE HEARD OF YOU.
346
00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:28,100
LEO SZILARD.
347
00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:29,700
I'VE HEARD OF YOU, TOO.
348
00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:30,800
EUGENE WIGNER.
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00:17:30,900 --> 00:17:32,300
PLEASE, DON'T GET UP.
350
00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:34,300
DR. VINCENT. DOCTOR.
351
00:17:34,300 --> 00:17:36,300
WELL, WHAT ARE YOU WORKING ON?
352
00:17:36,300 --> 00:17:38,600
Dr. Vincent: WE'RE CONSIDERING
DIFFERENT METHODS
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00:17:38,700 --> 00:17:39,900
FOR REACTOR COOLING.
354
00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,400
Dr. Szilard: THERE ARE FOUR
METHODS WE ARE CONSIDERING.
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00:17:42,500 --> 00:17:43,700
WATER AND AIR, OF COURSE.
356
00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:47,700
THAT'S RIGHT. AND
HELIUM AND HEAVY WATER.
357
00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:51,000
ACCORDING TO YOUR NUMBERS,
WHICH ARE THE LIKELIEST TWO?
358
00:17:51,100 --> 00:17:54,500
AT THIS POINT, I WOULD
SAY HELIUM AND AIR.
359
00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:57,100
MM-HMM. AND THE LIKELIEST ONE?
360
00:17:57,100 --> 00:17:59,400
UH, HELIUM.
361
00:17:59,500 --> 00:18:04,300
WELL, WHY NOT JUST
DROP THE OTHER THREE...
362
00:18:04,300 --> 00:18:05,300
WORK ON HELIUM?
363
00:18:05,300 --> 00:18:06,800
CONCENTRATE YOUR FORCES...
364
00:18:06,900 --> 00:18:09,100
THAT'S THE WAY WE
DO IT IN THE ARMY.
365
00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:13,400
WELL, MAYBE WE COULD DO THAT.
366
00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:16,600
WELL, WE DON'T NEED TO DECIDE
ABOUT COOLING SYSTEMS TODAY.
367
00:18:16,700 --> 00:18:19,100
WHAT I NEED TO KNOW
RIGHT AWAY, GENTLEMEN,
368
00:18:19,100 --> 00:18:22,700
IS HOW MUCH URANIUM OR PLUTONIUM
WILL ONE OF THESE BOMBS REQUIRE?
369
00:18:22,700 --> 00:18:25,100
THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED
TO BE CONCENTRATING ON, ISN'T IT?
370
00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:26,800
NO, THAT'S ONE OF
THE THINGS, GENERAL.
371
00:18:26,900 --> 00:18:28,800
THE COOLING SYSTEM IS
PART OF THE WHOLE PROCESS.
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00:18:28,900 --> 00:18:29,900
I UNDERSTAND THAT, DOCTOR.
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00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:32,400
GOOD. WHY DON'T WE DO
THE NUMBERS FOR YOU...
374
00:18:32,500 --> 00:18:33,700
SHOW YOU WHERE WE ARE?
375
00:18:33,700 --> 00:18:35,700
LET ME DO THAT FOR YOU.
376
00:18:35,700 --> 00:18:36,900
WHAT WE CALCULATE
377
00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,600
IS THE CRITICAL MASS
FOR A URANIUM BOMB.
378
00:18:39,700 --> 00:18:42,300
THE CRITICAL MASS IS
THE MASS NECESSARY
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00:18:42,300 --> 00:18:44,500
TO MAINTAIN THE CHAIN REACTION.
380
00:18:44,500 --> 00:18:46,900
IF WE CONSIDER
ONLY THE FREE PARTS
381
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OF THE NEUTRON IN THE URANIUM,
382
00:18:48,900 --> 00:18:52,100
IT SHOULD BE IN THE ORDER
OF THE CRITICAL RADIUS
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00:18:52,100 --> 00:18:55,800
AND CAN BE CHARACTERIZED BY
THE CROSS-SECTION FOR FISSION
384
00:18:55,900 --> 00:18:57,000
FOR THE NEUTRONS
385
00:18:57,100 --> 00:19:00,100
TIMES THE NUMBER OF
ATOMS PER CUBIC CENTIMETER,
386
00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:07,600
WHERE "N" IS EQUAL TO 6
TIMES 10 TO THE 23 OVER 235,
387
00:19:07,700 --> 00:19:10,300
THE MASS NUMBER FOR URANIUM...
388
00:19:10,300 --> 00:19:17,500
THIS SYMBOL IS THE DENSITY IN
GRAMS PER CUBIC CENTIMETERS.
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00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:24,700
WHICH IS EQUAL TO
4 PI OVER 3 TIMES 235
390
00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:28,400
OVER 6 TIMES 10
TO THE 24th TIMES...
391
00:19:28,500 --> 00:19:32,000
Groves: JUST A MINUTE,
PROFESSOR VINCENT.
392
00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:33,300
I DON'T SEE HOW YOU MOVED
393
00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:35,500
FROM THE SECOND
EQUATION TO THE FOURTH.
394
00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:38,400
IN THE SECOND EQUATION,
YOU HAVE 10 TO THE 23rd POWER,
395
00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:41,600
AND THEN SOMEHOW IN THE
FOURTH IT BECOMES 10 TO THE 24th?
396
00:19:41,700 --> 00:19:43,700
YES, YOU'RE RIGHT. THAT'S WRONG.
397
00:19:46,100 --> 00:19:48,700
YES, THANK YOU
VERY MUCH, DOCTOR.
398
00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:49,900
JUST A SECOND.
399
00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:52,200
ACTUALLY, IT BRINGS
UP A VERY GOOD POINT.
400
00:19:52,300 --> 00:19:54,500
WHEN YOU DO GET YOUR
FIGURES, GENTLEMEN,
401
00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:56,400
JUST HOW ACCURATE WILL THEY BE?
402
00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:58,600
AT THE MOMENT, WITHIN...
403
00:19:58,700 --> 00:20:00,600
WITHIN A FACTOR OF 10.
404
00:20:00,700 --> 00:20:04,400
A FACTOR OF 10? THAT'S IDIOTIC.
405
00:20:04,500 --> 00:20:05,600
THEY'RE UNUSABLE.
406
00:20:05,700 --> 00:20:08,000
IT'S LIKE TELLING A
WEDDING CATERER
407
00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:11,100
TO HAVE FOOD READY FOR
10 GUESTS OR 1,000 GUESTS.
408
00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:13,600
HOW DO YOU EXPECT ME, IF
I'M SUPPOSED TO PRODUCE
409
00:20:13,700 --> 00:20:15,500
A SPECIFIC NUMBER
OF BOMBS PER MONTH,
410
00:20:15,500 --> 00:20:16,600
HOW DO I BUILD A FACTORY
411
00:20:16,700 --> 00:20:18,400
BASED ON SUCH
IMPRECISE INFORMATION?
412
00:20:18,500 --> 00:20:20,700
SHALL I DESIGN FOR
3 BOMBS A MONTH,
413
00:20:20,700 --> 00:20:23,700
3/10 OF A BOMB, OR 30 BOMBS?
414
00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:26,700
I NEED ANSWERS TO THESE
QUESTIONS, GENTLEMEN.
415
00:20:26,700 --> 00:20:28,300
WHEN AM I GONNA GET THEM?
416
00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:30,600
WE ARE ALL WORKING
EXTREMELY HARD
417
00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:32,700
TO GET YOU THOSE
ANSWERS, GENERAL.
418
00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:34,900
IT SURE DOESN'T
LOOK LIKE IT TO ME!
419
00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:40,500
WELL, YOU'RE OBVIOUSLY
NOT READY FOR ME HERE.
420
00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:43,000
I'LL GO ON TO BERKELEY.
421
00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:44,700
I'LL BE BACK HERE IN A FEW DAYS.
422
00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:46,400
MAYBE YOU'LL BE READY BY THEN.
423
00:20:46,500 --> 00:20:48,900
GENTLEMEN, LET ME POINT
SOMETHING OUT TO YOU.
424
00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,200
WHEN I WAS AT WEST
POINT, I TOOK ALGEBRA,
425
00:20:51,300 --> 00:20:53,500
DESCRIPTIVE GEOMETRY,
AND TRIGONOMETRY.
426
00:20:53,500 --> 00:20:55,800
I DID VERY WELL
IN THOSE COURSES.
427
00:20:55,900 --> 00:20:57,600
AND THEN I TOOK THEM AGAIN.
428
00:20:57,700 --> 00:21:00,100
NOW, YOU MAY KNOW
THAT I DON'T HAVE A PhD.
429
00:21:00,100 --> 00:21:02,400
BUT I HAVE 10 YEARS
OF FORMAL EDUCATION
430
00:21:02,500 --> 00:21:04,600
AFTER I ENTERED
COLLEGE... 10 YEARS.
431
00:21:04,700 --> 00:21:06,900
I BELIEVE THAT WOULD
BE THE EQUIVALENT
432
00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:08,500
OF TWO PhDs, WOULDN'T IT?
433
00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:10,800
LET'S GET OUT OF
HERE, DR. COMPTON.
434
00:21:10,900 --> 00:21:12,200
THEY HAVE WORK TO DO.
435
00:21:12,300 --> 00:21:14,700
THEY HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO.
436
00:21:24,700 --> 00:21:27,700
HOW CAN YOU WORK
WITH PEOPLE LIKE THAT?
437
00:21:27,700 --> 00:21:29,400
Groves: THEY DON'T
HAVE THE FIRST IDEA
438
00:21:29,500 --> 00:21:31,600
WHAT THEY'RE DOING AT
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO.
439
00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:33,700
IT'S A SLOPPY, UNDISCIPLINED,
DISORGANIZED MOB.
440
00:21:33,700 --> 00:21:36,400
THEY DON'T DO ANY REAL
WORK AT ALL, ALL DAY LONG.
441
00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:38,200
THEY JUST SIT THERE AND GOSSIP.
442
00:21:38,300 --> 00:21:40,600
I THINK I MADE A GOOD
IMPRESSION ON THEM.
443
00:21:40,700 --> 00:21:42,200
TOO MUCH THEORY AT CHICAGO.
444
00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:45,500
OUT HERE, YOU'LL ACTUALLY SEE
URANIUM PREPARATION GOING ON.
445
00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:51,600
WELL...
446
00:21:54,100 --> 00:21:55,600
WELL, THIS IS MORE LIKE IT.
447
00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:57,400
HOW MUCH URANIUM DO YOU GET?
448
00:21:57,500 --> 00:22:00,200
WELL, ACTUALLY, WE
DON'T GET ANY YET.
449
00:22:00,300 --> 00:22:02,700
THIS IS STILL ALL
EXPERIMENTAL, YOU SEE.
450
00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:07,500
WELL, WHEN YOU DO START
TO GET URANIUM, DOCTOR,
451
00:22:07,500 --> 00:22:09,100
HOW PURE WILL IT HAVE TO BE?
452
00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:11,800
AH, WELL, I'M ONLY THE
EXPERIMENTALIST HERE, GENERAL.
453
00:22:11,900 --> 00:22:14,600
YOU'LL WANT TO ASK OUR
THEORETICIAN, DR. OPPENHEIMER.
454
00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:21,500
YOU KNOW, DR. LAWRENCE,
YOU'D BETTER DO A GOOD JOB HERE.
455
00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:23,800
YOUR REPUTATION DEPENDS ON IT.
456
00:22:23,900 --> 00:22:25,700
WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, GENERAL,
457
00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:27,600
MY REPUTATION IS ALREADY MADE.
458
00:22:27,700 --> 00:22:29,800
I'VE WON THE NOBEL
PRIZE IN PHYSICS.
459
00:22:29,900 --> 00:22:32,700
IT'S YOUR REPUTATION THAT
DEPENDS ON THIS PROJECT.
460
00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:35,500
I'LL SHOW YOU WHERE
OPPENHEIMER WORKS.
461
00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:44,600
THEY TELL ME YOU'RE THE EXPERT
ON ALL THIS, DR. OPPENHEIMER.
462
00:22:44,700 --> 00:22:48,200
THERE ARE NO EXPERTS,
GENERAL. THIS FIELD IS TOO NEW.
463
00:22:48,300 --> 00:22:50,200
IF I MAY, LET ME GIVE
YOU AN EXAMPLE,
464
00:22:50,300 --> 00:22:52,700
WHICH PROVES THAT NONE
OF US SO-CALLED EXPERTS
465
00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:54,000
REALLY KNOWS VERY MUCH.
466
00:22:54,100 --> 00:22:55,300
GO AHEAD.
467
00:22:55,300 --> 00:22:58,500
I HEAD UP A STUDY GROUP ON
THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE BOMB,
468
00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:01,000
AND ONE OF OUR
PHYSICISTS, EDWARD TELLER,
469
00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,200
MADE SOME CALCULATIONS
WHICH SHOWED
470
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:04,800
THAT WHEN THE BOMB WENT OFF,
471
00:23:04,900 --> 00:23:07,400
IT WOULD SET FIRE TO
THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE.
472
00:23:07,500 --> 00:23:09,700
WELL, THE WHOLE
SKY WOULD CATCH FIRE,
473
00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:11,500
AND WE'D DESTROY THE WORLD.
474
00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:15,000
SO, NATURALLY, I TOOK THE
NEXT TRAIN BACK TO CHICAGO
475
00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,900
TO TELL ARTHUR COMPTON
WHAT WE'D FOUND.
476
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:22,200
AND COMPTON SAID THAT THAT
WOULD BE THE ULTIMATE CATASTROPHE,
477
00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:24,700
AND IT'S BETTER TO RISK
SLAVERY UNDER THE NAZIS
478
00:23:24,700 --> 00:23:25,700
THAT RUN THE CHANCE
479
00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:27,900
OF DRAWING THE FINAL
CURTAIN ON MANKIND.
480
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:29,800
WE COULDN'T MAKE THE BOMB.
481
00:23:29,900 --> 00:23:31,100
BUT I CAME BACK HERE.
482
00:23:31,100 --> 00:23:34,100
WE DID SOME MORE FIGURING
AND FOUND A COUPLE OF THINGS
483
00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:36,700
THAT EDWARD TELLER
HADN'T TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT.
484
00:23:36,700 --> 00:23:38,000
WE REFIGURED THE ODDS.
485
00:23:38,100 --> 00:23:40,600
NOW WE THINK THE
CHANCES ARE 3 IN A MILLION
486
00:23:40,700 --> 00:23:42,200
WE'LL DESTROY THE WORLD.
487
00:23:42,300 --> 00:23:45,100
AND ON THAT BASIS,
COMPTON SAID, "GO AHEAD."
488
00:23:45,100 --> 00:23:48,100
SO, YOU SEE, NONE OF US
KNOWS VERY MUCH, REALLY.
489
00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:49,300
IT'S ALL TOO NEW.
490
00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:51,100
HMM.
491
00:23:51,100 --> 00:23:53,100
HOW LONG HAVE YOU
BEEN WITH THE PROJECT?
492
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:55,100
ABOUT A YEAR.
493
00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:57,800
WHAT EXACTLY DO YOU
DO? WHAT'S YOUR JOB?
494
00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:00,900
WELL, MY TITLE, THEY TELL
ME WITH A STRAIGHT FACE,
495
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,200
IS "COORDINATOR
OF RAPID RUPTURE."
496
00:24:03,300 --> 00:24:04,700
BUT WHAT I ACTUALLY DO
497
00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:07,700
IS LEAD THE SEMINARS
ON BOMB-DESIGN THEORY...
498
00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:09,600
WHAT WILL HAVE TO GO INTO IT.
499
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:13,100
AT THE MOMENT, WE'RE CONCERNED
500
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:16,800
WITH THE TIME REQUIRED
TO COMPLETE DETONATION.
501
00:24:16,900 --> 00:24:18,100
HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE?
502
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,100
LESS THAN A
MILLIONTH OF A SECOND.
503
00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:27,900
TELL ME, DR. OPPENHEIMER,
THIS ATOMIC-FISSION BOMB...
504
00:24:27,900 --> 00:24:29,500
DO YOU THINK IT COULD BE DONE?
505
00:24:29,500 --> 00:24:32,400
YES. YES.
506
00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:34,800
TECHNICALLY, IT'S
A SWEET PROBLEM,
507
00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:36,600
AND, YES, IT CAN BE DONE.
508
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:39,000
HOW LONG WOULD IT TAKE TO BUILD?
509
00:24:39,100 --> 00:24:40,500
I'D GUESS TWO YEARS.
510
00:24:40,500 --> 00:24:43,100
WELL, HE GIVES YOU
STRAIGHT ANSWERS...
511
00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:45,300
UNLIKE THOSE GUYS IN CHICAGO.
512
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:48,200
I LIKE TALKING TO YOU.
513
00:24:48,300 --> 00:24:50,600
DOCTOR, HOW ABOUT MEETING
ME IN CHICAGO ON THURSDAY?
514
00:24:50,700 --> 00:24:52,800
I'VE GOT TO TAKE THE
TRAIN DOWN TO WASHINGTON.
515
00:24:52,900 --> 00:24:55,400
YOU COULD RIDE DOWN WITH
ME. WE COULD HAVE A REAL TALK.
516
00:24:55,500 --> 00:24:57,800
FINE, CERTAINLY. JUST GIVE
ME MY ORDERS, GENERAL.
517
00:25:02,300 --> 00:25:05,600
Man: WE NOW MUST
COME TO GRIPS WITH IT.
518
00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:08,900
IT IS TIME TO BUILD
A NUCLEAR REACTOR.
519
00:25:08,900 --> 00:25:11,000
AND FOR VARIOUS REASONS...
520
00:25:11,100 --> 00:25:14,200
CONSTRUCTION
PROBLEMS AND SO FORTH...
521
00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:17,900
WE THINK THE PLACE TO
BUILD IT IS RIGHT HERE.
522
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:19,900
HERE?
523
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,600
YOU MEAN ON CAMPUS AT
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO?
524
00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:27,200
THE SQUASH COURTS, UNDER
THE STANDS AT STAGG FIELD.
525
00:25:27,300 --> 00:25:28,900
THERE'S NO ALTERNATIVE?
526
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,800
THERE'S NO PRACTICAL
ALTERNATIVE, NO.
527
00:25:31,900 --> 00:25:34,600
WHO'LL DO THE EXPERIMENT?
528
00:25:34,700 --> 00:25:36,400
FERMI AND SZILARD.
529
00:25:36,500 --> 00:25:38,800
FERMI WILL BE IN CHARGE.
530
00:25:42,100 --> 00:25:43,300
WHAT ARE THE RISKS?
531
00:25:43,300 --> 00:25:46,000
WE HAVE COMPUTED
WITH GREATEST OF CARE.
532
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,000
WE ARE CERTAIN THERE WOULD
BE NO RUNAWAY REACTION
533
00:25:49,100 --> 00:25:51,500
TO RELEASE LETHAL
AMOUNTS OF RADIATION.
534
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:54,700
WE ALSO HAVE RULED
OUT AN ATOMIC EXPLOSION.
535
00:25:54,700 --> 00:25:56,000
ON PAPER.
536
00:25:56,100 --> 00:25:59,300
OF COURSE, WE REALLY DON'T
KNOW WHAT'LL HAPPEN AT ALL.
537
00:25:59,300 --> 00:26:03,400
SIR, WE WILL ALLOW THE REACTION
TO GROW ONLY VERY SLOWLY
538
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:05,900
SO IT CANNOT GET OUT OF CONTROL.
539
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:07,100
BUT IF IT DOES...
540
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:08,300
THE LIKELIHOOD...
541
00:26:08,300 --> 00:26:09,600
IF IT DOES,
542
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:14,400
YOU COULD RADIOACTIVELY
POISON OR BLOW UP CHICAGO.
543
00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:20,100
IF YOU'RE WRONG.
544
00:26:20,100 --> 00:26:23,200
BUT NONE OF YOU
THINKS YOU'RE WRONG.
545
00:26:25,900 --> 00:26:27,800
ALL RIGHT, PROCEED...
546
00:26:27,900 --> 00:26:30,700
FOR NOW... FOR NOW!
547
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:34,000
INFORM ME IMMEDIATELY OF
ANY AND ALL DEVELOPMENTS.
548
00:26:34,100 --> 00:26:37,500
ALL RIGHT, THE NEXT ORDER
OF BUSINESS IS A NEW POLICY.
549
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:40,300
BEGINNING TODAY, ALL
SCIENTISTS WILL NOT...
550
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:43,100
I REPEAT... NOT DISCUSS
WITH THEIR COLLEAGUES
551
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:44,700
WHAT THEY'RE WORKING ON.
552
00:26:44,700 --> 00:26:46,800
NOW, THERE ARE TWO
REASONS FOR THIS.
553
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:48,600
THE FIRST, OF
COURSE, IS SECURITY.
554
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:50,300
WE WANT TO MINIMIZE
THE LIKELIHOOD
555
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,600
OF ANY VITAL SECRETS
FALLING INTO ENEMY HANDS.
556
00:26:52,700 --> 00:26:55,800
THE SECOND IS TO IMPROVE
OVERALL EFFICIENCY
557
00:26:55,900 --> 00:26:58,900
BY MAKING PEOPLE
STICK TO THEIR KNITTING!
558
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,500
EACH MAN WILL KNOW ONLY
WHAT HE NEEDS TO KNOW
559
00:27:01,500 --> 00:27:03,800
IN ORDER TO DO HIS
JOB AND NOTHING ELSE.
560
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:05,700
YES, DR. SZILARD?
561
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:08,400
GENERAL, THAT WON'T WORK.
562
00:27:08,500 --> 00:27:11,300
LET ME TELL YOU HOW
WE FUNCTION HERE.
563
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:12,800
WE HELP EACH OTHER.
564
00:27:12,900 --> 00:27:14,600
WE BUILD ON EACH
OTHER'S THEORIES.
565
00:27:14,700 --> 00:27:17,100
I KNOW, TO YOU, IT LOOKS
LIKE WE ARE WASTING TIME,
566
00:27:17,100 --> 00:27:18,800
BUT REALLY, IT SPEEDS THINGS UP.
567
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,200
IT MAKES THE WORK GO
FASTER, NOT TO MENTION BETTER.
568
00:27:21,300 --> 00:27:23,300
OUR JOB IS TO BUILD A BOMB HERE,
569
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:26,700
NOT TO ENABLE YOU TO SATISFY
YOUR INTELLECTUAL CURIOSITY.
570
00:27:26,700 --> 00:27:27,700
YEAH?
571
00:27:27,700 --> 00:27:29,500
WELL, IF WE CAN'T
TALK TO EACH OTHER,
572
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:30,700
IT COULD DELAY OUR WORK.
573
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:32,000
IT COULD HELP THE GERMANS,
574
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:33,600
WHICH I'M SURE NONE OF US WANTS.
575
00:27:33,700 --> 00:27:37,000
YOU HAVE ONE JOB HERE... ONE...
576
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:38,500
TO BUILD AN ATOMIC BOMB
577
00:27:38,500 --> 00:27:41,800
THAT WILL END THE WAR AT
THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE DATE.
578
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,600
NOW, GET ON WITH IT.
579
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,100
DR. COMPTON, MAY I SEE YOU?
580
00:28:00,900 --> 00:28:02,300
I WANT MR. SZILARD FIRED.
581
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:04,500
I WANT HIM OFF
THIS PROJECT TODAY.
582
00:28:04,500 --> 00:28:07,500
GENERAL, I CAN'T DO THAT.
EVERYONE ELSE WILL QUIT.
583
00:28:15,100 --> 00:28:16,900
ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU, DOCTOR.
584
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,300
ALL RIGHT, I WANT
MR. SZILARD FOLLOWED...
585
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:23,600
24-HOUR SURVEILLANCE,
'ROUND THE CLOCK.
586
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:28,100
Lansdale: WE GOT A MORE
IMMEDIATE SECURITY PROBLEM
587
00:28:28,100 --> 00:28:29,600
THAN JUST SZILARD, GENERAL.
588
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:30,700
WHO'S THAT?
589
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:32,300
OPPENHEIMER.
590
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:35,300
HE DATED FOR THREE
YEARS ONE JEAN TATLOCK.
591
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:38,500
SHE'S AN ACTIVE MEMBER
OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY.
592
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:40,300
HE JOINED WITH HER, THROUGH HER,
593
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:41,800
SUCH LEFT-WING ORGANIZATIONS
594
00:28:41,900 --> 00:28:44,500
AS FRIENDS OF THE CHINESE
PEOPLE, CONSUMERS UNION,
595
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,500
AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR
DEMOCRACY AND INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM,
596
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:49,900
HELP SET UP A BRANCH
OF THE TEACHERS' UNION.
597
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,800
A LOT OF HIS FRIENDS ARE
MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY.
598
00:28:52,900 --> 00:28:54,400
IS HE A MEMBER OF
THE COMMUNIST PARTY?
599
00:28:54,500 --> 00:28:56,200
WE HAVEN'T BEEN LOOKING
FOR VERY LONG YET.
600
00:28:56,300 --> 00:28:58,800
BUT HIS WIFE, KITTY,
WAS. HIS BROTHER IS.
601
00:28:58,900 --> 00:29:01,000
KITTY WAS MARRIED TO JOE DALLET.
602
00:29:01,100 --> 00:29:04,000
COME IN.
603
00:29:04,100 --> 00:29:06,300
MR. OPPENHEIMER,
COME IN, COME IN.
604
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:07,900
HAVE YOU HAD YOUR DINNER?
605
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:08,900
JUST FINISHED.
606
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,000
WELL, HOW ABOUT SOME CHOCOLATE?
607
00:29:11,100 --> 00:29:12,200
UM, NO.
608
00:29:12,300 --> 00:29:15,200
YOU KNOW COLONEL NICHOLS.
609
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:16,900
HAVE YOU MET
COLONEL LANSDALE YET?
610
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:18,300
HE'S HEAD OF OUR SECURITY.
611
00:29:18,300 --> 00:29:19,300
COLONEL. DOCTOR.
612
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,000
SECURITY. YOU'VE GOT
AN INTERESTING JOB.
613
00:29:22,100 --> 00:29:24,900
YOU NEED TOP SECURITY
ON A JOB LIKE THIS.
614
00:29:24,900 --> 00:29:26,300
THE TRICK IS TO GET IT
615
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,700
WITHOUT DEPRESSING THE
SCIENTISTS WHO DO THE WORK.
616
00:29:28,700 --> 00:29:30,400
WELL, AT THE MOMENT,
WE'RE JUST ASKING THEM
617
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:32,200
TO FILL OUT A FEW
QUESTIONNAIRES.
618
00:29:32,300 --> 00:29:33,500
WELL, WHEN YOU GET TO MINE,
619
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:35,600
YOU'LL FIND OUT THAT
I'M NOT A COMMUNIST.
620
00:29:35,700 --> 00:29:37,200
BUT I'VE BELONGED TO PROBABLY
621
00:29:37,300 --> 00:29:39,600
EVERY COMMUNIST-FUNDED
ORGANIZATION ON THE WEST COAST.
622
00:29:39,700 --> 00:29:40,800
DO YOU BELONG NOW?
623
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:42,700
NO, NOW I'M NOT
INVOLVED IN ANYTHING.
624
00:29:42,700 --> 00:29:44,400
THE ONLY THING I WANT TO DO
625
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,200
IS HELP BUILD THIS BOMB
AND TO WIN THE WAR.
626
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:49,800
THE ONLY SECURITY PROBLEM
THAT BOTHERS ME RIGHT NOW
627
00:29:49,900 --> 00:29:51,000
ARE ALL THOSE YAKKERS
628
00:29:51,100 --> 00:29:53,400
THAT WE'VE GOT AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO.
629
00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:56,300
HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO
KEEP SECRETS IN A PLACE LIKE THAT?
630
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:59,000
YOUR PEOPLE THAT WAY OUT
THERE IN BERKELEY, DOCTOR?
631
00:29:59,100 --> 00:30:03,500
OH, WE TALK, TRY TO HELP
EACH OTHER WITH IDEAS.
632
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:05,200
BUT IF THAT'S A PROBLEM...
633
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:07,600
AND I CAN SEE HOW
IT WOULD BE HERE...
634
00:30:07,700 --> 00:30:10,100
WHY NOT GET ALL THE
SCIENTISTS TOGETHER
635
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:11,500
IN ONE FAR-OFF PLACE?
636
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:15,300
BRING THEM IN FROM
CHICAGO, BERKELEY, WHATEVER,
637
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:16,900
TO A PLACE YOU CAN CONTROL,
638
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:18,700
MAKE IT AS SECURE AS POSSIBLE,
639
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:21,000
AND IT WOULD HELP US
WITH BOMB DESIGN, TOO,
640
00:30:21,100 --> 00:30:22,800
HAVING EVERYBODY TOGETHER.
641
00:30:22,900 --> 00:30:25,500
DID YOU JUST COME
UP WITH THIS IDEA?
642
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,600
WHAT IF WE TOOK
ALL THE SCIENTISTS,
643
00:30:29,700 --> 00:30:32,600
PUT THEM INTO
UNIFORM, SWEAR THEM IN,
644
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:34,400
GIVE THEM COMMISSIONS,
MAKE THEM OFFICERS?
645
00:30:34,500 --> 00:30:36,600
THEY'D BE SUBJECT
TO MILITARY DISCIPLINE.
646
00:30:36,700 --> 00:30:37,700
HOW WOULD THAT BE?
647
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:39,800
I'D BE PROUD TO BE AN
OFFICER. WHO WOULDN'T?
648
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:43,700
THAT'S ALL RIGHT.
THAT'S ALL RIGHT.
649
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:45,900
I LIKE THE WAY
YOU THINK, DOCTOR.
650
00:30:45,900 --> 00:30:47,700
YOU'VE GOT SOME GOOD IDEAS.
651
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:50,900
WHEN YOU TALK, YOU MAKE SENSE.
652
00:30:50,900 --> 00:30:53,700
SOME FAR-OFF PLACE? HMM.
653
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,100
NEED A GOOD MAN TO HEAD THAT UP.
654
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:57,200
YEAH.
655
00:30:57,300 --> 00:30:58,700
GOT ANY IDEAS ABOUT THAT?
656
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:04,200
YOU NEED A THEORETICIAN,
AN EXPERIMENTALIST,
657
00:31:04,300 --> 00:31:08,000
AND AN ADMINISTRATOR ALL IN ONE.
658
00:31:08,100 --> 00:31:10,500
LAWRENCE, MY BOSS AT BERKELEY...
659
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:13,100
HE'S THE BEST MAN
IN THE WORLD FOR IT.
660
00:31:13,100 --> 00:31:16,100
THEN McMILLAN. HE'S DOING
RADAR WORK IN BOSTON.
661
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,600
PANOFSKY FROM PASADENA.
662
00:31:18,700 --> 00:31:20,800
ROBBY FROM COLUMBIA.
663
00:31:20,900 --> 00:31:23,000
OH, YOU COULD GET
ANYBODY YOU WANTED.
664
00:31:23,100 --> 00:31:25,000
AFTER ALL, YOU'RE OFFERING THEM
665
00:31:25,100 --> 00:31:27,700
THE BEST, SINGLE MOST
IMPORTANT JOB IN THE WORLD TODAY.
666
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:37,300
I KNOW OPPENHEIMER'S BRILLIANT.
667
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,600
EVERYONE SAYS HE'S A GENIUS.
668
00:31:39,700 --> 00:31:42,300
BUT SECURITY SAYS ABSOLUTELY NO.
669
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:44,400
COMPTON AND LAWRENCE
BOTH HAVE DOUBTS
670
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:46,200
ABOUT HIS LEADERSHIP QUALITIES.
