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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:00,801 --> 00:00:03,635 [instrumental music] 2 00:00:21,088 --> 00:00:24,857 (male narrator) Here amid the 3000-year-old redwoods of California 3 00:00:24,925 --> 00:00:28,627 scientists and dignitaries are burying a time capsule. 4 00:00:28,696 --> 00:00:31,230 At the base of these trees that have watched the rise and fall 5 00:00:31,298 --> 00:00:35,134 of many civilizations, these records of atomic progress 6 00:00:35,202 --> 00:00:39,104 will rest until the year 2446 7 00:00:39,173 --> 00:00:40,906 500 years from now. 8 00:00:40,975 --> 00:00:43,475 Here today are representatives of the free nation 9 00:00:43,544 --> 00:00:45,210 that made the major contributions 10 00:00:45,279 --> 00:00:47,646 to first harnessing atomic energy. 11 00:00:47,715 --> 00:00:49,348 The United States, the United Kingdom 12 00:00:49,417 --> 00:00:51,016 and the Dominion Of Canada. 13 00:00:51,085 --> 00:00:54,753 Major General Leslie R. Groves, deputy chief of engineers. 14 00:00:54,822 --> 00:00:57,222 Beside him, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer 15 00:00:57,291 --> 00:00:59,291 of the University of California 16 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:01,760 America's foremost nuclear physicist. 17 00:01:01,829 --> 00:01:04,696 Representing The United Kingdom and the Dominion of Canada 18 00:01:04,765 --> 00:01:07,900 at this ceremony are Dean MacKenzie of Canada 19 00:01:07,968 --> 00:01:10,402 Dr. Chisholm of the British Scientific Mission 20 00:01:10,471 --> 00:01:13,839 and C.D. Howe, Canadian Minister of Munitions. 21 00:01:13,908 --> 00:01:16,175 Dr. Vannevar Bush, director of the Office 22 00:01:16,243 --> 00:01:18,243 of Scientific Research and Development 23 00:01:18,312 --> 00:01:19,978 Dr. Enrico Fermi 24 00:01:20,047 --> 00:01:23,082 Nobel Prize winner of the University of Chicago 25 00:01:23,150 --> 00:01:24,750 and Admiral William S. Parsons 26 00:01:24,819 --> 00:01:28,020 Bureau of Ordnance, United States Navy. 27 00:01:28,089 --> 00:01:31,123 These men of all countries and creeds lent their knowledge 28 00:01:31,192 --> 00:01:34,326 to solving the great problems of atomic energy. 29 00:01:34,395 --> 00:01:35,961 Among the many items and records sealed 30 00:01:36,030 --> 00:01:39,198 in the time capsule were a movie projector 31 00:01:39,266 --> 00:01:42,267 with instructions for its use engraved on copper 32 00:01:42,336 --> 00:01:44,403 and a print of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 33 00:01:44,472 --> 00:01:46,405 motion picture dramatization 34 00:01:46,474 --> 00:01:48,574 "The Beginning Or The End." 35 00:01:48,642 --> 00:01:51,944 A title expressing the fear of people today 36 00:01:52,012 --> 00:01:55,681 that a future atomic war may destroy all humanity. 37 00:01:55,749 --> 00:01:58,550 The message to future generations. 38 00:01:58,619 --> 00:02:00,752 Come what may, our civilization 39 00:02:00,821 --> 00:02:03,589 will have left an enduring record behind it. 40 00:02:03,657 --> 00:02:06,492 Ours will be no lost race. 41 00:02:13,434 --> 00:02:16,435 [intense music] 42 00:02:38,292 --> 00:02:41,426 [instrumental music] 43 00:03:55,236 --> 00:03:58,036 How do you do, whoever you are? 44 00:03:59,540 --> 00:04:02,708 My name is J. Robert Oppenheimer. 45 00:04:02,776 --> 00:04:04,042 I'm an American scientist 46 00:04:04,111 --> 00:04:08,347 working in the year of our Lord, 1946. 47 00:04:08,415 --> 00:04:12,084 I'm addressing you people of the 25th century in English 48 00:04:12,152 --> 00:04:13,652 now and I hope in your time 49 00:04:13,721 --> 00:04:17,256 one of the leading languages of the world. 50 00:04:17,324 --> 00:04:18,890 I'm working in a physics laboratory 51 00:04:18,959 --> 00:04:21,760 typical of many others devoted to scientific research. 52 00:04:23,297 --> 00:04:26,531 In my lifetime, I saw the rise of the automobile 53 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:29,835 aeroplane, the radio, television 54 00:04:29,903 --> 00:04:33,038 motion pictures and a vast spread of knowledge. 55 00:04:34,642 --> 00:04:36,975 I believe as do many others that my age 56 00:04:37,044 --> 00:04:39,845 is the most enlightened in all history. 57 00:04:39,913 --> 00:04:42,347 And yet during my lifetime, I have already seen 58 00:04:42,416 --> 00:04:44,616 two world wars. 59 00:04:44,685 --> 00:04:47,986 In them, 87 million men and women perished 60 00:04:48,055 --> 00:04:49,855 or were wounded. 61 00:04:49,923 --> 00:04:53,025 The people of my era unleashed the power 62 00:04:53,093 --> 00:04:54,559 which might for all we know 63 00:04:54,628 --> 00:04:57,129 will destroy human life on this Earth. 64 00:04:58,666 --> 00:05:01,166 For you of the 25th century, we have recorded 65 00:05:01,235 --> 00:05:03,535 our search to unlock the atom. 66 00:05:06,740 --> 00:05:09,541 We know the beginning. 67 00:05:09,610 --> 00:05:13,111 Only you of tomorrow, if there is a tomorrow 68 00:05:13,180 --> 00:05:14,746 can know the end. 69 00:05:14,815 --> 00:05:17,983 This story began just before World War II 70 00:05:18,052 --> 00:05:21,653 in German universities and laboratories. 71 00:05:21,722 --> 00:05:25,390 It's the Fuhrer's decision that you scientists must develop 72 00:05:25,459 --> 00:05:28,427 every type of radical and secret weapons 73 00:05:28,495 --> 00:05:30,629 at the earliest moment. 74 00:05:30,698 --> 00:05:33,398 The Fuhrer will provide whatever you need. 75 00:05:33,467 --> 00:05:34,933 You must give all your minds 76 00:05:35,002 --> 00:05:37,669 and loyalty to this great effort. 77 00:05:37,738 --> 00:05:40,939 The Fatherland demands incessant work. 78 00:05:41,008 --> 00:05:45,243 The Fuhrer must have such weapons before anyone else. 79 00:05:45,312 --> 00:05:47,379 - Heil Hitler. - Heil Hitler! 80 00:05:47,448 --> 00:05:48,880 That is all. 81 00:05:53,153 --> 00:05:56,188 Beyond the Western Seas, universities followed 82 00:05:56,256 --> 00:06:00,092 peaceful ways of study and play. 83 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:02,427 But behind these scenes of athletics 84 00:06:02,496 --> 00:06:06,631 some little people of science no longer wanted by dictators 85 00:06:06,700 --> 00:06:08,900 were tirelessly continuing their inquiries 86 00:06:08,969 --> 00:06:11,436 of the nature's hidden laws. 87 00:06:11,505 --> 00:06:15,006 These refugees from religious and political persecution 88 00:06:15,075 --> 00:06:16,908 delve deep into the newest theories 89 00:06:16,977 --> 00:06:19,244 of the world's great physicists 90 00:06:19,313 --> 00:06:22,948 enlisting the aid of brilliant young American students. 91 00:06:23,016 --> 00:06:26,051 Such a student is Columbia's Matt Cochran. 92 00:06:27,554 --> 00:06:29,087 [beeping] 93 00:06:32,793 --> 00:06:35,460 Dr. Fermi. Dr. Fermi! 94 00:06:35,529 --> 00:06:37,729 'Dr. Marre, come quickly!' 95 00:06:46,507 --> 00:06:49,541 Look. Those big peaks are fissions. 96 00:06:49,610 --> 00:06:52,010 Yes. Yes. 97 00:06:52,079 --> 00:06:55,113 Such energy can only come from splitting uranium atom. 98 00:06:55,182 --> 00:06:58,150 This confirms my cable from Europe. 99 00:06:58,218 --> 00:07:00,385 It confirms everything. 100 00:07:00,454 --> 00:07:02,020 Something else may take place. 101 00:07:02,089 --> 00:07:04,122 I couldn't sleep for thinking of it. 102 00:07:04,191 --> 00:07:08,593 Suppose we split one atom, it may give off other neutrons. 103 00:07:08,662 --> 00:07:10,829 Those neutrons split other atoms. 104 00:07:10,898 --> 00:07:12,831 - A chain reaction. - Yes. 105 00:07:12,900 --> 00:07:14,199 If true, we can change the world 106 00:07:14,268 --> 00:07:16,301 all the power anyone can use every place. 107 00:07:16,370 --> 00:07:20,238 Not so fast. We are blind men reaching into the unknown. 108 00:07:20,307 --> 00:07:23,875 Atomic energy can become a terrible weapon of war. 109 00:07:23,944 --> 00:07:27,612 Look, we've all been educated to believe 110 00:07:27,681 --> 00:07:30,549 that science should help humanity, not destroy it. 111 00:07:31,752 --> 00:07:34,820 All the years of atomic research.. 112 00:07:34,888 --> 00:07:37,055 ...must they end up in a bomb? 113 00:07:37,124 --> 00:07:38,824 It's inevitable. 114 00:07:38,892 --> 00:07:40,826 So which end of the bomb do you want to be on? 115 00:07:40,894 --> 00:07:43,528 You realize what it will mean 116 00:07:43,597 --> 00:07:46,765 if Hitler succeeds before you do? 117 00:07:46,834 --> 00:07:49,367 But, Dr. Fermi, you refused to do such work in Italy. 118 00:07:49,436 --> 00:07:51,670 - Yes. - And here, you offer to do it. 119 00:07:51,738 --> 00:07:53,572 There, Mussolini demanded I do so. 120 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:55,173 But here, I would freely volunteer 121 00:07:55,242 --> 00:07:57,442 because I trust our motives. 122 00:07:57,511 --> 00:08:00,111 Yes, I see the difference. 123 00:08:00,180 --> 00:08:01,513 Well, I'll see you gentlemen in about a week. 124 00:08:01,582 --> 00:08:03,615 - Oh, Matt? - As we agreed. 125 00:08:03,684 --> 00:08:06,651 - But you're not through yet. - What's next? 126 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:09,187 Do I wash the dishes or I make the beds? 127 00:08:09,256 --> 00:08:11,223 Look, my bride and I are going to Washington. 128 00:08:11,291 --> 00:08:12,858 We wanna see the Lincoln Memorial. 129 00:08:12,926 --> 00:08:14,292 You're needed by Szilard and Wigner. 130 00:08:14,361 --> 00:08:15,994 They're making a very crucial experiment. 131 00:08:16,063 --> 00:08:17,329 - Then you'll be there, doctor. - Mnh-mnh. 132 00:08:17,397 --> 00:08:18,897 I have to make a talk to the convention 133 00:08:18,966 --> 00:08:20,198 of physicists tomorrow. 134 00:08:20,267 --> 00:08:21,132 [sighs] 135 00:08:21,201 --> 00:08:22,968 I'm returning to Europe immediately. 136 00:08:23,036 --> 00:08:25,937 So you must be there while they're taking the next step. 137 00:08:26,006 --> 00:08:27,172 That's the nice thing about science. 138 00:08:27,241 --> 00:08:29,674 There's always another milestone. 139 00:08:34,047 --> 00:08:36,014 Well, I hope today is the day, Dr. Szilard. 140 00:08:36,083 --> 00:08:38,817 As soon as Wigner gets here, we will be ready to go. 141 00:08:38,886 --> 00:08:40,285 You will see a demonstration 142 00:08:40,354 --> 00:08:43,421 of one of the fundamental principles of science. 143 00:08:43,490 --> 00:08:46,591 The principle of maximum cussedness. 144 00:08:46,660 --> 00:08:48,960 I knew cussedness worked in human beings. 145 00:08:49,029 --> 00:08:50,829 Does it work in physics too? 146 00:08:50,898 --> 00:08:54,499 Now we expect to find that splitting atoms of uranium 147 00:08:54,568 --> 00:08:56,234 will give off neutrons 148 00:08:56,303 --> 00:08:59,971 making it possible to start a chain reaction 149 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:03,575 and liberate atomic energy on an enormous scale. 150 00:09:03,644 --> 00:09:04,976 That follows. 151 00:09:05,045 --> 00:09:08,346 Mankind always uses energy for destruction. 152 00:09:08,415 --> 00:09:10,282 At first, anyway. 153 00:09:10,350 --> 00:09:12,617 So our experiment will work. 154 00:09:12,686 --> 00:09:17,088 And there is your fundamental principle of maximum cussedness. 155 00:09:19,526 --> 00:09:20,492 - Matt. - Dr. Wigner. 156 00:09:20,561 --> 00:09:22,127 Here's uranium. 157 00:09:56,330 --> 00:09:58,363 - Now what's wrong? - It must work. 158 00:09:58,432 --> 00:10:00,165 But it doesn't work. 159 00:10:03,737 --> 00:10:05,770 Where are the notes? 160 00:10:21,722 --> 00:10:24,456 Gentlemen...the plugs. 161 00:10:24,524 --> 00:10:25,991 Oh. 162 00:10:35,168 --> 00:10:38,103 [dramatic music] 163 00:10:39,539 --> 00:10:41,139 [beeping] 164 00:10:43,677 --> 00:10:45,076 It works. 165 00:10:51,785 --> 00:10:53,518 I figure about 2 neutrons per fission. 166 00:10:53,587 --> 00:10:57,422 2 neutrons are more than enough. This is exceedingly serious. 167 00:10:57,491 --> 00:10:59,324 We must not talk about this outside here 168 00:10:59,393 --> 00:11:01,926 until we have had time to think it out. 169 00:11:07,100 --> 00:11:09,701 This is too big a responsibility for us, Leo. 170 00:11:09,770 --> 00:11:11,269 The president must be advised. 171 00:11:11,338 --> 00:11:13,538 He'll think we're crazy if we tell him what can result 172 00:11:13,607 --> 00:11:15,807 because we saw some lights on that screen. 173 00:11:15,876 --> 00:11:17,842 We don't carry enough weight. 174 00:11:17,911 --> 00:11:19,844 He would believe Einstein. 175 00:11:19,913 --> 00:11:21,646 - He would listen to him. - Good. 176 00:11:21,715 --> 00:11:23,715 Matt, you had better come along with us to Princeton. 177 00:11:23,784 --> 00:11:25,684 Uh, I was just married. Anne and I are trying 178 00:11:25,752 --> 00:11:27,118 to get away on our honeymoon tonight. 179 00:11:27,187 --> 00:11:28,553 You must come with us, Matt. 180 00:11:28,622 --> 00:11:30,588 Einstein will wanna ask you some questions. 181 00:11:30,657 --> 00:11:33,625 [sighs] He won't ask half the questions my bride will. 182 00:11:33,694 --> 00:11:35,260 [laughs] 183 00:11:43,203 --> 00:11:44,803 Shorty. 184 00:11:44,871 --> 00:11:48,206 - Hey, what's wrong with you? - I have to go to Princeton. 185 00:11:48,275 --> 00:11:50,241 I thought you were through with college. 186 00:11:50,310 --> 00:11:53,044 I have to work out a few equations for Einstein. 187 00:11:53,113 --> 00:11:55,013 I've heard of men running out on a marriage 188 00:11:55,082 --> 00:11:57,615 but never a honeymoon. 189 00:11:57,684 --> 00:11:59,918 Duty calls and how I hate it. 190 00:11:59,986 --> 00:12:02,020 - Why can't I go along? - What for? 191 00:12:02,089 --> 00:12:04,155 You never passed your algebra. 192 00:12:04,224 --> 00:12:08,526 - When will you be back? - By tonight, I hope. 193 00:12:08,595 --> 00:12:10,295 I'll miss you. 194 00:12:17,104 --> 00:12:19,437 You better take in a show or something. 195 00:12:19,506 --> 00:12:21,473 I think I'll do the laundry. 196 00:12:21,541 --> 00:12:23,775 [sighs] 197 00:12:23,844 --> 00:12:25,477 On this quiet campus 198 00:12:25,545 --> 00:12:27,412 the world's greatest living scientist 199 00:12:27,481 --> 00:12:30,381 found refuge from religious persecution. 200 00:12:30,450 --> 00:12:33,351 Now I understand why you were so urgent. 201 00:12:33,420 --> 00:12:35,620 And you agree, professor, the chain reaction can result 202 00:12:35,689 --> 00:12:37,989 in a bomb which might destroy all the world's people. 203 00:12:38,058 --> 00:12:40,725 It's possible. But we must remember 204 00:12:40,794 --> 00:12:45,230 that man has not been able to destroy even insect pests. 205 00:12:46,466 --> 00:12:49,801 Such a bomb could kill millions of human beings 206 00:12:49,870 --> 00:12:52,370 in a single attack. 