671
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,900
BUSH AND COLEMAN SAY HE'S
NOT A GOOD ADMINISTRATOR.
672
00:31:48,900 --> 00:31:52,000
HE SAYS HIMSELF THAT WHAT
WE NEED IS AN EXPERIMENTALIST,
673
00:31:52,100 --> 00:31:54,700
AND HE'S ONLY A THEORETICIAN.
674
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:56,600
HE'S NEVER WON THE NOBEL PRIZE.
675
00:31:56,700 --> 00:31:59,600
HE WON'T HAVE THE PRESTIGE
AMONG THE OTHER SCIENTISTS.
676
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,700
IS THERE NOBODY ELSE
YOU'D BE SATISFIED WITH?
677
00:32:05,900 --> 00:32:08,300
GENERAL...
678
00:32:08,300 --> 00:32:10,600
WHAT IF HE REALLY
IS A COMMUNIST?
679
00:32:10,700 --> 00:32:12,900
IF HE'S A COMMUNIST,
680
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,900
I'LL BLOW THE
WHOLE DEAL SKY-HIGH.
681
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,300
I DON'T KNOW. THERE'S...
682
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,700
THERE'S JUST SOMETHING
ABOUT OPPENHEIMER.
683
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,200
HE HAS ABILITY.
684
00:32:29,300 --> 00:32:31,000
MAYBE IT'S JUST THAT
HE AGREES WITH ME.
685
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:37,500
WHATEVER IT IS, HE'S THE MAN.
686
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:40,200
I WANT HIM.
687
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,000
ALL RIGHT, NOW.
688
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:51,200
IF THE REACTION STARTS
TO RUN OUT OF CONTROL,
689
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:53,100
YOU CUT THE ROPE INSTANTLY.
690
00:32:53,100 --> 00:32:58,100
YOU, YOU, AND YOU,
DOUSE THE PILE INSTANTLY.
691
00:32:58,100 --> 00:33:01,400
YOU MAY STEP UP
THERE. STEP CLOSER.
692
00:33:01,500 --> 00:33:05,600
GEORGE WILL PULL OUT
THE ROD A LITTLE AT A TIME.
693
00:33:05,700 --> 00:33:08,900
WE SHALL TAKE
MEASUREMENTS AND VERIFY
694
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:13,700
THAT THE PILE WILL KEEP ON
ACTING AS WE HAVE CALCULATED.
695
00:33:16,100 --> 00:33:17,500
READY?
696
00:33:24,500 --> 00:33:25,900
GO AHEAD, GEORGE.
697
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:51,600
IT SHOULD LEVEL
OFF IN FIVE SECONDS.
698
00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:00,000
PULL IT OUT ANOTHER FOOT.
699
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:10,100
IT WILL LEVEL OFF NOW.
700
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:12,400
ONE MORE FOOT.
701
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:19,600
THIS WILL DO IT. NOW THE
PILE WITH CHAIN REACT.
702
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:29,100
THE PILE HAS GONE CRITICAL.
703
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:35,800
ZIP IN!
704
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,100
THE PILE IS SECURE.
705
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:49,700
YES!
706
00:34:54,900 --> 00:34:56,500
WAIT A MINUTE! I CAN'T HEAR!
707
00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:58,200
BEDLAM IN HERE!
708
00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:00,000
ARE YOU STILL THERE, JIM?
709
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:03,700
ENRICO! ENRICO!
710
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:07,600
WE'VE GOT DR. CONANT
ON THE LINE IN WASHINGTON.
711
00:35:07,700 --> 00:35:09,300
LET'S OPEN A BOTTLE.
712
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:13,400
THE ITALIAN NAVIGATOR HAS
LANDED IN THE NEW WORLD.
713
00:35:13,500 --> 00:35:16,100
AND THE NATIVES WERE FRIENDLY!
714
00:35:17,900 --> 00:35:22,100
NO MORE EXPERIMENTS.
NOW WE START TO PRODUCE.
715
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:30,800
LEO.
716
00:35:30,900 --> 00:35:33,200
HEY, CONGRATULATIONS.
717
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:37,900
WHAT?
718
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,000
WHAT?
719
00:35:42,100 --> 00:35:43,700
THIS DAY WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY
720
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:46,400
AS A BLACK MARK AGAINST MANKIND.
721
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:57,000
WE'RE OUT OF MARTINIS.
722
00:35:57,100 --> 00:35:58,800
WANT SOME HELP?
723
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:01,000
WOULD YOU HELP
SHAKESPEARE TO WRITE
724
00:36:01,100 --> 00:36:02,600
OR CARUSO TO SING? GO!
725
00:36:02,700 --> 00:36:05,000
DON'T BE SO CHINTZY
ON THE GIN THIS TIME.
726
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,200
NO, IT'S INCONCEIVABLE THAT
SUCH A BOMB WOULD EVER BE USED.
727
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:11,000
ROBERT, WHO ARE THOSE YOUNG
PEOPLE ARGUING WITH TELLER?
728
00:36:11,100 --> 00:36:12,300
THEY'RE FROM LOS ALAMOS.
729
00:36:12,300 --> 00:36:14,300
I GOT THEM AS A JOB
LOT AT PRINCETON.
730
00:36:15,700 --> 00:36:18,400
AS I WAS SAYING, THE BOMB
WOULD NEVER BE USED ON PEOPLE.
731
00:36:18,500 --> 00:36:21,500
AS SOON AS WE GET IT, WE'D ONLY
USE IT TO DICTATE PEACE TERMS.
732
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:22,500
AMEN.
733
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:24,200
TWO OR THREE
YEARS IN THE DESERT,
734
00:36:24,300 --> 00:36:26,800
YOU OF ALL PEOPLE, KITTY,
YOU'LL ROT ON THE VINE THERE.
735
00:36:26,900 --> 00:36:28,300
YEAH? LOOK AT IT THIS WAY.
736
00:36:28,300 --> 00:36:31,500
I'LL BE ALONE WITH
1,000 HORNY MEN.
737
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:32,700
I WAS WONDERING, OPPIE.
738
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:35,000
BY ANY CHANCE, DO YOU
KNOW A FRIEND OF MINE
739
00:36:35,100 --> 00:36:37,000
FROM AROUND HERE,
CHARLES SATTERLEE?
740
00:36:37,100 --> 00:36:39,300
OH, VAGUELY. ENGINEER
FOR UNIFIED OIL.
741
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:40,400
MM-HMM.
742
00:36:40,500 --> 00:36:42,700
USED TO LIVE IN RUSSIA.
743
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:44,400
HOW'S THIS?
744
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:54,400
THE HAND OF THE MASTER.
745
00:36:54,500 --> 00:36:57,600
CHARLES WAS SAYING THAT
HE THINKS IT'S A DAMN SHAME.
746
00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:00,600
EVEN THOUGH THE RUSSIANS
AND AMERICANS ARE ALLIES,
747
00:37:00,700 --> 00:37:03,000
THERE'S NO... OH, THANK YOU.
748
00:37:03,100 --> 00:37:07,300
THERE'S NO SHARING OF SCIENTIFIC
INFORMATION BETWEEN THEM.
749
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,600
HE HAPPENED TO
MENTION THAT HE HAD WAYS
750
00:37:09,700 --> 00:37:12,500
OF GETTING TECHNICAL
INFORMATION TO THE RUSSIANS...
751
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:14,900
IF ANYONE WERE INTERESTED.
752
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:22,500
I WANT ABSOLUTELY NOTHING
TO DO WITH THAT, HAAKON.
753
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:23,600
NOTHING AT ALL.
754
00:37:23,700 --> 00:37:25,200
OF COURSE NOT. OF COURSE NOT.
755
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:27,000
I JUST THOUGHT THAT
IT WAS SOMETHING
756
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:28,200
YOU OUGHT TO KNOW ABOUT...
757
00:37:28,300 --> 00:37:30,400
YOU KNOW, BETWEEN FRIENDS.
758
00:37:33,900 --> 00:37:37,400
WELL, LET'S REJOIN
THE PARTY, SHALL WE?
759
00:37:37,500 --> 00:37:41,600
I'M GLAD THAT BERKELEY
IS STILL GOING TO BE HOME.
760
00:37:41,700 --> 00:37:43,600
NOT SELLING THE
HOUSE, EH? THAT'S GOOD.
761
00:38:03,700 --> 00:38:05,700
Woman: HEY, FOLKS.
762
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:08,200
WELCOME TO THE
LOS ALAMOS WALDORF.
763
00:38:08,300 --> 00:38:09,500
CONNIE TROWBRIDGE.
764
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,000
I'M AN OLD-TIMER HERE...
BEEN HERE SINCE THURSDAY.
765
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:13,500
AW, THEY ALWAYS CRY
766
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:15,800
WHEN THEY GET OFF THAT
BUMPY ROAD FROM SANTA FE.
767
00:38:15,900 --> 00:38:18,300
I'M SUPPOSED TO TELL YOU
THERE'S A BRIEFING FOR THE MEN
768
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:20,000
IN THE MAIN HALL
IN FIVE MINUTES.
769
00:38:20,100 --> 00:38:22,100
WHERE'S THAT? UH, IT'S THATAWAY.
770
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:27,700
GENTLEMEN.
771
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:31,100
GENTLEMEN!
772
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:35,800
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON'T
KNOW ME, I'M GENERAL GROVES.
773
00:38:35,900 --> 00:38:39,300
YOU ARE HERE TO
BUILD AN ATOMIC BOMB.
774
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:42,700
IF YOU SUCCEED,
YOU WILL WIN THE WAR
775
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:46,100
AND SAVE COUNTLESS
AMERICAN LIVES.
776
00:38:46,100 --> 00:38:47,900
IF YOU FAIL...
777
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,500
I WILL HAVE TO APPEAR BEFORE
A CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE
778
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:53,100
AND JUSTIFY YOUR
SQUANDERING OF THEIR MONEY.
779
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:54,800
SO, DON'T FAIL.
780
00:38:57,700 --> 00:39:00,500
DR. OPPENHEIMER WILL BRIEF
YOU ON YOUR ASSIGNMENTS.
781
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:02,800
Oppenheimer: WELCOME, GENTLEMEN.
782
00:39:02,900 --> 00:39:04,500
EXCUSE ME, DOCTOR.
783
00:39:04,500 --> 00:39:09,600
WHEN I CALL A MEETING FOR 1400
HOURS, WE START AT 1400 HOURS.
784
00:39:09,700 --> 00:39:11,300
GO AHEAD, DOCTOR.
785
00:39:13,500 --> 00:39:15,200
Oppenheimer: WELL, UM...
786
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:20,400
WELL, I'M EXCITED.
787
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:22,500
WHAT ABOUT YOU?
788
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:28,100
WE'RE GATHERED HERE TOGETHER
TO LEAP INTO THE UNKNOWN,
789
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:30,600
TO CREATE THE
HITHERTO IMPOSSIBLE.
790
00:39:30,700 --> 00:39:32,000
AND TO ACCOMPLISH OUR TASK,
791
00:39:32,100 --> 00:39:34,600
WE'VE ASSEMBLED IN THIS
ROOM THE VERY BEST MEN,
792
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:38,100
EACH CHOSEN INDIVIDUALLY
TO WORK WITH US.
793
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:41,500
THERE'S NOT ONE OF YOU I'M NOT
HONORED TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH.
794
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:44,700
EVERYTHING WE CAN DO TO HELP
YOU IN YOUR LABORS, WE WILL.
795
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:47,600
COME SEE ME OR ED CONDON HERE,
796
00:39:47,700 --> 00:39:49,300
WHO'S COME DOWN
FROM WESTINGHOUSE
797
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:51,400
TO LEND A HAND ON
ADMINISTRATIVE PROBLEMS.
798
00:39:51,500 --> 00:39:52,600
HEY, FELLAS.
799
00:39:52,700 --> 00:39:54,400
HEY. HI, ED.
800
00:39:54,500 --> 00:39:56,900
ED HELPED PREPARE THOSE
ORGANIZATIONAL CHARTS
801
00:39:56,900 --> 00:39:58,400
YOU ALL HAVE IN YOUR PACKETS,
802
00:39:58,500 --> 00:40:00,400
WHICH PROVE HOW
ORGANIZED WE ARE...
803
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:02,000
ON PAPER.
804
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:05,800
AS YOU KNOW, SOME OF US
HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THIS
805
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:07,100
FOR A YEAR OR MORE.
806
00:40:07,100 --> 00:40:10,300
I'VE ASKED BOB SERBER TO TELL
YOU WHAT WE ALREADY KNOW
807
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:12,900
AND WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW, TOO.
808
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:14,600
BOB, IT'S YOURS.
809
00:40:16,500 --> 00:40:19,400
DON'T CALL IT A BOMB,
BOB. CALL IT A GADGET, HUH?
810
00:40:19,500 --> 00:40:21,700
THE U-235 URANIUM BOMB
811
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:24,900
WILL HAVE A CRITICAL
MASS OF 15 KILOGRAMS.
812
00:40:24,900 --> 00:40:27,700
THE PLUTONIUM BOMB
ABOUT 5 KILOGRAMS.
813
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:30,300
MANUFACTURING PLANTS
AT OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE,
814
00:40:30,300 --> 00:40:33,000
AND HANFORD, WASHINGTON,
WILL MAKE THE MATERIALS.
815
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:36,800
BUT WE'LL HAVE TO HAVE
THE GADGET READY BY THEN...
816
00:40:36,900 --> 00:40:38,200
TWO YEARS OR LESS.
817
00:40:38,300 --> 00:40:40,600
HOW MUCH U-235
DO WE HAVE SO FAR?
818
00:40:40,700 --> 00:40:42,000
JUST MINUTE SMEARS.
819
00:40:42,100 --> 00:40:44,600
CAN WE GET SOME TO
FOOL AROUND WITH?
820
00:40:44,700 --> 00:40:47,600
YES. WHEN, WE'RE
NOT REALLY SURE.
821
00:40:47,700 --> 00:40:48,900
HOW ABOUT PLUTONIUM?
822
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:50,300
IT DOESN'T EXIST YET.
823
00:40:50,300 --> 00:40:53,200
SO, OKAY, WE'LL DO "LET'S
PRETEND" FOR A WHILE.
824
00:40:53,300 --> 00:40:56,200
Oppenheimer: WE'LL STAY IN CLOSE
CONTACT WITH OAK RIDGE AND HANFORD
825
00:40:56,300 --> 00:40:58,400
AND SEE WHAT WE CAN GET
AND WHEN WE CAN GET IT.
826
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:00,500
MEANWHILE, WE'VE GOT A
LITTLE CATCHING UP TO DO.
827
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:02,900
ATTEN-HUT!
828
00:41:02,900 --> 00:41:05,300
BE SEATED.
829
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,200
WELCOME TO LOS ALAMOS...
830
00:41:11,300 --> 00:41:13,600
WHERE, AT GREAT EXPENSE,
THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
831
00:41:13,700 --> 00:41:15,800
HAS GATHERED THE LARGEST
COLLECTION OF CRACKPOTS
832
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:16,900
THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN.
833
00:41:18,100 --> 00:41:23,800
HOWEVER, THESE CRACKPOTS
ARE ENGAGED ON A MISSION
834
00:41:23,900 --> 00:41:27,500
OF VITAL IMPORTANCE
TO YOUR COUNTRY.
835
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:30,500
YOUR RESPONSIBILITY WILL
BE TO MAINTAIN SECURITY HERE.
836
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:35,500
SPECIFICALLY, THAT MEANS
KEEPING THE GERMANS, THE RUSSIANS,
837
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:38,700
OR ANYONE ELSE FOR THAT MATTER,
FROM LEARNING ABOUT OUR EFFORTS.
838
00:41:38,700 --> 00:41:40,600
HOW YOU WILL
ACCOMPLISH THAT MISSION
839
00:41:40,700 --> 00:41:44,800
WILL BE THE ASSIGNMENT
OF COLONEL PASH...
840
00:41:44,900 --> 00:41:47,200
CAPTAIN DeSILVA...
841
00:41:47,300 --> 00:41:49,400
AND COLONEL LANSDALE.
842
00:41:49,500 --> 00:41:52,200
COLONEL LANSDALE WILL
NOW TAKE OVER THE BRIEFING.
843
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:58,900
THERE ARE FOUR AREAS
WE'LL BE CONCENTRATING ON.
844
00:41:58,900 --> 00:42:02,400
NOT ONE LETTER GOES IN
OR OUT THAT WE DON'T READ...
845
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:05,200
NOT ONE PHONE
CALL WE DON'T HEAR...
846
00:42:05,300 --> 00:42:08,500
NOT ONE OFFICE WE DON'T MONITOR.
847
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:10,500
PERSONAL SURVEILLANCE...
848
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:13,800
THAT ONE'S GONNA
BE A LITTLE TRICKIER.
849
00:42:15,300 --> 00:42:17,300
WE'RE ALL TALKING
ABOUT EXPLOSION.
850
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:18,600
AND WHAT I'M THINKING
851
00:42:18,700 --> 00:42:22,700
IS THAT MAYBE WE OUGHT TO
BE TALKING ABOUT IMPLOSION.
852
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:29,400
WH-WHAT I MEAN IS,
INSTEAD OF EXPLODING OUT,
853
00:42:29,500 --> 00:42:32,900
MAYBE... MAYBE WE OUGHT TO
BE SQUEEZING A MASS IN ON ITSELF
854
00:42:32,900 --> 00:42:34,300
FROM ALL SIDES AT ONCE.
855
00:42:34,300 --> 00:42:37,800
N-NOT DRIVE IT APART TO
GET FISSION... TOGETHER.
856
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:40,100
NO, YOU CAN'T DO THAT
BECAUSE YOU'D HAVE TO SET OFF
857
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:42,300
A ZILLION CHEMICAL
EXPLOSIONS AT THE SAME TIME.
858
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:45,200
THEY'D HAVE TO BE
UNIFORM AND SO VIOLENT...
859
00:42:45,300 --> 00:42:49,100
THERE'S NEVER BEEN A DEGREE
OF COMPRESSION ANYTHING LIKE IT.
860
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:51,800
IT MUST BE EXPLOSION...
THE GUN METHOD.
861
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:55,300
IT'S PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE.
862
00:42:55,300 --> 00:42:57,100
YOU'VE NEVER
WORKED ON EXPLOSIVES,
863
00:42:57,200 --> 00:42:58,300
HAVE YOU, NIEDERMAYER?
864
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:00,300
WHAT DO YOU KNOW
ABOUT THEM? NOTHING.
865
00:43:01,700 --> 00:43:03,500
SIT DOWN, GOOFUS.
866
00:43:06,500 --> 00:43:08,300
Serber: OKAY, LET'S
KEEP GOING HERE.
867
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:10,600
Fermi: LET'S GET BACK
TO THE GUN METHOD.
868
00:43:10,700 --> 00:43:15,400
FIRST, THE MAIN PROBLEM IS
HOW TO AVOID PRE-DETONATION.
869
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:16,600
YOU TOLD ME IF I CAME HERE,
870
00:43:16,700 --> 00:43:18,200
I COULD WORK ON
THE FUSION WEAPON
871
00:43:18,300 --> 00:43:19,500
AND I COULD WORK ON MY OWN.
872
00:43:19,500 --> 00:43:21,800
EDWARD, THAT'S RIGHT,
I DID. AND YOU CAN.
873
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:24,600
INSTEAD YOU HAVE ME WORKING
IN THE THEORETICAL DIVISION
874
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:25,600
UNDER HANS BETHE.
875
00:43:25,700 --> 00:43:27,700
FIRST BETHE, THEN
TELLER ASSISTING.
876
00:43:27,700 --> 00:43:29,900
EVERYTHING I PROMISED
YOU, YOU'LL GET.
877
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:31,600
THIS IS JUST UNTIL
WE GET STARTED.
878
00:43:31,700 --> 00:43:33,600
IT'S JUST FOR
ORGANIZATIONAL PURPOSES.
879
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:35,100
HELP ME OUT WITH THIS, EDWARD.
880
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:37,100
YOU HAVE CHEATED ME.
881
00:43:37,100 --> 00:43:39,700
I WANT YOU TO WORK ON YOUR OWN.
882
00:43:39,700 --> 00:43:41,100
YOU'RE ONE OF
THE MOST BRILLIANT,
883
00:43:41,100 --> 00:43:42,600
INNOVATIVE MEN WE HAVE,
884
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:45,400
AND YOU CAN HELP US TREMENDOUSLY
IN THE THEORETICAL DIVISION.
885
00:44:09,900 --> 00:44:12,500
HELLO.
886
00:44:12,500 --> 00:44:14,200
HI.
887
00:44:14,300 --> 00:44:17,400
NIEDERMAYER, I WANT
YOU TO WORK ON IMPLOSION.
888
00:44:19,500 --> 00:44:20,700
WHAT DID YOU SAY?
889
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:24,100
I'M MAKING YOU GROUP LEADER...
IMPLOSION EXPERIMENTATION.
890
00:44:26,700 --> 00:44:29,300
WAR RESEARCH ISN'T
LIKE COLLEGE RESEARCH.
891
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:31,000
DON'T HAVE TO BE CHEAP.
892
00:44:31,100 --> 00:44:35,000
USE AS MANY MEN AND AS
MUCH EQUIPMENT AS YOU NEED.
893
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:39,200
MYSELF, I DON'T THINK
IMPLOSION WILL WORK.
894
00:44:39,300 --> 00:44:40,500
IT'S JUST TOO COMPLICATED.
895
00:44:40,500 --> 00:44:43,900
IT'S TOO HARD TO GET A
SYMMETRICAL SHOCK WAVE.
896
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:45,900
PROVE ME WRONG.
897
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:50,200
AND IF YOU DO, I'LL GIVE
YOU A BOTTLE OF WHISKEY.
898
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:29,100
I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THAT
MISTAKE FOR THREE DAYS.
899
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:33,400
OPPIE, I HAVE AN IDEA I
WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT.
900
00:45:33,500 --> 00:45:36,600
WE KNOW IT MAY TAKE US TWO YEARS
901
00:45:36,700 --> 00:45:39,700
TO COME UP WITH THE BOMB, YEAH?
902
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:42,800
WE DON'T KNOW IF
WE HAVE THAT LONG.
903
00:45:42,900 --> 00:45:46,000
WE STARTED LATE,
LATER THAN GERMANY.
904
00:45:46,100 --> 00:45:49,600
SO, WHAT WOULD YOU THINK
905
00:45:49,700 --> 00:45:53,900
OF TAKING THE RADIOACTIVE
MATERIAL WE ARE NOW PRODUCING
906
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:57,000
AND DROP IT ON GERMANY...
907
00:45:57,100 --> 00:45:59,400
POISON THEIR FOOD SUPPLY.
908
00:45:59,500 --> 00:46:01,500
THIS WE COULD DO NOW.
909
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:07,100
WHAT WOULD YOU
USE, STRONTIUM-90?
910
00:46:07,100 --> 00:46:08,400
STRONTIUM-90. MM-HMM.
911
00:46:08,500 --> 00:46:10,600
MM-HMM.
912
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:11,700
WHAT DO I THINK?
913
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:13,700
I THINK YOU SHOULD
START WORK RIGHT NOW.
914
00:46:13,700 --> 00:46:14,900
ON WHAT SCALE?
915
00:46:14,900 --> 00:46:17,900
I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD
EVEN ATTEMPT A PLAN
916
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:21,200
UNLESS WE CAN POISON
FOOD SUFFICIENT TO KILL...
917
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:23,400
HALF A MILLION PEOPLE.
918
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:25,700
I HAVE TO GO TO CHICAGO TOMORROW
919
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:28,200
AND SEE HOW THE
PLUTONIUM'S COMING.
920
00:46:28,300 --> 00:46:31,700
THEN I'LL TAKE IT UP
WITH WASHINGTON.
921
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:34,500
NOT A WORD TO ANYONE, ENRICO.
922
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:38,000
OPPIE, YOU KNOW
WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE
923
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:40,100
BETWEEN US AND CHICAGO?
924
00:46:40,100 --> 00:46:42,600
THERE THEY THINK THEY
HAVE TO BUILD THE BOMB
925
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:43,800
BECAUSE OF HITLER.
926
00:46:43,900 --> 00:46:46,200
HERE, EVERYONE
WANTS TO BUILD IT.
927
00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:49,100
THAT'S BECAUSE I'M HERE
AND SZILARD'S THERE.
928
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:52,400
YOU SURPRISED HE DIDN'T
WANT TO COME HERE WITH US?
929
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:56,600
AH, LEO IS LEO.
HE'S A CITY PERSON.
930
00:46:56,700 --> 00:46:59,500
WHAT WOULD HE DO
WITHOUT HIS HOT PASTRAMI?
931
00:46:59,500 --> 00:47:02,600
A MILLION IDEAS A DAY, A
THOUSAND OF THEM GOOD.
932
00:47:02,700 --> 00:47:04,900
LET HIM DRIVE EVERYONE
IN CHICAGO CRAZY.
933
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:10,100
SO, WHAT WAS IT YOU WANTED
TO SEE ME ABOUT, COLONEL?
934
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:13,600
OH, I JUST THOUGHT WE
SHOULD GET BETTER ACQUAINTED.
935
00:47:13,700 --> 00:47:15,400
SOCIALLY?
936
00:47:15,500 --> 00:47:17,400
PERSONALLY?
937
00:47:17,500 --> 00:47:19,700
SEXUALLY?
938
00:47:25,900 --> 00:47:27,900
YOU'VE MADE MARTINIS BEFORE.
939
00:47:27,900 --> 00:47:29,100
ONCE OR TWICE.
940
00:47:29,100 --> 00:47:31,300
SO, WHAT SHOULD I CALL YOU?
KITTY? MRS. OPPENHEIMER?
941
00:47:31,300 --> 00:47:32,600
IT DEPENDS WHY YOU'RE HERE.
942
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:35,000
WELL, I HAVE BEEN CHARGED
WITH SECURITY ON THIS PROJECT.
943
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:36,600
AND NATURALLY,
I'VE BEEN DEVELOPING
944
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:38,100
CERTAIN INFORMATION ABOUT YOU...
945
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:41,700
YOUR PAST, SOME OF
YOUR ASSOCIATIONS,
946
00:47:41,700 --> 00:47:42,700
RELATIONSHIPS.
947
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,200
AND I WONDERED IF
YOU WOULDN'T MIND
948
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:47,300
TALKING TO ME ABOUT IT.
949
00:47:47,300 --> 00:47:48,300
IT'S PAST.
950
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:50,900
IT HAS NOTHING TO
DO WITH WHO I AM NOW.
951
00:47:50,900 --> 00:47:53,500
NOW THE ONLY THINGS
THAT MATTER TO ME
952
00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:55,200
ARE ROBERT AND HIS WORK.
953
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:56,300
I UNDERSTAND THAT.
954
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:58,300
THEN YOU DON'T MIND TALKING.
955
00:47:58,300 --> 00:48:00,600
IT'LL HELP TO SET
OUR MINDS TO REST.
956
00:48:00,700 --> 00:48:03,000
WE'RE ON THE SAME SIDE.
957
00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:06,800
THEN YOU WERE, VERY BRIEFLY, A
MEMBER OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY,
958
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:07,800
IS THAT RIGHT?
959
00:48:07,900 --> 00:48:10,400
WHAT DID YOU DO FOR THEM?
960
00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:14,000
TYPED LETTERS,
MIMEOED LEAFLETS...
961
00:48:14,100 --> 00:48:16,000
GENERAL OFFICE WORK.
962
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:17,400
WHY THEM?
963
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:20,400
PLEASE, I JUST WANT TO
UNDERSTAND... IT WAS THE '30s.
964
00:48:20,500 --> 00:48:21,700
IT SEEMED TO A LOT OF US
965
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:24,500
THAT COMMUNISM WAS THE
ONLY ALTERNATIVE TO FASCISM.
966
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:26,600
THE DEMOCRACIES
WEREN'T DOING A THING
967
00:48:26,700 --> 00:48:29,100
TO HELP IN THE
SPANISH CIVIL WAR.
968
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:31,600
HITLER CAME IN ON
THE SIDE OF FRANCO.
969
00:48:31,700 --> 00:48:34,600
WHO WAS GOING TO FIGHT
FOR DEMOCRACY IN SPAIN?
970
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:36,800
AMERICA? BRITAIN?
971
00:48:36,900 --> 00:48:39,200
THEY DIDN'T WANT
TO GET INVOLVED.
972
00:48:39,300 --> 00:48:40,900
THE COMMUNISTS DID.
973
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:43,200
THEN IT WAS THE DEPRESSION.
974
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:46,000
THE PARTY CARED ABOUT THE
PEOPLE WHO WERE STARVING
975
00:48:46,100 --> 00:48:47,800
WHEN A LOT OF OTHERS DIDN'T.
976
00:48:47,900 --> 00:48:50,800
THE PARTY WANTED TO DO
SOMETHING FOR THE LITTLE GUY.
977
00:48:50,900 --> 00:48:52,000
SO DID A LOT OF US.
978
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:54,200
THAT'S NOT THAT HARD
TO UNDERSTAND, IS IT?
979
00:48:54,300 --> 00:48:56,200
NO.
980
00:48:56,300 --> 00:48:59,000
YOU KNOW, IN A LOT OF PLACES,
ESPECIALLY WHERE I WAS,
981
00:48:59,100 --> 00:49:01,800
IT WAS HARD TO MEET PEOPLE
WHO WEREN'T IN THE PARTY
982
00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:03,000
OR AT LEAST ON THE EDGES.
983
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:04,600
AROUND THE UNIVERSITIES. MM-HMM.
984
00:49:04,700 --> 00:49:05,800
INCLUDING OPPENHEIMER.
985
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:13,200
HE WAS NEVER, NEVER
A MEMBER OF THE PARTY.
986
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:14,900
WHY IS THAT?
987
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:17,500
OBVIOUSLY, HE CARED
FOR THE SAME THINGS YOU...
988
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:19,500
HE NEVER WAS THAT INVOLVED.
989
00:49:19,500 --> 00:49:22,800
IT WAS SO LONG AGO. IT
WAS A DIFFERENT TIME.
990
00:49:22,900 --> 00:49:24,900
WE WERE DIFFERENT.
991
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:26,700
NOW THE DEPRESSION'S OVER.
992
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:29,300
THE WAR... WE'RE
ALL IN IT TOGETHER.
993
00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:31,100
ROBERT'S A PHYSICIST.
994
00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:34,400
HE'S A BRILLIANT,
BRILLIANT SCIENTIST.
995
00:49:34,500 --> 00:49:35,900
HE'S AN AMERICAN.
996
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:38,200
HE'D NEVER DO ANYTHING
TO HURT THIS COUNTRY.
997
00:49:38,300 --> 00:49:41,300
HE WANTS TO WIN THE
WAR. THAT'S ALL HE WANTS.
998
00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:43,300
AND HE CAN DO IT.
999
00:49:43,300 --> 00:49:45,400
THAT'S WHAT'S IMPORTANT.
1000
00:49:45,500 --> 00:49:47,900
HE CAN DO IT.
1001
00:50:25,700 --> 00:50:27,600
LEO, WHAT'S THE QUESTION?
1002
00:50:27,700 --> 00:50:28,800
HUH?
1003
00:50:28,900 --> 00:50:30,700
YOU SOUND LIKE YOU
ALREADY HAVE THE ANSWER.
1004
00:50:30,700 --> 00:50:32,200
NO, I JUST GOT SOME
VERY GOOD NEWS
1005
00:50:32,300 --> 00:50:34,500
ABOUT A FRIEND OF
MINE FROM GERMANY.
1006
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:37,100
SO, WHAT BRINGS YOU
TO CIVILIZATION, ROBERT?
1007
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:38,400
I MISS YOU.