207 00:12:52,439 --> 00:12:56,641 I just received a letter from a friend abroad. 208 00:12:56,710 --> 00:12:59,744 I suppose you've heard Germany has stopped 209 00:12:59,813 --> 00:13:02,847 all exports of uranium. 210 00:13:02,916 --> 00:13:05,016 Then we've little time to lose. 211 00:13:05,085 --> 00:13:08,553 It's a race and the United States hasn't even started yet. 212 00:13:08,622 --> 00:13:11,356 So you see why we must inform the president. 213 00:13:11,424 --> 00:13:13,658 And after all, professor, it's all based on your theory 214 00:13:13,727 --> 00:13:15,894 of mass being energy and energy being mass. 215 00:13:15,962 --> 00:13:17,529 Come now. 216 00:13:17,597 --> 00:13:22,167 You can't attribute it all to my theory. 217 00:13:22,235 --> 00:13:25,703 Nuclear physics started with the discovery of radium 218 00:13:25,772 --> 00:13:27,906 by Madame Curie, a Pole. 219 00:13:27,974 --> 00:13:31,209 It was developed by Rutherford, an Englishman. 220 00:13:31,278 --> 00:13:35,079 Artificial radioactivity was discovered 221 00:13:35,148 --> 00:13:37,582 by Joliot, a Frenchman. 222 00:13:37,651 --> 00:13:40,785 Uranium was first bombarded with neutrons 223 00:13:40,854 --> 00:13:43,288 by Fermi, an Italian. 224 00:13:43,356 --> 00:13:45,690 The neutron itself was discovered 225 00:13:45,759 --> 00:13:47,892 by Chadwick, an Englishman. 226 00:13:47,961 --> 00:13:50,528 The cyclotron by Lawrence, an American. 227 00:13:50,597 --> 00:13:56,067 And the splitting of uranium was detected by Hahn, a German. 228 00:13:56,136 --> 00:13:58,703 Don't blame it all on me. 229 00:13:58,772 --> 00:14:01,206 Would it be possible for you to go and see 230 00:14:01,274 --> 00:14:03,508 President Roosevelt yourself? 231 00:14:06,613 --> 00:14:08,713 But I have a cold. 232 00:14:08,782 --> 00:14:13,418 And besides, I do not know Mr. Roosevelt very well. 233 00:14:13,486 --> 00:14:16,287 I ensure the president knows you, sir. 234 00:14:16,356 --> 00:14:21,025 It will be more polite if I just write him a letter. 235 00:14:21,094 --> 00:14:23,127 - 'Good.' - Thank you, sir. 236 00:14:24,865 --> 00:14:26,197 [sighs] 237 00:14:30,604 --> 00:14:34,172 Now how shall we begin? 238 00:14:34,241 --> 00:14:38,943 Uh, stay near me and help me with my grammar and spelling. 239 00:14:39,012 --> 00:14:42,447 Uh, make some notes, please. 240 00:14:46,152 --> 00:14:49,120 Dear Mr. Roosevelt 241 00:14:49,189 --> 00:14:54,392 some recent work by Enrico Fermi and Leo.. 242 00:14:56,563 --> 00:14:59,297 Before Einstein's letter reached President Roosevelt 243 00:14:59,366 --> 00:15:01,900 Germany's march of conquest began. 244 00:15:01,968 --> 00:15:04,802 Hitler invaded and conquered country after country. 245 00:15:04,871 --> 00:15:06,571 It was lightning war. 246 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:09,107 It seemed no one could stop him. 247 00:15:12,245 --> 00:15:14,746 The United States remained at peace. 248 00:15:14,814 --> 00:15:17,282 Universities and colleges throughout the nation 249 00:15:17,350 --> 00:15:20,618 steeped themselves in atomic research. 250 00:15:20,687 --> 00:15:23,655 Our scientists looking past the frontlines 251 00:15:23,723 --> 00:15:26,791 pushed forward in the race for knowledge. 252 00:15:26,860 --> 00:15:30,161 Compton at Chicago, Lawrence at California 253 00:15:30,230 --> 00:15:32,730 Urey at Columbia, Smyth at Princeton 254 00:15:32,799 --> 00:15:36,267 Spedding at Iowa State, Bacher at Cornell 255 00:15:36,336 --> 00:15:40,038 Nier at Minnesota, Wright at Wisconsin. 256 00:15:40,106 --> 00:15:42,073 They contributed knowledge and resources 257 00:15:42,142 --> 00:15:44,575 to the gigantic battle to conquer the atom. 258 00:15:48,515 --> 00:15:50,448 [intense music] 259 00:15:52,252 --> 00:15:54,018 On December 7, 1941 260 00:15:54,087 --> 00:15:57,021 Japan attacked the United States. 261 00:15:57,090 --> 00:15:59,324 The war covered the world. 262 00:16:04,698 --> 00:16:07,498 One week later, a representative scientist 263 00:16:07,567 --> 00:16:10,535 Dr. Vannevar Bush, had an appointment. 264 00:16:12,105 --> 00:16:13,604 - Good morning, Dr. Bush. - Miss Tully. 265 00:16:13,673 --> 00:16:16,207 - Glad to see you again, Van. - Mr. President. 266 00:16:16,276 --> 00:16:19,377 - Sit down. - Always a great honor, sir. 267 00:16:19,446 --> 00:16:22,447 In the last few months, you've caused me more sleepless nights 268 00:16:22,515 --> 00:16:25,883 than any individual since I've become president. 269 00:16:25,952 --> 00:16:28,653 And so far, Mr. President, I've only sent you 270 00:16:28,722 --> 00:16:30,288 a few brief messages. 271 00:16:30,357 --> 00:16:33,558 Now I've brought you our complete report to date. 272 00:16:33,626 --> 00:16:36,160 Summing up the judgment of the National Academy's 273 00:16:36,229 --> 00:16:38,563 reviewing committee. 274 00:16:38,631 --> 00:16:39,697 Huh. 275 00:16:43,169 --> 00:16:45,570 Is it favorable or unfavorable? 276 00:16:45,638 --> 00:16:47,505 Uh, we believe if pushed to the limits 277 00:16:47,574 --> 00:16:51,009 with money, materials and resources 278 00:16:51,077 --> 00:16:53,378 such a bomb could be an actuality. 279 00:16:53,446 --> 00:16:57,382 - 'How long will it take?' - Um, nobody knows. 280 00:16:59,052 --> 00:17:00,985 One of these bombs 281 00:17:01,054 --> 00:17:03,788 atom bombs, I suppose you call them? 282 00:17:03,857 --> 00:17:05,857 Could it be carried in a plane? 283 00:17:07,227 --> 00:17:08,960 We've no idea how large it will be. 284 00:17:09,029 --> 00:17:12,030 That's one of the things we must learn. 285 00:17:12,098 --> 00:17:14,532 'What'll it cost?' 286 00:17:14,601 --> 00:17:16,801 That's another serious problem. 287 00:17:16,870 --> 00:17:19,604 It would cost at least.. 288 00:17:19,672 --> 00:17:21,139 Yes? 289 00:17:22,442 --> 00:17:25,043 One billion dollars. 290 00:17:25,111 --> 00:17:26,611 [whistles] 291 00:17:29,015 --> 00:17:32,283 That's a lot of money to ask Congress to appropriate. 292 00:17:32,352 --> 00:17:34,085 Even when they know what it's for. 293 00:17:34,154 --> 00:17:36,387 We hope to hold it down to a billion 294 00:17:36,456 --> 00:17:39,057 which I realize is a lot of money. 295 00:17:39,125 --> 00:17:42,660 We may as well face it. It, it might cost.. 296 00:17:42,729 --> 00:17:43,728 Yes? 297 00:17:45,665 --> 00:17:46,964 Two billion. 298 00:17:47,033 --> 00:17:48,232 [sighs] 299 00:17:49,369 --> 00:17:50,735 [dog barks] 300 00:17:52,072 --> 00:17:53,471 [whines] 301 00:17:56,843 --> 00:18:00,111 Back in '39, the navy put up some money as a starter. 302 00:18:00,180 --> 00:18:03,514 - How much? - Six thousand dollars. 303 00:18:05,385 --> 00:18:08,019 We've since committed about 300,000. 304 00:18:08,088 --> 00:18:11,856 Well, that leaves quite a way to go up to two billions. 305 00:18:11,925 --> 00:18:14,392 Congress would be justified in impeaching me 306 00:18:14,461 --> 00:18:19,063 if I spent that much money on a secret project that failed. 307 00:18:19,132 --> 00:18:22,900 Mr. President, the members of the National Academy of Science 308 00:18:22,969 --> 00:18:25,369 are the best this country can produce. 309 00:18:25,438 --> 00:18:29,040 There are sincere, brilliant men working for America. 310 00:18:29,109 --> 00:18:31,676 They feel we must go ahead. 311 00:18:31,744 --> 00:18:34,378 What immediate steps would be necessary? 312 00:18:34,447 --> 00:18:37,014 Push the various scientific projects. 313 00:18:37,083 --> 00:18:38,850 Uh, develop pilot plants. 314 00:18:38,918 --> 00:18:40,251 Make plans for production 315 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:42,954 even if other war projects must be curtailed. 316 00:18:43,022 --> 00:18:45,156 And the army should appoint an officer of engineers 317 00:18:45,225 --> 00:18:47,024 to coordinate all these activities. 318 00:18:47,093 --> 00:18:49,327 If we should get this bomb 319 00:18:49,395 --> 00:18:51,896 will it be just another bomb 320 00:18:51,965 --> 00:18:54,132 or a decisive weapon? 321 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:56,400 We fear it will be decisive. 322 00:18:58,171 --> 00:19:00,304 What about the supply of uranium? 323 00:19:00,373 --> 00:19:01,873 Well, largest available source is Canada. 324 00:19:01,941 --> 00:19:03,941 Well, that means asking Canada and Britain. 325 00:19:04,010 --> 00:19:06,244 They're scientists. They're also working on this problem. 326 00:19:06,312 --> 00:19:08,646 So their participation would be invaluable. 327 00:19:09,916 --> 00:19:12,350 Atomic energy on the loose could open the way 328 00:19:12,418 --> 00:19:14,852 for the destruction of all civilization. 329 00:19:14,921 --> 00:19:17,388 The perfection of atomic weapons is inevitable. 330 00:19:17,457 --> 00:19:19,924 If not by this country, then by some other. 331 00:19:19,993 --> 00:19:21,959 Have you any idea how far Hitler's scientists 332 00:19:22,028 --> 00:19:23,327 have progressed? 333 00:19:23,396 --> 00:19:25,196 'We feel sure they're on the same track.' 334 00:19:25,265 --> 00:19:27,498 'Probably ahead of us.' 335 00:19:27,567 --> 00:19:30,468 I have prayed I'd never have to make this decision. 336 00:19:32,472 --> 00:19:34,205 Well, thank you for coming, Van. 337 00:19:34,274 --> 00:19:37,642 'You and your colleagues have done a disagreeable duty well.' 338 00:19:39,245 --> 00:19:41,145 I'll let you know. 339 00:19:41,214 --> 00:19:43,748 Thank you. Good day, Mr. President. 340 00:19:52,091 --> 00:19:53,658 Sit down, Grace. 341 00:19:58,064 --> 00:20:01,399 Grace, you're a woman and you hate war as much as I do. 342 00:20:03,102 --> 00:20:05,937 If Hitler had a bomb that could wipe out a city 343 00:20:06,005 --> 00:20:09,006 like Washington in one shot 344 00:20:09,075 --> 00:20:10,775 what would he do with it? 345 00:20:10,843 --> 00:20:12,343 He'd use it. 346 00:20:19,852 --> 00:20:23,688 Uh, Haggie? Get me Mr. Winston Churchill. 347 00:20:25,225 --> 00:20:27,358 [sirens blaring] 348 00:20:30,196 --> 00:20:32,330 [blows whistle] 349 00:20:37,704 --> 00:20:38,970 Have a look. 350 00:20:40,073 --> 00:20:42,006 [explosions] 351 00:20:45,211 --> 00:20:48,980 That was a close one. They're coming over in force tonight. 352 00:20:49,048 --> 00:20:51,382 I hope Amy and the baby got to shelter quickly. 353 00:20:54,020 --> 00:20:55,953 Telephone, Dr. Chisholm. 354 00:20:57,390 --> 00:20:59,490 Dr. Chisholm, telephone. 355 00:20:59,559 --> 00:21:01,359 Oh, good heavens. 356 00:21:04,897 --> 00:21:06,364 Chisholm here. 357 00:21:06,432 --> 00:21:08,032 Yes, certainly. 358 00:21:09,802 --> 00:21:11,269 Yes. 359 00:21:11,337 --> 00:21:13,871 This man never sleeps. 360 00:21:13,940 --> 00:21:15,406 Yes, Mr. Churchill. 361 00:21:16,376 --> 00:21:18,509 [chuckles] Oh, is that so? 362 00:21:20,013 --> 00:21:21,579 The entire staff? 363 00:21:22,682 --> 00:21:24,849 Very well, we'll start immediately. 364 00:21:24,917 --> 00:21:26,717 Yes. Yes. 365 00:21:27,887 --> 00:21:29,487 Quite. 366 00:21:29,555 --> 00:21:31,756 Listen, everyone. 367 00:21:31,824 --> 00:21:33,024 The prime minister has ordered 368 00:21:33,092 --> 00:21:35,259 the whole kit and caboodle of us to America 369 00:21:35,328 --> 00:21:37,962 to combine our atomic efforts with theirs. 370 00:21:38,031 --> 00:21:41,499 December '42, Stagg Field, Chicago. 371 00:21:41,567 --> 00:21:43,200 Now the army is in it. 372 00:21:43,269 --> 00:21:46,404 In contact with every step taken by the men of science. 373 00:21:46,472 --> 00:21:50,508 But keeping in the background for reasons of security. 374 00:21:50,576 --> 00:21:52,576 "Metallurgical Laboratory?" 375 00:21:52,645 --> 00:21:54,745 Well, you hardly call that the uranium project 376 00:21:54,814 --> 00:21:56,280 for the development of the atomic bomb. 377 00:21:56,349 --> 00:21:57,882 [chuckles] Hardly. 378 00:22:04,090 --> 00:22:05,723 Thank you, sir. 379 00:22:05,792 --> 00:22:07,058 [knocks] 380 00:22:09,395 --> 00:22:10,561 Just a moment, gentlemen. 381 00:22:10,630 --> 00:22:13,664 There's danger of deep burns and poisoning. 382 00:22:13,733 --> 00:22:17,068 These detectors help guard against it. 383 00:22:17,136 --> 00:22:19,036 Would you, please, give your names to the girl? 384 00:22:19,105 --> 00:22:20,638 Chisholm, Howe and Wyatt. 385 00:22:20,707 --> 00:22:24,275 Chisholm, Wyatt, Howe. 386 00:22:24,344 --> 00:22:26,477 Right through that door, please. 387 00:22:29,682 --> 00:22:31,949 - Fermi. - Dr. Chisholm. 388 00:22:32,018 --> 00:22:34,785 - Hi. - Hello. Good to have you here. 389 00:22:34,854 --> 00:22:36,087 - This is Dr. Wyatt. - How do you do? 390 00:22:36,155 --> 00:22:38,622 C.D. Howe, minister of munitions for Canada. 391 00:22:38,691 --> 00:22:39,890 - Dr. Compton. - Alright. 392 00:22:39,959 --> 00:22:42,927 - Gentlemen. - How're your tests progressing? 393 00:22:42,995 --> 00:22:44,595 Well, they've gone far enough to show us 394 00:22:44,664 --> 00:22:46,697 how difficult the whole project is. 395 00:22:46,766 --> 00:22:48,232 What about uranium? 396 00:22:48,301 --> 00:22:50,701 The Dominion government is pushing production to the limit. 397 00:22:50,770 --> 00:22:54,305 Oh, Dr. Zinn. Call a staff. Will you, please, Wally? 398 00:22:54,374 --> 00:22:56,507 We'll start the full pile test at once. 399 00:22:56,576 --> 00:22:57,975 Things are looking up around here. 400 00:22:58,044 --> 00:22:59,577 We didn't dream you'd be ready so soon. 401 00:22:59,645 --> 00:23:01,112 - Suppose we go in? - Why, yes. 402 00:23:01,180 --> 00:23:02,580 This way. 403 00:23:09,322 --> 00:23:11,455 The man in the brown suit. 404 00:23:13,292 --> 00:23:15,393 - 'Uh, Dr. Fermi?' - Yes? 405 00:23:15,461 --> 00:23:16,861 Uh, I'm Major Nixon. 406 00:23:16,929 --> 00:23:18,696 I'm the new assistant to the area engineer 407 00:23:18,765 --> 00:23:20,297 and, uh, observer for the army. 408 00:23:20,366 --> 00:23:21,665 - Glad to see you. Matt? - Thank you. 409 00:23:21,734 --> 00:23:23,968 Ease up on the control rod! 410 00:23:24,036 --> 00:23:25,836 (Dr. Fermi) 'Hey, Matt!' 411 00:23:28,775 --> 00:23:30,708 Take care of the army for us, will you, please? 412 00:23:30,777 --> 00:23:31,776 Thanks, doctor. 413 00:23:31,844 --> 00:23:33,711 - Matt Cochran. - Jeff Nixon. 414 00:23:33,780 --> 00:23:35,513 You got here just in time for the fireworks. 415 00:23:35,581 --> 00:23:37,348 Oh, good. Say, uh 416 00:23:37,417 --> 00:23:40,551 I'm a, a little behind on Flash Gordon's latest. 417 00:23:40,620 --> 00:23:41,786 How about a quick briefing? 418 00:23:41,854 --> 00:23:43,087 Compared to what we're trying to do 419 00:23:43,156 --> 00:23:44,989 Flash Gordon is a boy from the Stone Age. 420 00:23:45,057 --> 00:23:47,458 Oh, then I'm a prehistoric ape. 421 00:23:47,527 --> 00:23:50,528 This steel runs like this. 422 00:23:50,596 --> 00:23:51,996 This is a hunk of pure uranium 423 00:23:52,064 --> 00:23:54,799 refined from the crude ore of pitchblende . 