1008
00:50:38,500 --> 00:50:39,600
AW.
1009
00:50:39,700 --> 00:50:42,200
SO, HOW'S THE PASTRAMI
IN CHICAGO THESE DAYS?
1010
00:50:42,300 --> 00:50:44,900
HOW ARE ALL YOUR LITTLE
HOT DOGS IN LOS ALAMOS?
1011
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:47,000
COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF.
1012
00:50:47,100 --> 00:50:49,700
NAH! NOBODY CAN THINK
STRAIGHT IN A PLACE LIKE THAT.
1013
00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:52,400
EVERYBODY WHO GOES THERE
WILL GO CRAZY. YOU WATCH.
1014
00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:53,400
HMM.
1015
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:54,900
WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?
1016
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:56,100
I'M SEEING ARTHUR,
1017
00:50:56,200 --> 00:50:58,900
CHECKING WHEN WE CAN
EXPECT SOME CONTRIBUTIONS
1018
00:50:58,900 --> 00:51:00,200
FROM THE WORKER BEES.
1019
00:51:01,900 --> 00:51:03,000
CHEERS.
1020
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:07,100
Trude: AFTER I GOT
MY DEGREE IN BERLIN,
1021
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:09,800
YOU REMEMBER HOW
IMPORTANT THAT WAS TO ME.
1022
00:51:09,900 --> 00:51:13,000
I REMEMBER. IT WAS
TOO IMPORTANT, HUH?
1023
00:51:13,100 --> 00:51:17,100
YEAH, WELL, I WOUND UP IN
AUSTRIA IN PUBLIC HEALTH.
1024
00:51:17,100 --> 00:51:19,900
I DON'T MIND TELLING YOU,
THE PUBLIC HEALTH OF AUSTRIA
1025
00:51:19,900 --> 00:51:22,300
HAS BEEN NOT TOO GOOD
SINCE HITLER TOOK OVER.
1026
00:51:23,900 --> 00:51:26,400
THEN ENGLAND, AND THEN HERE.
1027
00:51:26,500 --> 00:51:28,200
AY-YI-YI-YI-YI.
1028
00:51:28,300 --> 00:51:30,600
IT WASN'T SO BAD, LEO.
1029
00:51:30,700 --> 00:51:33,900
I GUESS MY IMAGINATION
GOT THE WORST OF ME, HUH?
1030
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:36,400
YOU KNOW, YOU
HAVE ALWAYS FIGURED
1031
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:38,400
IN MY IMAGINATION, TRUDE.
1032
00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:39,600
I HAVE?
1033
00:51:39,700 --> 00:51:42,600
YEAH. MORE THAN YOU KNOW.
1034
00:51:42,700 --> 00:51:45,100
YOU'VE ALWAYS BEEN IN MINE, TOO.
1035
00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:48,600
YOU KNOW, I WAS AFRAID
YOU'D BE MARRIED BY NOW
1036
00:51:48,700 --> 00:51:50,200
OR HAVE A GIRLFRIEND.
1037
00:51:50,300 --> 00:51:51,400
NO.
1038
00:51:54,700 --> 00:51:57,600
LEO, PUT YOUR ARM AROUND ME.
1039
00:51:57,700 --> 00:52:00,000
Man: SUBJECT SZILARD
IS OF JEWISH EXTRACTION.
1040
00:52:00,100 --> 00:52:01,700
HE HAS A FONDNESS FOR DELICACIES
1041
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:04,200
AND FREQUENTLY EATS HIS
BREAKFAST IN DRUGSTORES
1042
00:52:04,300 --> 00:52:06,000
AND OTHER MEALS IN RESTAURANTS.
1043
00:52:06,100 --> 00:52:08,700
HE WALKS A GREAT DEAL
WHEN HE CANNOT SECURE A TAXI.
1044
00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:10,900
HE USUALLY IS SHAVEN
IN A BARBERSHOP.
1045
00:52:10,900 --> 00:52:13,200
HE SPEAKS OCCASIONALLY
IN A FOREIGN TONGUE
1046
00:52:13,300 --> 00:52:16,200
AND ASSOCIATES MOSTLY WITH
PEOPLE OF JEWISH EXTRACTION.
1047
00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:18,400
HIS IS INCLINED TO BE
RATHER ABSENTMINDED
1048
00:52:18,500 --> 00:52:21,200
AND WILL START OUT A DOOR,
TURN AROUND AND COME BACK,
1049
00:52:21,300 --> 00:52:23,600
GO OUT ON A STREET
WITHOUT HIS COAT OR HAT,
1050
00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:25,900
AND FREQUENTLY LOOKS
UP AND DOWN THE STREET
1051
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:28,700
AS IF HE DID NOT KNOW FOR
SURE WHERE HE WANTED TO GO.
1052
00:52:31,500 --> 00:52:34,900
RECENTLY, SUBJECT HAS
STARTED SHARING HIS HOTEL ROOM
1053
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:36,000
WITH THIS WOMAN,
1054
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:38,200
A REFUGEE FROM
GERMANY VIA AUSTRIA,
1055
00:52:38,300 --> 00:52:40,600
A DOCTOR NAMED
GERTRUDE "TRUDE" WEISS.
1056
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:43,700
WHAT ELSE DO THEY TALK ABOUT?
1057
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:47,400
Dr. Weiss: TELL ME, WHAT
ARE YOU WORKING ON?
1058
00:52:47,500 --> 00:52:49,800
Dr. Szilard: THIS WILL BE
HARD FOR YOU TO BELIEVE,
1059
00:52:49,900 --> 00:52:50,900
BUT I CANNOT SAY.
1060
00:52:50,900 --> 00:52:52,100
YEAH, I KNOW.
1061
00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:55,000
WHEN HAVE I EVER BEEN
QUIET ABOUT ANYTHING?
1062
00:52:55,100 --> 00:52:58,800
IT'S JUST THAT EVERYTHING HAS
TO BE SO SECRET THESE DAYS.
1063
00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:01,300
I DON'T HAVE TO KNOW ANYTHING.
1064
00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:03,000
I DON'T WANT TO KNOW.
1065
00:53:03,100 --> 00:53:05,900
I JUST WANT TO BE NEAR YOU.
1066
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:08,500
DON'T TALK.
1067
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:10,100
COME HERE, LEO.
1068
00:53:10,100 --> 00:53:12,400
COME HERE.
1069
00:53:13,700 --> 00:53:17,600
IF YOU KNEW HOW LONG
I'VE PRAYED FOR THIS.
1070
00:53:20,500 --> 00:53:21,700
THAT'S ALL?
1071
00:53:21,700 --> 00:53:23,500
YES, SIR.
1072
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:24,800
FOR NOW.
1073
00:53:28,100 --> 00:53:29,500
ALL RIGHT, KEEP ON HIM.
1074
00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:31,200
WE'LL MAINTAIN SURVEILLANCE
1075
00:53:31,300 --> 00:53:34,700
UNTIL WE'RE ABSOLUTELY
CERTAIN THAT HE'S 100% RELIABLE.
1076
00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:36,000
YES, SIR.
1077
00:53:42,500 --> 00:53:44,900
ALL RIGHT, NOW
I'VE GOT SOMETHING.
1078
00:53:44,900 --> 00:53:46,700
OPPENHEIMER'S BEEN HEAD
1079
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:48,600
OF THE MOST SECRET
PROJECT OF THE WAR
1080
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:49,800
FOR SEVERAL MONTHS NOW.
1081
00:53:49,900 --> 00:53:52,400
YOU STILL HAVEN'T ISSUED HIS
SECURITY CLEARANCE. WHY NOT?
1082
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:54,500
WE DON'T THINK WE SHOULD.
MAY WE TELL YOU WHY?
1083
00:53:54,600 --> 00:53:55,800
WELL, I THINK YOU'D BETTER.
1084
00:53:55,900 --> 00:53:57,500
SIR, HE'S JUST A REAL BAD RISK.
1085
00:53:57,600 --> 00:53:58,800
HIS WIFE WAS A COMMUNIST.
1086
00:53:58,900 --> 00:54:01,100
HE KNOWS COMMUNISTS.
HE ASSOCIATES WITH THEM.
1087
00:54:01,100 --> 00:54:03,200
HE'S HIRED A LOT OF
THEM FROM THE COLLEGES
1088
00:54:03,300 --> 00:54:05,200
TO WORK AT LOS
ALAMOS... ALL LEFTIES.
1089
00:54:05,300 --> 00:54:07,200
WHERE WOULD YOU SUGGEST
WE GET OUR SCIENTISTS
1090
00:54:07,300 --> 00:54:08,400
IF NOT FROM THE COLLEGES?
1091
00:54:08,500 --> 00:54:10,300
HE BELONGS TO A LOT
OF FRONT ORGANIZATIONS.
1092
00:54:10,300 --> 00:54:11,300
HE WAS AT BERKELEY.
1093
00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:12,600
EVERYBODY WHO WAS AT BERKELEY
1094
00:54:12,700 --> 00:54:14,700
JOINED SOME SCREWBALL
ORGANIZATION OR ANOTHER
1095
00:54:14,700 --> 00:54:16,400
IN THE '30s.
1096
00:54:16,500 --> 00:54:18,000
WHAT HAVE YOU GOT
ON HIM THAT'S NEW...
1097
00:54:18,100 --> 00:54:19,400
SINCE HE'S JOINED THE PROJECT?
1098
00:54:19,400 --> 00:54:21,200
WHAT HAVE YOU FOUND
OUT ABOUT HIM RECENTLY?
1099
00:54:26,300 --> 00:54:28,200
I WANT HIS SECURITY
CLEARANCE ISSUED,
1100
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:29,500
AND I WANT IT ISSUED TODAY.
1101
00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:30,500
THANK YOU, GENTLEMEN.
1102
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:32,000
SIR.
1103
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:41,700
IT DOESN'T MEAN WE HAVE
TO STOP LOOKING, DOES IT?
1104
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:44,200
Groves: WHO KNEW
OPPENHEIMER WAS IN CHICAGO?
1105
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:48,100
I DIDN'T.
1106
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:56,700
NO OUTSIDE CONTACT.
1107
00:54:56,800 --> 00:54:58,700
NO OUTSIDE CONTACT!
1108
00:54:58,700 --> 00:55:00,000
WE HAD A FIRM AGREEMENT.
1109
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:02,700
Oppenheimer: YEAH, BUT I
DON'T THINK I VIOLATED IT.
1110
00:55:02,700 --> 00:55:05,400
I HAD TO FIND OUT WHEN THE
PLUTONIUM WAS GONNA BE READY.
1111
00:55:05,500 --> 00:55:07,800
YOU'RE NOT TO SPEAK TO
ANYONE OUTSIDE LOS ALAMOS!
1112
00:55:07,900 --> 00:55:10,000
NOT EVEN COMPTON? HE'S
THE HEAD OF THE LAB THERE.
1113
00:55:10,100 --> 00:55:12,200
HE'S THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN
TELL US WHEN TO EXPECT...
1114
00:55:12,300 --> 00:55:14,000
YOU SPOKE TO LEO
SZILARD, DIDN'T YOU?
1115
00:55:16,300 --> 00:55:20,100
BAD ENOUGH YOU ALL WANT TO
TALK TO EACH OTHER DOWN HERE!
1116
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:23,000
WHO ELSE KNEW YOU
WERE GOING TO CHICAGO?
1117
00:55:23,100 --> 00:55:24,000
JUST ED.
1118
00:55:24,100 --> 00:55:27,100
JUST ED... THE RESPONSIBLE MAN,
1119
00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:30,700
THE CORPORATE EXECUTIVE
WITH ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE,
1120
00:55:30,700 --> 00:55:32,600
WHO SHOULD HAVE
HAD BETTER JUDGMENT.
1121
00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:34,900
GENERAL, NOW IT'S COME
UP, YOU OUGHT TO KNOW...
1122
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:37,000
I THINK YOUR POLICY
HERE IS DEAD WRONG.
1123
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:39,600
I THINK IT IS SLOWING US DOWN
AND FOR NO GOOD REASON.
1124
00:55:39,700 --> 00:55:41,400
WELL, ANYBODY WHO
THINKS THAT SHOULD LEAVE.
1125
00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:43,400
SCIENTISTS HAVE
TO HELP EACH OTHER.
1126
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:45,100
IF THEY CAN'T...
1127
00:55:45,200 --> 00:55:47,600
OPPIE, WOULD YOU TELL HIM?
1128
00:55:47,700 --> 00:55:49,400
UM, I SEE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING...
1129
00:55:49,500 --> 00:55:51,300
DON'T DRAG HIM INTO IT, CONDON.
1130
00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:52,500
IT'S MY POLICY,
1131
00:55:52,500 --> 00:55:54,900
IT'S MY DECISION,
AND IT'S FINAL.
1132
00:55:54,900 --> 00:55:58,400
YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING.
YOU AGREE WITH ME.
1133
00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:05,200
GENERAL, IF IT'S MY
RESIGNATION YOU WANT,
1134
00:56:05,300 --> 00:56:06,300
YOU CAN HAVE IT.
1135
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:08,100
ED, LISTEN. LET'S DON'T
DO ANYTHING RASH.
1136
00:56:08,100 --> 00:56:10,900
IF THESE ARE THE RULES, THEN
WE CAN LEARN TO LIVE WITH THEM.
1137
00:56:10,900 --> 00:56:13,900
I DON'T EVEN WANT TO TRY.
1138
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:16,100
GOODBYE, OPPIE.
1139
00:56:16,200 --> 00:56:17,600
GOOD LUCK.
1140
00:56:32,200 --> 00:56:33,900
FORGET ABOUT CONDON.
1141
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:35,900
HE PROBABLY QUIT
1142
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:38,400
BECAUSE HE THOUGHT
THE PROJECT WOULD FAIL.
1143
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:40,800
WELL, IT'S NOT GOING TO FAIL.
1144
00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:52,400
I WAS JUST TELLING THEM, OPPIE.
1145
00:56:52,400 --> 00:56:54,200
IF THIS PIPE COLLAPSES EVENLY
1146
00:56:54,200 --> 00:56:58,000
BUT DOESN'T GET
TWISTED AND DEFORMED,
1147
00:56:58,100 --> 00:57:00,600
THEN THAT'S
SUCCESSFUL IMPLOSION.
1148
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:02,900
THAT'S WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR.
1149
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:06,300
I DON'T KNOW. I WOULDN'T
STAND SO CLOSE.
1150
00:57:06,400 --> 00:57:07,500
IT'S ALL RIGHT.
1151
00:57:07,600 --> 00:57:10,900
WE'RE NOT... WE'RE NOT
USING THAT MUCH EXPLOSIVE.
1152
00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:15,800
I'M JUST SAYING, I WOULDN'T.
1153
00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:18,400
ALL SET?
1154
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:20,300
GO AHEAD.
1155
00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:34,000
WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!
1156
00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:48,700
Man: YOU ALL RIGHT?
1157
00:57:52,700 --> 00:57:54,800
I'VE SEEN BETTER-LOOKING PIPES.
1158
00:57:54,900 --> 00:57:57,800
BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD.
1159
00:58:00,900 --> 00:58:03,500
WHY DON'T THEY DO IT OUT
IN SOME FIELD SOMEWHERE?
1160
00:58:03,500 --> 00:58:05,000
I HOPE I'M NOT INTERRUPTING.
1161
00:58:05,100 --> 00:58:06,800
NO, NOT AT ALL.
PLEASE, SIT DOWN.
1162
00:58:06,900 --> 00:58:08,800
KITTY'S PROBABLY GOT
SOME COFFEE READY.
1163
00:58:08,900 --> 00:58:10,600
WOULD YOU LIKE SOME? NO, THANKS.
1164
00:58:10,700 --> 00:58:13,100
SO, WHAT'S UP?
1165
00:58:13,100 --> 00:58:18,600
WELL, I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU
WENT TO BERKELEY THIS WEEK.
1166
00:58:18,700 --> 00:58:21,300
WAIT, WAIT, WHOA,
WHOA. THAT WAS CLEARED.
1167
00:58:21,400 --> 00:58:22,500
I HAD PERMISSION.
1168
00:58:22,600 --> 00:58:24,100
THERE WAS SOMEBODY
THAT I HAD TO...
1169
00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:26,500
NO, THAT'S NOT WHAT I WANT
TO SPEAK TO YOU ABOUT, DOCTOR.
1170
00:58:26,500 --> 00:58:29,100
YOU MENTIONED TO SECURITY
THERE THEY OUGHT TO KEEP AN EYE
1171
00:58:29,100 --> 00:58:30,500
ON A MAN NAMED
CHARLES SATTERLEE,
1172
00:58:30,500 --> 00:58:32,400
WORKS FOR UNIFIED OIL.
1173
00:58:32,500 --> 00:58:37,200
I WONDERED WHAT THAT WAS ABOUT.
1174
00:58:37,300 --> 00:58:39,300
YOU KNOW SATTERLEE PERSONALLY?
1175
00:58:39,400 --> 00:58:44,300
UM, NO, SOMEBODY JUST
MENTIONED HE KNEW SOMETHING.
1176
00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:46,300
WHO MENTIONED IT?
WAS A FRIEND OF YOURS?
1177
00:58:46,400 --> 00:58:48,100
YOU DON'T MIND TELLING ME?
1178
00:58:48,200 --> 00:58:52,800
WELL, I'VE... I'VE THOUGHT
ABOUT IT A GOOD DEAL,
1179
00:58:52,900 --> 00:58:55,200
AND I FEEL I SHOULDN'T.
1180
00:58:55,200 --> 00:58:56,900
I'D JUST BET DOLLARS
TO DOUGHNUTS
1181
00:58:57,000 --> 00:58:58,600
HE ISN'T PERSONALLY INVOLVED.
1182
00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:00,200
I UNDERSTAND PERSONAL LOYALTY.
1183
00:59:00,300 --> 00:59:01,600
BUT IN A CASE LIKE THIS...
1184
00:59:01,700 --> 00:59:04,100
I'D REGARD IT AS A LOW
TRICK TO INVOLVE SOMEONE
1185
00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:06,700
WHEN I'D BET ANYTHING
HE'S NOT INVOLVED WITH IT.
1186
00:59:06,700 --> 00:59:08,900
OKAY, BOB, DON'T
THINK IT'S THE LAST TIME
1187
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:11,100
I'M GONNA ASK YOU,
BECAUSE IT'S NOT.
1188
00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:20,200
Dr. Szilard: NO, NO. THE WAR
SHOULD BE OVER BY NOW.
1189
00:59:20,300 --> 00:59:23,300
IF WE HAD LISTENED TO US
WHEN WE FIRST TOLD THEM,
1190
00:59:23,400 --> 00:59:26,300
IF THAT IDIOT GROVES
TREATED US LIKE GROWN MEN
1191
00:59:26,300 --> 00:59:30,700
INSTEAD OF LIKE
SPIES OR CHILDREN...
1192
00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:33,700
MILITARY GENIUSES.
1193
00:59:33,700 --> 00:59:36,300
BELIEVE ME, IN GERMANY,
1194
00:59:36,300 --> 00:59:38,900
THEY'RE WORKING FIVE
TIMES AS FAST AS WE ARE.
1195
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:42,500
AND ONE DAY VERY SOON,
HITLER WILL DROP A BOMB ON US.
1196
00:59:42,600 --> 00:59:43,700
LEO!
1197
00:59:43,700 --> 00:59:46,100
YEAH, YEAH, ONE BOMB...
RIGHT ON CHICAGO,
1198
00:59:46,200 --> 00:59:48,400
STOP OUR WORK AND
KILL EVERYONE INVOLVED.
1199
00:59:48,500 --> 00:59:50,200
IT'S POSSIBLE BUT NOT PROBABLE.
1200
00:59:50,300 --> 00:59:52,100
YOU KNOW HITLER.
1201
00:59:52,200 --> 00:59:54,600
HE LOVES THE GRAND GESTURE, HUH?
1202
00:59:54,700 --> 00:59:58,100
CHRISTMAS DAY WILL BE
THE PERFECT TIME TO DO IT.
1203
01:00:00,600 --> 01:00:02,700
BOOM.
1204
01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:04,300
MERRY CHRISTMAS.
1205
01:00:04,300 --> 01:00:06,300
NO, I DON'T WANT HIM
FIRED. I WANT HIM ARRESTED.
1206
01:00:06,400 --> 01:00:07,700
I WANT HIM LOCKED UP.
1207
01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:10,900
I WANT LEO SZILARD INTERNED
FOR AS LONG AS THE WAR LASTS.
1208
01:00:11,000 --> 01:00:13,700
I CAN'T SIGN THAT, GENERAL.
HE HASN'T DONE ANYTHING.
1209
01:00:13,700 --> 01:00:16,600
THE MAN HAS ABSOLUTELY NO
SENSE OF SECURITY WHATSOEVER.
1210
01:00:16,600 --> 01:00:18,100
HE'S ALWAYS STIRRING THINGS UP,
1211
01:00:18,300 --> 01:00:21,100
WORKING EVERYONE UP INTO A
STATE OF REBELLION ALL THE TIME.
1212
01:00:21,100 --> 01:00:22,900
ONE THING WE HAVE TO
CONCERN OURSELVES WITH
1213
01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:24,600
IS HOW FAR ALONG
ARE THE GERMANS.
1214
01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:26,400
WE'RE NOT GETTING
HARD EVIDENCE THERE.
1215
01:00:26,500 --> 01:00:28,300
GENERAL...
1216
01:00:28,400 --> 01:00:31,900
ANY REASON YOU CAN'T TAKE
OVER FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE, TOO?
1217
01:00:34,100 --> 01:00:35,000
NO, SIR.
1218
01:00:35,100 --> 01:00:37,200
GOOD.
1219
01:00:37,200 --> 01:00:39,600
ANYTHING ELSE WE
HAVE TO GO OVER?
1220
01:00:41,200 --> 01:00:43,300
GENTLEMEN.
1221
01:00:43,400 --> 01:00:46,500
Stimson: GENERAL.
1222
01:00:54,800 --> 01:00:56,300
Man: I DO NOT GET THE FEELING
1223
01:00:56,400 --> 01:00:59,200
GENERAL GROVES
MUCH LIKES LEO SZILARD.
1224
01:01:00,500 --> 01:01:01,700
WHAT ELSE?
1225
01:01:01,800 --> 01:01:04,500
THIS IDEA THAT
OPPENHEIMER AND FERMI HAVE
1226
01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:08,400
OF POISONING
GERMANY'S FOOD SUPPLY.
1227
01:01:08,400 --> 01:01:10,300
WHY DON'T WE JUST
SIT ON THAT, HUH?
1228
01:01:10,300 --> 01:01:12,000
OF COURSE. WHY DON'T WE?
1229
01:01:12,100 --> 01:01:14,600
OH, GENTLEMEN, COME
IN, COME IN, COME IN.
1230
01:01:14,700 --> 01:01:16,900
DR... I'M SORRY, IS IT
PRONOUNCED "GOOD-SCHMIDT"?
1231
01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:18,000
"HOUSE-SCHMIDT."
1232
01:01:18,100 --> 01:01:19,500
THANK YOU VERY MUCH. SIT DOWN.
1233
01:01:19,600 --> 01:01:21,900
COLONEL PASH, NICE TO SEE YOU.
1234
01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:25,300
GENTLEMEN, I'M ASSEMBLING
AN INTELLIGENCE TEAM
1235
01:01:25,300 --> 01:01:27,600
THAT WILL ENTER EUROPE
WITH OUR INVASION FORCES.
1236
01:01:27,700 --> 01:01:29,300
THIS TEAM WILL
HAVE ONE MISSION...
1237
01:01:29,300 --> 01:01:31,100
TO DETERMINE EXACTLY
WHAT THE GERMANS KNOW
1238
01:01:31,200 --> 01:01:32,200
ABOUT THE ATOMIC BOMB
1239
01:01:32,300 --> 01:01:34,400
AND WHAT THEY INTEND TO
DO WITH THAT KNOWLEDGE.
1240
01:01:34,500 --> 01:01:36,300
DOCTOR, LET ME ASK YOU.
1241
01:01:36,300 --> 01:01:38,300
IF YOU WERE A
MEMBER OF THIS TEAM,
1242
01:01:38,400 --> 01:01:39,600
WHERE WOULD YOU START?
1243
01:01:39,700 --> 01:01:41,100
WHAT WOULD YOU LOOK FOR?
1244
01:01:41,100 --> 01:01:44,300
UH, WELL, SIR...
1245
01:01:44,400 --> 01:01:45,700
WE ARE ALWAYS TOLD
1246
01:01:45,800 --> 01:01:48,900
THAT ONLY A DOZEN PEOPLE IN
THE WORLD UNDERSTAND EINSTEIN.
1247
01:01:49,000 --> 01:01:51,500
IF FOLLOWS THAT AT
LEAST ONE OF THAT DOZEN
1248
01:01:51,600 --> 01:01:54,200
MUST BE INCLUDED IN
ANY ATOMIC-BOMB PROJECT,
1249
01:01:54,300 --> 01:01:55,700
SINCE ITS CONSTRUCTION
1250
01:01:55,700 --> 01:01:58,400
IS CLOSELY TIED UP
WITH EINSTEIN'S THEORY.
1251
01:01:58,500 --> 01:02:03,000
SO, I'D LOOK FOR
WERNER HEISENBERG.
1252
01:02:03,100 --> 01:02:04,500
YOU JUST MADE THE TEAM.
1253
01:02:04,600 --> 01:02:06,100
COLONEL PASH, I WANT YOU
1254
01:02:06,100 --> 01:02:08,000
TO BE THE MILITARY
HEAD OF THIS TEAM.
1255
01:02:08,100 --> 01:02:10,000
DOCTOR, I'D LIKE
YOU TO BE SCIENTIFIC.
1256
01:02:10,100 --> 01:02:11,300
WHEN OUR TROOPS ENTER EUROPE,
1257
01:02:11,400 --> 01:02:13,600
I EXPECT YOU BOTH TO BE RIGHT
AT THE HEAD OF THE PARADE.
1258
01:02:13,600 --> 01:02:16,200
GENERAL, I AM
FLATTERED, OF COURSE,
1259
01:02:16,200 --> 01:02:20,300
BUT YOU SHOULD KNOW I'VE NEVER
DONE ANYTHING EVEN REMOTELY...
1260
01:02:20,400 --> 01:02:22,800
DOCTOR, YOU'RE EUROPEAN.
YOU SPEAK THE LANGUAGES.
1261
01:02:22,800 --> 01:02:25,400
YOU KNOW THE SCIENTISTS.
YOU EVEN KNOW ATOMIC PHYSICS.
1262
01:02:25,500 --> 01:02:28,200
YOU'RE NOT WORKING ON OUR
PROJECT, SO I CAN SPARE YOU.
1263
01:02:28,300 --> 01:02:30,400
YOU DO WANT TO HELP
YOUR ADOPTED COUNTRY,
1264
01:02:30,500 --> 01:02:31,400
DON'T YOU, DOCTOR?
1265
01:02:31,500 --> 01:02:33,500
YES, SIR, IT'S NOT THAT. IT'S...
1266
01:02:33,500 --> 01:02:34,900
I ONLY WISH I WAS
GOING WITH YOU.
1267
01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:37,400
YOU'LL PROBABLY SEE
MORE COMBAT IN THIS WAR
1268
01:02:37,400 --> 01:02:39,600
THAN COLONEL NICHOLS
AND I PUT TOGETHER.
1269
01:02:39,700 --> 01:02:42,100
WE, ON THE OTHER HAND,
MUST GO TO NEW YORK
1270
01:02:42,200 --> 01:02:43,800
TO ENTERTAIN SOME BRITISHERS,
1271
01:02:43,900 --> 01:02:46,300
WHO, IN THE SPIRIT OF
ALLIED COOPERATION,
1272
01:02:46,300 --> 01:02:48,200
HAVE VOLUNTEERED THEIR SERVICES
1273
01:02:48,300 --> 01:02:51,000
IN AID OF THE
BELEAGUERED COLONISTS.
1274
01:02:51,100 --> 01:02:52,000
CAREFUL, LADS.
1275
01:02:52,100 --> 01:02:53,200
REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED
1276
01:02:53,200 --> 01:02:55,000
THE LAST TIME THESE
CHAPS GAVE US A TEA PARTY.
1277
01:02:56,600 --> 01:02:59,900
WHERE EXACTLY IN AMERICA
WILL WE BE WORKING, GENERAL?
1278
01:02:59,900 --> 01:03:02,600
UH, I'D RATHER NOT SAY.
1279
01:03:04,900 --> 01:03:07,000
LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS.
1280
01:03:08,700 --> 01:03:12,000
DID I SAY SOMETHING FUNNY?
1281
01:03:12,100 --> 01:03:13,100
ON WHAT PROBLEMS
1282
01:03:13,200 --> 01:03:15,200
DO YOU IMAGINE WE COULD
BE MOST HELPFUL, SIR?
1283
01:03:15,200 --> 01:03:17,200
WE'LL TELL YOU WHATEVER
YOU NEED TO KNOW
1284
01:03:17,300 --> 01:03:18,800
WHENEVER YOU NEED TO KNOW IT.
1285
01:03:18,900 --> 01:03:21,300
GENERAL, I DON'T BELIEVE
YOU'VE MET MY COLLEAGUE.
1286
01:03:21,400 --> 01:03:22,900
DR. KLAUS FUCHS.
1287
01:03:23,000 --> 01:03:25,400
ARE YOU BRITISH, DR. FUCHS?
1288
01:03:25,500 --> 01:03:27,700
OF SOMEWHAT RECENT VINTAGE.
1289
01:03:27,800 --> 01:03:28,800
A REFUGEE FROM HITLER.
1290
01:03:28,900 --> 01:03:29,900
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1291
01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:32,100
I'M A PHYSICIST
AND THEORETICIAN.
1292
01:03:32,200 --> 01:03:33,700
WELL, WELCOME TO AMERICA.
1293
01:03:33,800 --> 01:03:35,100
THANK YOU.
1294
01:03:43,200 --> 01:03:45,000
EXCUSE ME.
1295
01:03:54,600 --> 01:03:56,000
I'M RAYMOND.
1296
01:03:56,100 --> 01:03:57,400
KLAUS FUCHS.
1297
01:03:57,500 --> 01:04:00,400
USE YOUR CODE NAME.
DIDN'T THEY TEACH YOU?
1298
01:04:02,400 --> 01:04:04,800
THERE'S A LOT OF
QUESTIONS I HAVE TO ASK YOU.
1299
01:04:04,900 --> 01:04:06,400
ARE YOU HUNGRY?
1300
01:04:06,400 --> 01:04:07,400
YEAH.
1301
01:04:07,500 --> 01:04:09,700
LET'S GET SOMETHING TO EAT.
1302
01:04:09,700 --> 01:04:11,900
MOSCOW HAS A LOT OF QUESTIONS.
1303
01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:13,800
? SILENT NIGHT ?
1304
01:04:13,900 --> 01:04:17,500
? HOLY NIGHT ?
1305
01:04:17,500 --> 01:04:21,400
? ALL IS CALM ?
1306
01:04:21,500 --> 01:04:25,100
? ALL IS BRIGHT ?
1307
01:04:25,200 --> 01:04:26,400
Groves: SOUNDS NICE.
1308
01:04:26,500 --> 01:04:29,300
Oppenheimer: I ALWAYS
LIKED THIS TIME OF YEAR.
1309
01:04:29,400 --> 01:04:31,500
A LITTLE FAMILY TIME.
1310
01:04:31,500 --> 01:04:34,900
MY FATHER WAS AN ARMY CHAPLAIN.