424 00:23:54,867 --> 00:23:57,768 - In it are many 238 atoms. - How many? 425 00:23:57,837 --> 00:24:00,337 'A hundred million to the inch.' 426 00:24:00,406 --> 00:24:02,406 - Cubic inch? - 'Ordinary ruler inch.' 427 00:24:02,475 --> 00:24:05,543 - Oh. - And a few 235 atoms. 428 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:10,281 Did you see a tree hit by lightning split in two? 429 00:24:10,349 --> 00:24:11,482 Mm-hmm. 430 00:24:11,551 --> 00:24:14,452 When a neutron hits a 235 atom 431 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:17,354 the atom splits like that tree. 432 00:24:17,423 --> 00:24:19,523 It also sends out more neutrons. 433 00:24:19,592 --> 00:24:22,827 Some of which hit other 235 atoms and so on.. 434 00:24:25,565 --> 00:24:28,833 ...resulting in a chain reaction. 435 00:24:28,901 --> 00:24:31,435 It's as if that tree were in a forest and sent out lightning 436 00:24:31,504 --> 00:24:34,071 when it split splitting the other trees. 437 00:24:34,140 --> 00:24:35,506 Is that a fact? 438 00:24:35,575 --> 00:24:38,742 Uh, well, now what happens to the rest of the atom family? 439 00:24:38,811 --> 00:24:41,479 Other neutrons hit U-238 atoms 440 00:24:41,547 --> 00:24:42,980 which do not split 441 00:24:43,049 --> 00:24:46,851 and change them into a metal called plutonium 442 00:24:46,919 --> 00:24:49,053 which we intend to use in the bomb. 443 00:24:49,121 --> 00:24:50,955 Oh, plutonium? 444 00:24:51,023 --> 00:24:52,923 Of course, we haven't any plutonium. 445 00:24:52,992 --> 00:24:55,593 - Why not? - There's never been any. 446 00:24:55,661 --> 00:24:58,796 - It's a brand-new element. - Oh. 447 00:24:59,899 --> 00:25:02,166 The pile is an atom smasher. 448 00:25:02,235 --> 00:25:05,736 A stack of all in that graphite bricks and pure uranium 449 00:25:05,805 --> 00:25:08,339 to supply the neutrons to keep the chain reaction going 450 00:25:08,407 --> 00:25:09,406 and make plutonium. 451 00:25:09,475 --> 00:25:10,508 Hm. 452 00:25:10,576 --> 00:25:11,809 Roll a billiard ball on a table 453 00:25:11,878 --> 00:25:13,644 that has only two other billiard balls on it 454 00:25:13,713 --> 00:25:14,945 and it might not collide with them. 455 00:25:15,014 --> 00:25:16,847 Oh, that experience I've had. 456 00:25:16,916 --> 00:25:18,949 But fill the table with billiard balls and when it rolls 457 00:25:19,018 --> 00:25:21,185 it's sure to hit at least two more. 458 00:25:21,254 --> 00:25:23,787 The pile is our table filled with neutrons and atoms 459 00:25:23,856 --> 00:25:25,122 instead of billiard balls. 460 00:25:25,191 --> 00:25:26,857 Mm-hm. 461 00:25:26,926 --> 00:25:30,461 Um, what happens if this dream doesn't work? 462 00:25:30,530 --> 00:25:33,163 There won't be a plutonium bomb. 463 00:25:33,232 --> 00:25:36,267 Other scientists are trying to separate U-235 from uranium. 464 00:25:36,335 --> 00:25:38,035 If they succeed, we can get a bomb out of that. 465 00:25:38,104 --> 00:25:40,971 - Supposing they flop? - There won't be any bomb. 466 00:25:44,143 --> 00:25:45,276 What's the joke? 467 00:25:45,344 --> 00:25:47,745 Well, I have to, uh, try to make a report on this 468 00:25:47,813 --> 00:25:49,179 that my boss can understand. 469 00:25:49,248 --> 00:25:51,181 Well, we scientists stopped all publications 470 00:25:51,250 --> 00:25:52,950 on atomics long ago. 471 00:25:53,019 --> 00:25:54,985 I hope your report will be top secret. 472 00:25:55,054 --> 00:25:58,789 Well, I hope I'll have a top secret to report. 473 00:25:58,858 --> 00:26:01,725 It's ironic only a war could give us this chance. 474 00:26:01,794 --> 00:26:03,894 Most scientists really don't wanna make a bomb. 475 00:26:03,963 --> 00:26:05,963 I thought a bomb was what this was all about. 476 00:26:06,032 --> 00:26:08,232 Well, what we discover should belong to the world 477 00:26:08,301 --> 00:26:10,701 as much as a new medical discovery. 478 00:26:10,770 --> 00:26:12,102 Well, just get us that bomb. 479 00:26:12,171 --> 00:26:15,539 And get it before Hitler or the Japs. 480 00:26:15,608 --> 00:26:17,241 I often wonder if we should. 481 00:26:19,111 --> 00:26:21,478 Well, the way the war has been going against us, you'd better. 482 00:26:21,547 --> 00:26:22,846 And soon. 483 00:26:22,915 --> 00:26:25,049 You can do your wondering later. 484 00:26:29,855 --> 00:26:31,889 Well, that's our atomic billiard table. 485 00:26:31,958 --> 00:26:33,958 Hm. Now the show doesn't really start 486 00:26:34,026 --> 00:26:36,961 until the pile reaches the size we call critical. 487 00:26:37,029 --> 00:26:38,996 Then it should start to multiply 488 00:26:39,065 --> 00:26:41,131 if the chain reaction really works. 489 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:43,400 You mean chain reaction is only an idea too? 490 00:26:43,469 --> 00:26:46,570 Oh, it's better than that. It's an unproved theory. 491 00:26:46,639 --> 00:26:50,207 The pile is controlled by those cadmium rods running through it. 492 00:26:50,276 --> 00:26:52,476 Until they're pulled out, they absorb neutrons greedily 493 00:26:52,545 --> 00:26:55,012 and keep the pile from running away and exploding. 494 00:26:55,081 --> 00:26:57,247 And if that theory doesn't work? 495 00:26:57,316 --> 00:27:00,351 - Well, we may lose something. - Like what? 496 00:27:00,419 --> 00:27:02,653 Oh, like Chicago. 497 00:27:02,722 --> 00:27:04,455 Of course, that really couldn't happen. 498 00:27:04,523 --> 00:27:06,423 Well, why, why didn't you move it out into the desert? 499 00:27:06,492 --> 00:27:08,525 Well, we intended to, but all our equipment's here 500 00:27:08,594 --> 00:27:10,794 and time is everything. 501 00:27:15,134 --> 00:27:16,567 Where's the service station? 502 00:27:16,636 --> 00:27:17,768 Well, if the pile gets out of control 503 00:27:17,837 --> 00:27:19,870 they rush in and tear it apart. 504 00:27:19,939 --> 00:27:21,605 They're the suicide squad. 505 00:27:21,674 --> 00:27:25,009 Oh, uh, that's nice pleasant work. 506 00:27:25,077 --> 00:27:26,510 Yes, they're sure to get a bad dose 507 00:27:26,579 --> 00:27:29,013 of radioactivity poisoning. 508 00:27:29,081 --> 00:27:30,848 Keep that right on there, George. 509 00:27:30,916 --> 00:27:32,316 Yes, sir. 510 00:27:35,888 --> 00:27:38,222 Hold this, please. We may need it. 511 00:27:38,290 --> 00:27:40,224 And don't drop it. 512 00:27:44,230 --> 00:27:46,730 (Dr. Fermi) Complete the last layer of bricks, please. 513 00:27:53,205 --> 00:27:55,239 - Completed. - Thank you. 514 00:27:56,742 --> 00:27:58,676 [machine whirring] 515 00:27:58,744 --> 00:28:00,744 Should be critical. 516 00:28:00,813 --> 00:28:03,614 Testing stations, please. 517 00:28:03,683 --> 00:28:05,382 Uh, don't you have a job? 518 00:28:05,451 --> 00:28:07,551 I'm in charge of that vertical bar. 519 00:28:07,620 --> 00:28:11,355 My pals laughingly call it dead man's ride. 520 00:28:11,424 --> 00:28:14,091 If something goes wrong, I figure I'll keel over 521 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:16,794 gravity will drop the bar into the pile 522 00:28:16,862 --> 00:28:18,228 and maybe save something. 523 00:28:18,297 --> 00:28:21,031 - Like what? - Like St. Louis? 524 00:28:22,702 --> 00:28:25,035 Remove the safety rods. 525 00:28:37,083 --> 00:28:39,216 Ease out the control rod. 526 00:28:45,725 --> 00:28:47,858 Out a little more, please. 527 00:28:52,398 --> 00:28:54,331 [beeping] 528 00:29:06,545 --> 00:29:08,479 Out a little more, please. 529 00:29:19,592 --> 00:29:21,525 Out a little more, please. 530 00:29:24,630 --> 00:29:26,163 It must multiply. 531 00:29:28,267 --> 00:29:30,334 Move the rod out another foot. 532 00:29:40,579 --> 00:29:42,579 [beeping] 533 00:29:47,953 --> 00:29:50,087 Change chamber 9 to 10. 534 00:29:58,531 --> 00:30:00,464 [beeping] 535 00:30:01,667 --> 00:30:03,600 Out a little more, please. 536 00:30:07,373 --> 00:30:09,106 [beeping] 537 00:30:10,743 --> 00:30:12,576 'Out a little more, please.' 538 00:30:21,921 --> 00:30:24,454 [beeping] 539 00:30:46,712 --> 00:30:48,345 Little more, please. 540 00:30:52,451 --> 00:30:54,985 [beeping] 541 00:31:03,629 --> 00:31:04,862 It multiplies. 542 00:31:04,930 --> 00:31:06,296 It multiplies. 543 00:31:10,836 --> 00:31:13,370 [beeping] 544 00:31:23,015 --> 00:31:24,481 Little more, please. 545 00:31:30,756 --> 00:31:33,490 [beeping] 546 00:31:33,559 --> 00:31:35,225 Little more, please. 547 00:31:39,965 --> 00:31:42,499 [beeping] 548 00:31:50,709 --> 00:31:53,677 Hold it! That's enough! Push the rod back! 549 00:31:59,018 --> 00:32:01,151 Replace the safety rods. 550 00:32:10,896 --> 00:32:12,162 Oh. 551 00:32:13,432 --> 00:32:16,166 - Good. - Perfect. 552 00:32:16,235 --> 00:32:19,102 - This will make history-- - Matt. 553 00:32:19,171 --> 00:32:20,704 You can tell Washington it works. 554 00:32:20,773 --> 00:32:22,372 (Dr. Compton) 'I have the message all prepared.' 555 00:32:22,441 --> 00:32:24,341 - 'Ahead of me, huh?' - 'How's this?' 556 00:32:24,410 --> 00:32:27,311 "The Italian navigator has landed safely in the new world." 557 00:32:27,379 --> 00:32:29,313 And found the natives very friendly. 558 00:32:29,381 --> 00:32:30,914 - Thank you, Art. Thank you. - 'Good.' 559 00:32:30,983 --> 00:32:32,749 - You see this, doctors. - Why. 560 00:32:32,818 --> 00:32:34,851 Congratulations, gentlemen. 561 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:37,354 Uh, how many atoms of plutonium did we make? 562 00:32:37,423 --> 00:32:40,123 - Thousands of millions. - No. 563 00:32:40,192 --> 00:32:42,392 Hitler, here we come. 564 00:32:42,461 --> 00:32:45,929 Not yet. We've only taken the first step in a marathon race. 565 00:32:45,998 --> 00:32:47,564 - This is only a test. - Oh. 566 00:32:47,633 --> 00:32:50,334 To get enough plutonium to cover the head of a pin 567 00:32:50,402 --> 00:32:52,369 we'd have to run this pile a million years. 568 00:32:52,438 --> 00:32:56,373 Oh, thank you, major. I find we need this after all. 569 00:32:57,409 --> 00:33:00,143 [indistinct chatter] 570 00:33:04,216 --> 00:33:05,916 - Pass these along, will you? - Yes. 571 00:33:05,985 --> 00:33:09,119 [indistinct chatter] 572 00:33:11,457 --> 00:33:14,358 - 'Go on, help yourselves now.' - 'Let it flow, doctor.' 573 00:33:14,426 --> 00:33:15,993 - 'Thank you very much.' - 'Thank you, doctor.' 574 00:33:16,061 --> 00:33:17,794 Yes, sir. 575 00:33:17,863 --> 00:33:20,097 Major. 576 00:33:20,165 --> 00:33:21,565 'Matt.' 577 00:33:29,775 --> 00:33:31,708 God, give us time. 578 00:33:33,779 --> 00:33:35,712 And, God, forgive us. 579 00:33:39,885 --> 00:33:41,351 - Dr. Fermi. - Yes? 580 00:33:41,420 --> 00:33:43,253 My colleagues and I feel that this is now 581 00:33:43,322 --> 00:33:45,255 a munition's project. 582 00:33:45,324 --> 00:33:48,392 Our belief opposes violence in all forms. 583 00:33:48,460 --> 00:33:51,128 We would, therefore, like to resign. 584 00:33:55,234 --> 00:33:58,035 I hate to lose you, but I respect your scruples. 585 00:33:58,103 --> 00:33:59,603 Thank you for what you have done so far. 586 00:33:59,671 --> 00:34:00,904 - Thank you, sir. - Thank you. 587 00:34:00,973 --> 00:34:03,106 - Thank you, sir. - Thank you. 588 00:34:07,379 --> 00:34:11,448 Sometimes it takes greater principles to stay than to go. 589 00:34:12,918 --> 00:34:14,851 It's a free country. 590 00:34:18,157 --> 00:34:20,290 Yes, yes, it is. 591 00:34:29,468 --> 00:34:31,468 - Goodnight. - Goodnight, sir. 592 00:34:37,676 --> 00:34:39,609 [beeping] 593 00:34:43,816 --> 00:34:46,183 [telephone ringing] 594 00:34:46,251 --> 00:34:47,951 Main gate. 595 00:34:48,020 --> 00:34:49,986 Yes. 596 00:34:50,055 --> 00:34:51,955 Okay. 597 00:34:52,024 --> 00:34:54,858 You're wanted in the doctor's office right away, Mr. Cochran. 598 00:35:02,267 --> 00:35:03,633 Thanks. 599 00:35:03,702 --> 00:35:05,402 (Anne) 'Hello, stranger.' 600 00:35:05,471 --> 00:35:06,703 Oh, shorty, don't come near me. 601 00:35:06,772 --> 00:35:09,272 - Try and stop me. - Stop! 602 00:35:11,176 --> 00:35:12,542 Oh. 603 00:35:12,611 --> 00:35:15,445 I've picked up some sort of radioactivity. 604 00:35:15,514 --> 00:35:17,747 You.. Are you sure you're alright? 605 00:35:17,816 --> 00:35:20,984 Oh, it's nothing. But I better go back to the clinic. 606 00:35:21,053 --> 00:35:23,186 I'll wait right here. 607 00:35:30,462 --> 00:35:31,895 The counter at the gate. 608 00:35:31,964 --> 00:35:35,198 Your pen shows overexposure to radioactivity too. 609 00:35:35,267 --> 00:35:36,366 Shall we start the blood count, doctor? 610 00:35:36,435 --> 00:35:37,767 Immediately. 611 00:35:39,972 --> 00:35:41,905 [device whirring] 612 00:35:44,910 --> 00:35:46,843 Get out of those clothes. 613 00:35:51,383 --> 00:35:53,216 Were you very close to the pile? 614 00:35:53,285 --> 00:35:54,985 Dead man's rod. 615 00:35:55,053 --> 00:35:58,155 - I've been all around the pile. - This could be very serious. 616 00:35:58,223 --> 00:36:00,457 - Yes, doctor? - Blood count, please. 617 00:36:00,526 --> 00:36:02,192 You'll have to report here daily for rechecks. 618 00:36:02,261 --> 00:36:04,394 The worse may not show up for weeks. 619 00:36:12,538 --> 00:36:14,070 You've quite a menagerie here. 620 00:36:14,139 --> 00:36:16,840 (male #1) 'Yes, testing for alpha ray cancer' 621 00:36:16,909 --> 00:36:18,175 'and similar diseases.' 622 00:36:18,243 --> 00:36:19,543 To get enough for our work 623 00:36:19,611 --> 00:36:21,511 we had to set up a chain reaction in mice. 624 00:36:21,580 --> 00:36:22,779 (Matt) 'Oh.' 625 00:36:24,183 --> 00:36:26,483 This radium capsule was in the captain's trousers. 626 00:36:26,552 --> 00:36:28,385 [device whirring] 627 00:36:28,453 --> 00:36:30,520 [whirring stops] 628 00:36:30,589 --> 00:36:32,255 We thought that frisker counter at the gate 629 00:36:32,324 --> 00:36:34,457 would keep an eye on you daydreamers. 630 00:36:36,895 --> 00:36:38,795 What do I do? Go home in a sheet? 631 00:36:38,864 --> 00:36:40,997 You might have gone home under one. 632 00:36:44,670 --> 00:36:46,836 - Goodnight, Mr. Cochran. - Goodnight. 633 00:36:46,905 --> 00:36:49,306 - Are you alright? - Perfect. 634 00:36:54,446 --> 00:36:56,346 Hey, what are you doing here? 635 00:36:56,415 --> 00:36:57,681 Oh, I tried to be a good girl 636 00:36:57,749 --> 00:37:00,116 but I couldn't stay away any longer. 637 00:37:00,185 --> 00:37:02,519 It's telepathy. 638 00:37:02,588 --> 00:37:04,054 I know you've been working 24 hours a day 639 00:37:04,122 --> 00:37:07,557 and haven't any time, but I just had to see you. 640 00:37:10,562 --> 00:37:11,895 What about your job? 641 00:37:11,964 --> 00:37:14,130 Oh, I told them I needed a few days off 642 00:37:14,199 --> 00:37:16,333 to chase down a man. 643 00:37:17,569 --> 00:37:20,003 Darling, what's wrong with you? 644 00:37:20,072 --> 00:37:23,373 You seem a million miles away and empty inside. 