1311
01:04:34,900 --> 01:04:36,400
WE
1312
01:04:36,400 --> 01:04:38,900
WE WERE NEVER TOO MUCH ON
HAVING FUN WHEN I WAS GROWING UP.
1313
01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:41,500
HE WAS A PRETTY STRICT DADDY.
1314
01:04:41,600 --> 01:04:43,600
BUT CHRISTMAS WAS SPECIAL.
1315
01:04:43,700 --> 01:04:47,100
MERRY CHRISTMAS.
MERRY CHRISTMAS.
1316
01:04:47,200 --> 01:04:49,800
WELL, WE ALWAYS DID
EVERYTHING AT CHRISTMAS...
1317
01:04:49,900 --> 01:04:51,200
ALWAYS DID IT TOGETHER.
1318
01:04:51,300 --> 01:04:52,900
DO YOU CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS?
1319
01:04:53,000 --> 01:04:56,100
FOR THE CHILDREN... AN
EXCUSE TO GIVE THEM PRESENTS.
1320
01:04:56,200 --> 01:04:58,700
I WASN'T SURE, YOU
BEING JEWISH AND ALL.
1321
01:04:58,800 --> 01:05:00,000
YOU HAVE A LITTLE BOY.
1322
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:02,000
YEAH.
1323
01:05:02,100 --> 01:05:04,800
YEAH, MY BOY'S AT
WEST POINT... NATURALLY.
1324
01:05:06,600 --> 01:05:09,300
HE'S STILL GOT THREE
YEARS TO GO, THANK GOD.
1325
01:05:11,100 --> 01:05:14,900
MY LITTLE GIRL... MY LITTLE
GIRL IS NOT SO LITTLE ANYMORE.
1326
01:05:14,900 --> 01:05:18,300
SHE'S ALL GROWN UP, JUST
AS BEAUTIFUL AS SHE CAN BE.
1327
01:05:18,400 --> 01:05:21,500
I'M GONNA HAVE MY HANDS FULL
WHEN THE BOYS DISCOVER HER.
1328
01:05:21,500 --> 01:05:22,900
IS IT ROUGH ON YOUR FAMILY
1329
01:05:23,000 --> 01:05:25,500
KNOWING YOU'RE 2,000
MILES AWAY ON CHRISTMAS?
1330
01:05:25,600 --> 01:05:28,100
OH, THEY DON'T HAVE
ANY IDEA WHERE I AM...
1331
01:05:28,200 --> 01:05:30,000
WHERE I AM OR WHAT I'M DOING.
1332
01:05:30,100 --> 01:05:32,700
MY WIFE IS ARMY ALL
THE WAY, GOD BLESS HER.
1333
01:05:32,800 --> 01:05:34,800
I MEAN, SHE KNOWS
I DO SOMETHING,
1334
01:05:34,900 --> 01:05:36,400
BUT SHE'D NEVER ASK WHAT.
1335
01:05:36,400 --> 01:05:38,300
I'D NEVER TELL HER.
1336
01:05:38,400 --> 01:05:40,600
MERRY CHRISTMAS.
1337
01:05:40,700 --> 01:05:42,400
YOU MUST FIND THAT STRANGE.
1338
01:05:42,500 --> 01:05:43,600
NO.
1339
01:05:45,100 --> 01:05:48,300
YOU KNOW WHY LEO SZILARD
IS SUCH A PAIN IN THE REAR END?
1340
01:05:48,300 --> 01:05:51,600
BECAUSE HE NEVER PLAYED
BASEBALL WHEN HE WAS A KID.
1341
01:05:51,700 --> 01:05:54,100
NO, IT'S TRUE. I
REALLY BELIEVE THAT.
1342
01:05:54,100 --> 01:05:56,300
HE NEVER LEARNED
HOW TO COOPERATE,
1343
01:05:56,400 --> 01:05:57,900
HOW TO BE PART OF A TEAM.
1344
01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:00,000
SEE, THAT'S WHAT'S
DIFFERENT ABOUT YOU.
1345
01:06:00,000 --> 01:06:01,700
YOU KNOW HOW TO
WORK WITH PEOPLE.
1346
01:06:01,800 --> 01:06:03,600
THAT'S WHY WE GET ALONG SO WELL.
1347
01:06:08,600 --> 01:06:12,400
ROBERT...
1348
01:06:12,400 --> 01:06:15,300
DO YOU TRUST ME
ENOUGH TO DO ME A FAVOR
1349
01:06:15,300 --> 01:06:19,100
IF I SAID THAT IT WAS PERSONALLY
VERY IMPORTANT TO ME?
1350
01:06:19,200 --> 01:06:20,100
OF COURSE I DO.
1351
01:06:20,200 --> 01:06:21,200
IT'S A TOUGH ONE.
1352
01:06:21,200 --> 01:06:23,300
DON'T SAY YES IF
YOU DON'T MEAN IT.
1353
01:06:23,400 --> 01:06:26,100
I NEVER SAY
ANYTHING I DON'T MEAN.
1354
01:06:26,200 --> 01:06:27,400
ALL RIGHT.
1355
01:06:29,900 --> 01:06:31,500
I NEED THE NAME, ROBERT.
1356
01:06:34,200 --> 01:06:36,400
I NEED THE NAME OF THE MAN
1357
01:06:36,500 --> 01:06:40,800
WHO TOLD YOU THAT SATTERLEE
HAD A RUSSIAN CONTACT.
1358
01:06:45,100 --> 01:06:47,400
NOW, POLITICS IS ONE THING.
1359
01:06:47,400 --> 01:06:49,800
ESPIONAGE IS SOMETHING ELSE.
1360
01:06:51,800 --> 01:06:54,800
WELL, ESPIONAGE...
1361
01:06:54,900 --> 01:06:57,600
ARE YOU...
1362
01:06:57,600 --> 01:06:59,900
IF YOU ORDER ME.
1363
01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:02,300
BUT HE WAS JUST SAYING
1364
01:07:02,400 --> 01:07:05,400
THAT HE KNEW SATTERLEE
KNEW OF A WAY TO...
1365
01:07:07,900 --> 01:07:10,600
THIS ISN'T EASY FOR ME.
1366
01:07:15,900 --> 01:07:19,000
CHEVALIER. HAAKON CHEVALIER.
1367
01:07:19,100 --> 01:07:20,800
HOW DO YOU SPELL THAT?
1368
01:07:23,300 --> 01:07:28,400
H-A-A-K-O-N C-H-E-V-A-L-I-E-R.
1369
01:07:28,400 --> 01:07:32,000
WHERE WOULD I FIND HIM?
1370
01:07:32,000 --> 01:07:33,300
BERKELEY.
1371
01:07:33,400 --> 01:07:35,500
BUT I'D BET ANYTHING IN THE
WORLD HE'S NOT INVOLVED.
1372
01:07:35,600 --> 01:07:37,400
HE'S NOT THE TYPE OF
MAN... WHAT DOES HE DO?
1373
01:07:37,500 --> 01:07:39,800
IS HE A TEACHER?
1374
01:07:39,800 --> 01:07:41,700
NOT PHYSICS?
1375
01:07:41,700 --> 01:07:43,800
FRENCH.
1376
01:07:43,900 --> 01:07:45,500
ROBERT.
1377
01:07:53,800 --> 01:07:56,000
I KNOW THIS WAS
HARD FOR YOU, ROBERT.
1378
01:07:56,100 --> 01:07:59,600
BUT YOU TRUSTED ME,
AND I APPRECIATE THAT.
1379
01:07:59,700 --> 01:08:02,300
IT MEANS A GREAT DEAL TO ME.
1380
01:08:05,100 --> 01:08:08,300
YOU DID THE RIGHT THING.
1381
01:08:08,400 --> 01:08:12,900
? OH, COME LET US ADORE HIM ?
1382
01:08:13,000 --> 01:08:17,400
? CHRIST THE LORD ?
1383
01:08:43,800 --> 01:08:45,400
DAMN IT.
1384
01:08:45,500 --> 01:08:49,000
DAMN IT.
1385
01:08:49,100 --> 01:08:50,600
THAT METHOD WON'T WORK.
1386
01:08:50,700 --> 01:08:52,800
WE CAN'T GET THE
PLUTONIUM PURE ENOUGH.
1387
01:08:52,900 --> 01:08:54,800
BESIDES, THERE'S
TOO MUCH 240 IN IT.
1388
01:08:54,900 --> 01:08:57,200
WELL, PAL, YOUR
IMPLOSION THEORY'S
1389
01:08:57,200 --> 01:08:59,200
LOOKING BETTER ALL THE TIME.
1390
01:08:59,300 --> 01:09:00,500
EVERYBODY OUT.
1391
01:09:00,600 --> 01:09:02,700
OUT!
1392
01:09:13,100 --> 01:09:14,400
USE MORE MEN. WORK FASTER.
1393
01:09:14,500 --> 01:09:17,300
I NEVER WORKED WITH MORE
THAN TWO OR THREE GUYS... START.
1394
01:09:27,200 --> 01:09:30,900
OPPIE, WE THINK THAT
IMPLOSION CAN WORK.
1395
01:09:31,000 --> 01:09:32,000
DOC HAS AN IDEA.
1396
01:09:32,100 --> 01:09:34,100
IT'S REALLY RATHER
SIMPLE, SIR...
1397
01:09:34,200 --> 01:09:35,400
I MEAN, IN THEORY.
1398
01:09:35,400 --> 01:09:37,800
IN PRACTICE, IT'LL BE
FANTASTICALLY COMPLICATED.
1399
01:09:37,800 --> 01:09:42,800
YOU SEE, WE HAVE THE EXPLOSIVE.
1400
01:09:42,900 --> 01:09:45,100
AND IF YOU SURROUND
IT WITH LENSES
1401
01:09:45,200 --> 01:09:47,600
AND THEN DETONATE
THEM ALL AT ONCE...
1402
01:09:49,800 --> 01:09:52,500
YOU COULD THEORETICALLY
GET SIMULTANEOUS DETONATION
1403
01:09:52,600 --> 01:09:54,000
AND A SYMMETRICAL SHOCK WAVE.
1404
01:09:54,100 --> 01:09:56,300
WHAT DO YOU THINK, ROBERT?
1405
01:10:02,800 --> 01:10:05,200
EXPLOSIVE LENSES, HUH?
1406
01:10:08,600 --> 01:10:11,700
I THINK, UH, IT'S BRILLIANT.
1407
01:10:11,800 --> 01:10:14,200
BRILLIANT, BRILLIANT
WORK. THANK YOU.
1408
01:10:14,200 --> 01:10:16,100
THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU.
1409
01:10:16,200 --> 01:10:19,300
THANK YOU.
1410
01:10:19,400 --> 01:10:22,300
OH, IT'S LIKE STARTING
OVER FROM SCRATCH, ISN'T IT?
1411
01:10:22,400 --> 01:10:23,600
I'M AFRAID SO, ROBERT.
1412
01:10:23,700 --> 01:10:27,700
WELL, WE'RE GONNA NEED
NEW TEAMS AND WORKSHOPS,
1413
01:10:27,800 --> 01:10:30,400
MACHINING, MOLDING EQUIPMENT,
1414
01:10:30,500 --> 01:10:33,900
AND HUNDREDS OF
SKILLED, NEW MEN...
1415
01:10:34,000 --> 01:10:39,200
UH, 400, 600... WITH
HOUSING FOR THEIR FAMILIES.
1416
01:10:41,000 --> 01:10:43,400
EVERYTHING ELSE WAS
JUST DRESS REHEARSAL
1417
01:10:43,400 --> 01:10:44,600
FOR THIS, WASN'T IT?
1418
01:10:44,600 --> 01:10:47,700
AMATEUR HOUR.
1419
01:10:47,700 --> 01:10:50,100
ALL RIGHT.
1420
01:10:50,200 --> 01:10:52,800
NIEDERMAYER OBVIOUSLY
CAN'T HANDLE IT.
1421
01:10:52,900 --> 01:10:55,900
WHO'S THE BEST
THEORETICIAN TO WORK ON THIS?
1422
01:11:01,400 --> 01:11:03,300
LET'S GET A LOOK.
1423
01:11:18,100 --> 01:11:19,900
I HAVE TO MAKE A CHANGE, SETH.
1424
01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:22,700
I'M BRINGING IN 600 NEW
MEN TO WORK ON IMPLOSION.
1425
01:11:22,800 --> 01:11:24,800
WHO WILL BE IN CHARGE?
1426
01:11:24,800 --> 01:11:26,200
KISTIAKOWSKY.
1427
01:11:29,200 --> 01:11:30,700
LIKE THAT, HUH?
1428
01:11:34,500 --> 01:11:36,500
SWELL, THANKS A LOT.
1429
01:11:36,500 --> 01:11:37,500
SETH.
1430
01:11:37,600 --> 01:11:40,800
SETH!
1431
01:11:58,100 --> 01:11:59,900
Man: MOVE IT OUT! MOVE IT OUT!
1432
01:12:13,300 --> 01:12:15,400
FREEZE IT RIGHT THERE, HANS!
1433
01:12:26,500 --> 01:12:30,600
GOUDSMIT? SAMUEL GOUDSMIT?
1434
01:12:34,200 --> 01:12:37,500
ANY EXPERIENCES WITH PLUTONIUM?
1435
01:12:37,600 --> 01:12:41,000
NO, WE HAD NO FACTORIES TO
MAKE URANIUM OR PLUTONIUM.
1436
01:12:41,000 --> 01:12:43,400
WE HAD NO URANIUM
BURNERS, NOTHING.
1437
01:12:43,500 --> 01:12:44,600
WE NEVER STARTED.
1438
01:12:44,700 --> 01:12:46,200
THE ABILITY WE HAD,
THE MEN WE HAD,
1439
01:12:46,200 --> 01:12:47,800
BUT THE RESOURCES...
THOSE WE DID NOT.
1440
01:12:47,800 --> 01:12:49,400
WHAT?! NO RESOURCES.
1441
01:12:49,500 --> 01:12:50,500
WHY WAS THAT?
1442
01:12:50,600 --> 01:12:52,100
REICHSMINISTER SPIER.
1443
01:12:52,200 --> 01:12:54,700
WE TOLD HIM TWO YEARS AGO WE
WERE READY TO MAKE THE BOMB.
1444
01:12:54,800 --> 01:12:57,200
ALL HE WAS INTERESTED IN
WAS ATOMIC ENERGY FOR POWER.
1445
01:12:57,300 --> 01:12:59,500
YEAH, BECAUSE THAT WAS
SO MUCH EASIER AND QUICKER.
1446
01:12:59,600 --> 01:13:01,100
EVERYTHING HAD TO BE SO QUICK.
1447
01:13:01,100 --> 01:13:03,200
DO YOU REMEMBER AN
ORDER FROM HITLER IN 1942
1448
01:13:03,300 --> 01:13:05,200
BEARING ON THIS
DECISION NOT TO PROCEED?
1449
01:13:05,300 --> 01:13:08,500
YEAH, YEAH, YEAH,
YEAH. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.
1450
01:13:08,600 --> 01:13:11,400
"START NO PROJECTS
WHICH DOES NOT GUARANTEE
1451
01:13:11,500 --> 01:13:14,200
WEAPONS READY FOR
FIELD USE IN SIX WEEKS."
1452
01:13:14,300 --> 01:13:15,500
SIX WEEKS.
1453
01:13:15,500 --> 01:13:18,300
OUR FUHRER, THE GENIUS,
SO SURE OF THE FINAL VICTORY.
1454
01:13:18,400 --> 01:13:20,600
WHY BOTHER? I MEAN,
WHO ARE WE FIGHTING?
1455
01:13:20,700 --> 01:13:21,900
SHOPKEEPERS, FARMERS.
1456
01:13:22,000 --> 01:13:24,100
YOU SEE, WE WERE
NOT THE ONLY ONES
1457
01:13:24,200 --> 01:13:25,600
WHO NEEDED THE RESOURCES.
1458
01:13:25,700 --> 01:13:27,200
THERE WERE OTHERS, AS WELL.
1459
01:13:27,300 --> 01:13:29,700
BUT THERE IS SOMETHING
THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT
1460
01:13:29,800 --> 01:13:30,900
FOR YOU TO UNDERSTAND.
1461
01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:33,400
WE DID NOT ALL
WANT TO COOPERATE.
1462
01:13:33,500 --> 01:13:36,300
WE DID NOT WANT
HITLER TO GET THE BOMB.
1463
01:13:36,300 --> 01:13:39,100
I REMEMBER SCHUMANN, WHO
SAID... A VERY BAD PHYSICIST.
1464
01:13:39,200 --> 01:13:40,700
YEAH, BUT A GOOD TECHNICIAN.
1465
01:13:40,700 --> 01:13:44,800
SCHUMANN SAID, "NEVER BREATH
A WORD ABOUT ATOMIC BOMB
1466
01:13:44,900 --> 01:13:45,900
"TO THE HIGHER-UPS.
1467
01:13:46,000 --> 01:13:48,500
"IF THE FUHRER HEARS
OF IT, HE WILL SAY,
1468
01:13:48,600 --> 01:13:51,700
"'OH, WELL, HOW MUCH TIME
DO YOU NEED... SIX MONTHS?
1469
01:13:51,800 --> 01:13:55,000
THEN, IF WE DO NOT HAVE
ATOMIC BOMB IN SIX MONTHS..."
1470
01:14:09,400 --> 01:14:12,000
WALK AWAY FOR A BIT,
WILL YOU, PLEASE, SOLDIER?
1471
01:14:12,100 --> 01:14:13,800
STILL, THERE IS
NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.
1472
01:14:13,900 --> 01:14:15,600
THERE ARE NOT MAKING THE BOMB.
1473
01:14:15,700 --> 01:14:16,800
THEY NEVER EVEN STARTED.
1474
01:14:16,800 --> 01:14:18,600
ARE YOU SURE? THAT
COULD BE A TRICK.
1475
01:14:18,700 --> 01:14:20,800
WE HAVE PURCHASE ORDERS,
EMPLOYMENT FIGURES,
1476
01:14:20,800 --> 01:14:22,400
ACQUISITIONS FEES, EVERYTHING.
1477
01:14:22,400 --> 01:14:23,700
THESE ARE THEIR TOP PEOPLE.
1478
01:14:23,800 --> 01:14:25,900
YOU CAN SEE HERE WHAT
THEY'VE BEEN WORKING ON
1479
01:14:26,000 --> 01:14:27,200
FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS.
1480
01:14:27,300 --> 01:14:29,900
AIN'T THAT GONNA MAKE THEM
HAPPY DOWN ON THE FARM IN D.C.?
1481
01:14:30,000 --> 01:14:31,500
YOU KNOW WHAT'S WONDERFUL?
1482
01:14:31,600 --> 01:14:33,500
THE GERMANS HAVE NO ATOM BOMB.
1483
01:14:33,600 --> 01:14:35,600
NOW WE WON'T HAVE TO USE OURS.
1484
01:14:35,600 --> 01:14:39,100
SAM, YOU UNDERSTAND, IF WE'VE
GOT A BOMB, WE'RE GONNA USE IT.
1485
01:14:44,700 --> 01:14:47,100
Dr. Szilard: IT'S AMAZING...
ABSOLUTELY AMAZING.
1486
01:14:47,100 --> 01:14:51,200
WE WERE SO SURE THE GERMANS
WERE BUILDING THE BOMB.
1487
01:14:51,300 --> 01:14:54,500
THAT THEY ARE NOT
CHANGES EVERYTHING.
1488
01:14:56,700 --> 01:14:59,200
WHY WERE WE BUILDING THE
BOMB IN THE FIRST PLACE, HUH?
1489
01:14:59,200 --> 01:15:00,300
FOR ONE REASON...
1490
01:15:00,400 --> 01:15:03,000
TO PREVENT THEM FROM
DROPPING THE BOMB ON US.
1491
01:15:03,100 --> 01:15:06,100
WE WERE BUILDING THE BOMB
SO IT WOULD NOT BE USED.
1492
01:15:08,800 --> 01:15:11,300
YOU SEE...
1493
01:15:11,300 --> 01:15:13,800
IF WE STARTED THIS
TO PREVENT THEM
1494
01:15:13,800 --> 01:15:16,200
FROM DROPPING THE BOMB ON US...
1495
01:15:18,500 --> 01:15:20,800
AS MEN OF CONSCIENCE,
1496
01:15:20,900 --> 01:15:23,400
WE MUST NOW PREVENT AMERICA
1497
01:15:23,500 --> 01:15:26,000
FROM DROPPING THE
BOMB ON SOMEONE ELSE.
1498
01:15:27,900 --> 01:15:29,600
Groves: TWO YEARS.
1499
01:15:29,700 --> 01:15:31,900
TWO YEARS AND $2 BILLION.
1500
01:15:31,900 --> 01:15:34,300
100,000 PEOPLE ON THE
PAYROLL IN 16 STATES,
1501
01:15:34,300 --> 01:15:35,800
AND THE WHOLE SHOOTING MATCH
1502
01:15:35,900 --> 01:15:37,700
DEPENDS ON A
COUPLE OF SCREWBALLS
1503
01:15:37,800 --> 01:15:40,100
PLAYING IN THE SAND
WITH A BIG FIRECRACKER.
1504
01:15:40,200 --> 01:15:42,900
HECK, I'M THE LEAST PESSIMISTIC
MAN YOU'LL EVER MEET.
1505
01:15:43,000 --> 01:15:44,900
BUT AFTER ALL THE
CORNERS I'VE CUT
1506
01:15:44,900 --> 01:15:46,700
AND ALL THE TOES
I'VE STEPPED ON,
1507
01:15:46,800 --> 01:15:48,200
IF THIS THING DOESN'T WORK,
1508
01:15:48,200 --> 01:15:50,800
I MIGHT JUST AS WELL BUY
A HOUSE ON CAPITOL HILL.
1509
01:15:50,800 --> 01:15:52,300
I'M GONNA SPEND
THE REST OF MY LIFE
1510
01:15:52,400 --> 01:15:54,300
TESTIFYING BEFORE A
CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE.
1511
01:15:57,300 --> 01:15:58,500
IF THIS THING WORKS,
1512
01:15:58,600 --> 01:16:00,700
IF THAT PIPE STAYS IN ONE
NICE, SMOOTH PIECE, SETH,
1513
01:16:00,800 --> 01:16:02,500
SO WE CAN FINALLY
BUILD THIS THING,
1514
01:16:02,600 --> 01:16:04,900
I'M STILL GONNA GIVE YOU
THAT BOTTLE OF WHISKEY.
1515
01:16:07,300 --> 01:16:09,400
EVERYBODY READY?
1516
01:16:54,900 --> 01:16:57,800
Groves: I'VE BEEN WITH THIS
THING LONGER THAN ANYBODY...
1517
01:16:57,900 --> 01:16:59,500
2 1/2 YEARS NOW.
1518
01:16:59,600 --> 01:17:04,000
I JUST WANT TO TELL
YOU HOW I FEEL, GENERAL.
1519
01:17:05,800 --> 01:17:07,500
NOW, I REALIZE THE
WAR AGAINST GERMANY
1520
01:17:07,600 --> 01:17:09,300
MAY BE OVER BEFORE
WE'RE READY TO GO,
1521
01:17:09,400 --> 01:17:12,200
BUT I THINK JAPAN IS A BETTER
TARGET FOR US ANYWAY,
1522
01:17:12,300 --> 01:17:13,500
AND I'LL TELL YOU WHY.
1523
01:17:13,600 --> 01:17:15,800
IF WE DID DROP THE
GADGET ON GERMANY,
1524
01:17:15,800 --> 01:17:18,200
SUPPOSE IT DIDN'T GO OFF?
1525
01:17:18,200 --> 01:17:20,000
AND THE GERMANS...
1526
01:17:20,100 --> 01:17:22,200
THE GERMANS MIGHT
BE ABLE TO RECOVER IT.
1527
01:17:22,300 --> 01:17:24,700
THEY COULD USE IT AS A
MODEL TO BUILD THEIR OWN.
1528
01:17:24,800 --> 01:17:26,600
THE JAPANESE
COULD NEVER DO THAT.
1529
01:17:26,700 --> 01:17:29,500
ALSO, THE JAPANESE
USE WOOD AND PAPER
1530
01:17:29,500 --> 01:17:31,900
IN THEIR BUILDING CONSTRUCTION.
1531
01:17:32,000 --> 01:17:35,100
OUR BOMBS WOULD BE MUCH
MORE EFFECTIVE AGAINST JAPAN.
1532
01:17:37,000 --> 01:17:38,800
IN ANY CASE, WE NEED TO START
1533
01:17:38,900 --> 01:17:41,200
PLANNING BOMBING
OPERATIONS RIGHT AWAY.
1534
01:17:44,400 --> 01:17:47,900
DON'T LIKE TO GET TOO MANY
PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THIS.
1535
01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:51,000
ANY REASON YOU CAN'T
HANDLE THIS YOURSELF?
1536
01:17:54,300 --> 01:17:55,900
NO, SIR.
1537
01:17:56,000 --> 01:17:57,300
I'D BE GLAD TO.
1538
01:17:59,700 --> 01:18:03,100
PROFESSOR, THERE ARE SO
MANY THINGS I CANNOT TELL YOU,
1539
01:18:03,200 --> 01:18:05,700
THINGS I CANNOT TELL
TRUDE OR ANYONE.
1540
01:18:05,800 --> 01:18:08,300
BUT YOU MUST KNOW, WE
ARE NO LONGER CONCERNED
1541
01:18:08,400 --> 01:18:10,400
WITH WHAT GERMANY
MIGHT DO WITH US.
1542
01:18:10,500 --> 01:18:13,000
WE ARE CONCERNED WITH
WHAT THE UNITED STATES
1543
01:18:13,000 --> 01:18:14,800
WILL DO WITH OTHER COUNTRIES.
1544
01:18:14,800 --> 01:18:17,700
AND I'M NOT SPEAKING NOW
ABOUT THE MORAL QUESTIONS,
1545
01:18:17,700 --> 01:18:21,700
THE WAVE OF REVULSION AND
HORROR THAT WILL SWEEP THE WORLD.
1546
01:18:21,800 --> 01:18:24,000
ONLY THAT IF WE DROP THE BOMB,
1547
01:18:24,100 --> 01:18:28,100
AN ARMS RACE WILL HAVE STARTED,
AND WE WILL HAVE STARTED IT.
1548
01:18:28,200 --> 01:18:30,900
IN A FEW YEARS, WE
WILL BE AHEAD OF RUSSIA.
1549
01:18:30,900 --> 01:18:33,300
THEN WITH THE
DEVELOPMENT OF ROCKETS,
1550
01:18:33,400 --> 01:18:36,400
IT WILL BE POSSIBLE TO
DROP ATOMIC BOMBS ON CITIES
1551
01:18:36,500 --> 01:18:37,800
FROM GREAT DISTANCES.
1552
01:18:37,900 --> 01:18:39,200
IN THE EVENT OF A WAR,
1553
01:18:39,300 --> 01:18:42,500
ALL OUR MAJOR CITIES WOULD
VANISH WITHIN A FEW HOURS.
1554
01:18:42,500 --> 01:18:45,100
YEAH, YEAH.
1555
01:18:46,300 --> 01:18:48,600
WE HAVE NO INFLUENCE
WITH ROOSEVELT.
1556
01:18:48,700 --> 01:18:50,900
WOULD YOU WRITE
ANOTHER LETTER...
1557
01:18:50,900 --> 01:18:53,700
TELL HIM THESE THINGS
AND ASK HIM TO SEE ME?
1558
01:18:53,700 --> 01:18:55,500
OF COURSE I WILL.
1559
01:18:55,600 --> 01:18:56,800
THANK YOU.
1560
01:18:56,800 --> 01:19:00,300
THE TEST TOWER'S GONNA
BE DOWN WHERE GEORGE IS.
1561
01:19:00,400 --> 01:19:04,000
WEATHER SHACK OVER THERE
AND ALL THAT OTHER STUFF.
1562
01:19:04,100 --> 01:19:07,800
WHERE IS THE CONTROL
CENTER GOING TO BE?
1563
01:19:07,900 --> 01:19:09,700
OVER THERE, ABOUT FIVE MILES.
1564
01:19:09,800 --> 01:19:11,800
THAT SHOULD BE FAR ENOUGH, HUH?
1565
01:19:11,800 --> 01:19:14,700
THAT'S WHERE YOU AND I ARE
GONNA BE WATCHING FROM.
1566
01:19:14,800 --> 01:19:16,900
SORRY I'M LATE.
1567
01:19:16,900 --> 01:19:18,400
WE ARE JUST READING THE LETTER
1568
01:19:18,500 --> 01:19:20,500
LEO AND EINSTEIN ARE
GIVING TO ROOSEVELT.
1569
01:19:22,000 --> 01:19:24,700
NICE TO SEE YOU.
1570
01:19:24,800 --> 01:19:27,900
Man: Just announced that
President Roosevelt is dead.
1571
01:19:28,000 --> 01:19:30,300
The President died of
a cerebral hemorrhage.
1572
01:19:30,300 --> 01:19:32,900
All is we know so far is
that the President died...
1573
01:19:32,900 --> 01:19:36,000
TRUDE, WHAT DID THEY SAY?
1574
01:19:36,100 --> 01:19:39,800
HE'S DEAD.
1575
01:19:39,900 --> 01:19:41,800
THEY JUST SAID THAT
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT IS DEAD.
1576
01:19:41,900 --> 01:19:44,400
The President died of
a cerebral hemorrhage.
1577
01:19:44,500 --> 01:19:45,800
All we know so far
1578
01:19:45,900 --> 01:19:48,700
is that the President died
at Warm Springs in Georgia.
1579
01:19:48,800 --> 01:19:51,000
THANKS.
1580
01:19:51,100 --> 01:19:52,700
ADMIRAL LEAHY,
1581
01:19:52,700 --> 01:19:55,600
YOU WERE PRESIDENT
ROOSEVELT'S CHIEF OF STAFF.
1582
01:19:55,700 --> 01:19:57,800
I'D LIKE YOU TO SAY ON AS MINE.
1583
01:19:57,800 --> 01:19:59,300
I WANT THE TRUTH.
1584
01:19:59,400 --> 01:20:02,100
I WANT THE FACTS AT ALL TIMES.
1585
01:20:02,200 --> 01:20:04,000
YOU HAVE MY PLEDGE,
MR. PRESIDENT.
1586
01:20:04,000 --> 01:20:05,000
THANK YOU.
1587
01:20:05,100 --> 01:20:06,500
YOU CAN COUNT ON ME.
1588
01:20:06,600 --> 01:20:07,700
YES, SIR.
1589
01:20:12,500 --> 01:20:16,700
AIN'T THIS THE DAMNDEST
AWFUL THING, JIMMY?
1590
01:20:22,800 --> 01:20:28,800
THERE IS ONE FACT
WE BOTH KNOW...
1591
01:20:28,900 --> 01:20:32,500
THAT YOU'RE MORE QUALIFIED
TO BE HERE THAN I AM.
1592
01:20:32,600 --> 01:20:34,500
I WAS HIS VICE PRESIDENT.
1593
01:20:34,500 --> 01:20:35,800
BUT YOU'RE THE MAN
1594
01:20:35,800 --> 01:20:38,600
THE COUNTRY CALLED
"ASSISTANT PRESIDENT."
1595
01:20:40,700 --> 01:20:43,000
NOW I NEED YOU TO HELP ME.
1596
01:20:43,100 --> 01:20:46,000
YOU KNOW WHAT I'VE GOT TO KNOW
1597
01:20:46,100 --> 01:20:49,600
ABOUT DEALING WITH STALIN
AND THE RUSSIANS AND...
1598
01:20:50,900 --> 01:20:55,100
EVERYTHING ELSE.
1599
01:20:55,200 --> 01:20:57,600
I WANT YOU TO BE MY
SECRETARY OF STATE.
1600
01:20:57,600 --> 01:20:59,000
WILL YOU DO THAT FOR ME?
1601
01:20:59,100 --> 01:21:01,500
YES, I WILL, HARRY.
1602
01:21:01,500 --> 01:21:03,200
THAT'S FINE.
1603
01:21:03,300 --> 01:21:05,000
I WILL. I'LL DO IT.
1604
01:21:05,100 --> 01:21:07,600
THANK YOU.
1605
01:21:07,700 --> 01:21:09,800
ALL RIGHT.
1606
01:21:09,900 --> 01:21:13,100
MR. PRESIDENT, THE FIRST
THING YOU'VE GOT TO KNOW
1607
01:21:13,100 --> 01:21:15,600
IS THAT WE'RE
PERFECTING AN EXPLOSIVE
1608
01:21:15,700 --> 01:21:18,400
GREAT ENOUGH TO
DESTROY THE WHOLE WORLD,
1609
01:21:18,500 --> 01:21:21,500
WIPE OUT ENTIRE
CITIES AND PEOPLE
1610
01:21:21,600 --> 01:21:23,900
ON AN UNPRECEDENTED SCALE.
1611
01:21:23,900 --> 01:21:26,600
AND THIS PUTS THE UNITED
STATES INTO A POSITION
1612
01:21:26,700 --> 01:21:30,700
OF DICTATING ITS OWN
TERMS AT THE END OF THE WAR.
1613
01:21:36,600 --> 01:21:38,400
Groves: LOOK AT
THIS. LOOK AT THIS.
1614
01:21:38,500 --> 01:21:40,200
I GO TO WASHINGTON
FOR TWO WEEKS,
1615
01:21:40,300 --> 01:21:41,400
AND LOOK WHAT HAPPENS.
1616
01:21:41,400 --> 01:21:43,600
THAT IS ABSOLUTELY AND
TOTALLY INEXCUSABLE.
1617
01:21:43,700 --> 01:21:45,400
IT'S SUNDAY,
GENERAL, DAY OF REST.
1618
01:21:45,500 --> 01:21:47,400
I DON'T GIVE A DAMN
IF IT'S A SUNDAY.
1619
01:21:47,500 --> 01:21:50,200
I WOULDN'T CARE IF WE WERE
BURIED UNDER SIX FEET OF SNOW.
1620
01:21:50,300 --> 01:21:52,600
BUT WE'LL HAVE A FULL
CREW WORKING NEXT SUNDAY,
1621
01:21:52,700 --> 01:21:56,100
AND EVERY SUNDAY UNTIL
THIS TOWER IS FINISHED.
1622
01:21:56,200 --> 01:21:59,500
WHEN YOU'RE READY TO
TEST, WE'LL BE READY FOR YOU.
1623
01:21:59,600 --> 01:22:00,900
I PROMISE YOU THAT.
1624
01:22:01,000 --> 01:22:02,500
GOOD.
1625
01:22:02,600 --> 01:22:05,200
ROBERT.
1626
01:22:05,300 --> 01:22:07,400
DON'T YOU EVER WORRY
1627
01:22:07,500 --> 01:22:10,300
THE WAR WILL BE OVER BEFORE
THE BOMB IS READY TO DROP?
1628
01:22:24,100 --> 01:22:27,200
BEFORE GENERAL GROVES
GETS HERE, MR. PRESIDENT,
1629
01:22:27,300 --> 01:22:29,900
I'VE PUT SOME THOUGHTS
DOWN ON PAPER.
1630
01:22:30,000 --> 01:22:31,700
JUST GO AHEAD AND TELL ME.
1631
01:22:31,800 --> 01:22:33,900
IT'S ABOUT OUR RESPONSIBILITY
1632
01:22:34,000 --> 01:22:37,300
FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF
THIS MOST TERRIBLE WEAPON,
1633
01:22:37,300 --> 01:22:41,200
BY WHICH MODERN CIVILIZATION
COULD BE COMPLETELY DESTROYED.
1634
01:22:41,300 --> 01:22:43,600
BUT, ON THE OTHER
HAND, IF THE PROBLEM
1635
01:22:43,600 --> 01:22:46,300
OF THE PROPER USE OF
THIS WEAPON CAN BE SOLVED,
1636
01:22:46,400 --> 01:22:49,300
WHY, WE'LL HAVE THE
OPPORTUNITY TO SAVE WORLD PEACE
1637
01:22:49,300 --> 01:22:50,800
AND OUR CIVILIZATION.
1638
01:22:50,800 --> 01:22:52,000
THANK YOU.
1639
01:22:52,000 --> 01:22:54,400
GOOD AFTERNOON,
MR. PRESIDENT, MR. SECRETARY.
1640
01:22:54,500 --> 01:22:55,400
HAVE A SEAT.
1641
01:22:55,500 --> 01:22:57,000
THANK YOU, SIR. SORRY I'M LATE.
1642
01:22:57,100 --> 01:23:00,100
I THOUGHT IF ANYBODY SAW ME
WALK IN HERE WITH THE SECRETARY,
1643
01:23:00,200 --> 01:23:01,900
THEY MIGHT PUT 2 AND 2 TOGETHER.
1644
01:23:02,000 --> 01:23:04,700
SECRETARY STIMSON WAS
JUST CATCHING ME UP. YES, SIR.
1645
01:23:04,800 --> 01:23:07,300
WELL, I'VE PREPARED A VERY
DETAILED REPORT FOR YOU,
1646
01:23:07,400 --> 01:23:09,400
COVERING EVERY
ASPECT... HOW LONG IS IT?
1647
01:23:09,500 --> 01:23:11,700
24 PAGES.
1648
01:23:11,800 --> 01:23:14,600
I DON'T LIKE TO
READ LONG REPORTS.
1649
01:23:16,600 --> 01:23:18,700
WELL, I DON'T KNOW HOW
WE CAN TELL YOU THIS
1650
01:23:18,800 --> 01:23:20,900
IN ANY MORE CONCISE
LANGUAGE, MR. PRESIDENT.
1651
01:23:21,000 --> 01:23:23,100
THIS IS A BIG PROJECT. MM-HMM.
1652
01:23:23,200 --> 01:23:25,900
YOU JUST TELL ME
WHAT I HAVE TO KNOW.
1653
01:23:28,200 --> 01:23:31,000
ALL RIGHT, MR. PRESIDENT.
1654
01:23:31,100 --> 01:23:32,500
SOMETIME IN EARLY JULY,
1655
01:23:32,500 --> 01:23:35,200
OUR SCIENTIFIC PEOPLE WILL BE
TESTING AN IMPLOSION WEAPON
1656
01:23:35,200 --> 01:23:37,300
AT ALAMOGORDO, NEW MEXICO.
1657
01:23:37,400 --> 01:23:40,100
AROUND AUGUST 1st,
1658
01:23:40,100 --> 01:23:43,700
A URANIUM BOMB CALLED
"LITTLE BOY" SHOULD BE READY.
1659
01:23:43,800 --> 01:23:45,900
IT WON'T NEED ANY TESTING.
1660
01:23:46,000 --> 01:23:47,700
WE'RE IN THE PROCESS
1661
01:23:47,800 --> 01:23:51,900
OF SELECTING SPECIFIC
TARGETS IN JAPAN RIGHT NOW.
1662
01:23:52,000 --> 01:23:54,000
THAT'S THE STORY.
1663
01:23:54,100 --> 01:23:57,100
ALL RIGHT.
1664
01:23:57,200 --> 01:23:58,800
YOUR PRESENT COURSE IS SOUND.
1665
01:23:58,900 --> 01:24:00,600
CONTINUE ON AS YOU'RE DOING NOW.
1666
01:24:00,600 --> 01:24:02,500
YES, SIR.
1667
01:24:02,600 --> 01:24:06,700
MR. PRESIDENT, THERE
WILL BE VARIOUS QUESTIONS
1668
01:24:06,700 --> 01:24:09,200
ABOUT THE HANDLING
OF THE BOMB...
1669
01:24:09,200 --> 01:24:12,800
POLITICAL, SCIENTIFIC,
DIPLOMATIC.
1670
01:24:12,900 --> 01:24:16,300
MAY I RESPECTFULLY RECOMMEND
THAT YOU ASSEMBLE A COMMITTEE
1671
01:24:16,300 --> 01:24:18,500
OF MILITARY AND
SCIENTIFIC EXPERTS
1672
01:24:18,500 --> 01:24:21,300
TO STUDY THESE MATTERS
AND REPORT BACK TO YOU?
1673
01:24:21,400 --> 01:24:22,600
THAT'S A GOOD IDEA.
1674
01:24:22,700 --> 01:24:25,400
JUST MAKE SURE THAT
SECRETARY OF STATE JIMMY BYRNES
1675
01:24:25,500 --> 01:24:26,900
IS ON THAT COMMITTEE.
1676
01:24:27,000 --> 01:24:29,500
YES, SIR.
1677
01:24:29,600 --> 01:24:32,900
Pres. Truman: I ONLY WISH
THAT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
1678
01:24:33,000 --> 01:24:35,200
HAD LIVED TO WITNESS THIS DAY.
1679
01:24:35,300 --> 01:24:39,700
GENERAL EISENHOWER INFORMS
ME THAT THE FORCES OF GERMANY
1680
01:24:39,800 --> 01:24:42,300
HAVE SURRENDERED
TO THE UNITED NATIONS.
1681
01:25:03,300 --> 01:25:04,600
WHAT HAPPENS NOW, OPPIE?
1682
01:25:04,700 --> 01:25:06,700
WHAT DO YOU MEAN,
"WHAT HAPPENS NOW?"
1683
01:25:06,800 --> 01:25:07,800
HERE, WITH THE BOMB,
1684
01:25:07,900 --> 01:25:10,100
WITH US, NOW THAT
GERMANY SURRENDERED.
1685
01:25:10,100 --> 01:25:12,100
WELL, THERE'S
STILL A WAR ON, BOB.
1686
01:25:12,200 --> 01:25:15,000
JAPAN HASN'T SURRENDERED.
1687
01:25:15,100 --> 01:25:16,300
A BUNCH OF US HAVE BEEN...
1688
01:25:16,400 --> 01:25:18,100
WELL, TO COME
STRAIGHT OUT WITH IT,
1689
01:25:18,100 --> 01:25:20,800
WE DON'T MUST LIKE THE IDEA
OF DROPPING IT ON JAPAN, OPPIE.
1690
01:25:20,900 --> 01:25:23,300
THEY'RE NO REAL THREAT TO US.
1691
01:25:23,400 --> 01:25:25,000
THEY NEVER WERE
AN ATOMIC THREAT.
1692
01:25:25,100 --> 01:25:26,800
WE DON'T NEED THE
BOMB TO BEAT JAPAN.
1693
01:25:26,900 --> 01:25:28,400
WE DON'T KNOW THAT.
1694
01:25:28,500 --> 01:25:30,900
WE'RE SCIENTISTS, NOT SOLDIERS.
1695
01:25:31,000 --> 01:25:33,600
I DO KNOW THERE
ARE ALTERNATIVES.
1696
01:25:33,600 --> 01:25:37,000
ONE I'VE BEEN GIVING SOME REAL
THOUGHT TO IS A DEMONSTRATION.
1697
01:25:37,100 --> 01:25:39,300
INVITE THE JAPANESE
TO SEE THE TEST.
1698
01:25:39,400 --> 01:25:42,400
LET THEM SEE WHAT'LL HAPPEN
IF THEY DON'T SURRENDER.
1699
01:25:42,400 --> 01:25:44,000
LOOK, NOBODY KNOWS THIS YET,
1700
01:25:44,100 --> 01:25:46,200
BUT THE PRESIDENT HAS JUST
PUT TOGETHER A COMMITTEE
1701
01:25:46,300 --> 01:25:47,900
TO ADVISE HIM ON
THE USE OF THE BOMB,
1702
01:25:48,000 --> 01:25:49,300
AND I'VE BEEN ASKED TO SERVE.
1703
01:25:49,400 --> 01:25:51,800
I PROMISE YOU THAT WILL
BE ONE OF THE OPTIONS
1704
01:25:51,900 --> 01:25:53,000
WE EXPLORE IN DEPTH.
1705
01:25:53,000 --> 01:25:55,700
AND EVEN THOUGH I CANNOT
GUARANTEE THE RESULTS,
1706
01:25:55,700 --> 01:25:57,200
WELL, YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL,
1707
01:25:57,200 --> 01:25:59,000
AND YOU KNOW WE'LL BE HEARD.
1708
01:25:59,000 --> 01:26:00,300
FAIR ENOUGH?
1709
01:26:03,800 --> 01:26:05,600
Groves: SURE, I
KNOW SOME OF THEM
1710
01:26:05,700 --> 01:26:07,900
DON'T WANT TO USE
THE BOMB AGAINST JAPAN.
1711
01:26:08,000 --> 01:26:10,400
SAME THING AS CHICAGO.
IT'S WORSE IN CHICAGO.
1712
01:26:12,500 --> 01:26:15,500
NOW, LISTEN, ROBERT...
1713
01:26:15,600 --> 01:26:16,900
I'M NOT A PREJUDICED MAN.
1714
01:26:17,000 --> 01:26:19,000
YOU KNOW THAT.
1715
01:26:19,100 --> 01:26:20,200
I'VE PUT A LOT OF JEWS
1716
01:26:20,300 --> 01:26:22,500
INTO POSITIONS OF
AUTHORITY ON THIS PROJECT,
1717
01:26:22,500 --> 01:26:24,500
AS YOU SHOULD KNOW
BETTER THAN ANYONE,
1718
01:26:24,600 --> 01:26:26,600
AND THE FACT IS THAT
A LOT OF THE PEOPLE
1719
01:26:26,700 --> 01:26:29,600
WHO ARE MAKING NOISE ABOUT
NOT USING THE BOMB AGAINST JAPAN
1720
01:26:29,700 --> 01:26:31,700
ARE JEWS WHO CAME
TO THIS COUNTRY
1721
01:26:31,700 --> 01:26:33,600
TO ESCAPE HITLER'S PERSECUTION.
1722
01:26:33,700 --> 01:26:36,500
TO THEM, HITLER IS THE ONE
REAL ENEMY OF THIS WAR.
1723
01:26:36,600 --> 01:26:38,300
WELL, NOW HITLER'S DEAD.
1724
01:26:38,300 --> 01:26:39,800
GERMANY'S DESTROYED.
1725
01:26:39,800 --> 01:26:43,100
AS FAR AS THEY'RE
CONCERNED, THEIR WAR IS OVER.
1726
01:26:43,200 --> 01:26:45,800
ROBERT...
1727
01:26:45,900 --> 01:26:48,100
OUR WAR IS NOT OVER.
1728
01:26:51,300 --> 01:26:52,600
AH, COLONEL TIBBETS.
1729
01:26:52,600 --> 01:26:54,600
HAVE YOU MET CAPTAIN PARSONS?
1730
01:26:54,600 --> 01:26:55,600
PAUL TIBBETS.
1731
01:26:55,600 --> 01:26:57,400
DEKE PARSONS,
HEAD ORDNANCE UNIT.
1732
01:26:57,500 --> 01:27:00,200
I'VE BEEN TOLD I'LL BE FLYING
THE PLANE WITH THE BOMB.
1733
01:27:00,300 --> 01:27:01,700
I'LL BE GOING WITH YOU.
1734
01:27:01,700 --> 01:27:03,000
I'LL BE ARMING THE BOMB.
1735
01:27:03,000 --> 01:27:04,300
GOOD.
1736
01:27:04,300 --> 01:27:06,900
THEN IF ANYTHING GOES
WRONG, CAPTAIN, I CAN BLAME YOU.
1737
01:27:07,000 --> 01:27:08,500
ANYTHING GOES WRONG, COLONEL,
1738
01:27:08,500 --> 01:27:10,900
NEITHER OF US WILL BE
AROUND TO BE BLAMED.
1739
01:27:10,900 --> 01:27:13,000
ALL RIGHT, GENTLEMEN,
LET'S GET STARTED.
1740
01:27:13,100 --> 01:27:14,500
WE'VE GOT A LOT TO DO.
1741
01:27:14,600 --> 01:27:17,000
YOU'RE HERE TO HELP ME SELECT
THE BEST TARGET CITIES IN JAPAN
1742
01:27:17,000 --> 01:27:18,200
FOR THE MISSION.
1743
01:27:18,300 --> 01:27:20,900
SPECIFICALLY I WANT TO
LOOK AT KYOTO, HIROSHIMA,
1744
01:27:21,000 --> 01:27:22,800
NAGASAKI, AND YOKOHAMA.
1745
01:27:25,300 --> 01:27:27,900
MATT CONNELLY WAS A
LITTLE SUSPICIOUS AT FIRST,
1746
01:27:28,000 --> 01:27:30,800
'CAUSE THIS APPOINTMENT
CAME THROUGH KANSAS CITY.
1747
01:27:30,800 --> 01:27:36,400
BUT WHEN YOU HAD THIS
LETTER FROM EINSTEIN...
1748
01:27:36,500 --> 01:27:38,400
ALL RIGHT.
1749
01:27:38,500 --> 01:27:41,500
THE PRESIDENT WANTS TO KNOW
YOUR CONCERNS, GENTLEMEN.
1750
01:27:41,600 --> 01:27:43,800
WE DO NOT KNOW OUR
GOVERNMENT'S PLANS
1751
01:27:43,800 --> 01:27:46,100
FOR USE OF THE ATOMIC
BOMBS, MR BYRNES.
1752
01:27:46,200 --> 01:27:48,600
AND WE WISH TO
DISCUSS THAT WITH YOU.
1753
01:27:48,600 --> 01:27:51,000
POLICY ISN'T THE
SCIENTISTS' BUSINESS.
1754
01:27:51,100 --> 01:27:53,200
WELL, IN THIS
RESPECT IT IS, SIR.
1755
01:27:53,300 --> 01:27:56,300
WE KNOW THE FACTS ON WHICH
THIS POLICY HAS TO BE BASED.
1756
01:27:56,400 --> 01:27:57,500
WE KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE,
1757
01:27:57,600 --> 01:28:00,300
THAT RUSSIA MIGHT BECOME
AN ATOMIC POWER AND SOON,
1758
01:28:00,400 --> 01:28:02,200
ESPECIALLY IF WE DROP THE BOMB.
1759
01:28:02,200 --> 01:28:04,500
GENERAL GROVES TELLS
ME IT'LL BE 20 YEARS
1760
01:28:04,600 --> 01:28:06,600
BEFORE THE RUSSIANS
HAVE THE BOMB.
1761
01:28:06,600 --> 01:28:08,800
YEAH? WE FEEL
THREE OR FOUR YEARS.
1762
01:28:08,900 --> 01:28:10,000
THREE OR FOUR?
1763
01:28:10,100 --> 01:28:12,000
UH-HUH.
1764
01:28:12,000 --> 01:28:14,700
GROVES TELLS ME THERE'S
NO URANIUM IN RUSSIA.
1765
01:28:14,700 --> 01:28:17,100
SIT DOWN.
1766
01:28:17,100 --> 01:28:19,400
THERE'S CERTAINLY THERE'S
URANIUM IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA
1767
01:28:19,500 --> 01:28:21,100
TO WHICH THE
RUSSIANS HAVE ACCESS,
1768
01:28:21,100 --> 01:28:22,900
AND RUSSIA IS A VAST COUNTRY.
1769
01:28:22,900 --> 01:28:25,600
I DON'T THINK ANYONE CAN
SAY IN A RESPONSIBLE WAY
1770
01:28:25,700 --> 01:28:27,500
THERE IS NO URANIUM IN RUSSIA.
1771
01:28:27,600 --> 01:28:30,200
WELL, WHAT DO YOU THINK
WE OUGHT TO BE DOING?
1772
01:28:30,300 --> 01:28:31,600
I THINK IT IS A MISTAKE
1773
01:28:31,700 --> 01:28:34,000
TO DISCLOSE THE
EXISTENCE OF THE BOMB
1774
01:28:34,000 --> 01:28:35,500
BY TESTING IT OR USING IT
1775
01:28:35,500 --> 01:28:37,600
BEFORE THE
GOVERNMENT HAS DECIDED
1776
01:28:37,600 --> 01:28:40,200
HOW TO HANDLE THIS
SITUATION AFTER THE WAR.
1777
01:28:40,200 --> 01:28:42,700
I DON'T DISAGREE WITH THAT.
1778
01:28:42,800 --> 01:28:46,400
OF COURSE, YOU DON'T
SHOW PEOPLE IT'LL WORK.
1779
01:28:46,500 --> 01:28:50,100
WE'VE SPENT $2 BILLION
DEVELOPING THIS BOMB.
1780
01:28:50,100 --> 01:28:51,900
CONGRESS IS GONNA WANT TO KNOW
1781
01:28:52,000 --> 01:28:53,800
WHAT WE GOT FOR ALL THAT MONEY.
1782
01:28:53,900 --> 01:28:56,400
AND THERE'S ANOTHER
PRETTY GOOD REASON
1783
01:28:56,500 --> 01:28:59,600
FOR FINDING OUT WHAT THE
BOMB CAN DO, ISN'T THERE?
1784
01:28:59,700 --> 01:29:01,900
YOU'RE BOTH FROM
HUNGARY, AREN'T YOU?
1785
01:29:02,000 --> 01:29:03,500
YEAH, ORIGINALLY.
1786
01:29:03,600 --> 01:29:05,400
AREN'T YOU CONCERNED
1787
01:29:05,500 --> 01:29:08,700
ABOUT THE RUSSIANS BEING
IN YOUR OWN COUNTRY?
1788
01:29:08,800 --> 01:29:09,900
I SURE AM.
1789
01:29:09,900 --> 01:29:13,300
THEY'VE MOVED TROOPS
INTO HUNGARY, ROMANIA.
1790
01:29:13,300 --> 01:29:15,800
IT'S GONNA BE VERY
HARD TO PERSUADE THEM
1791
01:29:15,900 --> 01:29:18,000
TO GET THEIR
TROOPS OUT OF THERE.
1792
01:29:18,000 --> 01:29:23,300
WHAT I'M SAYING IS, THEY
MIGHT BE MORE MANAGEABLE
1793
01:29:23,300 --> 01:29:25,700
IF THEY KNOW WHAT AMERICA'S GOT.
1794
01:29:25,800 --> 01:29:27,300
MANAGEABLE, HUH?
1795
01:29:27,300 --> 01:29:31,200
SETTING OFF AN ATOMIC BOMB
MIGHT IMPRESS THEM A LITTLE.
1796
01:29:31,300 --> 01:29:34,600
I DON'T THINK IT WILL MAKE THEM
MORE MANAGEABLE, MR. BYRNES.
1797
01:29:34,700 --> 01:29:37,300
I THINK IT WILL MAKE THEM
BUILD ATOMIC BOMBS THEMSELVES.
1798
01:29:37,300 --> 01:29:40,900
SEE, I AM LESS CONCERNED
ABOUT HUNGARY RIGHT NOW
1799
01:29:41,000 --> 01:29:43,800
THAN I AM ABOUT
STARTING AN ARMS RACE
1800
01:29:43,900 --> 01:29:46,700
THAT MIGHT END WITH BOTH
AMERICA AND RUSSIA DESTROYED.
1801
01:30:08,200 --> 01:30:09,600
ROBERT?
1802
01:30:09,600 --> 01:30:11,100
ROBERT!
1803
01:30:13,100 --> 01:30:14,600
WHAT ARE YOU
DOING IN WASHINGTON?
1804
01:30:14,700 --> 01:30:15,700
A MEETING. YOU?
1805
01:30:15,800 --> 01:30:17,800
I...
1806
01:30:17,900 --> 01:30:21,200
I CAME TO SEE JAMES BYRNES
ABOUT NOT DROPPING THE BOMB.
1807
01:30:21,300 --> 01:30:23,700
I MIGHT AS WELL HAVE
SAVED MY BREATH.
1808
01:30:23,700 --> 01:30:25,200
THE ATOMIC BOMB IS SHIT.
1809
01:30:25,300 --> 01:30:26,800
WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT?
1810
01:30:26,900 --> 01:30:30,000
WELL, IT'S A WEAPON THAT
HAS NO MILITARY SIGNIFICANCE.
1811
01:30:30,100 --> 01:30:32,400
IT WILL MAKE A BANG,
A VERY BIG BANG,
1812
01:30:32,500 --> 01:30:35,000
BUT IT'S A WEAPON
THAT HAS NO USE IN WAR.
1813
01:30:35,100 --> 01:30:37,100
WHAT IS ITS USE, THEN...
DIPLOMATIC, POLITICAL?
1814
01:30:37,200 --> 01:30:39,300
NOW, I KNOW YOU'RE
CONCERNED ABOUT THE RUSSIANS,
1815
01:30:39,400 --> 01:30:42,000
BUT IF WE TELL THEM
WHAT WE INTEND TO DO...
1816
01:30:42,000 --> 01:30:44,100
AND THEN DROP THE BOMB ON JAPAN,
1817
01:30:44,100 --> 01:30:46,500
DON'T YOU THINK
THEY'LL GET THE POINT?
1818
01:30:46,600 --> 01:30:50,400
OH, YEAH, I THINK THEY WILL
GET THE POINT VERY WELL.
1819
01:30:50,500 --> 01:30:53,300
WELL, WE'LL SEE.
NOTHING'S DECIDED YET.
1820
01:30:56,700 --> 01:30:58,800
SO?
1821
01:30:58,900 --> 01:31:00,400
SO...
1822
01:31:00,500 --> 01:31:03,200
HE WILL PLAY BALL WITH THEM.
1823
01:31:03,300 --> 01:31:07,900
HE WILL NOT OPPOSE THE BOMB
HE WORKED SO HARD TO MAKE.
1824
01:31:08,000 --> 01:31:12,200
HE MUST PROVE TO
THEM HE IS A PATRIOT...
1825
01:31:12,300 --> 01:31:14,800
AS GOOD AN AMERICAN
AS ANY OF THEM.
1826
01:31:16,200 --> 01:31:19,800
GENTLEMEN, IN OUR HANDS,
WE EXPECT SOON TO HAVE
1827
01:31:19,900 --> 01:31:23,800
A WEAPON OF WHOLLY
UNPRECEDENTED DESTRUCTIVE POWER.
1828
01:31:23,900 --> 01:31:27,100
NOW, BEFORE WE BEGIN,
LET ME SAY THAT IT IS MY HOPE
1829
01:31:27,200 --> 01:31:29,500
THAT THIS PROJECT
NOT BE CONSIDERED
1830
01:31:29,600 --> 01:31:32,000
SIMPLY IN TERMS OF
MILITARY WEAPONS,
1831
01:31:32,100 --> 01:31:35,500
BUT AS A NEW RELATIONSHIP
OF MAN TO THE UNIVERSE.
1832
01:31:35,600 --> 01:31:38,300
IT IS THIS COMMITTEE'S
RESPONSIBILITY
1833
01:31:38,400 --> 01:31:42,800
TO RECOMMEND ACTION THAT MAY
TURN THE COURSE OF CIVILIZATION.
1834
01:31:42,900 --> 01:31:46,600
GENERAL MARSHALL, WOULD
YOU LIKE TO ADD SOMETHING?
1835
01:31:46,700 --> 01:31:50,300
I WOULD SAY THAT WHILE
THE ADVANCES IN THIS PROJECT
1836
01:31:50,400 --> 01:31:53,500
HAVE BEEN FOSTERED
BY THE NEEDS OF THE WAR,
1837
01:31:53,600 --> 01:31:57,400
THE IMPLICATIONS GO FAR BEYOND
THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENT WAR.
1838
01:31:57,400 --> 01:31:59,900
WHAT WE'VE LEARNED
MUST BE CONTROLLED
1839
01:32:00,000 --> 01:32:02,600
TO MAKE IT AN ASSURANCE
OF FUTURE PEACE
1840
01:32:02,700 --> 01:32:05,200
RATHER THAN A
MENACE TO CIVILIZATION.
1841
01:32:05,300 --> 01:32:06,900
I COULDN'T AGREE MORE.
1842
01:32:06,900 --> 01:32:08,400
AND THAT BEING SAID,
1843
01:32:08,500 --> 01:32:11,100
IT IS OUR HIGH TASK
TO BRING THIS WAR
1844
01:32:11,200 --> 01:32:13,800
TO A PROMPT AND
SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION.
1845
01:32:13,900 --> 01:32:16,000
DR. OPPENHEIMER,
PERHAPS YOU'LL TELL US
1846
01:32:16,100 --> 01:32:17,800
THE STATUS OF THE BOMB.
1847
01:32:17,900 --> 01:32:21,900
WE ARE PREPARING THE TESTS
FOR THE PLUTONIUM BOMB NOW.
1848
01:32:22,000 --> 01:32:25,000
IF IT WORKS, YOU'LL HAVE
A BOMB READY FOR USE
1849
01:32:25,100 --> 01:32:27,800
IMMEDIATELY AFTERWARDS...
SAY, BY AUGUST 1st.
1850
01:32:27,900 --> 01:32:29,200
URANIUM.
1851
01:32:29,300 --> 01:32:31,900
OH, THE URANIUM BOMB WILL BE
READY AT ABOUT THE SAME TIME.
1852
01:32:31,900 --> 01:32:33,700
WELL, HOW POWERFUL
WILL THIS BOMB BE?
1853
01:32:33,700 --> 01:32:37,900
WE THINK BETWEEN 2,000
AND 20,000 TONS OF TNT.
1854
01:32:38,000 --> 01:32:40,300
WHAT DOES YOUR RESEARCH
SHOW FOR THE FUTURE?
1855
01:32:40,300 --> 01:32:42,200
EDWARD TELLER IS
AT LOS ALAMOS NOW,
1856
01:32:42,300 --> 01:32:43,500
WORKING ON THE SUPERBOMB.
1857
01:32:43,600 --> 01:32:46,400
WITH HYDROGEN,
ONE BOMB CAN EQUAL
1858
01:32:46,500 --> 01:32:49,700
10 MILLION TO 100
MILLION TONS OF TNT.
1859
01:32:49,800 --> 01:32:50,900
HOW MUCH?
1860
01:32:50,900 --> 01:32:54,300
100 MILLION TONS
OF TNT IN ONE BOMB?
1861
01:32:54,400 --> 01:32:57,600
HOW DOES THAT
COMPARE TO... ANYTHING?
1862
01:32:57,600 --> 01:33:00,400
ALL SIDES TOGETHER IN THIS WAR
1863
01:33:00,500 --> 01:33:02,500
WILL USE APPROXIMATELY
THE EQUIVALENT
1864
01:33:02,500 --> 01:33:04,900
OF 3 MILLION TONS OVERALL.
1865
01:33:05,000 --> 01:33:07,800
HOW LONG WILL THE HYDROGEN
BOMB TAKE TO DEVELOP?
1866
01:33:07,800 --> 01:33:09,300
A MINIMUM OF THREE YEARS.
1867
01:33:09,400 --> 01:33:11,300
HOW LONG BEFORE
RUSSIA GETS THE BOMB?
1868
01:33:12,600 --> 01:33:15,200
TWO TO FIVE YEARS. I THINK SIX.
1869
01:33:15,300 --> 01:33:16,600
20.
1870
01:33:16,700 --> 01:33:19,300
WELL, NOW, YOU CAN'T CONCEAL
SECRETS OF NATURE, GENERAL.
1871
01:33:19,400 --> 01:33:22,100
THE RUSSIANS ARE GOING TO
KNOW HOW NO MATTER WHAT WE DO.
1872
01:33:23,600 --> 01:33:26,800
THAT MAY NOT BE THE COMPLETE
NEGATIVE IT APPEARS, GENTLEMEN.