645 00:37:24,610 --> 00:37:26,576 I wish I could tell you, shorty. 646 00:37:27,746 --> 00:37:30,680 - Is it about your work? - Mm-hm. 647 00:37:30,749 --> 00:37:33,683 You could stop it and join the army. 648 00:37:33,752 --> 00:37:36,419 In many ways, the frontlines will be easier. 649 00:37:36,488 --> 00:37:39,589 Oh, I hate to see you like this. 650 00:37:39,658 --> 00:37:42,525 Well, you'll just have to trust me. 651 00:37:42,594 --> 00:37:45,495 Let me work things out for myself. 652 00:37:45,564 --> 00:37:47,764 I'll trust you, love you. 653 00:37:47,833 --> 00:37:51,101 Darling, the problems you can tell me, I still share. 654 00:37:51,169 --> 00:37:54,871 But if you mustn't talk about them, let's forget them. 655 00:37:54,940 --> 00:37:57,774 There are nicer things for the few moments we have. 656 00:37:59,411 --> 00:38:03,413 "This above all to thine own self be true. 657 00:38:03,482 --> 00:38:06,349 "And it must follow as the night the day. 658 00:38:06,418 --> 00:38:09,986 Thou canst not then be false to any man." 659 00:38:10,055 --> 00:38:12,555 And you better not be false to me either. 660 00:38:26,438 --> 00:38:28,571 - Morning, General Groves. - Morning. 661 00:38:30,842 --> 00:38:31,841 Nixon. 662 00:38:33,612 --> 00:38:35,712 - Yes, sir? - What are you doing here? 663 00:38:35,781 --> 00:38:39,549 I'm ordered to report to you, sir, as your assistance. 664 00:38:39,618 --> 00:38:42,319 Well, that's a pleasant surprise. 665 00:38:42,387 --> 00:38:43,620 I'll bet it is. 666 00:38:43,689 --> 00:38:45,355 - Morning, Jim. - 'Morning, sir.' 667 00:38:45,424 --> 00:38:47,057 I thought I'd get rid of you. 668 00:38:47,125 --> 00:38:49,125 Oh, that's hard to do, sir. 669 00:38:49,194 --> 00:38:51,094 Where have you been? 670 00:38:51,163 --> 00:38:53,363 Uh, well, different jobs. 671 00:38:53,432 --> 00:38:54,464 - Hello. - How do you do, sir? 672 00:38:54,533 --> 00:38:55,699 Look at those suckers. 673 00:38:55,767 --> 00:38:57,434 Stuck here for the duration behind a desk. 674 00:38:57,502 --> 00:39:00,403 It's tough to train for war for 20 years and not get to fight. 675 00:39:00,472 --> 00:39:01,771 Hard on the taxpayers too. 676 00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:03,707 I bet the real reason you wangled this job with me 677 00:39:03,775 --> 00:39:05,842 is because you heard I was heading overseas. 678 00:39:07,279 --> 00:39:08,945 - Good morning, general. - Morning, General Somervell. 679 00:39:09,014 --> 00:39:11,314 How'd do you like the most important job in this war? 680 00:39:11,383 --> 00:39:12,549 Who wouldn't? 681 00:39:12,617 --> 00:39:14,150 See General Styer in half an hour. 682 00:39:14,219 --> 00:39:15,785 You will take charge of S-11. 683 00:39:15,854 --> 00:39:16,886 S-11? 684 00:39:16,955 --> 00:39:18,822 Seven cum eleven, sounds like a lucky number. 685 00:39:18,890 --> 00:39:20,423 Before you're through with it 686 00:39:20,492 --> 00:39:23,793 you'll wish you'd been born a girl baby. 687 00:39:23,862 --> 00:39:25,695 S-11. 688 00:39:25,764 --> 00:39:28,431 Now that could have something to do with submarines. 689 00:39:28,500 --> 00:39:30,800 Submarines. 690 00:39:30,869 --> 00:39:33,870 The only real job in this war is landing in France. 691 00:39:38,377 --> 00:39:41,411 - Good morning, Miss O'Leary. - Good morning, general. 692 00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:43,046 Colonel. 693 00:39:43,115 --> 00:39:46,816 Morning, dreambug. Are you as sleepy as I am? 694 00:39:46,885 --> 00:39:49,619 The next time you keep me up till 3:00 a.m., I'll kill you. 695 00:39:49,688 --> 00:39:51,654 Well, I always say people should make the most 696 00:39:51,723 --> 00:39:54,190 of charming company, no matter what the time is. 697 00:39:54,259 --> 00:39:55,358 And you are charming. 698 00:39:55,427 --> 00:39:57,060 Uh, let's mind the sweet talk, colonel. 699 00:39:57,129 --> 00:39:59,095 Well, we had to celebrate this new and exalted 700 00:39:59,164 --> 00:40:00,530 rank of mine too. 701 00:40:00,599 --> 00:40:02,899 Which reminds me, where's my insignia? 702 00:40:02,968 --> 00:40:03,967 Oh. 703 00:40:05,537 --> 00:40:07,070 There you are. 704 00:40:07,139 --> 00:40:10,373 That's just so people will know who you belong to. 705 00:40:10,442 --> 00:40:12,675 Say, uh, how about tonight? 706 00:40:12,744 --> 00:40:15,812 [chuckles] You tap me strangely, sir. 707 00:40:15,881 --> 00:40:18,047 But sorry, Jeff, to hit this job at 8:00 a.m. 708 00:40:18,116 --> 00:40:21,184 a girl needs most of her beauty rest. 709 00:40:21,253 --> 00:40:22,685 'Maybe tomorrow.' 710 00:40:24,322 --> 00:40:26,923 Um, haven't you heard? 711 00:40:26,992 --> 00:40:29,592 General Groves is headed overseas tomorrow. 712 00:40:29,661 --> 00:40:32,395 Oh, no, Jeff, you're not.. Not so soon. 713 00:40:32,464 --> 00:40:34,998 Yeah. Afraid this is it. 714 00:40:35,066 --> 00:40:37,133 - Oh, I wish-- - Tonight? 715 00:40:38,336 --> 00:40:39,636 You bet. 716 00:40:41,072 --> 00:40:42,138 Colonel. 717 00:40:44,109 --> 00:40:46,943 You can spare little time for military affairs. 718 00:40:56,188 --> 00:40:58,154 Come on, Bill, tell us, what's that most important 719 00:40:58,223 --> 00:41:01,491 overseas job in this war? Kidnapping Hitler? 720 00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:03,426 The most important job in this war 721 00:41:03,495 --> 00:41:05,628 is right here in Washington. 722 00:41:05,697 --> 00:41:08,631 Now wait a minute. I'm a field soldier 723 00:41:08,700 --> 00:41:11,034 and I've done my share of desk work. 724 00:41:11,102 --> 00:41:13,803 This job will make construction of 100 training camps 725 00:41:13,872 --> 00:41:17,707 and this building seem like playing with baby's blocks. 726 00:41:17,776 --> 00:41:20,610 The president has signed a blank check for it. 727 00:41:20,679 --> 00:41:23,947 And I fill it in? No, thanks. 728 00:41:24,015 --> 00:41:25,448 (Styer) 'If you'll take this job' 729 00:41:25,517 --> 00:41:28,985 'you'll be doing everybody in Washington a favor.' 730 00:41:29,054 --> 00:41:31,821 Why pick on me? 731 00:41:31,890 --> 00:41:33,923 You're the only officer in the army who can think 732 00:41:33,992 --> 00:41:36,626 of spending 100 million bucks without fainting. 733 00:41:37,996 --> 00:41:40,096 Of course, it won't be easy 734 00:41:40,165 --> 00:41:43,199 working with the best scientists in the country. 735 00:41:43,268 --> 00:41:46,769 (Groves) 'Who's been running the show up till now?' 736 00:41:46,838 --> 00:41:48,638 Briggs at the Bureau of Standard. 737 00:41:48,707 --> 00:41:51,307 Bush and Conan. The OSRD. 738 00:41:51,376 --> 00:41:53,810 Other top men. 739 00:41:53,879 --> 00:41:56,579 It'd be like managing a three-ring circus 740 00:41:56,648 --> 00:41:58,948 'with big corporations for elephants.' 741 00:42:04,556 --> 00:42:05,855 What is it? 742 00:42:05,924 --> 00:42:08,057 Developing something to end this war. 743 00:42:08,126 --> 00:42:11,361 - An atomic bomb. - An atomic bomb? 744 00:42:11,429 --> 00:42:12,896 (Styer) 'That's it.' 745 00:42:15,133 --> 00:42:18,368 'You should be proud they want you to do the job.' 746 00:42:18,436 --> 00:42:20,970 I'd like to meet the guy that recommended me for it. 747 00:42:22,407 --> 00:42:24,073 What's been done so far? 748 00:42:24,142 --> 00:42:26,409 You can be brought up-to-date on the details 749 00:42:26,478 --> 00:42:28,344 by Colonel Nixon. 750 00:42:31,216 --> 00:42:35,618 So you know the details to date, colonel. 751 00:42:35,687 --> 00:42:36,753 Yes, sir. 752 00:42:36,821 --> 00:42:39,188 S-11. Submarines. 753 00:42:39,257 --> 00:42:42,225 Well, that S really stood for security, general. 754 00:42:42,294 --> 00:42:44,928 I'm sorry though, sir, I know how you feel. 755 00:42:44,996 --> 00:42:47,297 I had my heart set on overseas duty too. 756 00:42:51,136 --> 00:42:53,369 Where do I pick up the blank check? 757 00:42:53,438 --> 00:42:56,172 Not here. This one is mine. 758 00:42:56,241 --> 00:42:59,909 It's for $2 and 63 cents for garden seeds. 759 00:43:03,114 --> 00:43:04,380 S-11. 760 00:43:06,985 --> 00:43:09,185 - Chisholm, England. - Thank you. 761 00:43:09,254 --> 00:43:11,854 - Wyatt, England. - Thank you. 762 00:43:12,991 --> 00:43:14,991 Keller, Chrysler Corporation. 763 00:43:19,130 --> 00:43:22,632 Bush, Office of Scientific Research and Development. 764 00:43:22,701 --> 00:43:24,767 - Hello, Dr. Bush. - Hello. 765 00:43:24,836 --> 00:43:27,604 Rafferty, Union Carbide. 766 00:43:27,672 --> 00:43:30,139 D.C. Keith, Kellex Corporation. 767 00:43:32,077 --> 00:43:33,743 Willie, General Electric. 768 00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:36,846 'Thank you.' 769 00:43:37,916 --> 00:43:39,749 Carpenter, DuPont Company. 770 00:43:49,527 --> 00:43:51,561 [indistinct chatter] 771 00:43:51,630 --> 00:43:53,329 All present, general. 772 00:43:56,968 --> 00:43:59,235 Thank you for coming. Colonel. 773 00:44:01,940 --> 00:44:03,840 I'm about to read you formally and officially 774 00:44:03,908 --> 00:44:06,776 the Espionage Act of this country. 775 00:44:06,845 --> 00:44:08,745 "Whoever with the intent to use it to the entry 776 00:44:08,813 --> 00:44:11,047 "of the United States, communicates or attempts 777 00:44:11,116 --> 00:44:13,282 "to communicate to any foreign government 778 00:44:13,351 --> 00:44:16,052 "or any subject thereon, information relating 779 00:44:16,121 --> 00:44:18,488 "to the national defense in time of war 780 00:44:18,556 --> 00:44:19,922 "shall be punished by death 781 00:44:19,991 --> 00:44:22,458 or by imprisonment for not more than 30 years." 782 00:44:25,196 --> 00:44:28,498 Gentlemen, my commission required me to take an oath 783 00:44:28,566 --> 00:44:31,701 to defend the United States against all of its enemies 784 00:44:31,770 --> 00:44:33,369 whomsoever. 785 00:44:33,438 --> 00:44:36,272 I'm sure each of you would be glad to do the same. 786 00:44:38,143 --> 00:44:42,111 We're here to discuss a matter of great importance. 787 00:44:42,180 --> 00:44:46,482 Those who remain will be bound by the Espionage Act. 788 00:44:46,551 --> 00:44:48,785 Anyone who wishes to leave the room may now do so. 789 00:44:48,853 --> 00:44:50,987 This is not Germany. 790 00:44:57,862 --> 00:44:59,996 I take it we understand each other. 791 00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:05,968 Our country must have an atomic bomb. 792 00:45:06,037 --> 00:45:08,438 'It's your job and mine to get it.' 793 00:45:08,506 --> 00:45:11,107 'From today, the army is in charge of this project.' 794 00:45:11,176 --> 00:45:13,910 It will be mentioned only by its code name. 795 00:45:13,978 --> 00:45:15,778 Manhattan District. 796 00:45:17,182 --> 00:45:20,917 This must be the best kept secret in all history. 797 00:45:21,986 --> 00:45:23,853 Intelligence and security will be under 798 00:45:23,922 --> 00:45:27,323 Colonels Lansdale and Consodine. 799 00:45:27,392 --> 00:45:29,425 They will investigate the background and connections 800 00:45:29,494 --> 00:45:32,495 of every man working on it including myself. 801 00:45:35,166 --> 00:45:37,500 Everyone here has already been investigated 802 00:45:37,569 --> 00:45:40,470 or you wouldn't be in this room. 803 00:45:40,538 --> 00:45:42,338 I don't want to alarm you 804 00:45:42,407 --> 00:45:44,073 but anyone who even knows about this 805 00:45:44,142 --> 00:45:46,409 may be in danger from enemy agents. 806 00:45:46,478 --> 00:45:48,711 'From the time you leave here, you will constantly be' 807 00:45:48,780 --> 00:45:50,546 'under protected guard.' 808 00:45:50,615 --> 00:45:52,615 'That is only a minor phase of our work.' 809 00:45:52,684 --> 00:45:54,817 'Our men are with the European underground' 810 00:45:54,886 --> 00:45:58,821 reporting locations of Nazi laboratories and so forth. 811 00:45:58,890 --> 00:46:02,492 The Germans are making atomic progress. 812 00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:05,194 Our bombers in the RAF will try to slow that down 813 00:46:05,263 --> 00:46:07,396 to get you the time you need. 814 00:46:09,501 --> 00:46:14,103 Our plants must process mountains of uranium ore 815 00:46:14,172 --> 00:46:17,507 to get molehills of explosive material. 816 00:46:17,575 --> 00:46:19,942 The manpower and plants required 817 00:46:20,011 --> 00:46:23,112 make building the pyramid seem like child's play. 818 00:46:23,181 --> 00:46:25,648 We're still feeding our waste tumbling along. 819 00:46:25,717 --> 00:46:28,684 There are many scientific problems yet unsolved. 820 00:46:28,753 --> 00:46:31,287 I'm counting on you scientists to solve them. 821 00:46:31,356 --> 00:46:34,157 A plutonium plant needs tons of pure graphite. 822 00:46:34,225 --> 00:46:36,626 Power, cooling water, it must be isolated. 823 00:46:36,694 --> 00:46:38,394 It may endanger a large area. 824 00:46:38,463 --> 00:46:41,097 We've decided to build that plant near Coulee Dam 825 00:46:41,166 --> 00:46:43,833 and cool it with the waters of the Columbia River. 826 00:46:43,902 --> 00:46:45,735 Code name, Site W. 827 00:46:45,804 --> 00:46:48,171 What about U-235? 828 00:46:48,239 --> 00:46:49,739 We'll set up the two uranium factories 829 00:46:49,808 --> 00:46:53,442 and the plutonium pilot plant near TVA in Tennessee. 830 00:46:53,511 --> 00:46:55,211 Code name, Site X. 831 00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:58,347 Well, we need a laboratory and proving ground for this bomb. 832 00:46:58,416 --> 00:46:59,682 We got one? 833 00:46:59,751 --> 00:47:01,551 [chuckles] 834 00:47:01,619 --> 00:47:03,920 I don't believe I'll tell even you gentlemen 835 00:47:03,988 --> 00:47:05,321 where that will be. 836 00:47:05,390 --> 00:47:08,057 But you may refer to it as Site Y. 837 00:47:10,328 --> 00:47:13,729 This will be the biggest job ever undertaken by men. 838 00:47:13,798 --> 00:47:15,731 And it must be the fastest. 839 00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:17,567 We'll need many existing plants. 840 00:47:17,635 --> 00:47:22,238 You'll have to plan, design, build and run many new ones. 841 00:47:22,307 --> 00:47:24,807 You represent our top corporations. 842 00:47:24,876 --> 00:47:26,209 'Will you do the job?' 843 00:47:26,277 --> 00:47:28,444 But there are many things to be considered. 844 00:47:28,513 --> 00:47:32,982 First, my company's had no experience in this type of work. 845 00:47:33,051 --> 00:47:35,284 No one has had any experience in this work. 846 00:47:35,353 --> 00:47:37,620 We're overloaded with war contracts. 847 00:47:37,689 --> 00:47:40,723 Our manpower is stretched to the breaking point. 848 00:47:40,792 --> 00:47:44,627 Mr. Carpenter, no part of this project will be easy. 849 00:47:46,030 --> 00:47:48,197 They've laid down a challenge. 850 00:47:48,266 --> 00:47:51,434 That's something American industry has always picked up. 851 00:47:51,502 --> 00:47:53,202 But how can we? 852 00:47:53,271 --> 00:47:58,007 Think quicker, work faster, drive harder. 853 00:47:58,076 --> 00:48:00,643 General Groves, my company will throw its resources 854 00:48:00,712 --> 00:48:04,881 wholeheartedly into this project with two stipulations. 855 00:48:04,949 --> 00:48:06,682 What are they? 856 00:48:06,751 --> 00:48:08,017 All patents must be assigned 857 00:48:08,086 --> 00:48:10,152 to the people of the United States 858 00:48:10,221 --> 00:48:13,055 and our total profit shall be $1. 859 00:48:14,626 --> 00:48:16,559 You've made a deal. 860 00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:24,133 We've named this place Oak Ridge. 861 00:48:24,202 --> 00:48:26,335 Oak Ridge, Tennessee. 862 00:48:26,404 --> 00:48:29,105 The plutonium pilot plant, thymol laboratories 863 00:48:29,173 --> 00:48:30,439 goes over there. 864 00:48:30,508 --> 00:48:33,242 One uranium factory will go in that valley. 865 00:48:33,311 --> 00:48:35,177 The other goes beyond those hills. 866 00:48:35,246 --> 00:48:36,545 Imagine the industrial empire 867 00:48:36,614 --> 00:48:39,148 that'll feed material under this place. 868 00:48:39,217 --> 00:48:42,785 We'll put the intersection of Georgia and Tennessee avenues 869 00:48:42,854 --> 00:48:44,320 right there. 870 00:48:46,457 --> 00:48:50,726 From a stick in the dust, a secret city rose. 871 00:48:50,795 --> 00:48:55,298 Forests were felled for homes, schools, hospitals. 872 00:48:55,366 --> 00:48:57,700 Thousands of tons of steel. 873 00:48:57,769 --> 00:49:00,002 Millions of heated lumber. 874 00:49:00,071 --> 00:49:03,272 And there was always security. 875 00:49:03,341 --> 00:49:05,341 Men and women, builders, mechanics 876 00:49:05,410 --> 00:49:08,010 electricians, plumbers, carpenters. 877 00:49:08,079 --> 00:49:12,214 Not knowing what they were building because of security. 878 00:49:12,283 --> 00:49:14,283 Security wherever they were. 879 00:49:14,352 --> 00:49:18,654 Security at home. Security abroad. 880 00:49:18,723 --> 00:49:22,158 Secret, secret, secret. 881 00:49:26,297 --> 00:49:28,764 From everywhere came scientists. 882 00:49:28,833 --> 00:49:32,234 From the laboratories, from industry, from the army 883 00:49:32,303 --> 00:49:35,338 from colleges, from technical schools. 884 00:49:35,406 --> 00:49:37,940 For this was a young man's project. 885 00:49:38,009 --> 00:49:41,344 They knew why they were there, but they were silent 886 00:49:41,412 --> 00:49:43,379 because of security. 887 00:49:43,448 --> 00:49:47,249 Secret, secret, secret. 888 00:49:47,318 --> 00:49:48,884 A stick in the dust 889 00:49:48,953 --> 00:49:52,588 became the fifth largest city in the state. 890 00:49:52,657 --> 00:49:54,623 Working, working 891 00:49:54,692 --> 00:49:58,327 working on mountains of pitchblende from Canada. 892 00:49:58,396 --> 00:50:02,598 Refined into a tiny stick of something. 893 00:50:02,667 --> 00:50:06,669 Which someday might change the course of the world. 894 00:50:22,453 --> 00:50:24,720 How long do you think we'll be here? 895 00:50:24,789 --> 00:50:26,722 Couple of centuries, I hope. 896 00:50:28,559 --> 00:50:30,493 End of the line. 897 00:50:33,765 --> 00:50:34,830 Shoes. 898 00:50:48,479 --> 00:50:49,645 Stockings? 899 00:50:52,850 --> 00:50:54,150 Shoes. 900 00:50:56,687 --> 00:50:59,288 And now the mud. 901 00:51:01,025 --> 00:51:03,292 Do we play hide and go seek or run sheepy run? 902 00:51:03,361 --> 00:51:05,861 That isn't mud, shorty, it's glue. 903 00:51:05,930 --> 00:51:09,365 Ah, much easier to wash your feet than clean your shoes. 904 00:51:09,434 --> 00:51:11,867 - What? No piggyback? - Come on. 905 00:51:18,976 --> 00:51:20,242 - Matt. - Just testing. 906 00:51:20,311 --> 00:51:22,078 They come through every once in a while. 907 00:51:22,146 --> 00:51:23,479 Testing for what? 908 00:51:23,548 --> 00:51:26,315 You saw the sign right there. No questions. 909 00:51:26,384 --> 00:51:28,751 I feel like I'm married to Superman. 910 00:51:28,820 --> 00:51:31,420 - Oh, here it is. - Ah, breathtaking. 911 00:51:32,723 --> 00:51:34,390 Home sweet home. 912 00:51:39,330 --> 00:51:40,729 (Matt) 'Ah!' 913 00:51:40,798 --> 00:51:42,498 [Anne laughs] 914 00:51:47,305 --> 00:51:49,004 Sort of bare, but at least we're together. 915 00:51:49,073 --> 00:51:52,007 Well, families with two kids get much larger quarters. 916 00:51:52,076 --> 00:51:53,609 Twins run in our family. 917 00:51:53,678 --> 00:51:56,846 Wow. Think of the time we'll save. 918 00:51:58,649 --> 00:52:00,783 - General. - Come in, Rand. 919 00:52:04,055 --> 00:52:06,522 Pull up a chair, gentlemen. 920 00:52:06,591 --> 00:52:08,791 Well, Rand, what's on your mind? 921 00:52:08,860 --> 00:52:11,694 Process A is an absolute failure, general. 922 00:52:12,964 --> 00:52:14,430 We've no chance to make it work? 923 00:52:14,499 --> 00:52:17,733 I hate to say this, but we all agree it's no good. 924 00:52:20,438 --> 00:52:22,004 Then we'll abandon it. 925 00:52:22,073 --> 00:52:25,908 But, general, we've already spent 20 million dollars. 926 00:52:25,977 --> 00:52:27,743 Can't ride a dead horse. 927 00:52:27,812 --> 00:52:30,679 We put your people to work at the electromagnetic plant. 928 00:52:30,748 --> 00:52:32,381 That looks like a dead horse, too, general. 929 00:52:32,450 --> 00:52:33,916 What's wrong with it? 930 00:52:33,985 --> 00:52:36,485 We'll never get enough copper to wire those electromagnets. 931 00:52:36,554 --> 00:52:38,521 We've combed every source. 932 00:52:38,589 --> 00:52:41,390 Copper. Copper alloys. 933 00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:45,961 Nickel, chrome, silver. 934 00:52:46,030 --> 00:52:47,530 Silver. 935 00:52:47,598 --> 00:52:50,366 Silver is as good a conductor as copper. 936 00:52:50,434 --> 00:52:52,902 'How much do you need?' 937 00:52:52,970 --> 00:52:55,137 Six million pounds. 938 00:52:55,206 --> 00:52:56,505 Six.. 939 00:52:58,142 --> 00:53:00,075 Six million pounds of silver? 940 00:53:00,144 --> 00:53:04,747 And that's 100 million bucks. 941 00:53:04,815 --> 00:53:08,017 [chuckles] Another 100 million dollars. 942 00:53:08,085 --> 00:53:09,652 Holy smoke. 943 00:53:09,720 --> 00:53:11,754 General, here's another one in your lap. 944 00:53:11,822 --> 00:53:15,357 There's not a mill in America that can roll 3 inch stainless. 945 00:53:15,426 --> 00:53:18,561 - Then build one. - Yes, sir. 946 00:53:18,629 --> 00:53:22,198 We've been on the brink of failure too often to weaken now. 947 00:53:22,266 --> 00:53:24,300 Fermi. 948 00:53:24,368 --> 00:53:25,634 More trouble? 949 00:53:25,703 --> 00:53:27,970 Dr. Compton sent Major Gregor down here. 950 00:53:28,039 --> 00:53:30,439 The chemists finally have a practical method 951 00:53:30,508 --> 00:53:32,775 for extracting plutonium from uranium. 952 00:53:32,843 --> 00:53:33,909 What? 953 00:53:33,978 --> 00:53:36,946 Don't tell me we started to run in a stretch. 954 00:53:37,014 --> 00:53:38,981 Ha-ha. 955 00:53:39,050 --> 00:53:40,549 We're back in business. 956 00:53:40,618 --> 00:53:42,851 Mr. Carpenter of DuPont is here on an inspection trip. 957 00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:46,055 Ask him to step in right away, please. 958 00:53:46,123 --> 00:53:49,858 And, Tom, about that silver. 959 00:53:49,927 --> 00:53:51,260 The treasury. 960 00:53:51,329 --> 00:53:53,429 The treasury department has plenty of silver. 961 00:53:53,497 --> 00:53:55,864 I'll get them to lend us the six million pounds you need. 962 00:53:55,933 --> 00:53:56,932 I'll sign for it. 963 00:53:57,001 --> 00:53:58,901 I hope your credit is good, general. 964 00:53:58,970 --> 00:54:01,770 If they bark, I'll put it up to the White House. 965 00:54:01,839 --> 00:54:03,672 We won't even charge the treasury department 966 00:54:03,741 --> 00:54:05,641 for taking care of it and we'll give it back to them 967 00:54:05,710 --> 00:54:07,142 when we're finished with it. 968 00:54:07,211 --> 00:54:08,544 Now get your people to work. 969 00:54:08,613 --> 00:54:10,346 - And, Urey. - Right, general. 970 00:54:10,414 --> 00:54:12,748 Oh, Fermi, sit down just a minute. 971 00:54:12,817 --> 00:54:15,484 Mr. Carpenter, the chemists have finally 972 00:54:15,553 --> 00:54:17,353 licked plutonium extraction. 973 00:54:17,421 --> 00:54:19,121 'We can go ahead with the Hanford plant.' 974 00:54:19,190 --> 00:54:21,490 Well. 975 00:54:21,559 --> 00:54:23,559 What about moving the people who live in that area? 976 00:54:23,628 --> 00:54:26,161 It covers 700 square miles. 977 00:54:26,230 --> 00:54:28,530 That's your job, Jeff. 978 00:54:28,599 --> 00:54:30,065 Get those 18,000 people out of there. 979 00:54:30,134 --> 00:54:31,867 Locate them in new homes, make them happy. 980 00:54:31,936 --> 00:54:33,702 - But don't tell 'em why. - Yes, sir. 981 00:54:33,771 --> 00:54:36,405 Major Gregor and Cochran will go along to help. 982 00:54:36,474 --> 00:54:39,675 - But, uh-- - Yes? 983 00:54:39,744 --> 00:54:41,877 Well, get going. There's a plane waiting at the airport. 984 00:54:41,946 --> 00:54:43,712 Take off the second you get there. 985 00:54:43,781 --> 00:54:45,414 I'll wire Dr. Compton to meet you in Hanford. 986 00:54:45,483 --> 00:54:46,849 Yes, sir. 987 00:54:52,990 --> 00:54:55,224 I, uh, take it Anne got in today. 988 00:54:55,293 --> 00:54:56,759 - Half an hour ago. - Oh, boy. 989 00:54:56,827 --> 00:54:58,594 You certainly have a beautiful home life. 990 00:54:58,663 --> 00:55:01,363 - Touch and go. - Just go. 991 00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:05,367 In the far northwest, thousands of families 992 00:55:05,436 --> 00:55:08,771 living on the planes on ranches in small towns 993 00:55:08,839 --> 00:55:12,041 suddenly were asked to pull up stakes and move. 994 00:55:12,109 --> 00:55:15,678 So they left with their children, with their cattle 995 00:55:15,746 --> 00:55:19,214 with their family pets, with all their belongings. 996 00:55:19,283 --> 00:55:22,284 They would be given new homes, new lands. 997 00:55:22,353 --> 00:55:25,254 They were told only that their sacrifice 998 00:55:25,323 --> 00:55:27,656 would help win the war. 999 00:55:27,725 --> 00:55:30,025 So without question, without protest 1000 00:55:30,094 --> 00:55:33,128 without even knowing that they were helping to fashion 1001 00:55:33,197 --> 00:55:36,965 the greatest weapon of all the weapons of war 1002 00:55:37,034 --> 00:55:38,467 they left. 1003 00:55:59,990 --> 00:56:01,757 Hello, general? 1004 00:56:01,826 --> 00:56:04,393 General, we must have 200 houses at once. 1005 00:56:04,462 --> 00:56:05,994 Two hundred houses? What for? 1006 00:56:06,063 --> 00:56:08,397 So that the 200 precision tool makers I need 1007 00:56:08,466 --> 00:56:12,468 will have a place to live after you get them for me. 1008 00:56:12,536 --> 00:56:14,069 After I.. 1009 00:56:14,138 --> 00:56:15,904 Two hundred precision tool makers? 1010 00:56:15,973 --> 00:56:17,706 There aren't that many in the country. 1011 00:56:17,775 --> 00:56:19,842 Captain Parsons and I agree that to design 1012 00:56:19,910 --> 00:56:23,479 and build the gadget, we need them immediately. 1013 00:56:23,547 --> 00:56:26,281 - I'll see what I can do. - Thank you. 1014 00:56:26,350 --> 00:56:27,850 Thank you. 1015 00:56:27,918 --> 00:56:30,753 There's still a few details I've designed to work out. 1016 00:56:30,821 --> 00:56:32,521 Hello, Jeff. We've been expecting you. 1017 00:56:32,590 --> 00:56:34,289 - Hello, Oppy. - Hey, Matt. He got here. 1018 00:56:34,358 --> 00:56:35,758 - Hello, Matt. - Hi, Jeff. 1019 00:56:35,826 --> 00:56:37,559 Parsons. 1020 00:56:37,628 --> 00:56:40,629 This is the first uranium 235.. 1021 00:56:40,698 --> 00:56:42,030 Will you sign these papers, Oppy? 1022 00:56:42,099 --> 00:56:43,265 Oh, of course. 1023 00:56:43,334 --> 00:56:46,068 I, uh, hope you know the combination. I don't. 1024 00:56:46,137 --> 00:56:48,604 We counted on this arriving on February 7 1025 00:56:48,672 --> 00:56:52,541 so we made the combination 2745. 1026 00:56:52,610 --> 00:56:55,210 Well, it's like America met a deadline. 1027 00:56:55,279 --> 00:56:57,379 And there's only a few 100 more to meet. 1028 00:56:57,448 --> 00:56:59,381 Forty-five. 1029 00:56:59,450 --> 00:57:01,650 - There you are. - Thank you. 1030 00:57:15,599 --> 00:57:17,733 [dramatic music] 1031 00:57:34,785 --> 00:57:37,252 Finally, we're in the ballgame. 1032 00:57:39,390 --> 00:57:41,089 Ammo the man on first base. 1033 00:57:41,158 --> 00:57:43,826 Joe, Ski, Matt, everybody come here, will you, please? 1034 00:57:45,629 --> 00:57:48,197 - Uranium 235. - 235. 1035 00:57:48,265 --> 00:57:50,132 Few men have ever seen it except through a microscope. 1036 00:57:50,201 --> 00:57:52,634 Well, I hope its kick is bigger than its size. 1037 00:57:52,703 --> 00:57:54,937 Millions of fracas came in at Oak Ridge 1038 00:57:55,005 --> 00:57:57,539 and they could be held with a pair of tweezers. 1039 00:58:00,344 --> 00:58:01,310 July? 1040 00:58:03,314 --> 00:58:05,247 No, I've nothing more. 1041 00:58:06,684 --> 00:58:08,250 Thank you, Steve. 1042 00:58:11,288 --> 00:58:14,256 The German rockets are hitting England hard. 1043 00:58:14,325 --> 00:58:15,757 What about Japan? 1044 00:58:15,826 --> 00:58:18,193 Psychological warfare has convinced the Japs 1045 00:58:18,262 --> 00:58:20,896 will fight right down to the women and children. 1046 00:58:20,965 --> 00:58:22,764 Steve said something about July. 1047 00:58:22,833 --> 00:58:26,101 They're testing the atomic bomb then. 1048 00:58:26,170 --> 00:58:27,503 At last. 1049 00:58:27,571 --> 00:58:29,071 I'm sure it will work. 1050 00:58:29,139 --> 00:58:31,940 All that effort must bring success. 1051 00:58:32,009 --> 00:58:35,043 Our latest intelligence worries me. 1052 00:58:35,112 --> 00:58:38,213 Considering the damage plane rockets do 1053 00:58:38,282 --> 00:58:41,717 it'll be murder if Hitler comes up with an atomic one. 1054 00:58:41,785 --> 00:58:44,453 Sounds horrible. 1055 00:58:44,522 --> 00:58:47,890 I better send a long memo to Vice President Truman 1056 00:58:47,958 --> 00:58:51,360 to let him in on Manhattan District. 1057 00:58:51,428 --> 00:58:54,129 I've written him enough short ones to keep out of it. 1058 00:58:54,198 --> 00:58:55,664 [chuckles] 1059 00:59:00,237 --> 00:59:01,069 My dear Harry. 1060 00:59:01,138 --> 00:59:03,272 The artist is ready, Mr. President. 1061 00:59:06,143 --> 00:59:08,277 Remind me to finish that memo. 1062 00:59:10,581 --> 00:59:14,049 One thing I'm sure of, our men are doing their best. 1063 00:59:14,118 --> 00:59:18,587 If it works and we win the race, we'll be able to end the war. 1064 00:59:18,656 --> 00:59:20,255 I hope so. 1065 00:59:24,762 --> 00:59:27,396 There's, uh, there's an additional thought 1066 00:59:27,464 --> 00:59:30,866 I want to incorporate in my Jefferson Day speech. 