1873
01:33:26,800 --> 01:33:29,300
RUSSIA'S ALWAYS BEEN
VERY FRIENDLY TO SCIENCE.
1874
01:33:29,400 --> 01:33:30,700
JUST FOR A THOUGHT,
1875
01:33:30,800 --> 01:33:34,100
MAYBE WE COULD OPEN UP THIS
SUBJECT WITH THEM OURSELVES
1876
01:33:34,200 --> 01:33:37,300
IN A TENTATIVE WAY, ON
VERY GENERAL TERMS,
1877
01:33:37,400 --> 01:33:40,500
WITHOUT GIVING THEM
ANY DETAILS, OF COURSE.
1878
01:33:40,600 --> 01:33:43,400
ASK IF THEY'D MAYBE
COOPERATE WITH US
1879
01:33:43,400 --> 01:33:46,300
ON SOME SORT OF
INTERNATIONAL CONTROLS,
1880
01:33:46,400 --> 01:33:48,100
BEFORE WE USE THE BOMB.
1881
01:33:48,200 --> 01:33:49,300
IT'S A BEGINNING.
1882
01:33:49,400 --> 01:33:51,200
I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD
PREJUDGE RUSSIA ON THIS.
1883
01:33:51,300 --> 01:33:53,200
THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF
CHARGES BACK AND FORTH
1884
01:33:53,200 --> 01:33:54,800
ABOUT OUR RELATIONS
WITH THE RUSSIANS.
1885
01:33:54,800 --> 01:33:56,300
FROM MY OWN EXPERIENCE,
1886
01:33:56,300 --> 01:33:59,400
MOST OF THESE CHARGES
AGAINST RUSSIA ARE UNFOUNDED.
1887
01:33:59,500 --> 01:34:02,000
THEY'VE BEEN VERY COOPERATIVE
WITH US FIGHTING THE WAR.
1888
01:34:02,100 --> 01:34:04,600
WHEN THEY SEEM NOT
TO WANT TO COOPERATE,
1889
01:34:04,700 --> 01:34:07,900
IT COMES FROM A NEED TO
MAINTAIN THEIR OWN SECURITY.
1890
01:34:07,900 --> 01:34:10,800
I THINK IT MIGHT BE A
GOOD IDEA TO INVITE, SAY,
1891
01:34:10,900 --> 01:34:14,000
TWO PROMINENT RUSSIAN
SCIENTISTS TO WITNESS THE TEST.
1892
01:34:14,000 --> 01:34:15,800
I THINK THAT'S AN
EXTREMELY GOOD IDEA.
1893
01:34:15,900 --> 01:34:17,900
NO. WE DON'T WANT TO DO THAT.
1894
01:34:18,000 --> 01:34:21,300
STALIN WOULD WANT TO GET
INTO A PARTNERSHIP WITH US.
1895
01:34:21,400 --> 01:34:22,800
WE DON'T WANT THAT.
1896
01:34:22,900 --> 01:34:25,400
WE'LL JUST PUSH AHEAD
AS FAST AS POSSIBLE
1897
01:34:25,500 --> 01:34:27,900
WITH OUR OWN
PRODUCTION AND RESEARCH
1898
01:34:28,000 --> 01:34:29,800
TO MAKE CERTAIN WE STAY AHEAD,
1899
01:34:29,900 --> 01:34:33,100
AND AT THE SAME TIME,
WE'LL MAKE EVERY EFFORT
1900
01:34:33,200 --> 01:34:36,500
TO BETTER OUR POLITICAL
RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.
1901
01:34:36,600 --> 01:34:39,300
THAT'S WHAT WE'LL DO.
1902
01:34:44,800 --> 01:34:47,600
I'D LIKE TO KNOW
FROM DR. OPPENHEIMER
1903
01:34:47,600 --> 01:34:51,200
WHAT HE EXPECTS WHEN THE
BOMB IS DROPPED ON JAPAN.
1904
01:34:51,300 --> 01:34:55,900
WELL, A BRILLIANT LIGHT
WILL RISE 10,000 TO 20,000 FEET,
1905
01:34:56,000 --> 01:34:58,300
PROBABLY KILL 20,000 PEOPLE.
1906
01:34:58,400 --> 01:35:03,200
THE RADIATION WILL BE DANGEROUS
TO LIFE FOR ABOUT 2/3 OF A MILE.
1907
01:35:03,300 --> 01:35:05,900
AND WHAT KIND OF TARGET
WOULD BE MOST EFFECTIVE?
1908
01:35:06,000 --> 01:35:09,200
I THINK WE SHOULD BE TALKING
ABOUT A MILITARY TARGET...
1909
01:35:09,300 --> 01:35:12,900
SAY A LARGE NAVAL INSTALLATION
WITH NO CIVILIANS, IF POSSIBLE.
1910
01:35:13,000 --> 01:35:15,300
COULD WE PRECEDE
THAT WITH A WARNING?
1911
01:35:15,400 --> 01:35:16,500
I THINK WE SHOULD.
1912
01:35:16,600 --> 01:35:17,800
THE PROBLEM WITH A WARNING
1913
01:35:17,900 --> 01:35:20,200
IS THAT YOU THROW AWAY
THE ELEMENT OF SURPRISE
1914
01:35:20,300 --> 01:35:22,200
AND THE SHOCK VALUE...
1915
01:35:22,300 --> 01:35:24,600
ONE OF THE BIGGEST
PARTS OF THIS THING.
1916
01:35:24,700 --> 01:35:26,700
MR. SECRETARY,
WOULD YOU OBLIGE ME
1917
01:35:26,800 --> 01:35:28,600
BY TAKING A SHORT BREAK HERE?
1918
01:35:28,700 --> 01:35:30,300
OH, YES, YES, OF COURSE.
1919
01:35:30,400 --> 01:35:33,500
THE FACILITIES ARE THROUGH
THERE FOR THOSE WHO NEED THEM,
1920
01:35:33,500 --> 01:35:35,700
AND WE HAVE SOME
COFFEE AND DOUGHNUTS.
1921
01:35:35,800 --> 01:35:37,700
WHAT ABOUT THE
DEMONSTRATION IDEA...
1922
01:35:37,800 --> 01:35:40,600
SHOWING THE JAPANESE WHAT
WE'VE GOT BEFORE WE DROP IT?
1923
01:35:40,700 --> 01:35:43,300
I'VE THOUGHT ABOUT IT,
ERNEST. IT WON'T WORK.
1924
01:35:43,300 --> 01:35:44,400
WHY NOT?
1925
01:35:44,400 --> 01:35:47,100
JUST TOO MANY PROBLEMS WITH IT.
1926
01:35:47,200 --> 01:35:48,200
WHAT IF IT'S A DUD?
1927
01:35:48,300 --> 01:35:50,300
WE DON'T KNOW THE
BOMB WILL GO OFF.
1928
01:35:50,400 --> 01:35:52,000
AS WELL AS WE KNOW ANYTHING.
1929
01:35:52,100 --> 01:35:54,500
AND IF IT DOESN'T, THEN
THEY HAVE THE THING.
1930
01:35:54,600 --> 01:35:56,500
I MEAN, HOW WOULD YOU
SET A DEMONSTRATION UP?
1931
01:35:56,500 --> 01:35:58,600
THE JAPANESE WOULD
PROBABLY THINK IT'S A TRICK...
1932
01:35:58,600 --> 01:35:59,800
WON'T EVEN COME.
1933
01:35:59,800 --> 01:36:02,600
WHAT DO YOU DO, BLOW UP
SOME BUILDINGS OR TREES?
1934
01:36:02,700 --> 01:36:04,600
TALKING ABOUT A DEMONSTRATION?
1935
01:36:04,700 --> 01:36:05,900
WELL, THAT'S FINE.
1936
01:36:06,000 --> 01:36:08,300
CERTAINLY, THAT'S SOMETHING
WE SHOULD ALL DISCUSS,
1937
01:36:08,400 --> 01:36:09,500
BUT LET'S NOT FORGET
1938
01:36:09,600 --> 01:36:11,900
THAT THERE ARE BOYS
DYING OUT THERE EVERY DAY.
1939
01:36:12,000 --> 01:36:14,000
TELL ME, ERNEST...
YOUR FRIENDS THERE
1940
01:36:14,100 --> 01:36:16,300
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF
CHICAGO AND BERKELEY,
1941
01:36:16,400 --> 01:36:17,800
LIKE MR. SZILARD AND OTHERS,
1942
01:36:17,800 --> 01:36:20,500
DO THEY HAVE ANY RELATIVES
FIGHTING IN THE PACIFIC?
1943
01:36:20,500 --> 01:36:23,600
OR CAN THEY AFFORD TO BE SOFT?
1944
01:36:23,600 --> 01:36:25,600
THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE COFFEE,
1945
01:36:25,700 --> 01:36:29,300
I WONDER IF YOU'D BRING IT
BACK TO THE TABLE, PLEASE?
1946
01:36:29,400 --> 01:36:31,900
DR. OPPENHEIMER,
BEFORE WE BROKE,
1947
01:36:32,000 --> 01:36:35,200
YOU EXPRESSED THE
OPINION THAT AN ATOMIC BOMB
1948
01:36:35,300 --> 01:36:37,000
WOULD KILL 20,000 PEOPLE.
1949
01:36:37,100 --> 01:36:38,600
WELL, THAT'S NO WORSE
1950
01:36:38,700 --> 01:36:41,700
THAN A CONVENTIONAL
FIRE-BOMB RAID, IS IT?
1951
01:36:41,800 --> 01:36:44,600
NOW, THAT WOULD BE A
BOMB DROPPED ON A CITY.
1952
01:36:44,600 --> 01:36:48,300
I TAKE IT THAT'S THE KIND OF
TARGET WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE?
1953
01:36:48,400 --> 01:36:50,000
YES.
1954
01:36:51,100 --> 01:36:54,200
I'D BE INTERESTED IN
DR. OPPENHEIMER'S VIEWS
1955
01:36:54,300 --> 01:36:57,500
ON A POSSIBLE PRIOR
DEMONSTRATION OF THE BOMB
1956
01:36:57,500 --> 01:36:59,500
AS A WARNING TO THE JAPANESE,
1957
01:36:59,600 --> 01:37:01,800
AN INDUCEMENT TO
THEM TO SURRENDER
1958
01:37:01,800 --> 01:37:05,400
BEFORE WE ACTUALLY USE IT.
1959
01:37:05,500 --> 01:37:07,700
MR. BYRNES, WE'RE SCIENTISTS.
1960
01:37:07,800 --> 01:37:10,700
WE POSSESS NO CLAIM
TO SPECIAL COMPETENCE
1961
01:37:10,800 --> 01:37:15,800
IN SOLVING POLITICAL,
SOCIAL, OR MILITARY PROBLEMS.
1962
01:37:15,800 --> 01:37:18,600
AND WE DON'T ALWAYS
AGREE AMONG OURSELVES.
1963
01:37:18,700 --> 01:37:21,800
BUT IT IS MY BELIEF THE
DEMONSTRATION HAS RISKS.
1964
01:37:21,900 --> 01:37:24,000
COULD BE A DUD.
1965
01:37:24,000 --> 01:37:26,100
IT WOULD DISSIPATE
THE SHOCK VALUE,
1966
01:37:26,200 --> 01:37:28,800
AND IT WOULD TAKE
CONSIDERABLE TIME TO SET UP.
1967
01:37:28,900 --> 01:37:30,600
I JUST DON'T FAVOR THAT IDEA.
1968
01:37:30,700 --> 01:37:32,900
HOW ABOUT AT LEAST GIVING
THE JAPANESE A WARNING?
1969
01:37:33,000 --> 01:37:35,200
I ASSUME YOU'RE NOT FLYING
THE AIRCRAFT, ARE YOU, SIR?
1970
01:37:37,000 --> 01:37:39,500
NO.
1971
01:37:39,500 --> 01:37:43,400
WHAT CONCERNS ME IS IF THE
JAPANESE KNOW IN ADVANCE,
1972
01:37:43,400 --> 01:37:47,200
THEY'LL JUST MOVE AMERICAN
BOYS, PRISONERS OF WAR,
1973
01:37:47,200 --> 01:37:48,900
INTO ALL THEIR CITIES.
1974
01:37:49,000 --> 01:37:50,400
Groves: WITH RESPECT, GENTLEMEN,
1975
01:37:50,500 --> 01:37:52,700
THE JAPANESE PEOPLE,
MILITARY OR CIVILIAN,
1976
01:37:52,800 --> 01:37:54,000
ARE NOT GONNA BE WARNED.
1977
01:37:54,100 --> 01:37:56,100
THEY'RE NOT GONNA
BE DEMONSTRATED TO.
1978
01:37:56,100 --> 01:37:58,500
THEY'RE NOT GONNA BE
NEGOTIATED INTO SURRENDER
1979
01:37:58,600 --> 01:38:00,300
OR ANYTHING LIKE IT.
1980
01:38:00,400 --> 01:38:03,400
NOW, LET'S NOT
FORGET SAIPAN HERE.
1981
01:38:03,500 --> 01:38:05,500
THE BATTLE FOR SAIPAN WAS WON,
1982
01:38:05,600 --> 01:38:08,700
AND 22,000 JAPANESE
CIVILIANS KILLED THEMSELVES...
1983
01:38:08,800 --> 01:38:11,700
CIVILIANS... THROWING
THEMSELVES OFF OF CLIFFS,
1984
01:38:11,800 --> 01:38:13,400
HOLDING THEIR
CHILDREN IN THEIR ARMS
1985
01:38:13,500 --> 01:38:16,100
RATHER THAN SURRENDERING.
1986
01:38:16,200 --> 01:38:18,200
THE JAPANESE ARE GONNA
HAVE TO BE SHOCKED
1987
01:38:18,300 --> 01:38:19,400
INTO QUITTING THIS WAR.
1988
01:38:19,500 --> 01:38:21,900
THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TO BE...
1989
01:38:22,000 --> 01:38:23,300
CRUSHED.
1990
01:38:30,300 --> 01:38:33,100
WELL, WITH THAT IN
MIND, AND BEARING IN MIND
1991
01:38:33,200 --> 01:38:36,400
THAT WE WANT TO AVOID
MOUNTING AN INVASION OF JAPAN
1992
01:38:36,500 --> 01:38:39,800
IN WHICH A HALF-MILLION
TO A MILLION AMERICAN LIVES
1993
01:38:39,900 --> 01:38:41,100
COULD BE LOST,
1994
01:38:41,200 --> 01:38:44,800
WHAT KIND OF CITY,
WHAT KIND OF TARGET
1995
01:38:44,800 --> 01:38:46,000
DO WE WANT TO RECOMMEND?
1996
01:38:46,100 --> 01:38:48,600
WHERE DID YOU COME UP WITH
THAT MILLION FIGURE, HENRY?
1997
01:38:48,700 --> 01:38:50,100
IS THAT A CIVILIAN ESTIMATE?
1998
01:38:50,200 --> 01:38:51,200
YES.
1999
01:38:51,300 --> 01:38:53,200
WELL, IT SOUNDED
AWFULLY HIGH TO ME.
2000
01:38:53,200 --> 01:38:55,600
LET ME WORK ON IT, GET
YOU A MILITARY ESTIMATE.
2001
01:38:55,700 --> 01:38:56,800
ALL RIGHT, VERY WELL.
2002
01:38:56,900 --> 01:38:59,000
I WAS IMPRESSED BY
SOMETHING DR. OPPENHEIMER
2003
01:38:59,100 --> 01:39:01,300
AND GENERAL GROVES
SAID ABOUT SHOCK VALUE.
2004
01:39:01,400 --> 01:39:04,300
I THINK SHOCK VALUE
WILL END THIS WAR QUICKLY.
2005
01:39:04,400 --> 01:39:07,700
I THINK WE OUGHT TO USE
THE BOMB ON A VITAL WAR PLAN,
2006
01:39:07,800 --> 01:39:10,600
ONE THAT EMPLOYS A
LARGE NUMBER OF WORKERS
2007
01:39:10,600 --> 01:39:13,400
AND IS CLOSELY
SURROUNDED BY THEIR HOUSES.
2008
01:39:13,400 --> 01:39:17,100
SOUNDS RIGHT TO ME.
2009
01:39:17,100 --> 01:39:18,400
Stimson: ANYONE?
2010
01:39:23,600 --> 01:39:25,600
Oppenheimer: I THINK
WE SHOULD CONSIDER
2011
01:39:25,700 --> 01:39:28,200
ATTACKING SEVERAL
CITIES AT ONCE.
2012
01:39:28,200 --> 01:39:30,100
WHY JUST ONE?
2013
01:39:35,400 --> 01:39:40,100
THEN I TAKE IT WE'RE ALL
IN GENERAL AGREEMENT...
2014
01:39:40,200 --> 01:39:42,700
THAT WE CAN'T GIVE
JAPAN ANY WARNING,
2015
01:39:42,800 --> 01:39:46,000
THAT WE SHOULD NOT
CONCENTRATE ON A CIVILIAN AREA,
2016
01:39:46,100 --> 01:39:48,000
AND THAT WE SHOULD SEEK
2017
01:39:48,200 --> 01:39:51,800
TO MAKE A PROFOUND
PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPRESSION
2018
01:39:51,800 --> 01:39:54,500
ON AS MANY OF THE
INHABITANTS AS POSSIBLE.
2019
01:39:56,600 --> 01:39:59,200
THAT'S OUR REPORT
TO THE PRESIDENT.
2020
01:39:59,200 --> 01:40:03,200
WHAT DO WE SAY TO SZILARD?
2021
01:40:03,300 --> 01:40:05,300
OF COURSE THEY CAN GIVE
A WARNING IF THEY WANT.
2022
01:40:05,300 --> 01:40:07,200
OF COURSE THEY CAN
HAVE A DEMONSTRATION.
2023
01:40:07,300 --> 01:40:10,600
WHAT? THEY CAN DROP IT
IN THE WOODS NEAR A CITY.
2024
01:40:10,700 --> 01:40:12,500
THEY CAN WARN THE JAPANESE
2025
01:40:12,500 --> 01:40:15,000
TO CLEAR OUT THE
CITY AND THEN DROP IT.
2026
01:40:15,100 --> 01:40:18,000
WHAT? THEY CAN BLOW UP
MOUNT FUJI IF THEY WANT.
2027
01:40:18,100 --> 01:40:20,900
BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT THEY WANT!
2028
01:40:21,000 --> 01:40:23,200
THEY WANT TO DROP THE BOMB
2029
01:40:23,300 --> 01:40:25,400
TO SHOW EVERYONE WHAT THEY DID,
2030
01:40:25,400 --> 01:40:27,500
TO GET THEIR $2 BILLION WORTH,
2031
01:40:27,500 --> 01:40:30,100
TO HAVE SOMETHING
TO SHOW FOR IT.
2032
01:40:30,200 --> 01:40:33,000
LISTEN, LISTEN!
2033
01:40:33,100 --> 01:40:35,500
WE ARE NOT IN THE ARMY.
2034
01:40:35,600 --> 01:40:39,700
WE ARE THE MEN WHO
CONCEIVED THIS BOMB
2035
01:40:39,800 --> 01:40:44,000
AND DESIGNED IT AND BUILT IT.
2036
01:40:44,000 --> 01:40:47,800
AND BEFORE GOD AND THE WORLD,
2037
01:40:47,900 --> 01:40:51,000
WE HAVE THE DUTY TO
SEE THAT IT IS USED WISELY.
2038
01:40:51,100 --> 01:40:54,000
WE WILL BE HELD RESPONSIBLE.
2039
01:40:57,200 --> 01:41:03,600
I-I HAVE A PETITION TO
PRESIDENT TRUMAN...
2040
01:41:03,700 --> 01:41:07,600
STATING THAT WE ARE SACRIFICING
2041
01:41:07,600 --> 01:41:12,200
EVERYTHING GOOD AND
MORAL THAT WE BELIEVE IN
2042
01:41:12,200 --> 01:41:14,700
IF WE DROP THIS BOMB ON PEOPLE.
2043
01:41:14,800 --> 01:41:17,700
WHO WILL SIGN THIS
PETITION WITH ME?
2044
01:41:17,700 --> 01:41:19,000
I WILL.
2045
01:41:21,300 --> 01:41:23,800
GOOD.
2046
01:41:23,900 --> 01:41:25,600
GOOD.
2047
01:41:35,000 --> 01:41:36,800
THANK YOU.
2048
01:41:36,900 --> 01:41:39,300
I'M SENDING A COPY TO
LOS ALAMOS, AS WELL,
2049
01:41:39,400 --> 01:41:40,600
AND ASK THEM TO SIGN.
2050
01:41:40,700 --> 01:41:43,700
THOUGH I'M SURE MANY OF THE
BOYS THERE WILL BE CONFUSED
2051
01:41:43,800 --> 01:41:46,800
AS TO WHAT KIND OF
THING A MORAL ISSUE IS.
2052
01:41:46,900 --> 01:41:48,300
I HAVE TO TELL YOU, EDWARD,
2053
01:41:48,400 --> 01:41:51,200
I DON'T THINK A WHOLE LOT
OF SCIENTISTS LIKE SZILARD
2054
01:41:51,300 --> 01:41:54,100
WHO USE THEIR PRESTIGE FOR
POLITICAL PRONOUNCEMENTS.
2055
01:41:54,100 --> 01:41:57,300
TELLER, DON'T BOTHER ME WITH
YOUR CONSCIENTIOUS SCRUPLES.
2056
01:41:57,400 --> 01:41:59,400
THIS IS SUPERB PHYSICS.
2057
01:41:59,400 --> 01:42:02,800
SO, TELL ME, OPPIE.
I NEED YOUR ADVICE.
2058
01:42:02,900 --> 01:42:04,200
YOU WOULDN'T SIGN?
2059
01:42:04,200 --> 01:42:06,500
I'VE JUST COME BACK
FROM WASHINGTON.
2060
01:42:06,600 --> 01:42:08,600
I WISH YOU'D BEEN THERE WITH ME.
2061
01:42:08,700 --> 01:42:10,800
YOU WOULD HAVE SEEN
THE DEEP CONCERN,
2062
01:42:10,900 --> 01:42:12,600
THE THOROUGHNESS, THE WISDOM
2063
01:42:12,700 --> 01:42:15,400
THESE QUESTIONS ARE BEING
HANDLED WITH BACK THERE.
2064
01:42:15,500 --> 01:42:18,800
AND, OF COURSE, THEY
HAVE INFORMATION WE DON'T.
2065
01:42:18,800 --> 01:42:22,000
WITHOUT THE BOMB, THEY'D
HAVE TO INVADE JAPAN.
2066
01:42:22,100 --> 01:42:24,700
A MILLION AMERICAN CASUALTIES.
2067
01:42:24,800 --> 01:42:27,800
OUR FATE IS IN THE
HANDS OF THE BEST
2068
01:42:27,800 --> 01:42:30,800
AND MOST CONSCIENTIOUS
MEN IN THIS NATION.
2069
01:42:39,600 --> 01:42:41,200
BEFORE YOU LEAVE, GENERAL,
2070
01:42:41,300 --> 01:42:44,000
IS YOUR REPORT ON THE
TARGET CITIES READY?
2071
01:42:44,100 --> 01:42:46,000
YES, SIR, I'LL BE SHOWING
IT TO GENERAL MARSHALL
2072
01:42:46,100 --> 01:42:47,900
FOR HIS APPROVAL FIRST
THING IN THE MORNING.
2073
01:42:48,000 --> 01:42:49,800
YES, WELL, I'D LIKE TO SEE IT.
2074
01:42:49,900 --> 01:42:51,100
WELL, OF COURSE, SIR.
2075
01:42:51,100 --> 01:42:53,500
WELL, MY IMMEDIATE
SUPERIOR IS GENERAL MARSHALL,
2076
01:42:53,600 --> 01:42:55,500
AND THIS IS A MILITARY
OPERATIONAL REPORT,
2077
01:42:55,600 --> 01:42:56,600
MR. SECRETARY.
2078
01:42:56,600 --> 01:42:59,200
YES, AND I'M THE
SECRETARY OF WAR.
2079
01:42:59,200 --> 01:43:02,000
YOUR REPORT IS
ALL FINISHED, ISN'T IT?
2080
01:43:02,100 --> 01:43:04,200
WELL, I'D LIKE TO GO
OVER IT ONE MORE TIME
2081
01:43:04,300 --> 01:43:06,300
AND MAKE SURE I'VE
GOT IT JUST RIGHT.
2082
01:43:06,400 --> 01:43:07,800
YEAH, WELL, I'D
LIKE TO SEE IT NOW.
2083
01:43:07,900 --> 01:43:10,600
I HAVEN'T GOT THE REPORT
WITH ME, MR. SECRETARY.
2084
01:43:10,600 --> 01:43:11,800
IT'S ACROSS THE RIVER.
2085
01:43:11,900 --> 01:43:13,800
IT WILL TAKE SOME
TIME TO GET IT.
2086
01:43:13,900 --> 01:43:15,000
I HAVE ALL DAY.
2087
01:43:15,000 --> 01:43:16,100
THERE'S THE TELEPHONE.
2088
01:43:16,200 --> 01:43:17,200
YOU CAN CALL THEM UP
2089
01:43:17,300 --> 01:43:20,300
AND TELL THEM TO
BRING IT RIGHT OVER.
2090
01:43:20,400 --> 01:43:23,300
THIS IS A QUESTION
I'M SETTLING MYSELF.
2091
01:43:23,400 --> 01:43:25,200
WHAT ARE THE TARGETS?
2092
01:43:25,300 --> 01:43:27,700
THE PRIMARY IS KYOTO.
2093
01:43:27,700 --> 01:43:29,600
I WILL NOT APPROVE KYOTO.
2094
01:43:29,700 --> 01:43:31,400
SIR, KYOTO IS PERFECT FOR US.
2095
01:43:31,500 --> 01:43:33,100
WE HAVEN'T TOUCHED IT YET.
2096
01:43:33,200 --> 01:43:35,800
WE'LL BE ABLE TO MEASURE
THE EFFECTS OF THE BOMB
2097
01:43:35,900 --> 01:43:37,100
MUCH MORE ACCURATELY.
2098
01:43:37,100 --> 01:43:39,300
I'VE BEEN TO KYOTO.
IT'S A BEAUTIFUL CITY.
2099
01:43:39,300 --> 01:43:42,100
HAS DEEP RELIGIOUS
SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE JAPANESE...
2100
01:43:42,200 --> 01:43:43,800
A VERY ANCIENT CULTURE.
2101
01:43:43,800 --> 01:43:45,800
SIR, WHEN YOU READ
THE DESCRIPTION
2102
01:43:45,900 --> 01:43:46,900
AS TO WHY KYOTO
2103
01:43:47,000 --> 01:43:49,200
IS SUCH A DESIRABLE
MILITARY TARGET FOR US,
2104
01:43:49,200 --> 01:43:51,200
I'M SURE YOU WILL
CHANGE YOUR MIND.
2105
01:43:51,300 --> 01:43:52,700
I MOST CERTAINLY WILL NOT.
2106
01:43:52,800 --> 01:43:55,500
I DON'T WANT KYOTO BOMBED.
2107
01:43:55,600 --> 01:43:57,400
REPORT'S ON ITS WAY OVER, SIR.
2108
01:44:01,900 --> 01:44:04,900
WELL, I'VE GOT A
LOT OF WORK TO DO.
2109
01:44:05,000 --> 01:44:06,500
YOU NEED ME FOR ANYTHING ELSE?
2110
01:44:06,600 --> 01:44:08,000
NO. NO, THANK YOU.
2111
01:44:10,900 --> 01:44:13,600
IF YOU'D LIKE TO DISCUSS THE
REPORT WITH ME, MR. SECRETARY,
2112
01:44:13,600 --> 01:44:14,700
I'LL BE IN MY OFFICE.
2113
01:44:14,800 --> 01:44:15,900
VERY WELL. THANK YOU.
2114
01:44:18,600 --> 01:44:22,800
THE MILITARY ARE COMPLETELY
DOMINATED BY CIVILIANS.
2115
01:44:22,900 --> 01:44:24,100
IT'S GOTTEN TO THE POINT
2116
01:44:24,200 --> 01:44:26,400
WHERE THEY'RE ACTUALLY
DESIGNATING TARGETS!
2117
01:44:28,600 --> 01:44:30,400
NOW, HOW DO WE END IT?
2118
01:44:30,500 --> 01:44:34,600
SIR, IF SEA AND AIR POWER
DON'T DO IT BY NOVEMBER,
2119
01:44:34,700 --> 01:44:37,300
WE THINK WE'LL HAVE
TO INVADE JAPAN.
2120
01:44:37,400 --> 01:44:39,500
NOW, HOW EXPENSIVE
WOULD THAT BE?
2121
01:44:39,600 --> 01:44:40,900
HOW MANY CASUALTIES?
2122
01:44:40,900 --> 01:44:43,400
COULD BE AS MANY AS A MILLION.
2123
01:44:43,500 --> 01:44:45,900
THERE'S NO REASON TO
BELIEVE AN INVASION OF JAPAN
2124
01:44:46,000 --> 01:44:48,300
SHOULD EXCEED OUR
INVASION OF THE PHILIPPINES.
2125
01:44:48,300 --> 01:44:49,600
HOW MANY WAS THAT?
2126
01:44:49,700 --> 01:44:52,700
FIRST MONTH, 31,000
CASUALTIES, 7,000 DEAD.
2127
01:44:52,800 --> 01:44:54,900
WHAT IF IT'S ANOTHER OKINAWA?
2128
01:44:55,000 --> 01:44:58,900
THAT'S WHAT I'M AFRAID OF,
SIR, MORE THAN THE PHILIPPINES.
2129
01:44:58,900 --> 01:45:01,100
OKINAWA IS A SMALL ISLAND.
2130
01:45:01,200 --> 01:45:04,000
WE LOST 10,000 DEAD,
40,000 WOUNDED.
2131
01:45:04,000 --> 01:45:08,100
THAT'S WHAT I THINK WILL
HAPPEN, ON A MUCH BIGGER SCALE,
2132
01:45:08,100 --> 01:45:10,100
IF WE HAVE TO INVADE JAPAN.
2133
01:45:12,100 --> 01:45:14,100
I WANT TO END THIS WAR QUICKLY.
2134
01:45:14,100 --> 01:45:16,100
I WANT TO SAVE AMERICAN LIVES.
2135
01:45:16,200 --> 01:45:18,100
I DON'T WANT ANOTHER OKINAWA.
2136
01:45:18,100 --> 01:45:22,500
ANYBODY THINK THERE IS
AN ALTERNATIVE TO INVASION?
2137
01:45:27,000 --> 01:45:30,000
McCloy: WELL, I THINK
YOU'VE GOT AN ALTERNATIVE.
2138
01:45:30,000 --> 01:45:32,200
I THINK WE HAVE TO HAVE
OUR HEADS EXAMINED
2139
01:45:32,300 --> 01:45:34,800
IF WE DON'T OFFER THEM
HONORABLE SURRENDER TERMS,
2140
01:45:34,900 --> 01:45:35,900
NEGOTIATE A PEACE.
2141
01:45:35,900 --> 01:45:37,200
WHY DO WE HAVE TO INVADE THEM?
2142
01:45:37,300 --> 01:45:39,200
WELL, NOW, THAT'S WHAT
I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT.
2143
01:45:39,300 --> 01:45:40,400
Bart: WELL, YES, SIR.
2144
01:45:40,400 --> 01:45:42,400
FOR GOD'S SAKE, LET'S
NOT ORGANIZE AN ARMY
2145
01:45:42,500 --> 01:45:44,400
TO GO INTO JAPAN,
KILL A MILLION PEOPLE.