1067 00:59:30,935 --> 00:59:32,701 Yes. 1068 00:59:32,770 --> 00:59:35,737 We seek peace. 1069 00:59:35,806 --> 00:59:37,806 Enduring peace. 1070 00:59:38,709 --> 00:59:41,977 More than an end to war 1071 00:59:42,046 --> 00:59:46,248 we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. 1072 00:59:47,351 --> 00:59:48,784 Yes. 1073 00:59:48,852 --> 00:59:53,021 An end to this brutal 1074 00:59:53,090 --> 00:59:55,190 inhuman 1075 00:59:55,259 --> 00:59:58,260 and thoroughly impractical method 1076 00:59:58,329 --> 01:00:01,930 of settling the differences between governments. 1077 01:00:04,101 --> 01:00:05,300 Yes. 1078 01:00:23,821 --> 01:00:25,854 [dog whimpers] 1079 01:00:32,096 --> 01:00:35,330 No more for him life-storming conflicts 1080 01:00:35,399 --> 01:00:38,000 nor victory nor defeat. 1081 01:00:38,068 --> 01:00:40,168 No more time's dark events 1082 01:00:40,237 --> 01:00:44,006 charging like ceaseless clouds across the sky. 1083 01:00:53,017 --> 01:00:54,883 [indistinct chatter] 1084 01:00:54,952 --> 01:00:57,085 [knock on door] 1085 01:00:59,890 --> 01:01:03,492 - Hello, general. - Hello, Oppy. Fermi. 1086 01:01:03,560 --> 01:01:05,827 General. Matt. 1087 01:01:05,896 --> 01:01:07,329 I'm glad you could get here for the verdict. 1088 01:01:07,398 --> 01:01:09,765 - Thank you. General Farrell. - How do you do? 1089 01:01:09,833 --> 01:01:11,933 - Dr. Oppenheimer. - Oppy. 1090 01:01:12,002 --> 01:01:14,136 General Farrell will be in charge of field operations. 1091 01:01:14,204 --> 01:01:16,338 - If we have them. - Right. 1092 01:01:16,407 --> 01:01:18,440 - Should we go ahead? - Please. 1093 01:01:20,077 --> 01:01:22,577 - 'Good evening, general.' - Hello, colonel. 1094 01:01:22,646 --> 01:01:24,146 Good evening, sir. 1095 01:01:27,985 --> 01:01:30,819 The bomb position here is called Zero. 1096 01:01:34,224 --> 01:01:37,426 These observation posts are South-10 1097 01:01:37,494 --> 01:01:39,428 'West-10 and North-10.' 1098 01:01:39,496 --> 01:01:43,298 Each is 10,000 yards from the explosion. 1099 01:01:43,367 --> 01:01:45,167 5.7 miles. 1100 01:01:45,235 --> 01:01:47,636 Complete recording instruments will be at Jumbo 1101 01:01:47,705 --> 01:01:50,105 and at all observation points. 1102 01:01:50,174 --> 01:01:54,309 'Barometric observers will be here, here, here and here.' 1103 01:01:54,378 --> 01:01:57,612 All will measure the intensity of the explosion 1104 01:01:57,681 --> 01:01:59,247 if there is one. 1105 01:01:59,316 --> 01:02:01,450 I understand I'm to be at base camp. 1106 01:02:01,518 --> 01:02:03,552 And General Farrell with you at control station. 1107 01:02:03,620 --> 01:02:05,153 That's correct. 1108 01:02:05,222 --> 01:02:08,156 These are concrete camera stations. 1109 01:02:08,225 --> 01:02:11,259 The closest camera is 6 miles from Zero. 1110 01:02:11,328 --> 01:02:12,861 The explosion should produce a light 1111 01:02:12,930 --> 01:02:14,229 unlike anything ever seen before 1112 01:02:14,298 --> 01:02:17,532 so do not look directly at the flash. 1113 01:02:17,601 --> 01:02:20,669 Uh, further safety precautions will be broadcast later. 1114 01:02:20,738 --> 01:02:22,070 Oh, how about the people around here? 1115 01:02:22,139 --> 01:02:23,405 This is a pretty desolate country. 1116 01:02:23,474 --> 01:02:26,174 Nearest city is Albuquerque, 120 miles away. 1117 01:02:26,243 --> 01:02:27,843 There is a small settlement here. 1118 01:02:27,911 --> 01:02:29,578 It's 30 miles from Zero. 1119 01:02:29,646 --> 01:02:31,179 Their only danger is if 1120 01:02:31,248 --> 01:02:33,014 radioactive dust should settle on them. 1121 01:02:33,083 --> 01:02:36,251 'If that appears probable, we plan to move them by truck.' 1122 01:02:36,320 --> 01:02:38,820 Suppose the dust drifts over us, general? 1123 01:02:40,357 --> 01:02:43,258 Well, I don't know about you, but I intend to run. 1124 01:02:43,327 --> 01:02:44,960 [chuckles] 1125 01:02:45,028 --> 01:02:47,162 Well, boys, let's get to our posts 1126 01:02:47,231 --> 01:02:50,232 and start assembling the first atomic bomb. 1127 01:02:53,437 --> 01:02:55,370 [thunder rumbling] 1128 01:03:15,592 --> 01:03:17,526 [thunderbolt] 1129 01:03:23,500 --> 01:03:25,901 I'm glad it was only the dummy bomb. 1130 01:03:25,969 --> 01:03:27,369 - Safe to open my eyes? - Huh? 1131 01:03:27,437 --> 01:03:29,905 I've always been scared of lightning. 1132 01:03:30,808 --> 01:03:32,941 [thunder rumbling] 1133 01:03:35,479 --> 01:03:36,878 Attention! 1134 01:03:39,750 --> 01:03:42,551 Turn it to your right. 1135 01:03:42,619 --> 01:03:44,052 It fits. 1136 01:03:45,656 --> 01:03:47,589 Make that connection tighter. 1137 01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:51,026 Tight. 1138 01:03:52,496 --> 01:03:54,429 [whirring] 1139 01:03:56,633 --> 01:03:58,033 Close her up. 1140 01:04:15,886 --> 01:04:18,019 [whirring] 1141 01:04:34,171 --> 01:04:36,638 Gee, Mack, I sure wish I could move. 1142 01:04:38,475 --> 01:04:39,708 Me too. 1143 01:04:42,546 --> 01:04:44,546 Alright, boys, let's get to our stations. 1144 01:04:44,615 --> 01:04:47,449 We'll clear this area except for the final party. 1145 01:05:03,901 --> 01:05:06,034 [whirring] 1146 01:05:33,931 --> 01:05:36,064 [whirring intensifies] 1147 01:05:43,140 --> 01:05:45,173 [whirring intensifies] 1148 01:06:12,102 --> 01:06:14,602 - Okay, Jeff! - Okay! 1149 01:06:26,016 --> 01:06:27,382 All yours. 1150 01:06:44,201 --> 01:06:47,068 I can't help thinking, suppose this bomb 1151 01:06:47,137 --> 01:06:49,170 sets off the oxygen and nitrogen atoms 1152 01:06:49,239 --> 01:06:51,639 and starts a chain reaction in the air. 1153 01:06:51,708 --> 01:06:53,575 Chances are less than one in a million. 1154 01:06:53,643 --> 01:06:57,078 - How fast would it travel? - Thousands of miles a second. 1155 01:06:57,147 --> 01:06:58,713 That means a chain reaction in the air 1156 01:06:58,782 --> 01:07:00,715 would go round the world in a second or two. 1157 01:07:00,784 --> 01:07:02,250 That's right. 1158 01:07:08,759 --> 01:07:10,592 All set, sir. 1159 01:07:10,660 --> 01:07:12,594 Well, this is it. 1160 01:07:15,832 --> 01:07:18,967 Farrell, good luck. 1161 01:07:19,036 --> 01:07:20,735 I'll be 4 miles further away. 1162 01:07:20,804 --> 01:07:23,738 General, if air chain reaction happens 1163 01:07:23,807 --> 01:07:26,341 that won't be a safe margin. 1164 01:07:26,410 --> 01:07:28,676 And remember, you'll be in the open. 1165 01:07:28,745 --> 01:07:30,678 [thunder rumbling] 1166 01:07:40,757 --> 01:07:42,924 This storm won't clear for an hour, doctor. 1167 01:07:42,993 --> 01:07:45,293 - Thank you. - That's great. 1168 01:07:48,698 --> 01:07:52,033 Won't be able to see or photograph much in this. 1169 01:07:52,102 --> 01:07:54,202 We'll set a new zero hour. 1170 01:07:54,271 --> 01:07:56,805 - 5:30. - Better get going. 1171 01:08:05,048 --> 01:08:07,182 Go ahead, Dr. Wyatt. 1172 01:08:11,121 --> 01:08:13,688 Attention, all observers. 1173 01:08:13,757 --> 01:08:15,857 'At minus two minutes, all exposed personnel' 1174 01:08:15,926 --> 01:08:18,726 'will lie on the ground eyes and face down' 1175 01:08:18,795 --> 01:08:21,096 'head away from Zero.' 1176 01:08:21,164 --> 01:08:24,732 It is now zero minus nine minutes. 1177 01:08:24,801 --> 01:08:28,303 You must now apply sunburn lotion to face and hands. 1178 01:08:30,474 --> 01:08:32,607 'Put on your special glasses.' 1179 01:08:34,811 --> 01:08:37,145 'You must at all times shield your eyes' 1180 01:08:37,214 --> 01:08:39,347 'from the light of the explosion.' 1181 01:08:40,717 --> 01:08:43,718 'It is now zero minus seven minutes.' 1182 01:08:49,659 --> 01:08:51,159 'The hazard from injuries to the skin' 1183 01:08:51,228 --> 01:08:53,461 'is best overcome by covering up.' 1184 01:08:53,530 --> 01:08:55,530 'Use lotion freely.' 1185 01:08:57,501 --> 01:08:59,801 'It is now zero minus five minutes.' 1186 01:09:09,146 --> 01:09:11,746 It is now zero minus two minutes. 1187 01:09:11,815 --> 01:09:15,683 'The sound will not reach you until seconds after the flash' 1188 01:09:15,752 --> 01:09:18,219 depending on your distance from the tower. 1189 01:09:20,357 --> 01:09:22,490 'It is now zero minus one minute.' 1190 01:09:32,469 --> 01:09:34,669 Cut in the automatic control. 1191 01:09:34,738 --> 01:09:37,071 (Dr. Wyatt) 'It is now zero minus ten seconds.' 1192 01:09:37,140 --> 01:09:38,640 'Nine seconds.' 1193 01:09:38,708 --> 01:09:39,974 'Eight seconds.' 1194 01:09:40,043 --> 01:09:41,209 'Seven seconds.' 1195 01:09:41,278 --> 01:09:42,777 'Six seconds.' 1196 01:09:42,846 --> 01:09:43,945 'Five.' 1197 01:09:44,014 --> 01:09:45,513 'Four.' 1198 01:09:45,582 --> 01:09:46,881 'Three.' 1199 01:09:46,950 --> 01:09:48,550 'Two.' 1200 01:09:48,618 --> 01:09:49,584 'One.' 1201 01:09:54,090 --> 01:09:57,025 [explosion] 1202 01:10:00,363 --> 01:10:03,498 [intense music] 1203 01:10:59,189 --> 01:11:00,655 The heat. 1204 01:11:11,868 --> 01:11:15,403 - Oh, oh, it was an earthquake. - It's an invasion! 1205 01:11:15,472 --> 01:11:18,206 Head on collision between two army bombers. 1206 01:11:18,275 --> 01:11:20,508 Saw 'em plain as day. 1207 01:11:20,577 --> 01:11:22,010 By God, they're coming. 1208 01:11:22,078 --> 01:11:24,545 Come over the barn. It's about 10 miles from here. 1209 01:11:24,614 --> 01:11:27,515 [wind howling] 1210 01:11:28,385 --> 01:11:31,519 [dramatic music] 1211 01:11:36,126 --> 01:11:39,594 It's equal to at least 20,000 tons of TNT. 1212 01:11:56,913 --> 01:11:58,713 [whistles] 1213 01:11:58,782 --> 01:12:01,082 Well. 1214 01:12:01,151 --> 01:12:04,085 [laughs] How did you survive today, little one? 1215 01:12:04,154 --> 01:12:08,156 Did you wear dark glasses and put your feet towards the blast? 1216 01:12:08,224 --> 01:12:10,725 You know, at first I thought the bomb might be terrible enough 1217 01:12:10,794 --> 01:12:13,528 to make man choose between peace and destruction. 1218 01:12:14,731 --> 01:12:16,397 Now I've seen it. 1219 01:12:16,466 --> 01:12:18,900 I wish we hadn't made it. 1220 01:12:18,968 --> 01:12:21,269 Robert, a lot of men not yet born 1221 01:12:21,338 --> 01:12:24,138 will be grateful to you for this day. 1222 01:12:24,207 --> 01:12:25,606 Thank you, Van. 1223 01:12:25,675 --> 01:12:27,608 I hope they'll have reason to be grateful. 1224 01:12:27,677 --> 01:12:30,778 We have unleashed a force that can be very good 1225 01:12:30,847 --> 01:12:32,680 or very evil. 1226 01:12:32,749 --> 01:12:34,515 All the energy of the universe 1227 01:12:34,584 --> 01:12:36,918 locked up since the beginning of time. 1228 01:12:36,986 --> 01:12:39,287 Now we've finally turned the key. 1229 01:12:39,356 --> 01:12:41,923 I wish President Roosevelt could've lived to have seen it. 1230 01:12:41,991 --> 01:12:45,093 Yes, he would've been very happy to know that now it seems 1231 01:12:45,161 --> 01:12:47,261 certain we can hurry the end of the war. 1232 01:12:47,330 --> 01:12:49,597 Oppy, did you really have no worry 1233 01:12:49,666 --> 01:12:52,200 how far this reaction might go? 1234 01:12:52,268 --> 01:12:54,135 In my head, no. 1235 01:12:54,204 --> 01:12:56,170 In my heart, yes. 1236 01:13:17,327 --> 01:13:18,593 [intercom buzzes] 1237 01:13:19,963 --> 01:13:21,562 - 'Yes?' - 'Mr. President.' 1238 01:13:21,631 --> 01:13:24,031 (male #2) 'Your press secretary, Mr. Ross, is here.' 1239 01:13:24,100 --> 01:13:26,167 (President Truman) 'Send him in, please.' 1240 01:13:30,907 --> 01:13:32,940 - Mr. President. - Charlie. 1241 01:13:33,009 --> 01:13:35,076 I have just distributed to the press the text 1242 01:13:35,145 --> 01:13:38,646 of the Potsdam Declaration, the ultimatum to Japan. 1243 01:13:38,715 --> 01:13:40,548 What was their reaction? 1244 01:13:40,617 --> 01:13:44,018 Great approval and some curiosity. 1245 01:13:44,087 --> 01:13:45,720 Why curiosity? 1246 01:13:45,789 --> 01:13:47,722 Why shouldn't we and Great Britain and China 1247 01:13:47,791 --> 01:13:49,791 call on Japan for immediate surrender 1248 01:13:49,859 --> 01:13:52,326 now that Germany's beaten? 1249 01:13:52,395 --> 01:13:54,629 That last sentence, Mr. President. 1250 01:13:56,366 --> 01:13:57,999 "The alternative for Japan 1251 01:13:58,067 --> 01:14:01,502 is prompt and utter destruction." 1252 01:14:01,571 --> 01:14:04,338 That word prompt struck them. 1253 01:14:04,407 --> 01:14:07,074 Some of the men seem to think that it means that, uh 1254 01:14:07,143 --> 01:14:10,745 we have more B-29s than anybody knows. 1255 01:14:10,814 --> 01:14:12,480 Some of the others think, uh 1256 01:14:12,549 --> 01:14:15,349 we've got some mysterious new weapon. 1257 01:14:15,418 --> 01:14:18,052 Those newspapermen are shrewd guessers. 1258 01:14:18,121 --> 01:14:21,889 - Sir? - Sit down, Charlie. 1259 01:14:21,958 --> 01:14:25,493 I wanna tell you our nation's top secret. 1260 01:14:25,562 --> 01:14:27,829 It must remain just that, top secret. 1261 01:14:27,897 --> 01:14:29,864 Of course. 1262 01:14:29,933 --> 01:14:32,867 We have developed the most fearful weapon 1263 01:14:32,936 --> 01:14:35,536 'ever forged by man.' 1264 01:14:35,605 --> 01:14:37,905 'An atomic bomb.' 1265 01:14:39,943 --> 01:14:41,876 Even the word is frightening. 1266 01:14:41,945 --> 01:14:44,946 It's been tested and it works. 1267 01:14:45,014 --> 01:14:48,616 It's a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. 1268 01:14:48,685 --> 01:14:51,586 In peacetime, atomic energy could be used 1269 01:14:51,654 --> 01:14:53,988 to bring about a golden age. 1270 01:14:54,057 --> 01:14:56,457 Such an age of prosperity and well-being 1271 01:14:56,526 --> 01:14:58,759 as the world has never known. 1272 01:14:58,828 --> 01:15:03,865 In war, this same energy has destructive power 1273 01:15:03,933 --> 01:15:06,501 almost beyond the comprehension of man. 1274 01:15:06,569 --> 01:15:08,069 It's clear now what the words 1275 01:15:08,137 --> 01:15:11,339 prompt and utter destruction mean. 1276 01:15:11,407 --> 01:15:15,376 Thank God, we've got the bomb and not the Japanese. 1277 01:15:15,445 --> 01:15:18,079 If they had it, they'd surely use it on us. 1278 01:15:18,147 --> 01:15:20,014 'That's one argument for our using it, Charlie' 1279 01:15:20,083 --> 01:15:22,650 'but it's not the decisive argument.' 1280 01:15:22,719 --> 01:15:25,052 The whole thing is terrifying. 1281 01:15:25,121 --> 01:15:28,222 You must've spent many sleepless nights over it. 1282 01:15:28,291 --> 01:15:30,191 I've consulted with Mr. Churchill 1283 01:15:30,260 --> 01:15:33,027 with all my top military and naval advisors. 1284 01:15:33,096 --> 01:15:35,997 I've talked with the civilian heads of our war effort. 