2146
01:45:44,500 --> 01:45:45,500
IT'S RIDICULOUS.
2147
01:45:45,500 --> 01:45:47,300
YES, THEY DON'T HAVE
ENOUGH FOOD IN STOCK,
2148
01:45:47,400 --> 01:45:50,000
AND THEIR FUEL RESERVES ARE
PRACTICALLY EXHAUSTED ALREADY.
2149
01:45:50,100 --> 01:45:51,400
IF WE MINE ALL THEIR HARBORS,
2150
01:45:51,400 --> 01:45:53,200
ISOLATE THEM FROM
THE REST OF THE WORLD...
2151
01:45:53,200 --> 01:45:54,800
Man #2: BLOCKADING
IS A COWARDLY ACT.
2152
01:45:54,800 --> 01:45:57,100
IT'S NOT WORTHY
OF THE AIR FORCE.
2153
01:45:57,200 --> 01:45:58,800
WE DON'T WANT TO DO THAT.
2154
01:45:58,800 --> 01:46:01,400
MR. PRESIDENT, I THINK
WE CAN GIVE THEM
2155
01:46:01,500 --> 01:46:03,300
SURRENDER TERMS THEY'LL ACCEPT
2156
01:46:03,300 --> 01:46:05,700
THAT WILL LEAVE US SAFE
NOW AND IN THE FUTURE
2157
01:46:05,800 --> 01:46:06,700
WITH NO INVASION.
2158
01:46:06,800 --> 01:46:08,600
NOW, THAT INTERESTS ME.
2159
01:46:08,700 --> 01:46:10,400
I'M VERY GLAD THE
SUBJECT CAME UP.
2160
01:46:10,500 --> 01:46:12,800
DON'T YOU THINK THAT WE
OUGHT TO TELL THE JAPANESE
2161
01:46:12,900 --> 01:46:15,500
THAT WE HAVE THE ATOMIC
BOMB AND THAT WE PLAN TO USE IT?
2162
01:46:17,200 --> 01:46:19,600
I SURE DON'T. WHAT
IF IT DOESN'T GO OFF?
2163
01:46:19,700 --> 01:46:21,800
WHAT HAPPENS TO
AMERICAN PRESTIGE?
2164
01:46:23,600 --> 01:46:25,300
I THINK THE MORAL
POSITION THAT WE HAVE
2165
01:46:25,300 --> 01:46:27,900
WOULD TRANSCEND ANY
TEMPORARY DISADVANTAGE
2166
01:46:27,900 --> 01:46:29,400
THAT MIGHT FOLLOW A DUD.
2167
01:46:29,400 --> 01:46:31,600
YOU DO? NOT ME.
2168
01:46:31,600 --> 01:46:33,500
CAN'T WE AT LEAST
ISSUE THEM A WARNING...
2169
01:46:33,500 --> 01:46:35,100
APPROACH THEM
WITH TERMS OF PEACE?
2170
01:46:35,200 --> 01:46:37,700
NO, NO, NO. EVERYTHING I KNOW
TELLS ME THE JAP WON'T QUIT.
2171
01:46:37,800 --> 01:46:39,300
HE'S GOING TO HAVE TO BE BEATEN.
2172
01:46:39,300 --> 01:46:42,600
THEY'LL FIGHT UNTIL
THEY EAT STONES.
2173
01:46:42,600 --> 01:46:45,800
MR. PRESIDENT, WHY'D WE
BUILD THIS BOMB IF NOT TO USE IT?
2174
01:46:45,900 --> 01:46:49,000
WHY'D WE SPEND 3
YEARS AND $2 BILLION?
2175
01:46:49,000 --> 01:46:52,500
WHETHER WE INVADE OR
NOT, 7,000 LIVES OR A MILLION,
2176
01:46:52,500 --> 01:46:55,300
LET'S END THIS THING
AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
2177
01:46:55,400 --> 01:46:57,100
WITH NO MORE AMERICAN DEATHS.
2178
01:46:57,200 --> 01:46:59,500
WHY WAIT THREE
MONTHS OR THREE DAYS
2179
01:46:59,600 --> 01:47:02,100
OR THREE MINUTES FOR
THEM TO SURRENDER?
2180
01:47:02,200 --> 01:47:05,400
OUR RESPONSIBILITY IS TO
SAVE AMERICAN BOYS' LIVES.
2181
01:47:05,400 --> 01:47:07,800
THAT'S THE WHOLE
REASON RIGHT THERE.
2182
01:47:07,900 --> 01:47:09,000
BUT THERE'S OTHER WAYS.
2183
01:47:09,100 --> 01:47:11,400
WELL, IF YOU DON'T MENTION
THE BOMB TO THE JAPANESE,
2184
01:47:11,500 --> 01:47:14,100
AT LEAST IN GENERAL TERMS
EXPLAIN TO THEM ITS CAPACITY...
2185
01:47:14,200 --> 01:47:16,600
SOMETHING THAT IN ONE
BLOW, COULD WIPE OUT A CITY.
2186
01:47:16,600 --> 01:47:19,500
SURELY, THEY'LL UNDERSTAND THAT.
2187
01:47:19,600 --> 01:47:21,300
THAT'S INTERESTING, McCLOY.
2188
01:47:21,400 --> 01:47:23,800
YOU GIVE THAT FURTHER
THOUGHT, RIGHT?
2189
01:47:23,900 --> 01:47:27,400
GIVE WHAT YOU COME UP WITH
TO MY SECRETARY OF STATE HERE.
2190
01:47:27,500 --> 01:47:30,100
THANK YOU, GENTLEMEN.
VERY INFORMATIVE.
2191
01:47:30,100 --> 01:47:32,500
GOOD LUCK AT POTSDAM,
MR. PRESIDENT. THANK YOU, GENERAL.
2192
01:47:32,600 --> 01:47:33,900
GOOD LUCK, SIR. THANK YOU, SIR.
2193
01:47:34,000 --> 01:47:35,700
GOOD LUCK, SIR.
2194
01:47:35,700 --> 01:47:38,000
I'VE BEEN LISTENING
FOR THREE WEEKS...
2195
01:47:38,100 --> 01:47:39,400
HOW IT COST $2 BILLION,
2196
01:47:39,500 --> 01:47:41,400
IT'S GONNA TERRIFY THE RUSSIANS,
2197
01:47:41,500 --> 01:47:43,400
SAVE ALL THESE AMERICAN LIVES.
2198
01:47:43,400 --> 01:47:45,100
DO YOU THINK IT WOULD
MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE
2199
01:47:45,200 --> 01:47:46,800
IF THEY WERE WHITE
INSTEAD OF YELLOW?
2200
01:47:46,900 --> 01:47:48,400
WHAT DO YOU THINK, JIMMY?
2201
01:47:48,500 --> 01:47:51,500
I THINK STALIN MEANS TO
STAY IN EASTERN EUROPE,
2202
01:47:51,600 --> 01:47:54,000
AND AT YALTA, HE
PROMISED ROOSEVELT
2203
01:47:54,000 --> 01:47:56,400
TO COME INTO THE
WAR AGAINST JAPAN
2204
01:47:56,400 --> 01:47:59,100
THREE MONTHS AFTER
GERMANY SURRENDERED.
2205
01:47:59,100 --> 01:48:02,600
ONLY NOW, WE DON'T WANT HIM IN.
2206
01:48:02,600 --> 01:48:07,400
ONCE HE GETS INTO JAPAN,
HOW DO WE GET HIM OUT?
2207
01:48:07,500 --> 01:48:10,300
IT'LL BE JUST LIKE EUROPE.
2208
01:48:10,300 --> 01:48:13,800
WE WANT TO SEND HIM A MESSAGE.
2209
01:48:13,900 --> 01:48:17,900
I ONLY HOPE THIS
BOMB TEST COMES OFF
2210
01:48:17,900 --> 01:48:21,800
BEFORE YOU AND
JOE MEET IN POTSDAM.
2211
01:48:21,900 --> 01:48:26,100
IF IT DOES, I CERTAINLY HAVE
A HAMMER ON THOSE BOYS.
2212
01:48:26,100 --> 01:48:28,900
COME.
2213
01:48:28,900 --> 01:48:31,600
MR. PRESIDENT, MAY I SEE
YOU FOR A MOMENT, SIR?
2214
01:48:31,700 --> 01:48:33,500
WHY, CERTAINLY,
BART. WHAT IS IT?
2215
01:48:36,300 --> 01:48:39,300
SIR, THE STAKES
ARE SO TREMENDOUS.
2216
01:48:39,400 --> 01:48:42,300
WE JUST HAVE TO
GIVE THE JAPANESE
2217
01:48:42,400 --> 01:48:43,900
TWO OR THREE DAYS' WARNING.
2218
01:48:44,000 --> 01:48:46,600
WE'RE A GREAT HUMANITARIAN
NATION, MR. PRESIDENT.
2219
01:48:46,600 --> 01:48:48,400
OUR PEOPLE BELIEVE IN FAIR PLAY.
2220
01:48:48,500 --> 01:48:50,100
THE NAVY KNOWS THE
JAPANESE ARE LICKED.
2221
01:48:50,200 --> 01:48:52,000
THE ARMY JUST WANTS
TO BE IN ON THE KILL.
2222
01:48:52,000 --> 01:48:53,700
IF WE LET THE JAPANESE
KNOW WHAT WE'VE GOT,
2223
01:48:53,800 --> 01:48:55,600
IF WE AT LEAST TRY.
2224
01:48:55,700 --> 01:48:57,300
ALL THESE QUESTIONS...
2225
01:48:57,400 --> 01:49:00,400
THEY'VE ALL RECEIVED
VERY CAREFUL STUDY.
2226
01:49:05,400 --> 01:49:07,200
YOU'VE MADE UP YOUR MINDS, THEN.
2227
01:49:10,100 --> 01:49:12,400
SIR, I FIND MYSELF
2228
01:49:12,400 --> 01:49:14,800
IN SUCH STRONG DISAGREEMENT
ABOUT DROPPING THE BOMB,
2229
01:49:14,900 --> 01:49:16,700
ESPECIALLY WITHOUT
GIVING ANY WARNING,
2230
01:49:16,800 --> 01:49:20,500
THAT I'M GOING TO HAVE TO
RESIGN FROM THE COMMITTEE.
2231
01:49:20,600 --> 01:49:23,300
I JUST DON'T WANT
TO BE PART OF IT.
2232
01:49:23,400 --> 01:49:25,100
I'M ALSO GOING TO HAVE TO RESIGN
2233
01:49:25,200 --> 01:49:26,900
AS UNDERSECRETARY OF THE NAVY,
2234
01:49:26,900 --> 01:49:30,500
EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY,
MR. PRESIDENT.
2235
01:49:41,400 --> 01:49:43,700
LISTEN, SAM, CHECK THAT
HOIST FOR ME, WILL YOU?
2236
01:49:43,700 --> 01:49:46,100
I DON'T WANT ANY TROUBLE
WHEN THE GEIGER GETS HERE.
2237
01:49:46,200 --> 01:49:47,800
SURE THING, KEN.
2238
01:49:49,400 --> 01:49:51,000
GET OFF.
2239
01:49:54,200 --> 01:49:56,600
YES, KEN?
2240
01:49:56,600 --> 01:49:58,700
YEAH.
2241
01:49:58,800 --> 01:50:00,100
YEAH, YEAH.
2242
01:50:00,100 --> 01:50:02,000
WE'LL GET STARTED.
2243
01:50:02,100 --> 01:50:03,400
WE GO IF THE WEATHER HOLDS.
2244
01:50:03,400 --> 01:50:05,600
GET GOING WITH THE ASSEMBLY.
I'LL GET THE PLUTONIUM.
2245
01:50:05,700 --> 01:50:07,200
WILL YOU CALL ME
IF IT'S A SUCCESS?
2246
01:50:07,300 --> 01:50:09,800
YES, YES, OF COURSE.
2247
01:50:09,900 --> 01:50:10,900
ROBERT...
2248
01:50:10,900 --> 01:50:12,200
WHAT'S THIS?
2249
01:50:12,200 --> 01:50:15,400
IT'S A FOUR-LEAF CLOVER. I
FOUND IT IN THE BACKYARD.
2250
01:50:15,500 --> 01:50:17,700
UH, I'LL HAVE TO USE CODE.
2251
01:50:17,800 --> 01:50:19,400
I'LL SAY...
2252
01:50:19,500 --> 01:50:22,200
"YOU CAN CHANGE THE SHEETS."
2253
01:50:39,800 --> 01:50:42,600
NOW, JUST BEFORE YOU...
2254
01:50:42,700 --> 01:50:44,900
I KNOW I DON'T HAVE
TO REMIND ANY OF YOU
2255
01:50:45,000 --> 01:50:48,000
WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU GET
CARELESS AND FISSION STARTS HERE.
2256
01:50:48,100 --> 01:50:50,900
OPPIE, WHY DON'T
YOU WAIT OUTSIDE?
2257
01:50:51,000 --> 01:50:52,400
WHAT DO YOU MEAN?
2258
01:50:52,500 --> 01:50:54,600
UNTIL THE ASSEMBLY'S DONE.
2259
01:50:57,500 --> 01:50:58,600
FINE.
2260
01:50:58,700 --> 01:50:59,800
FINE.
2261
01:51:11,000 --> 01:51:13,200
OKAY, EASY DOES IT, GUYS.
2262
01:51:13,200 --> 01:51:15,300
TAKE HER SLOWLY.
2263
01:51:27,200 --> 01:51:29,000
EASY DOES IT.
2264
01:51:31,900 --> 01:51:33,300
LET'S GO.
2265
01:51:34,700 --> 01:51:36,500
OKAY, LET'S GO!
2266
01:51:58,800 --> 01:52:00,000
LET'S PUT IT IN THE TENT.
2267
01:52:00,000 --> 01:52:01,400
WE'LL ATTEMPT THE CORE THERE.
2268
01:52:01,500 --> 01:52:03,400
I DON'T WANT ANY SAND
MUCKING UP THE WORKS.
2269
01:52:03,400 --> 01:52:05,200
I DON'T LIKE THIS WIND.
2270
01:52:05,300 --> 01:52:08,200
NO. DON'T KNOW HOW FAR
IT'LL BLOW THE FALLOUT.
2271
01:52:35,600 --> 01:52:38,500
THEY'RE GOING TO
ATTEMPT AN ATTEMPT NOW.
2272
01:52:41,900 --> 01:52:44,400
GOD, THIS WEATHER, HUH?
2273
01:52:44,500 --> 01:52:45,700
I HATE IT.
2274
01:52:45,800 --> 01:52:47,700
HATE IT.
2275
01:52:47,800 --> 01:52:49,800
GET THE HOIST READY.
2276
01:52:49,900 --> 01:52:52,200
EASY, EASY.
2277
01:52:52,200 --> 01:52:54,000
SLOWLY.
2278
01:52:54,100 --> 01:52:55,500
SLOWLY.
2279
01:52:55,600 --> 01:52:58,300
SLOWLY. EASY.
2280
01:52:58,300 --> 01:53:00,200
CAREFUL.
2281
01:53:00,300 --> 01:53:02,100
OVER THE MIDDLE.
2282
01:53:02,200 --> 01:53:04,100
KEEP COMING, SLOWLY.
2283
01:53:04,100 --> 01:53:06,700
GENTLY.
2284
01:53:06,700 --> 01:53:08,500
MORE, MORE, MORE, MORE.
2285
01:53:08,600 --> 01:53:10,300
MORE, PLEASE.
2286
01:53:10,400 --> 01:53:12,900
GENTLY. OH.
2287
01:53:13,000 --> 01:53:15,100
SLOW.
2288
01:53:15,200 --> 01:53:17,600
SLOWLY.
2289
01:53:17,600 --> 01:53:19,500
MORE, A LITTLE MORE.
2290
01:53:19,500 --> 01:53:24,400
GOD ALMIGHTY, OPPIE, YOU
OUGHT TO WAIT OUTSIDE.
2291
01:53:24,500 --> 01:53:27,300
PLEASE.
2292
01:53:37,300 --> 01:53:38,800
WHEN DOES GROVES GET HERE?
2293
01:53:38,900 --> 01:53:40,300
WHO CARES?
2294
01:53:43,700 --> 01:53:45,600
IT'S STUCK.
2295
01:53:45,700 --> 01:53:47,600
WHAT DO YOU MEAN, IT'S STUCK.
2296
01:53:47,700 --> 01:53:50,300
OF COURSE IT'S STUCK,
YOU SIMPLE MORONS.
2297
01:53:50,400 --> 01:53:51,900
YOU ONLY HAD 2 1/2
YEARS TO MEASURE IT.
2298
01:53:51,900 --> 01:53:53,300
OF COURSE IT'S STUCK.
2299
01:53:53,300 --> 01:53:55,700
THE PLUTONIUM JUST EXPANDED
A LITTLE WHEN IT HEATED UP.
2300
01:53:55,800 --> 01:53:56,900
ONCE THE ASSEMBLY HEATS UP,
2301
01:53:57,000 --> 01:53:58,800
IT WILL EXPAND, AND
THE CORE WILL FIT.
2302
01:53:58,800 --> 01:54:02,000
OPPIE, YOU'VE GOT TO RELAX.
2303
01:54:02,100 --> 01:54:03,800
COME ON.
2304
01:54:03,800 --> 01:54:07,000
I BET YOU A MONTH'S SALARY
AGAINST $10 IT WILL WORK.
2305
01:54:07,100 --> 01:54:08,900
ALL RIGHT, I'LL TAKE THAT BET.
2306
01:54:09,000 --> 01:54:10,400
I'M SORRY.
2307
01:54:45,600 --> 01:54:47,800
AH, MR. PRESIDENT.
2308
01:54:47,900 --> 01:54:51,100
WE'VE JUST BEEN THROUGH BERLIN.
2309
01:54:51,100 --> 01:54:52,300
YOU SEEN IT YET?
2310
01:54:52,300 --> 01:54:54,300
YES, AND NOT PRETTY, IS IT?
2311
01:54:54,400 --> 01:54:56,300
IT'S TERRIBLE. TERRIBLE.
2312
01:54:56,400 --> 01:54:59,900
OLD MEN, OLD WOMEN, LITTLE
CHILDREN PULLING CARTS
2313
01:54:59,900 --> 01:55:02,200
WITH THEIR FEW THINGS ON
THEM TO WHO KNOWS WHERE.
2314
01:55:02,300 --> 01:55:03,600
JUST TERRIBLE.
2315
01:55:03,600 --> 01:55:06,400
SIR, I'M NOT SURE YOU KNOW
ALLAN DULLES OF THE O.S.S.
2316
01:55:06,500 --> 01:55:07,500
MR. PRESIDENT.
2317
01:55:07,600 --> 01:55:08,700
DULLES, NICE TO SEE YOU.
2318
01:55:08,800 --> 01:55:10,600
JIMMY BYRNES. MR. BYRNES.
2319
01:55:10,700 --> 01:55:12,400
IS STALIN HERE YET?
2320
01:55:12,400 --> 01:55:13,900
NO, SIR, NOT YET.
2321
01:55:14,000 --> 01:55:16,800
SOME JAPANESE CABLES
THAT WE'VE INTERCEPTED...
2322
01:55:16,900 --> 01:55:19,000
I THINK YOU'LL
WANT TO HEAR, SIR.
2323
01:55:19,000 --> 01:55:21,700
AND DULLES HAS JUST
RETURNED FROM SWITZERLAND
2324
01:55:21,800 --> 01:55:24,100
WITH INFORMATION
ALONG THE SAME LINES.
2325
01:55:24,200 --> 01:55:26,500
THE JAPANESE HAVE
ASKED THE RUSSIANS
2326
01:55:26,600 --> 01:55:29,000
TO MEDIATE AN END
TO THE WAR WITH US.
2327
01:55:29,000 --> 01:55:31,500
THIS IS FROM FOREIGN
MINISTER TOGO
2328
01:55:31,600 --> 01:55:34,200
TO THE JAPANESE
AMBASSADOR IN MOSCOW.
2329
01:55:34,300 --> 01:55:36,900
"HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR,
MINDFUL OF THE FACT
2330
01:55:37,000 --> 01:55:39,600
"THAT THE WAR DAILY
BRINGS EVIL AND SACRIFICE
2331
01:55:39,700 --> 01:55:42,200
"UPON THE PEOPLES OF
ALL BELLIGERENT POWERS,
2332
01:55:42,300 --> 01:55:45,600
"DESIRES FROM HIS HEART THAT
IT MAY BE QUICKLY TERMINATED.
2333
01:55:45,600 --> 01:55:48,700
"HIS MAJESTY IS DEEPLY RELUCTANT
TO HAVE ANY FURTHER BLOOD LOST
2334
01:55:48,800 --> 01:55:50,500
"AMONG THE PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES,
2335
01:55:50,600 --> 01:55:52,000
"AND JAPAN IS DEFEATED.
2336
01:55:52,100 --> 01:55:54,800
"WE MUST FACE THE FACT
AND ACT ACCORDINGLY.
2337
01:55:54,900 --> 01:55:56,700
"AND SINCE THE LOSS OF ONE DAY
2338
01:55:56,800 --> 01:55:59,000
"MAY RESULT IN 1,000
YEARS OF REGRET,
2339
01:55:59,100 --> 01:56:02,100
IT IS REQUESTED THAT YOU
IMMEDIATELY HAVE A TALK"...
2340
01:56:02,200 --> 01:56:05,300
HENRY, IF THEY WANT TO
SURRENDER, LET THEM SURRENDER...
2341
01:56:05,400 --> 01:56:06,500
UNCONDITIONALLY.
2342
01:56:06,500 --> 01:56:08,600
YES, WE BELIEVE THAT THEY WILL,
2343
01:56:08,700 --> 01:56:11,800
IF YOU TELL THEM THAT THEY
CAN KEEP THEIR EMPEROR.
2344
01:56:11,900 --> 01:56:15,400
DULLES HAS BEEN APPROACHED
BY THE JAPANESE ALREADY
2345
01:56:15,500 --> 01:56:16,900
DIRECTLY IN SWITZERLAND.
2346
01:56:16,900 --> 01:56:20,000
THEY WANT TO SURRENDER IF
THEY CAN RETAIN THE EMPEROR.
2347
01:56:20,000 --> 01:56:21,900
WHO WAS THIS? MILITARY PEOPLE?
2348
01:56:21,900 --> 01:56:23,400
YES, SIR.
2349
01:56:23,500 --> 01:56:26,000
I DON'T THINK, AFTER
PEARL HARBOR,
2350
01:56:26,000 --> 01:56:28,500
JAPANESE HAVE
ANY MILITARY HONOR.
2351
01:56:28,500 --> 01:56:32,700
MR. PRESIDENT, THEY HAVE A DOZEN
DIFFERENT FACTIONS OVER THERE
2352
01:56:32,800 --> 01:56:34,700
SQUABBLING AMONG THEMSELVES
2353
01:56:34,700 --> 01:56:37,500
AND AN ARMY THAT DOESN'T
SUPPORT SURRENDER.
2354
01:56:37,500 --> 01:56:40,700
LET THEM COME TO SOME
AGREEMENT BETWEEN THEMSELVES.
2355
01:56:40,800 --> 01:56:42,900
THEY KNOW WHERE TO FIND US.
2356
01:56:43,000 --> 01:56:46,300
IN THE MEANTIME, WHY
DON'T WE JUST WAIT AND SEE
2357
01:56:46,400 --> 01:56:48,600
WHAT HAPPENS IN
NEW MEXICO FIRST?
2358
01:57:37,800 --> 01:57:41,000
OPPENHEIMER!
2359
01:57:41,000 --> 01:57:42,700
WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THAT TOWER
2360
01:57:42,800 --> 01:57:44,500
WITH ALL THIS LIGHTNING AROUND?!
2361
01:57:44,600 --> 01:57:46,600
CHECKING THE
ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS!
2362
01:57:46,700 --> 01:57:48,700
I'LL MEET YOU IN
THE WEATHER SHACK!
2363
01:57:48,800 --> 01:57:50,000
I BET THEY CALL IT OFF.
2364
01:57:50,100 --> 01:57:52,400
IT'D BE CRAZY TO GO
IN THIS WIND AND RAIN.
2365
01:57:52,500 --> 01:57:54,800
YOU BET THAT? I INVITE BETS.
2366
01:57:54,900 --> 01:57:58,600
AGAINST, FIRST, THE
DESTRUCTION OF ALL HUMAN LIFE,
2367
01:57:58,700 --> 01:58:02,500
AND SECOND, THAT OF HUMAN
LIFE JUST IN NEW MEXICO.
2368
01:58:02,500 --> 01:58:04,200
ATTEN-HUT!
2369
01:58:04,300 --> 01:58:05,400
CARRY ON.
2370
01:58:05,500 --> 01:58:07,100
GENTLEMEN, WOULD YOU
WAIT OUTSIDE, PLEASE?
2371
01:58:07,200 --> 01:58:08,800
WE'D LIKE TO DISCUSS
THE WEATHER IN HERE.
2372
01:58:08,800 --> 01:58:11,300
YOU WANT US TO WAIT IN THE RAIN?
2373
01:58:11,300 --> 01:58:13,100
YES.
2374
01:58:13,200 --> 01:58:16,100
PLEASE.
2375
01:58:16,200 --> 01:58:17,900
ALL RIGHT, WHAT IS IT
WITH THIS WEATHER?
2376
01:58:18,000 --> 01:58:19,000
IT'S PRETTY BAD, GENERAL.
2377
01:58:19,100 --> 01:58:20,700
ZERO HOUR IS ONLY
SEVEN HOURS AWAY,
2378
01:58:20,700 --> 01:58:22,500
AND WE'VE GOT RAIN,
WIND, AND LIGHTNING.
2379
01:58:22,500 --> 01:58:24,300
LIEUTENANT, I CAN
SEE THAT IT'S BAD.
2380
01:58:24,400 --> 01:58:25,400
WHAT'S YOUR FORECAST?
2381
01:58:25,400 --> 01:58:27,400
I'M NOT REALLY SURE.
I THINK IT MAY LIFT.
2382
01:58:27,500 --> 01:58:28,500
HOW ABOUT YOU, JACK?
2383
01:58:28,500 --> 01:58:30,100
Jack: I THINK IT'S
GOING TO CLEAR UP.
2384
01:58:30,200 --> 01:58:31,200
YOU THINK? YOU THINK?
2385
01:58:31,300 --> 01:58:32,800
CAPTAIN, I WANT YOU TO SIT DOWN,
2386
01:58:32,800 --> 01:58:35,000
I WANT YOU TO WRITE YOUR
FORECAST OUT IN LONGHAND,
2387
01:58:35,100 --> 01:58:36,500
AND THEN I WANT YOU TO SIGN IT.
2388
01:58:36,600 --> 01:58:38,900
AND IT BETTER BE ACCURATE,
OR I WILL HANG YOU WITH IT.
2389
01:58:38,900 --> 01:58:40,800
DO YOU UNDERSTAND? YES, SIR.
2390
01:58:40,800 --> 01:58:41,900
DO IT.
2391
01:58:45,500 --> 01:58:48,400
WHAT ARE THE PROBLEMS
TESTING IN THIS WEATHER?
2392
01:58:48,500 --> 01:58:51,400
WELL, THE WIND OR RAIN COULD
BLOW THE RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT
2393
01:58:51,500 --> 01:58:52,700
AND DROP IT ON A TOWN...
2394
01:58:52,800 --> 01:58:54,700
OR ON OURSELVES.
2395
01:58:54,700 --> 01:58:57,500
THERE'S NO WAY FOR US TO ESCAPE.
OUR EVACUATION ROUTES STINK.
2396
01:58:57,600 --> 01:59:01,000
HOW ARE THE ELECTRICAL
CONNECTIONS HOLDING UP?
2397
01:59:01,000 --> 01:59:02,400
SO FAR, ALL RIGHT,
2398
01:59:02,500 --> 01:59:04,600
BUT THEY'LL START
TO DETERIORATE SOON.
2399
01:59:04,600 --> 01:59:07,100
PROBABLY HOLDING UP A
LOT BETTER THAN YOU ARE.
2400
01:59:10,400 --> 01:59:12,000
AH, I HATE TO POSTPONE.
2401
01:59:12,100 --> 01:59:14,600
THEY'RE WAITING
FOR US IN POTSDAM.
2402
01:59:14,700 --> 01:59:17,400
YES, BUT IF IT DOESN'T
CLEAR UP, I THINK WE HAVE TO.
2403
01:59:20,200 --> 01:59:21,300
WHERE ARE THE GUARDS?
2404
01:59:21,400 --> 01:59:23,700
WE PULLED THEM AFTER
THE BOMB WAS ASSEMBLED
2405
01:59:23,700 --> 01:59:25,500
IN CASE LIGHTNING HIT THE TOWER.
2406
01:59:25,600 --> 01:59:27,300
WHERE'S KISTIAKOWSKY?
2407
01:59:27,400 --> 01:59:28,600
YOU CHASED HIM OUT.
2408
01:59:28,700 --> 01:59:30,700
GET HIM IN HERE. KISTIAKOWSKY!
2409
01:59:35,000 --> 01:59:37,300
YOU KNOW HOW TO USE A
RIFLE OR A MACHINE GUN?
2410
01:59:37,300 --> 01:59:38,500
A RIFLE, SIR? YES.
2411
01:59:38,600 --> 01:59:40,600
YOU AND YOUR MEN GET
RIFLES AND GUARD THE TOWER.
2412
01:59:40,600 --> 01:59:42,500
AGAINST WHAT, SIR?
2413
01:59:42,500 --> 01:59:44,000
AGAINST WHAT?
2414
01:59:44,000 --> 01:59:45,600
SABOTAGE... JAP PARATROOPERS,
2415
01:59:45,700 --> 01:59:47,300
YOUR OWN PEOPLE... I DON'T KNOW.
2416
01:59:47,400 --> 01:59:49,600
IT'S A PERFECT NIGHT
FOR THEM. JUST DO IT.
2417
01:59:57,600 --> 01:59:59,600
I'M GONNA SACK
OUT TILL ABOUT 1:00.
2418
01:59:59,700 --> 02:00:01,700
WE'RE GONNA HAVE
A LOOK AT IT THEN.
2419
02:00:01,800 --> 02:00:04,100
YOU OUGHT TO DO THE SAME.
2420
02:00:04,200 --> 02:00:06,000
YOU NEED TO RELAX.
2421
02:00:21,200 --> 02:00:23,300
HERE COMES GENERAL PATTON.
2422
02:00:25,500 --> 02:00:27,300
TELL HIM THE JAPANESE
PARATROOPERS
2423
02:00:27,400 --> 02:00:28,900
JUST LANDED BEHIND THAT HILL.
2424
02:00:29,000 --> 02:00:30,100
YOU TELL HIM.
2425
02:00:30,100 --> 02:00:31,600
ATTEN-HUT!
2426
02:00:31,600 --> 02:00:33,600
YOU SAID IT WAS GONNA CLEAR.
2427
02:00:33,600 --> 02:00:35,700
I THOUGHT IT WAS. WE'RE
WAITING HERE ON THE PHONE.
2428
02:00:35,800 --> 02:00:37,900
IT STILL MIGHT, GENERAL.
IT'S HARD TO TELL FOR SURE.
2429
02:00:38,000 --> 02:00:40,100
GET OUT OF HERE.
YOU'RE NO USE TO ANYONE.
2430
02:00:40,200 --> 02:00:41,900
I'LL FORECAST THE
WEATHER MYSELF.
2431
02:00:42,000 --> 02:00:43,900
YES, SIR.