1285 01:15:36,065 --> 01:15:37,498 And all these advisors tell me 1286 01:15:37,567 --> 01:15:41,235 the bomb will shorten the war by at least a year. 1287 01:15:41,304 --> 01:15:43,304 Where are we going to use it? 1288 01:15:43,373 --> 01:15:45,773 That's another question I had to think about. 1289 01:15:45,842 --> 01:15:48,709 The army has selected several Japanese cities 1290 01:15:48,778 --> 01:15:50,878 as prime military targets 1291 01:15:50,947 --> 01:15:53,314 because of war industries or military installations 1292 01:15:53,383 --> 01:15:56,784 or troop concentrations or fortifications. 1293 01:15:56,853 --> 01:15:59,287 We're gonna shower all these places for ten days 1294 01:15:59,355 --> 01:16:01,989 with leaflets telling the population to leave. 1295 01:16:02,058 --> 01:16:03,791 Telling them what's coming. 1296 01:16:03,860 --> 01:16:06,527 'We hope these warnings will save lives.' 1297 01:16:06,596 --> 01:16:07,762 It should. 1298 01:16:07,830 --> 01:16:09,730 And if the bomb shortens the war 1299 01:16:09,799 --> 01:16:13,100 it will save many thousands of American lives. 1300 01:16:13,169 --> 01:16:18,773 A year less of war, Charlie, will mean life for 300,000 1301 01:16:18,841 --> 01:16:22,443 maybe a half a million of America's finest youth. 1302 01:16:22,512 --> 01:16:25,880 Not only that, but it'll mean life for thousands of British 1303 01:16:25,949 --> 01:16:29,383 of Russians, of Chinese, of Japanese. 1304 01:16:29,452 --> 01:16:33,754 These were the decisive considerations in my consent. 1305 01:16:33,823 --> 01:16:36,023 As president of the United States, sir 1306 01:16:36,092 --> 01:16:38,593 you could make no other decision. 1307 01:16:38,661 --> 01:16:41,596 As president, I could not. 1308 01:16:41,664 --> 01:16:45,600 So I have told the army to take the bomb to the Marianas 1309 01:16:45,668 --> 01:16:49,303 and when they receive the green light, to use it. 1310 01:16:56,312 --> 01:16:59,246 [indistinct chatter] 1311 01:17:03,886 --> 01:17:05,019 We'll all meet here again. 1312 01:17:05,088 --> 01:17:07,688 It's a promise, the four of us. 1313 01:17:07,757 --> 01:17:10,191 First chance after the war is over. 1314 01:17:10,259 --> 01:17:12,727 Pardon me. We're about ready for the takeoff, Colonel Nixon. 1315 01:17:12,795 --> 01:17:14,929 - Thanks, sergeant. - Yes, sir. 1316 01:17:31,648 --> 01:17:33,381 You know, it's very funny. 1317 01:17:33,449 --> 01:17:34,782 Every time we see each other 1318 01:17:34,851 --> 01:17:38,386 we're either saying hello or goodbye. 1319 01:17:38,454 --> 01:17:40,888 When I get back, it's gonna be hello for keeps. 1320 01:17:40,957 --> 01:17:43,791 Oh, are we playing for keeps? 1321 01:17:43,860 --> 01:17:45,159 Well, it's about time, isn't it? 1322 01:17:45,228 --> 01:17:47,695 Could be. That is, if you promise 1323 01:17:47,764 --> 01:17:49,497 to bring me back a grass skirt, could be. 1324 01:17:49,565 --> 01:17:51,666 Oh, sure, I'll bring you back a dozen grass skirts 1325 01:17:51,734 --> 01:17:54,168 and a ukulele for myself. 1326 01:17:54,237 --> 01:17:57,672 Don't, uh, get too far away from that telephone, will you, baby? 1327 01:17:57,740 --> 01:17:59,140 I'm allergic to don't answer signals. 1328 01:17:59,208 --> 01:18:00,941 All you gotta do, soldier, is dial 1329 01:18:01,010 --> 01:18:02,943 and when I hear your honeytones 1330 01:18:03,012 --> 01:18:05,012 I'll start baking your cake. 1331 01:18:05,081 --> 01:18:07,081 Oh, no. Not that. 1332 01:18:07,150 --> 01:18:09,316 Alright, I'll buy you one. 1333 01:18:13,256 --> 01:18:15,056 - Goodbye. - So long. 1334 01:18:15,124 --> 01:18:17,992 I hate to leave a cute gal like you on the loose. 1335 01:18:18,061 --> 01:18:19,393 Big risk you're running. 1336 01:18:19,462 --> 01:18:22,897 Farther away you go, the tighter you hold me. 1337 01:18:22,965 --> 01:18:24,231 I can think of less painful ways 1338 01:18:24,300 --> 01:18:26,767 of proving how we feel about each other. 1339 01:18:26,836 --> 01:18:29,170 Parting is no sweet sorrow to me. 1340 01:18:29,238 --> 01:18:30,638 It's just a pain in the neck. 1341 01:18:30,707 --> 01:18:33,074 And such a cute neck. 1342 01:18:33,142 --> 01:18:33,974 Hmm. 1343 01:18:34,043 --> 01:18:35,710 You're a cute sort of a guy. 1344 01:18:35,778 --> 01:18:37,078 You know, if I weren't married to you 1345 01:18:37,146 --> 01:18:39,280 I'd make an awful try to get you. 1346 01:18:39,348 --> 01:18:42,383 I surrendered once and for keeps. 1347 01:18:47,857 --> 01:18:50,858 - So long, shorty. - Happy landings. 1348 01:18:51,694 --> 01:18:53,961 Take care of my wife for me. 1349 01:18:56,566 --> 01:18:57,898 It's alright. 1350 01:19:06,309 --> 01:19:09,343 - How do you feel? - Oh, uh, pretty good. 1351 01:19:09,412 --> 01:19:10,444 I wish I did. 1352 01:19:10,513 --> 01:19:12,613 Well, she'll be here when you get back, Matt. 1353 01:19:12,682 --> 01:19:14,582 That's the only thing I'm sure of. 1354 01:19:14,650 --> 01:19:16,717 The closer this stuff gets to its delivery point 1355 01:19:16,786 --> 01:19:19,053 the more my first thoughts come back to me. 1356 01:19:19,122 --> 01:19:21,822 I can't help but wonder if we're right. 1357 01:19:21,891 --> 01:19:24,825 So that's in again, huh? 1358 01:19:24,894 --> 01:19:26,227 It isn't easy to kill thousands of people 1359 01:19:26,295 --> 01:19:28,429 when all you really wanna do is make it easier 1360 01:19:28,498 --> 01:19:30,998 for millions to live. 1361 01:19:31,067 --> 01:19:32,466 I like the way you dream. 1362 01:19:32,535 --> 01:19:34,135 We're ready except for the cargo, colonel. 1363 01:19:34,203 --> 01:19:36,337 We're carrying the cargo. 1364 01:19:36,405 --> 01:19:38,539 Why they want a physicist in the far Pacific 1365 01:19:38,608 --> 01:19:40,875 I'll never know. 1366 01:19:40,943 --> 01:19:43,611 This war is full of secrets. 1367 01:19:43,679 --> 01:19:46,413 I have a secret from him too. 1368 01:19:46,482 --> 01:19:49,383 I can't help wondering if it really will be twins. 1369 01:19:55,191 --> 01:19:57,224 I wish I'd never heard of the Espionage Act. 1370 01:19:57,293 --> 01:19:59,260 - Hmm? - Nothing. 1371 01:20:11,808 --> 01:20:14,675 Another raid like that and I'll really be flak-happy. 1372 01:20:14,744 --> 01:20:16,110 Another raid like that and Hap Arnold 1373 01:20:16,179 --> 01:20:18,712 can have my flying suit. 1374 01:20:18,781 --> 01:20:20,080 Comfortable, boys? 1375 01:20:20,149 --> 01:20:22,016 Don't you birds ever take the air? 1376 01:20:22,084 --> 01:20:25,019 Quiet. Don't shout at our superchair heroes. 1377 01:20:25,087 --> 01:20:26,954 - Oh-ho. - Look at that. 1378 01:20:27,023 --> 01:20:28,222 What are you hiding in the building? 1379 01:20:28,291 --> 01:20:30,758 - Yeah. - Geisha girls. 1380 01:20:30,827 --> 01:20:32,526 What did you think? 1381 01:20:32,595 --> 01:20:35,529 Well, I do declare, here comes the first team. 1382 01:20:35,598 --> 01:20:37,765 Boys, why don't you get off your doves? 1383 01:20:37,834 --> 01:20:39,233 Are you on a sit-down strike? 1384 01:20:39,302 --> 01:20:41,268 They're saving us for the junior prom, kids. 1385 01:20:41,337 --> 01:20:42,336 [laughing] 1386 01:20:42,405 --> 01:20:44,238 Colonel, may I have the first dance? 1387 01:20:44,307 --> 01:20:45,840 - Do you rumba? - Well, move on, boys. 1388 01:20:45,908 --> 01:20:48,776 You're depreciating the value of our real estate. 1389 01:20:48,845 --> 01:20:51,312 Jeff, Matt, Parsons, Tibbets. 1390 01:20:54,951 --> 01:20:57,017 Well, the weather looks good for the next three days. 1391 01:20:57,086 --> 01:20:58,953 Headquarters has given us the green light. 1392 01:20:59,021 --> 01:21:01,388 Good. I'd set our time as tomorrow, August 6th. 1393 01:21:01,457 --> 01:21:02,690 I'll let you know exactly what time 1394 01:21:02,758 --> 01:21:03,891 to start assembling the bomb. 1395 01:21:03,960 --> 01:21:05,259 Right. 1396 01:21:05,328 --> 01:21:06,794 Uh, you'll ride as observer for the army. 1397 01:21:06,863 --> 01:21:08,095 - Thank you, sir. - Parsons. 1398 01:21:08,164 --> 01:21:09,697 You'll go along to check the release mechanism 1399 01:21:09,765 --> 01:21:10,731 and as seeing eye for the navy. 1400 01:21:10,800 --> 01:21:11,999 Aye, sir. 1401 01:21:12,068 --> 01:21:13,133 And you and I'll stay here 1402 01:21:13,202 --> 01:21:15,135 and bite our nails. 1403 01:21:15,204 --> 01:21:17,605 Well, there have been several takeoff crack-ups lately. 1404 01:21:17,673 --> 01:21:20,441 If that happens to us, we'll wipe out 40,000 1405 01:21:20,509 --> 01:21:22,343 American troops instead of our target. 1406 01:21:22,411 --> 01:21:24,478 Well, that's a chance we'll have to take. 1407 01:21:24,547 --> 01:21:27,047 Well, we could leave a few parts out of the assembled bomb 1408 01:21:27,116 --> 01:21:29,550 and I could put them in place after the takeoff. 1409 01:21:29,619 --> 01:21:32,353 Oh, I know enough to help. 1410 01:21:32,421 --> 01:21:35,422 If you think it best, sir, I'd be glad to go along. 1411 01:21:35,491 --> 01:21:38,192 Thanks, I don't believe we should send a civilian 1412 01:21:38,261 --> 01:21:40,127 on a combat mission. 1413 01:21:40,196 --> 01:21:42,930 This game's a good one if they can learn the job in time. 1414 01:21:42,999 --> 01:21:45,199 - Do what you can. - Check. 1415 01:21:48,104 --> 01:21:49,570 Remember on the plane, you'll have to fit 1416 01:21:49,639 --> 01:21:51,338 that bolt into place. 1417 01:21:51,407 --> 01:21:55,075 Insert the two lock pins, make four connections. 1418 01:21:55,144 --> 01:21:57,778 One, two. 1419 01:21:57,847 --> 01:21:59,914 Three, four. 1420 01:21:59,982 --> 01:22:01,682 [sighs] 1421 01:22:01,751 --> 01:22:05,552 It's like separating salt from pepper with boxing gloves. 1422 01:22:05,621 --> 01:22:10,224 As you work, make sure the parts of explosive material 1423 01:22:10,293 --> 01:22:13,294 which will be down there never come together. 1424 01:22:13,362 --> 01:22:16,730 There'll be curtains, but quick. 1425 01:22:16,799 --> 01:22:18,666 How does this look, teacher? 1426 01:22:22,071 --> 01:22:24,104 - You've got it. - Good. 1427 01:22:25,975 --> 01:22:29,009 One, two. 1428 01:22:29,078 --> 01:22:31,312 Three, four. 1429 01:22:31,380 --> 01:22:32,413 [sighs] 1430 01:22:32,481 --> 01:22:34,815 I'm gonna carry that on my lap on the takeoff. 1431 01:22:34,884 --> 01:22:37,418 It's in your laps, alright. 1432 01:22:37,486 --> 01:22:41,121 Uh, is it U-235 or plutonium? 1433 01:22:41,190 --> 01:22:43,791 Only a few people know that. They won't tell. 1434 01:22:43,859 --> 01:22:46,293 Well, I'm sure it won't make any difference to the Japs, anyway. 1435 01:22:46,362 --> 01:22:49,430 I'll brief you at midnight. Come on, fellas. 1436 01:22:49,498 --> 01:22:53,267 You won't need me, sir. I'll stay and work on the bomb. 1437 01:22:53,336 --> 01:22:56,537 Oh, in order to, uh, decrease chances of interception 1438 01:22:56,605 --> 01:22:59,740 only three planes will be used, no fighter escort. 1439 01:22:59,809 --> 01:23:01,809 The Japs may assume we're weather planes 1440 01:23:01,877 --> 01:23:03,844 or leaflet droppers. 1441 01:23:03,913 --> 01:23:06,113 'Jap collision fliers will not be healthy' 1442 01:23:06,182 --> 01:23:08,349 'for the bomb carrying plane' 1443 01:23:08,417 --> 01:23:11,251 'or any plane near it.' 1444 01:23:11,320 --> 01:23:13,620 'Two extra B-29s carry observers' 1445 01:23:13,689 --> 01:23:16,423 'equipment for measuring the blast and photographers.' 1446 01:23:18,060 --> 01:23:21,495 Do not fly straight after release. 1447 01:23:21,564 --> 01:23:24,765 The blast will blow you to bits. The shockwave will be rough. 1448 01:23:24,834 --> 01:23:28,736 Make your turn and get out of there. 1449 01:23:28,804 --> 01:23:30,270 Under no circumstances 1450 01:23:30,339 --> 01:23:32,506 fly through the smoke from the explosion. 1451 01:23:32,575 --> 01:23:34,108 It's sure death. 1452 01:23:35,578 --> 01:23:38,912 This mission quite nicely is a years training 1453 01:23:38,981 --> 01:23:43,117 during which you blindly obeyed orders and said nothing. 1454 01:23:44,720 --> 01:23:48,789 This is about what you'll see tomorrow. 1455 01:23:48,858 --> 01:23:50,491 Alright, run it. 1456 01:23:58,134 --> 01:24:00,367 [explosion] 1457 01:24:00,436 --> 01:24:03,570 [indistinct chatter] 1458 01:24:15,217 --> 01:24:17,251 Alright, that's enough. 1459 01:24:24,493 --> 01:24:27,127 Bomb assembly time is 0300. 1460 01:24:27,196 --> 01:24:29,863 Takeoff time, 0345. 1461 01:24:31,267 --> 01:24:32,533 That's it. 1462 01:24:33,402 --> 01:24:35,836 [indistinct chatter] 1463 01:24:35,905 --> 01:24:38,839 [dramatic music] 1464 01:25:10,739 --> 01:25:12,806 [beeping] 1465 01:25:22,218 --> 01:25:24,351 [groans] 1466 01:25:24,420 --> 01:25:27,387 [dramatic music] 1467 01:25:41,470 --> 01:25:45,272 Matt, we gotta get you to the doctor. 1468 01:25:45,341 --> 01:25:47,174 I'm afraid it's too late for that. 1469 01:25:47,243 --> 01:25:49,543 - How did it happen? - Accident. 1470 01:25:49,612 --> 01:25:52,613 Well, it's a wonder the whole place didn't go up. 1471 01:25:52,681 --> 01:25:56,250 Maybe this is what I get for helping build the thing. 1472 01:25:56,318 --> 01:25:58,385 Come on, Matt. 1473 01:25:58,454 --> 01:26:02,156 Sergeant, ask Captain Parsons to take over. 1474 01:26:02,224 --> 01:26:03,690 Yes, sir. 1475 01:26:17,873 --> 01:26:19,973 I want you to promise me to see Anne. 1476 01:26:20,042 --> 01:26:22,509 Of course, I'll see Anne. 1477 01:26:22,578 --> 01:26:24,845 Oh, you're a lucky guy, Jeff. 1478 01:26:28,584 --> 01:26:30,217 Give her this letter. 1479 01:26:30,286 --> 01:26:32,586 And be sure she gets it. 1480 01:26:32,655 --> 01:26:34,288 There are things in it I've been wanting to say to her 1481 01:26:34,356 --> 01:26:36,023 for a long time. 1482 01:26:37,426 --> 01:26:39,026 Important things. 1483 01:26:42,765 --> 01:26:45,732 Things I couldn't say before because of secrecy.. 1484 01:26:47,870 --> 01:26:50,571 ...and because I wasn't sure how I really felt. 1485 01:26:55,711 --> 01:26:57,711 Cochran has a very bad hand, doctor. 1486 01:26:57,780 --> 01:27:00,013 He burned it working on the bomb. 1487 01:27:03,452 --> 01:27:08,288 Severe neutron exposure and radioactivity burns. 1488 01:27:08,357 --> 01:27:09,790 Direct contact. 1489 01:27:11,594 --> 01:27:13,827 Reaction beginning to set in. 1490 01:27:16,665 --> 01:27:18,966 I think I'm gonna faint. 1491 01:27:24,440 --> 01:27:28,008 Well, i-isn't there anything you can do? 1492 01:27:28,077 --> 01:27:30,310 He'll be dead tomorrow. 1493 01:27:49,164 --> 01:27:50,998 Let's bow our heads. 1494 01:27:52,668 --> 01:27:55,569 Oh, Lord of hosts, show Thy gracious love and care 1495 01:27:55,638 --> 01:27:57,904 to those who fly this night. 1496 01:27:57,973 --> 01:28:01,508 Bear them up in Thy wings as Thou hast, Thy host of all. 1497 01:28:01,577 --> 01:28:03,744 Give them strength and courage. 1498 01:28:03,812 --> 01:28:05,846 Keep them safe in body and soul 1499 01:28:05,914 --> 01:28:08,515 and bring them safely home again. 1500 01:28:08,584 --> 01:28:10,183 'May they know Thou art with them as they walk' 1501 01:28:10,252 --> 01:28:12,152 'through their valley of death.' 1502 01:28:12,221 --> 01:28:14,454 'May they know that all of us are in Thy care' 1503 01:28:14,523 --> 01:28:16,290 'now and forever.' 1504 01:28:16,358 --> 01:28:18,158 'The glory of Thy name' 1505 01:28:18,227 --> 01:28:21,662 and to the coming of peace upon the Earth again. 1506 01:28:21,730 --> 01:28:22,562 Amen. 1507 01:28:22,631 --> 01:28:24,097 (all) Amen. 1508 01:28:28,070 --> 01:28:31,004 [dramatic music] 1509 01:28:52,061 --> 01:28:55,862 Sir, about Matt, don't send the usual cable, please. 1510 01:28:55,931 --> 01:28:58,298 I think I ought to tell his wife about it myself. 1511 01:28:58,367 --> 01:28:59,733 I'll arrange that. 1512 01:29:01,036 --> 01:29:03,670 You better take care of this till I get back. 1513 01:29:04,940 --> 01:29:06,973 - Good luck, Jeff - Thank you, sir. 1514 01:29:07,042 --> 01:29:08,508 Good luck, Parsons. 1515 01:29:21,790 --> 01:29:24,691 - Ready to start engines. - Ready, sir. 1516 01:29:24,760 --> 01:29:26,460 Starting number 1. 1517 01:29:28,230 --> 01:29:29,629 Starting 1, sir. 1518 01:29:34,036 --> 01:29:35,969 [engine starts] 1519 01:29:44,713 --> 01:29:47,848 - 'Starting number 4.' - 'Starting 4, sir.' 1520 01:29:47,916 --> 01:29:50,117 [whirring] 1521 01:30:35,330 --> 01:30:36,596 Ready for takeoff. 1522 01:30:37,833 --> 01:30:39,232 Ready for takeoff. 1523 01:30:44,173 --> 01:30:45,338 Can we go, sir? 1524 01:30:45,407 --> 01:30:48,542 [dramatic music] 1525 01:31:05,594 --> 01:31:07,194 Airspeed 65. 1526 01:31:09,031 --> 01:31:10,697 'Airspeed 75.' 1527 01:31:12,568 --> 01:31:14,134 Airspeed 85. 1528 01:31:15,504 --> 01:31:17,938 - Up. - 'Airspeed 95.' 1529 01:31:19,341 --> 01:31:21,441 (male #3) 'Airspeed 105.' 1530 01:31:21,510 --> 01:31:23,543 Up! Up! 1531 01:31:30,452 --> 01:31:31,952 Up! 1532 01:31:32,020 --> 01:31:33,753 (male #3) 'Airspeed 120.' 1533 01:31:35,557 --> 01:31:37,390 Gear up. 1534 01:31:37,459 --> 01:31:39,559 Gear's coming up. 1535 01:31:39,628 --> 01:31:41,928 I feel like I lifted that baby myself. 1536 01:31:58,380 --> 01:32:01,481 Pardon me, sir, but what's in that black box? 1537 01:32:01,550 --> 01:32:03,016 Well, it's a new sort of metal. 1538 01:32:06,889 --> 01:32:08,855 - Sergeant. - Yes, sir. 1539 01:32:08,924 --> 01:32:10,957 As you've been briefed when we started working 1540 01:32:11,026 --> 01:32:12,959 on the bomb, watch that counter. 1541 01:32:13,028 --> 01:32:14,027 Yes, sir. 1542 01:32:14,096 --> 01:32:15,662 Remember don't take your eyes off it 1543 01:32:15,731 --> 01:32:17,264 until we have dropped the bomb. 1544 01:32:17,332 --> 01:32:18,498 Yes, sir. 1545 01:32:18,567 --> 01:32:20,467 If the red light starts flashing 1546 01:32:20,536 --> 01:32:21,668 brother, you start yelling 1547 01:32:21,737 --> 01:32:23,637 and we'll kick that bomb overboard fast. 1548 01:32:23,705 --> 01:32:25,105 Yes, sir. Don't worry about me. 1549 01:32:25,173 --> 01:32:27,374 I'll start yelling. I won't hold back. 1550 01:32:27,442 --> 01:32:29,042 Good. 1551 01:32:32,581 --> 01:32:35,715 [intense music] 1552 01:33:59,301 --> 01:34:00,400 One. 1553 01:34:02,337 --> 01:34:03,436 Two. 1554 01:34:05,107 --> 01:34:06,139 Three. 1555 01:34:07,109 --> 01:34:08,308 Four. 1556 01:34:08,377 --> 01:34:10,210 [device whirring] 1557 01:34:29,698 --> 01:34:31,665 It's so cold up here, the parts don't fit. 1558 01:34:31,733 --> 01:34:32,766 Keep trying. 1559 01:34:32,834 --> 01:34:35,969 [airplanes droning] 1560 01:34:46,682 --> 01:34:48,782 Long Boy. Calling Long Boy. 1561 01:34:48,850 --> 01:34:51,151 You're getting out of range. 1562 01:34:51,219 --> 01:34:52,719 I say, have they finished.. 1563 01:34:52,788 --> 01:34:55,321 [static] 1564 01:34:55,390 --> 01:34:56,723 I can't hear you. 1565 01:34:56,792 --> 01:34:58,792 Repeat. Have they finished? 1566 01:34:58,860 --> 01:35:00,560 They're still working on it, sir. 1567 01:35:00,629 --> 01:35:03,530 They say it's so cold up here, the parts don't fit. 1568 01:35:03,598 --> 01:35:05,465 Navigator to pilot. 1569 01:35:05,534 --> 01:35:07,300 We're 75 miles out, sir. 1570 01:35:07,369 --> 01:35:09,936 Roger. 75 miles out. 1571 01:35:10,005 --> 01:35:12,872 - Radio silence. - Roger, sir. 1572 01:35:14,876 --> 01:35:16,443 [static] 1573 01:35:20,148 --> 01:35:22,449 Long Boy. Calling Long Boy. 1574 01:35:22,517 --> 01:35:24,084 What was the rest of that message? 1575 01:35:24,152 --> 01:35:26,019 [static] 1576 01:35:29,091 --> 01:35:31,024 They're out of range. 1577 01:35:34,396 --> 01:35:35,862 [exhales] 1578 01:35:47,309 --> 01:35:50,243 [beeping] 1579 01:35:55,217 --> 01:35:56,916 Connections are all tight. 1580 01:36:07,095 --> 01:36:08,561 Your lane is over there. 1581 01:36:08,630 --> 01:36:10,930 We should be hearing soon. Stop worrying, general. 1582 01:36:10,999 --> 01:36:12,398 Who's worrying? 1583 01:36:14,669 --> 01:36:16,569 - Miss O'Leary? - Yes, general? 1584 01:36:16,638 --> 01:36:20,206 - Why don't you go home? - Why don't you, general? 1585 01:36:30,652 --> 01:36:34,053 Radio operator to pilot, our weather scout plane reports 1586 01:36:34,122 --> 01:36:36,856 Hiroshima visibility on limited. 1587 01:36:36,925 --> 01:36:38,324 Roger dodger. 1588 01:36:40,762 --> 01:36:42,095 Climbing for altitude. 1589 01:36:42,164 --> 01:36:44,931 Check your oxygen masks and cabin pressures. 1590 01:36:45,000 --> 01:36:47,734 - 2400 and 43. - Roger, sir. 1591 01:36:47,803 --> 01:36:49,536 Close your pressure doors. 1592 01:37:20,068 --> 01:37:22,502 Hit Hiroshima on the button at 8:15. 1593 01:37:26,608 --> 01:37:28,341 Pilot to crew, grease your faces. 1594 01:37:28,410 --> 01:37:30,376 Put on your special goggles. 1595 01:37:30,445 --> 01:37:33,146 ETA, 0815. 1596 01:37:44,559 --> 01:37:46,492 [radio beeping] 1597 01:37:51,099 --> 01:37:53,132 This is worse than having a baby. 1598 01:37:53,201 --> 01:37:55,034 And I've had six. 1599 01:38:28,203 --> 01:38:30,270 There it is. Hiroshima! 1600 01:38:38,113 --> 01:38:40,013 [explosions] 1601 01:38:41,583 --> 01:38:43,549 [explosions] 1602 01:39:26,461 --> 01:39:28,394 Two hundred and fifty thousand people down there 1603 01:39:28,463 --> 01:39:30,296 are starting their day. 1604 01:39:30,365 --> 01:39:33,766 City about the size of Dallas, Texas. 1605 01:39:33,835 --> 01:39:36,169 In about one second, it will be wiped off the map. 1606 01:39:36,237 --> 01:39:38,137 They'll never know what hit them. 1607 01:39:38,206 --> 01:39:39,939 We've been dropping warning leaflets on them 1608 01:39:40,008 --> 01:39:42,208 for ten days now. 1609 01:39:42,277 --> 01:39:43,409 That's ten days more warning 1610 01:39:43,478 --> 01:39:45,411 than they gave us at Pearl Harbor. 1611 01:39:46,581 --> 01:39:49,248 On target. Bomb door's coming open. 1612 01:39:54,923 --> 01:39:56,622 Bomb bay door is open. 1613 01:40:16,077 --> 01:40:17,543 Bomb away! 1614 01:40:17,612 --> 01:40:20,546 [dramatic music] 1615 01:40:39,034 --> 01:40:42,168 [explosion] 1616 01:41:25,680 --> 01:41:28,614 [clanking] 1617 01:41:41,329 --> 01:41:43,529 I'm gonna go back and take a look. 1618 01:42:11,826 --> 01:42:14,760 [intense music] 1619 01:42:54,969 --> 01:42:57,336 Now I understand what Matt feared. 1620 01:42:59,073 --> 01:43:01,774 If ever there is another war 1621 01:43:01,843 --> 01:43:04,343 it won't be cities burning themselves one at a time 1622 01:43:04,412 --> 01:43:06,979 but the whole world on fire 1623 01:43:07,048 --> 01:43:08,781 eating itself to ashes. 1624 01:43:13,288 --> 01:43:14,487 Let's get out of here. 1625 01:43:14,556 --> 01:43:16,889 Feel like we're over a dead world. 1626 01:43:23,731 --> 01:43:26,566 [explosion] 1627 01:43:30,738 --> 01:43:32,672 [radio beeping] 1628 01:43:34,275 --> 01:43:35,875 Come in, Long Boy. 1629 01:43:39,714 --> 01:43:45,451 "Hiroshima destroyed at 0815. 1630 01:43:45,520 --> 01:43:47,653 Enroute Tinian." 1631 01:43:50,158 --> 01:43:51,624 What is it? 1632 01:43:54,162 --> 01:43:58,164 "Line five, color red. Line one, color green." 1633 01:43:58,233 --> 01:43:59,332 - Hey! - What happened? 1634 01:43:59,400 --> 01:44:01,200 - What is it? What is-- - It worked. 1635 01:44:01,269 --> 01:44:02,668 It worked perfectly. 1636 01:44:06,207 --> 01:44:10,943 Three years' work by a million people day and night. 1637 01:44:12,413 --> 01:44:14,413 Worrying, sweating. 1638 01:44:16,384 --> 01:44:18,050 [sighs] At last. 1639 01:44:40,775 --> 01:44:42,942 Oh, Jean, are you sure Matt's on the plane? 1640 01:44:43,011 --> 01:44:45,411 I only know that Jeff's name was on the passenger list 1641 01:44:45,480 --> 01:44:47,913 and one civilian. It must be Matt, darling. 1642 01:44:47,982 --> 01:44:49,649 Oh, I hope so. 1643 01:44:56,190 --> 01:44:58,491 - Hello, general. - Jeff. 1644 01:44:58,559 --> 01:44:59,892 You did a fine job out there, Jeff. 1645 01:44:59,961 --> 01:45:00,993 Thank you. 1646 01:45:01,062 --> 01:45:03,596 I brought you a couple of chickens for dinner. 1647 01:45:03,665 --> 01:45:05,931 Well, full colonel, huh? 1648 01:45:06,000 --> 01:45:08,134 - That's a lot of rank. - You've earned it. 1649 01:45:10,004 --> 01:45:12,138 But I don't envy you of the job ahead. 1650 01:45:26,521 --> 01:45:28,921 I'm sorry, Anne. 1651 01:45:28,990 --> 01:45:31,090 You better get her out of here. Use my car. 1652 01:45:31,159 --> 01:45:32,625 Thank you, general. 1653 01:45:35,296 --> 01:45:38,431 [instrumental music] 1654 01:46:01,089 --> 01:46:04,357 You have something terrible to tell me. 1655 01:46:04,425 --> 01:46:06,258 That's why you brought me here. 1656 01:46:06,327 --> 01:46:07,760 Sit down, Anne. 1657 01:46:13,267 --> 01:46:16,836 Something happened while Matt was working on the bomb. 1658 01:46:16,904 --> 01:46:19,839 He saved it from going off. 1659 01:46:19,907 --> 01:46:23,142 Forty thousand Americans are alive on Tinian today 1660 01:46:23,211 --> 01:46:24,877 because of Matt. 1661 01:46:26,647 --> 01:46:28,481 But he isn't. 1662 01:46:28,549 --> 01:46:30,583 Oh, no. 1663 01:46:30,651 --> 01:46:32,852 [sobbing] No. 1664 01:46:49,070 --> 01:46:52,071 Anne, this is from Matt. 1665 01:46:53,541 --> 01:46:55,775 You may wanna wait until you get home. 1666 01:46:57,044 --> 01:46:58,511 No, I.. 1667 01:47:01,482 --> 01:47:03,582 It should be read here. 1668 01:47:15,263 --> 01:47:16,962 [sobbing] 1669 01:47:22,703 --> 01:47:24,970 Please read it for me. 1670 01:47:31,646 --> 01:47:35,448 "Dear mom, you and your secrets. 1671 01:47:35,516 --> 01:47:38,918 "It was nice of you to keep me from knowing about our baby.. 1672 01:47:38,986 --> 01:47:40,286 [sobs] 1673 01:47:42,924 --> 01:47:45,624 "...so I wouldn't worry while I was in the Pacific. 1674 01:47:47,028 --> 01:47:49,595 '"You should learn not to talk in your sleep.' 1675 01:47:50,898 --> 01:47:52,598 '"He'll be a fine boy, Anne.' 1676 01:47:52,667 --> 01:47:55,634 '"Gentle and kind and full of health.' 1677 01:47:55,703 --> 01:47:57,970 '"Please keep me from spoiling him.' 1678 01:48:01,309 --> 01:48:03,876 "By the time you read this, Hiroshima will have told you 1679 01:48:03,945 --> 01:48:06,846 "why I went to the Pacific. 1680 01:48:06,914 --> 01:48:10,282 "I know you'll be shocked when you learn about the bomb. 1681 01:48:11,786 --> 01:48:13,352 "From the first, I've had my doubts 1682 01:48:13,421 --> 01:48:16,956 "whether man could ever learn to use this terrifying force 1683 01:48:17,024 --> 01:48:20,159 "for good instead of evil. 1684 01:48:20,228 --> 01:48:24,196 '"The dark threat of future atomic war' 1685 01:48:24,265 --> 01:48:27,566 '"which can destroy civilization' 1686 01:48:27,635 --> 01:48:31,036 "unless men learn to live together. 1687 01:48:31,105 --> 01:48:35,140 "This struggle with myself has made me write this letter 1688 01:48:35,209 --> 01:48:37,776 which is the voice of my conscience." 1689 01:48:44,385 --> 01:48:48,120 (Matt) We stand now where the early savages stood. 1690 01:48:48,189 --> 01:48:50,322 When they ceased running away from fire 1691 01:48:50,391 --> 01:48:52,825 and began to use it well. 1692 01:48:52,894 --> 01:48:55,895 If those primitives learned to use fire 1693 01:48:55,963 --> 01:48:57,997 we have an enlightened century that can learn to use 1694 01:48:58,065 --> 01:49:01,300 atomic energy constructively. 1695 01:49:01,369 --> 01:49:05,471 God has not shown us any way to destroy ourselves. 1696 01:49:05,540 --> 01:49:09,708 Atomic energy is the hand He has extended 1697 01:49:09,777 --> 01:49:12,711 to lift us from the ruins of war 1698 01:49:12,780 --> 01:49:15,948 and lighten the burdens of peace. 1699 01:49:16,017 --> 01:49:17,950 Anne, you and our boy will see the day 1700 01:49:18,019 --> 01:49:20,419 when the atoms in a cup of water 1701 01:49:20,488 --> 01:49:22,821 will heat and light your home. 1702 01:49:22,890 --> 01:49:25,991 When the power on a pasteboard railroad ticket 1703 01:49:26,060 --> 01:49:29,328 will drive trains across great continents. 1704 01:49:29,397 --> 01:49:32,164 When the energy in a blade of grass 1705 01:49:32,233 --> 01:49:35,301 will send planes to distant lands. 1706 01:49:35,369 --> 01:49:39,138 We have found a path so filled with promise 1707 01:49:39,206 --> 01:49:40,873 that when we walk down it, we won't know 1708 01:49:40,942 --> 01:49:42,474 that everything that went before 1709 01:49:42,543 --> 01:49:45,277 the discovery of atomic energy 1710 01:49:45,346 --> 01:49:47,980 was the Dark Ages. 1711 01:49:48,049 --> 01:49:51,283 In the past, man has fought useless war. 1712 01:49:51,352 --> 01:49:56,422 Hunger and pain, has often been vile. 1713 01:49:56,490 --> 01:49:58,591 Yet stubbornly 1714 01:49:58,659 --> 01:50:00,593 you stumbled out of the chaos 1715 01:50:00,661 --> 01:50:03,762 with the desires of going on to make a better world. 1716 01:50:05,333 --> 01:50:09,268 Now in the gravest hour of life on Earth 1717 01:50:09,337 --> 01:50:13,639 he has found the secret of the power of the universe. 1718 01:50:13,708 --> 01:50:16,275 You're the giver of a new life. 1719 01:50:16,344 --> 01:50:19,678 Must know that what we've unleashed is not the end. 1720 01:50:21,115 --> 01:50:24,917 With all my love, I tell you this, shorty 1721 01:50:24,986 --> 01:50:28,120 men will learn to use this new knowledge well. 1722 01:50:29,690 --> 01:50:31,957 They won't fail. 1723 01:50:32,026 --> 01:50:33,792 For this is the timeless moment 1724 01:50:33,861 --> 01:50:37,029 that gives us all a chance to prove 1725 01:50:37,098 --> 01:50:38,397 that human beings are made 1726 01:50:38,466 --> 01:50:40,833 in the image and likeness of God. 1727 01:50:42,336 --> 01:50:45,037 [dramatic music] 1728 01:50:54,982 --> 01:50:58,117 [instrumental music] 141717

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