2432
02:00:50,400 --> 02:00:53,700
ALL RIGHT, LET'S LOOK
AT WHAT WE KNOW.
2433
02:00:53,800 --> 02:00:56,100
WE'VE GOT TO GO IN THE
DARK, WHEN PEOPLE ARE ASLEEP.
2434
02:00:56,200 --> 02:00:57,900
OTHERWISE, WE GOT
TOO MANY QUESTIONS.
2435
02:00:58,000 --> 02:01:00,000
ONE OF THE PROBLEMS
IF WE GO IN THE RAIN IS
2436
02:01:00,000 --> 02:01:01,800
OUR OBSERVATION
PLANES CAN'T TAKE OFF.
2437
02:01:01,900 --> 02:01:04,000
THE MEN HAVE BEEN UP
FOR TWO NIGHTS STRAIGHT.
2438
02:01:04,000 --> 02:01:06,100
IT WILL BE HARD TO GET
THEM UP TO PITCH AGAIN
2439
02:01:06,200 --> 02:01:07,200
IF WE CALL IT OFF.
2440
02:01:07,200 --> 02:01:08,900
I JUST WANT TO MAKE
SURE THAT IT'S SAFE.
2441
02:01:09,000 --> 02:01:11,000
I WANT IT TO BE SAFE, TOO.
2442
02:01:11,100 --> 02:01:13,900
THEY'RE COUNTING
ON US AT POTSDAM.
2443
02:01:19,700 --> 02:01:20,800
OPPENHEIMER.
2444
02:01:22,900 --> 02:01:24,100
IT'S CLEARING.
2445
02:01:26,700 --> 02:01:28,800
THEY SAY THE RAIN AND
WIND WILL BOTH STOP
2446
02:01:28,800 --> 02:01:30,400
BETWEEN 5:00 AND 6:00 A.M.
2447
02:01:30,500 --> 02:01:32,500
HOW SURE ARE YOU?
2448
02:01:32,600 --> 02:01:34,800
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
2449
02:01:34,900 --> 02:01:37,000
THEY SAY THEY'RE PRETTY SURE.
2450
02:01:41,400 --> 02:01:44,100
GENERAL?
2451
02:01:44,100 --> 02:01:45,800
WE'LL GO AT 5:30.
2452
02:01:54,900 --> 02:01:58,900
Man: COMING UP ON
"T" MINUS 2 MINUTES 30.
2453
02:01:59,000 --> 02:02:02,100
IF YOU WATCH, LOOK
THROUGH THIS SMOKED GLASS.
2454
02:02:04,000 --> 02:02:06,400
ALL RIGHT, EVERYBODY
DO WHAT I DO!
2455
02:02:06,500 --> 02:02:11,200
NOW, LAY DOWN BUT FACE
AWAY FROM THE TOWER.
2456
02:02:11,200 --> 02:02:14,500
AND KEEP YOUR EYES CLOSED
TIGHTLY UNTIL AFTER THE FLASH.
2457
02:02:14,500 --> 02:02:15,700
THEN, AND ONLY THEN,
2458
02:02:15,800 --> 02:02:19,300
USE THE SMOKED GLASS
TO LOOK AT THE FIREBALL...
2459
02:02:19,400 --> 02:02:21,100
ASSUMING THERE IS ONE.
2460
02:02:21,100 --> 02:02:24,300
OPPIE, LET'S GO.
2461
02:02:25,500 --> 02:02:27,700
"T" MINUS TWO MINUTES.
2462
02:02:31,900 --> 02:02:34,100
MINUS ONE MINUTE 50.
2463
02:02:39,100 --> 02:02:41,300
MINUS ONE MINUTE 40.
2464
02:02:43,400 --> 02:02:46,400
HERE... SUNTAN
LOTION TO PROTECT YOU
2465
02:02:46,500 --> 02:02:49,100
FROM THE ULTRAVIOLET EMISSIONS.
2466
02:02:49,200 --> 02:02:50,700
WHAT'S LIKELY TO HAPPEN, OPPIE,
2467
02:02:50,700 --> 02:02:52,100
IS THAT AT MINUS 5 SECONDS,
2468
02:02:52,100 --> 02:02:54,400
I'LL PANIC AND SAY,
"GENTLEMEN, THIS CAN'T GO ON,"
2469
02:02:54,400 --> 02:02:55,400
THEN PULL THE SWITCH.
2470
02:02:55,400 --> 02:02:57,400
ARE YOU ALL RIGHT?
2471
02:02:57,500 --> 02:03:00,000
YEAH. SORRY.
2472
02:03:00,000 --> 02:03:01,700
"T" MINUS ONE MINUTE.
2473
02:03:03,700 --> 02:03:05,300
MINUS 40.
2474
02:03:08,100 --> 02:03:09,400
MINUS 30.
2475
02:03:09,500 --> 02:03:11,000
I'M GOING OUTSIDE.
2476
02:03:11,100 --> 02:03:13,700
I WANT TO SEE THIS FOR MYSELF.
2477
02:03:13,800 --> 02:03:16,000
MINUS 20.
2478
02:03:19,600 --> 02:03:20,700
MINUS 15.
2479
02:03:24,900 --> 02:03:27,000
10, 9...
2480
02:03:27,100 --> 02:03:29,100
8, 7...
2481
02:03:29,200 --> 02:03:31,600
6, 5...
2482
02:03:31,700 --> 02:03:32,700
4...
2483
02:03:32,800 --> 02:03:35,900
3, 2, 1.
2484
02:04:07,500 --> 02:04:09,800
Man: MY GOD.
2485
02:04:19,600 --> 02:04:21,700
IT'S BRIGHTER THAN A STAR!
2486
02:04:21,700 --> 02:04:24,000
IT'S BRIGHTER THAN TWO STARS.
2487
02:04:34,100 --> 02:04:35,600
THE WAR IS OVER.
2488
02:04:35,700 --> 02:04:39,700
THE WAR'S OVER WHEN WE
DROP TWO BOMBS ON JAPAN.
2489
02:04:52,000 --> 02:04:53,100
WHOO-HOO!
2490
02:04:56,800 --> 02:04:58,000
WE DID IT!
2491
02:04:58,100 --> 02:05:01,800
I WON THE BET! YOU OWE ME $10!
2492
02:05:04,800 --> 02:05:06,000
I DON'T HAVE IT.
2493
02:05:07,300 --> 02:05:09,900
AHH.
2494
02:05:10,000 --> 02:05:12,200
I GOT TO GET BACK TO
LOS ALAMOS RIGHT AWAY.
2495
02:05:12,300 --> 02:05:15,000
THEY'VE GOT TO KNOW ABOUT
THIS IN POTSDAM FIRST THING.
2496
02:05:15,100 --> 02:05:17,700
YOU BETTER GET GOING, TOO.
YOU'VE GOT A DATE WITH A B-29.
2497
02:05:17,800 --> 02:05:19,200
YES, SIR.
2498
02:05:22,100 --> 02:05:24,900
MR. COLT, THEY'RE GONNA
TAKE THIS THING OVER
2499
02:05:25,000 --> 02:05:27,000
AND FRY HUNDREDS OF JAPANESE.
2500
02:05:29,800 --> 02:05:31,400
ALL RIGHT.
2501
02:05:43,300 --> 02:05:45,500
YOU KNOW THE BHAGAVAD-GITA?
2502
02:05:45,600 --> 02:05:48,500
"I AM BECOME DEATH...
2503
02:05:48,500 --> 02:05:52,600
THE SHATTERER OF WORLDS."
2504
02:05:52,700 --> 02:05:55,200
YEAH.
2505
02:05:55,300 --> 02:05:57,700
NOW WE'RE ALL SONS OF BITCHES.
2506
02:06:03,200 --> 02:06:05,000
I HAVEN'T SEEN THOSE FIGURES.
2507
02:06:06,800 --> 02:06:09,200
IT WORKED. IT WORKS.
2508
02:06:09,200 --> 02:06:12,200
AS POWERFUL AS
20,000 TONS OF TNT.
2509
02:06:12,300 --> 02:06:15,600
DETAILS ARE JUST COMING IN.
2510
02:06:15,700 --> 02:06:17,600
LISTEN TO THIS.
2511
02:06:17,700 --> 02:06:22,600
"FLASH SEEN 250 MILES
AWAY, HEARD 100 MILES AWAY.
2512
02:06:22,700 --> 02:06:24,600
"STEEL TOWER EVAPORATED.
2513
02:06:24,700 --> 02:06:29,300
"SOLDIER STANDING 10,000 FEET
AWAY WAS KNOCKED OFF HIS FEET.
2514
02:06:29,400 --> 02:06:32,000
"WINDOW BROKEN 125 MILES AWAY.
2515
02:06:32,100 --> 02:06:34,000
"LEFT A CRATER 1,200 FEET WIDE
2516
02:06:34,100 --> 02:06:36,500
"IN WHICH EVERYTHING
DISAPPEARED...
2517
02:06:36,600 --> 02:06:38,100
DISAPPEARED COMPLETELY."
2518
02:06:38,100 --> 02:06:40,200
WELL...
2519
02:06:42,400 --> 02:06:45,400
WELL, WELL, WELL, NOW.
2520
02:06:45,400 --> 02:06:47,900
I MET WITH STALIN THIS MORNING.
2521
02:06:47,900 --> 02:06:51,300
HE SAID HE HAD SOME MORE
QUESTIONS TO PRESENT,
2522
02:06:51,400 --> 02:06:54,700
AND I TOLD HIM TO FIRE
AWAY, AND HE DID, TOO.
2523
02:06:54,700 --> 02:06:56,000
IT WAS DYNAMITE.
2524
02:06:56,000 --> 02:06:59,600
BUT NOW I HAVE
SOME DYNAMITE, TOO.
2525
02:06:59,600 --> 02:07:05,200
THIS GIVES ME A COMPLETELY
NEW FEELING OF CONFIDENCE.
2526
02:07:05,300 --> 02:07:07,700
WELL, NOW...
2527
02:07:07,800 --> 02:07:09,800
THIS WILL KEEP THE
RUSSIANS STRAIGHT.
2528
02:07:09,800 --> 02:07:13,600
HENRY, YOU LEAVE
THOSE REPORTS WITH US,
2529
02:07:13,600 --> 02:07:15,500
BRING THE REST AS THEY COME IN.
2530
02:07:15,500 --> 02:07:18,200
YES. YES, OF COURSE.
2531
02:07:20,100 --> 02:07:21,900
THEY SAW THE FLASH
IN ALBUQUERQUE.
2532
02:07:21,900 --> 02:07:23,000
GOOD MORNING, GENERAL.
2533
02:07:23,100 --> 02:07:25,500
IT WAS SEEN IN EL PASO, TEXAS!
2534
02:07:25,500 --> 02:07:28,300
A GIRL IN A SMALL
TOWN 20 MILES AWAY
2535
02:07:28,400 --> 02:07:31,100
WHO'D BEEN BLINDED
AT BIRTH SAW THE LIGHT.
2536
02:07:31,200 --> 02:07:33,200
OH, MY. ISN'T IT AMAZING?
2537
02:07:33,300 --> 02:07:36,600
ALL RIGHT, TAKE A MEMO TO
GENERAL MARSHALL IN POTSDAM.
2538
02:07:36,700 --> 02:07:39,000
"PROBABLE DATE
OF FIRST BOMBING...
2539
02:07:39,100 --> 02:07:42,000
"ONE WEEK, WEATHER PERMITTING.
2540
02:07:42,000 --> 02:07:45,000
"AT LEAST THREE DAYS NEEDED
FOR EACH SUCCESSIVE BOMBING.
2541
02:07:45,000 --> 02:07:51,800
APPROVED TARGETS... HIROSHIMA,
NAGASAKI, KOKURA, NIIGATA."
2542
02:07:51,900 --> 02:07:54,600
THAT'S N-I-I-G-A-T-A. GET
THAT OUT RIGHT AWAY.
2543
02:07:54,600 --> 02:07:56,100
YES, SIR.
2544
02:07:56,200 --> 02:07:58,000
OH, IT WAS SOMETHING.
2545
02:07:58,000 --> 02:07:59,600
IT WAS... IT WAS...
2546
02:07:59,700 --> 02:08:03,800
IT WAS REALLY SOMETHING.
YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN IT.
2547
02:08:03,900 --> 02:08:06,200
WE DID IT.
2548
02:08:06,300 --> 02:08:08,700
WE REALLY DID IT.
2549
02:08:08,800 --> 02:08:11,600
WE DEVELOPED A WEAPON
THAT COULD END THIS WAR.
2550
02:08:14,400 --> 02:08:18,800
WE COULD SAVE THOUSANDS AND
THOUSANDS OF AMERICAN LIVES.
2551
02:08:18,900 --> 02:08:20,900
AND ISN'T THAT SOMETHING?
2552
02:08:21,000 --> 02:08:22,400
IT IS AMAZING, GENERAL.
2553
02:08:22,400 --> 02:08:24,700
IT SURE IS. IT SURE
AS SHOOTING IS.
2554
02:08:26,900 --> 02:08:29,600
ALL RIGHT, SO, WHAT HAPPENED
HERE WHILE I WAS IN NEW MEXICO?
2555
02:08:29,600 --> 02:08:31,300
Nichols: WELL, WE
GOT THIS PETITION
2556
02:08:31,400 --> 02:08:32,600
THAT SZILARD HANDED AROUND
2557
02:08:32,700 --> 02:08:34,800
ASKING PRESIDENT TRUMAN
NOT TO DROP THE BOMB.
2558
02:08:34,800 --> 02:08:37,900
HE GOT 68 OF THE OTHER
SCIENTISTS TO SIGN IT.
2559
02:08:37,900 --> 02:08:41,000
WANT TO SEND IT TO THE
PRESIDENT IN POTSDAM?
2560
02:08:44,700 --> 02:08:47,200
LEO SZILARD AND HIS HOBBYHORSE.
2561
02:08:47,300 --> 02:08:51,000
WELL, OBVIOUSLY, THIS HAS
TO BE CLASSIFIED SECRET.
2562
02:08:51,100 --> 02:08:54,300
AND IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN,
THE SECURITY ACT STATES
2563
02:08:54,400 --> 02:08:55,600
THAT ALL SECRET DOCUMENTS
2564
02:08:55,600 --> 02:08:57,800
CAN ONLY BE MOVED FROM
ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER
2565
02:08:57,800 --> 02:08:59,100
UNDER ARMED MILITARY GUARD.
2566
02:08:59,200 --> 02:09:01,800
BUT UNFORTUNATELY, I CAN'T
SPARE ANY SOLDIERS RIGHT NOW
2567
02:09:01,900 --> 02:09:04,500
TO PROTECT THIS DOCUMENT.
2568
02:09:04,600 --> 02:09:06,700
SO, IN THE MEANTIME,
2569
02:09:06,800 --> 02:09:10,000
WHY DON'T I JUST
KEEP IT IN HERE...
2570
02:09:10,100 --> 02:09:11,900
FOR SAFEKEEPING?
2571
02:09:11,900 --> 02:09:14,100
SIR, DO YOU THINK YOU
OUGHT TO ASK THE PRESIDENT
2572
02:09:14,200 --> 02:09:16,500
FOR A SPECIFIC ORDER
AUTHORIZING DROPPING THE BOMB?
2573
02:09:16,600 --> 02:09:18,500
I'M NOT ASKING ANYONE
FOR A DAMN THING.
2574
02:09:18,500 --> 02:09:20,300
I'VE GOT ALL THE
AUTHORIZATION I NEED.
2575
02:09:20,400 --> 02:09:25,800
BESIDES, TRUMAN'S LIKE
A KID ON A TOBOGGAN.
2576
02:09:25,900 --> 02:09:28,100
WHAT'S BOTHERING YOU, IKE?
2577
02:09:28,200 --> 02:09:29,500
IT'LL END THE WAR.
2578
02:09:29,600 --> 02:09:32,600
HAS IT BEEN FINALLY
DECIDED TO USE IT?
2579
02:09:36,300 --> 02:09:39,900
I JUST FIND THAT VERY,
VERY DEPRESSING.
2580
02:09:40,000 --> 02:09:41,400
TELL ME WHY.
2581
02:09:41,500 --> 02:09:46,100
WELL, YOU KNOW, JAPAN
IS ALREADY DEFEATED.
2582
02:09:46,200 --> 02:09:49,500
DROPPING THE ATOMIC BOMB
NOW IS COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY.
2583
02:09:49,600 --> 02:09:52,500
WE DON'T NEED TO DO IT
TO SAVE AMERICAN LIVES.
2584
02:09:52,500 --> 02:09:55,100
JAPAN IS RIGHT NOW,
AT THIS VERY MOMENT,
2585
02:09:55,200 --> 02:09:58,500
TRYING TO FIND A WAY TO
SURRENDER WITHOUT LOSING FACE.
2586
02:09:58,600 --> 02:10:01,700
IT'S MORE THAN THAT.
2587
02:10:01,700 --> 02:10:04,400
I THINK AMERICA SHOULDN'T DO IT.
2588
02:10:04,500 --> 02:10:07,300
I THINK WE'LL SHOCK
WORLD OPINION.
2589
02:10:07,300 --> 02:10:09,400
WOULD YOU TELL
THE PRESIDENT THAT?
2590
02:10:09,500 --> 02:10:12,500
AFTER ALL, AS SUPREME
COMMANDER OF THE ALLIED FORCES
2591
02:10:12,600 --> 02:10:13,600
THAT WON THE WAR,
2592
02:10:13,700 --> 02:10:15,700
HE OUGHT TO KNOW YOUR FEELINGS.
2593
02:10:15,700 --> 02:10:18,000
I'LL TELL HIM JUST
WHAT I TOLD YOU.
2594
02:10:32,300 --> 02:10:33,600
Downey: ALMIGHTY FATHER,
2595
02:10:33,700 --> 02:10:36,400
WHO WILL HEAR THE PRAYER
OF THEM THAT LOVE THEE,
2596
02:10:36,500 --> 02:10:38,100
WE PRAY THEE TO BE WITH THOSE
2597
02:10:38,100 --> 02:10:40,200
WHO BRAVE THE
HEIGHTS OF THY HEAVEN
2598
02:10:40,300 --> 02:10:42,100
AND CARRY THE
BATTLE TO OUR ENEMIES.
2599
02:10:42,200 --> 02:10:45,600
GUARD AND PROTECT THEM AS
THEY FLY THEIR APPOINTED ROUNDS.
2600
02:10:45,600 --> 02:10:48,800
MAY THEY, AS WELL AS WE,
KNOW THY STRENGTH AND POWER,
2601
02:10:48,800 --> 02:10:50,400
AND ARMED WITH THY MIGHT,
2602
02:10:50,400 --> 02:10:53,000
THAT THEY BRING THIS
WAR TO A RAPID END.
2603
02:10:53,100 --> 02:10:56,400
MAY THE MEN WHO FLY THIS
NIGHT BE KEPT SAFE IN THY CARE.
2604
02:10:56,400 --> 02:10:59,800
MAY THEY BE
RETURNED SAFELY TO US.
2605
02:10:59,900 --> 02:11:02,000
WE SHALL GO FORWARD
TRUSTING IN THEE,
2606
02:11:02,100 --> 02:11:04,700
KNOWING THAT WE ARE IN
THY CARE NOW AND FOREVER.
2607
02:11:04,800 --> 02:11:07,700
IN THE NAME OF
JESUS CHRIST, AMEN.
2608
02:11:07,800 --> 02:11:11,600
Tibbets: Distance to
Iwo Jima, R.V. 622 miles.
2609
02:11:11,600 --> 02:11:13,100
This is the captain.
2610
02:11:13,100 --> 02:11:15,500
We are carrying the
world's first atomic bomb.
2611
02:11:15,600 --> 02:11:17,000
When the bomb is dropped,
2612
02:11:17,000 --> 02:11:19,700
Lieutenant Beser will record
our reactions to what we see.
2613
02:11:19,700 --> 02:11:21,500
This recording is
being made for history.
2614
02:11:21,600 --> 02:11:23,900
Watch your language and
don't clutter up the intercom.
2615
02:11:26,500 --> 02:11:29,500
Lewis: Cloud cover less
than 3/10 at all altitudes.
2616
02:11:29,500 --> 02:11:31,700
Advice, bomb primary.
2617
02:11:31,800 --> 02:11:36,500
Position north
tip Saipan, 4,700.
2618
02:11:43,000 --> 02:11:45,200
Hiroshima dead ahead.
2619
02:11:47,600 --> 02:11:49,000
10 minutes to A.P.
2620
02:11:49,100 --> 02:11:51,800
Bombs fully armed, Colonel.
2621
02:11:54,300 --> 02:11:55,900
Open bomb door.
2622
02:11:55,900 --> 02:11:58,300
We're about to
start the bomb run.
2623
02:11:58,300 --> 02:11:59,800
Put on your goggles.
2624
02:11:59,800 --> 02:12:01,500
On glasses.
2625
02:12:05,800 --> 02:12:08,100
Bomb away. Stand
by for the tone break.
2626
02:12:09,300 --> 02:12:10,300
And the turn.
2627
02:12:15,000 --> 02:12:18,700
Look at that son of a bitch go.
2628
02:12:22,800 --> 02:12:23,800
Hell.
2629
02:12:23,900 --> 02:12:26,300
Okay, okay, that was
the reflected shock wave.
2630
02:12:26,400 --> 02:12:27,900
It bounced back from the ground.
2631
02:12:28,000 --> 02:12:29,400
Won't be any more. Stay calm.
2632
02:12:33,300 --> 02:12:36,000
My God. What have we done?
2633
02:12:51,300 --> 02:12:53,400
OH, THANK YOU.
EXCUSE ME, GENERAL.
2634
02:12:58,200 --> 02:13:01,800
DAMNED IF THIS ISN'T THE
GREATEST THING IN HISTORY.
2635
02:13:01,800 --> 02:13:07,300
GENTLEMEN, WE HAVE JUST
DROPPED AN ATOMIC BOMB ON JAPAN.
2636
02:13:07,400 --> 02:13:10,100
NOW, THAT'S 2,000
TIMES MORE POWERFUL
2637
02:13:10,200 --> 02:13:13,700
THAN ANY BOMB EVER USED
IN THE HISTORY OF WARFARE.
2638
02:13:13,800 --> 02:13:16,600
WE HAVE WON THE GAMBLE.
2639
02:13:16,700 --> 02:13:18,800
YOU'RE GOING HOME, BOYS!
2640
02:13:43,200 --> 02:13:46,100
Marshall: I THINK IN OUR
STATEMENT, WE SHOULD GUARD
2641
02:13:46,200 --> 02:13:48,900
AGAINST TOO MUCH
GRATIFICATION OVER OUR SUCCESS.
2642
02:13:49,000 --> 02:13:52,300
IT UNDOUBTEDLY
INVOLVES A GREAT NUMBER
2643
02:13:52,400 --> 02:13:54,400
OF JAPANESE CASUALTIES.
2644
02:13:57,100 --> 02:14:00,400
I WASN'T THINKING SO MUCH OF
JAPANESE CASUALTIES, GENERAL,
2645
02:14:00,400 --> 02:14:03,400
AS I WAS ABOUT AMERICANS
ON THE BATAAN DEATH MARCH.
2646
02:14:08,300 --> 02:14:10,700
FATHER, EXCUSE ME.
2647
02:14:10,700 --> 02:14:13,100
WOULD YOU SAY A SPECIAL PRAYER
2648
02:14:13,200 --> 02:14:16,100
FOR THE DEAD OF
HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI,
2649
02:14:16,200 --> 02:14:19,300
AND START A COLLECTION
FOR THE SURVIVORS?
2650
02:15:40,000 --> 02:15:43,000
THE REACTION HAS BEGUN.
2651
02:15:43,100 --> 02:15:45,900
WHAT DID THEY EXPECT?
2652
02:15:47,700 --> 02:15:49,400
I MADE A GREAT MISTAKE
2653
02:15:49,500 --> 02:15:53,200
WHEN I SIGNED THE LETTER
TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
2654
02:15:53,300 --> 02:15:57,600
RECOMMENDING THAT
AN ATOMIC BOMB BE MADE.
2655
02:15:57,700 --> 02:16:02,100
THE WORLD IS NOT
YET READY FOR IT.
2656
02:16:02,100 --> 02:16:05,500
THE QUESTION WAS WHETHER
WE WANTED TO SAVE OUR PEOPLE
2657
02:16:05,600 --> 02:16:08,100
AND JAPANESE, AS
WELL, AND WIN THE WAR.
2658
02:16:08,200 --> 02:16:11,400
NOW, I'D SAY, YOU QUESTION ANY
YOUNG MAN WHO WAS OVER THERE
2659
02:16:11,400 --> 02:16:13,500
AND ASK HIM WHAT
HE THINKS ABOUT IT,
2660
02:16:13,600 --> 02:16:14,800
AND HE'LL TELL YOU OFF,
2661
02:16:14,900 --> 02:16:17,200
AND HE WON'T USE
POLITE LANGUAGE, EITHER.
2662
02:16:17,300 --> 02:16:19,500
ALL THESE YOUNGSTERS
I'M TALKING ABOUT
2663
02:16:19,600 --> 02:16:21,200
WOULD HAVE BEEN SLAUGHTERED.
2664
02:16:21,200 --> 02:16:24,700
THE JAPANESE ONLY SURRENDERED
BECAUSE THE BOMBS WERE DROPPED.
2665
02:16:24,800 --> 02:16:28,200
IN MY OPINION, THE USE OF
THIS BARBAROUS WEAPON
2666
02:16:28,300 --> 02:16:32,100
WAS OF NO MATERIAL ASSISTANCE
IN OUR WAR AGAINST JAPAN.
2667
02:16:32,200 --> 02:16:36,200
THE JAPANESE WERE ALREADY
DEFEATED AND READY TO SURRENDER
2668
02:16:36,300 --> 02:16:39,000
BECAUSE OF AN
EFFECTIVE SEA BLOCKADE
2669
02:16:39,000 --> 02:16:42,900
AND A SUCCESSFUL BOMBING
WITH CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS.
2670
02:16:43,000 --> 02:16:46,900
MY OWN FEELING IS THAT IN
BEING THE FIRST TO USE IT,
2671
02:16:47,000 --> 02:16:49,200
WE ADOPTED AN ETHICAL STANDARD
2672
02:16:49,300 --> 02:16:54,000
COMMON TO THE BARBARIANS
OF THE DARK AGES.
2673
02:16:54,100 --> 02:16:59,300
I-I WAS NOT TAUGHT TO
MAKE WAR IN THAT FASHION.
2674
02:16:59,400 --> 02:17:03,600
WARS CANNOT BE WON BY
DESTROYING WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
2675
02:17:03,700 --> 02:17:06,300
BEFORE THE ATOM BOMB WAS
USED, I WOULD HAVE SAID, YES,
2676
02:17:06,400 --> 02:17:08,700
I WAS SURE WE COULD
KEEP THE PEACE WITH RUSSIA.
2677
02:17:08,800 --> 02:17:10,000
I DON'T KNOW.
2678
02:17:10,000 --> 02:17:13,300
PEOPLE ARE FRIGHTENED
AND DISTURBED ALL OVER.
2679
02:17:13,400 --> 02:17:15,600
EVERYONE FEELS INSECURE AGAIN.
2680
02:17:15,700 --> 02:17:19,800
IT WASN'T NECESSARY TO HIT
THEM WITH THAT AWFUL THING.
2681
02:17:21,600 --> 02:17:25,100
NOBODY IS MORE DISTURBED OVER
THE USE OF THE BOMB THAN I AM,
2682
02:17:25,200 --> 02:17:26,800
BUT I WAS GREATLY DISTURBED
2683
02:17:26,900 --> 02:17:30,300
OVER THE UNWARRANTED ATTACK
BY THE JAPANESE ON PEARL HARBOR
2684
02:17:30,400 --> 02:17:32,900
AND THEIR MURDER OF
OUR PRISONERS OF WAR.
2685
02:17:33,000 --> 02:17:35,200
THE ONLY LANGUAGE THEY
SEEMED TO UNDERSTAND
2686
02:17:35,300 --> 02:17:37,300
WAS THE ONE WE USED
TO BOMBARD THEM.
2687
02:17:37,300 --> 02:17:38,700
WHEN YOU DEAL WITH A BEAST,
2688
02:17:38,800 --> 02:17:40,900
YOU HAVE TO TREAT
THEM AS A BEAST.
2689
02:17:53,300 --> 02:17:56,100
IT IS WITH APPRECIATION
AND GRATITUDE
2690
02:17:56,100 --> 02:17:59,400
THAT I ACCEPT THIS
CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION
2691
02:17:59,500 --> 02:18:01,400
FOR THE LOS ALAMOS LABORATORY,
2692
02:18:01,500 --> 02:18:06,100
FOR THE MEN AND WOMEN WHOSE
WORK AND WHOSE HEARTS HAVE MADE IT.
2693
02:18:06,100 --> 02:18:09,200
IT IS OUR HOPE THAT
IN YEARS TO COME,
2694
02:18:09,300 --> 02:18:13,700
WE MAY LOOK AT THIS CERTIFICATE
AND ALL THAT IT SIGNIFIES
2695
02:18:13,800 --> 02:18:15,000
WITH PRIDE.
2696
02:18:15,000 --> 02:18:18,200
TODAY, THAT PRIDE
MUST BE TEMPERED
2697
02:18:18,300 --> 02:18:20,400
WITH A PROFOUND CONCERN.
2698
02:18:20,500 --> 02:18:23,000
IF ATOMIC BOMBS ARE TO BE ADDED
2699
02:18:23,100 --> 02:18:25,600
TO THE ARSENALS OF
NATIONS PREPARING FOR WAR,
2700
02:18:25,600 --> 02:18:29,900
THEN A TIME WILL COME WHEN
MANKIND WILL CURSE THE NAMES
2701
02:18:29,900 --> 02:18:32,500
OF LOS ALAMOS AND HIROSHIMA.
2702
02:18:32,600 --> 02:18:37,900
THE PEOPLES OF THIS WORLD
MUST UNITE, OR THEY WILL PERISH.
2703
02:18:37,900 --> 02:18:40,200
THIS WAR THAT HAS RAVAGED
SO MUCH OF THE EARTH
2704
02:18:40,300 --> 02:18:42,200
HAS WRITTEN THESE WORDS.
2705
02:18:42,300 --> 02:18:47,300
THE ATOMIC BOMB HAS SPELLED
THEM OUT FOR ALL MEN TO UNDERSTAND.
2706
02:18:47,400 --> 02:18:51,300
OTHER MEN HAVE SPOKEN
THESE WORDS IN OTHER TIMES,
2707
02:18:51,400 --> 02:18:53,900
OF OTHER WARS, OF OTHER WEAPONS.
2708
02:18:54,000 --> 02:18:55,900
THEY HAVE NOT PREVAILED.
2709
02:18:56,000 --> 02:19:00,700
AND THERE ARE SOME MISLED BY
A FALSE SENSE OF HUMAN HISTORY,
2710
02:19:00,800 --> 02:19:04,500
WHO WILL HOLD THAT WE
WILL NOT PREVAIL TODAY.
2711
02:19:04,600 --> 02:19:06,400
IT IS NOT FOR US
TO BELIEVE THAT.
2712
02:19:06,500 --> 02:19:10,300
BY OUR WORKS, WE
ARE COMMITTED...
2713
02:19:10,400 --> 02:19:14,900
COMMITTED TO A WORLD UNITED
BEFORE THIS COMMON PERIL
2714
02:19:15,000 --> 02:19:18,100
IN LAW AND IN HUMANITY.
2715
02:19:18,200 --> 02:19:20,900
CAPTIONING MADE
POSSIBLE BY ACORN MEDIA
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