All language subtitles for Oppenheimer Eng

Dr. Oppenheimer.

Dr. Oppenheimer.

As we begin, I believe
you have a statement

to read into the record.

- Yes, your honor.

- We're not judges, doctor.

- Of course.

Members of the Security Board,

the so-called interrogatory
information in your indictment

of me cannot be fairly understood, except
in the context of my life and my work.

- How long did he testify?

- Honestly, I forget.

The whole hearing took a month.

- And how did you know?

- Well, I've only
read the transcripts.

- Who'd want to justify their whole life?
- You weren't there?

- As Chairman, I
wasn't allowed to be.

Are they really going to ask about it?

That was years ago.

- Four years ago.
- Five.

Oppenheimer still
divides America.

The committee's going to
want to know where you stood.

Senator Thurmond will testify...
...I was gonna say not to feel that you're on trial.

- Oh, funny, I didn't
know you just said that.

- Really, Mr. Strauss?
- It's out of question.

Yeah. Admiral
Strauss, this is a...

This is a formality. President Eisenhower
has asked you to be in his cabinet.

- The Senate really has no choice but to confirm him.
- And if they bring up Oppenheimer?

- When they bring up Oppenheimer, you answer
honestly. No senator can deny you did your duty.

It'll be uncomfortable. People
who want to justify their whole life.

- Why did you leave
the United States?

- I, ah, I wanted to
study the new physics.

Was there nowhere here?

I thought Berkeley had the leading
theoretical physics department.

Yes, once I had built it.

But first I had to go to Europe. I went to
Cambridge to study under Patrick Blackett.

Were you happier there than in America?

Happier?

Yes.

No.

No, I, uh...

I was homesick, and...

emotionally immature...

...in-

...universe.

Useless in the lab.

Christ, Oppenheimer!

Have you had any sleep?

You start again.

I need to go to
the lecture, sir.

Why?

It's Niels Bohr.

I think you've forgotten.

All right. Let's go.

I don't want you, Oppenheimer.
You finish Kudgeman's plates.

POTASSIUM
CYANIDE

Quantum physics
is not a step forward,

it is a new way to
understand reality.

Einstein's opened the door,
now we are peering through,

seeing a world inside our world,

a world of energy and paradox
that not everyone can accept.

Are you alright?

Niels, meet J.
Robert Oppenheimer.

- What's the J stand for?
- Nothing, apparently.

You were at my lecture. You
asked the only good questions.

No one's denying his insight.

It's his laboratory work that
leaves a little to be desired.

- I heard you give the same lecture.
- At Harvard, yes, and you asked the same questions.

- Why ask again?
- I'd liked your answer.

- Did you like it better yesterday?
- A lot.

You can lift the stone without being
ready for the snake that's revealed.

Now it seems you're ready.
But you don't enjoy the lab.

So get out of Cambridge,
with its beakers and potions.

Go somewhere they'll let you think.

Where?

- Göttingen.
- Born. Born.

Get to Germany, study under
Max Born, learn the ways of theory.

I'll send word.

[Unintelligible]

- How's your mathematics?
- Not good enough for the physicist he wants to be.

- Algebra is like sheet music.

The important thing isn't can
you read music, it's can you hear it.

Can you hear the music, Robert?

Yes, I can.

The senator from Wyoming.

Admiral Strauss, I'm interested in your
relationship with Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer.

You met him in 1947?

Correct.

You were commissioner of
the Atomic Energy Commission?

I was, but I actually met Robert
in my capacity as board member

of the Institute for
Advanced Study at Princeton.

After the war, he was world-crowned
as the great man of physics, and I was...

determined to get
him to run the Institute.

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- No, no, not at all.

This is Eva Alfie, the new
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Everyone liked it when Eva Alfie
became the new ambassador of 1XBET.

Dr. Oppenheimer.

An honor.
- Mr. Strauss.

It's pronounced "straws".

Oh-ppenheimer, Aw-ppenheimer...

However you say it,
they know I'm Jewish. [?]

I'm President of Temple
Emanu-El in Manhattan.

Strauss is just a
sudden pronunciation.

Anyway, welcome
to the Institute.

I think you'll be
very happy here.

Yes, well, you'll
love the commute.

The position comes with that house for
you, and your wife, and your two children.

Yes, two of them.

I'm a great admirer
of your work.

Are you a physicist by
training, Mr. Strauss?

I'm sorry, common room, four o'clock tea.

No, I'm not trained in
physics or anything else,

and I'm a self-made man.

Ah, I can relate to that.

- Really?
- Yes, my father was one.

And this would be your office.

I'm told he's there
most afternoons.

You know, I've always wondered why you
didn't involve him in the Manhattan Project.

- Greatest scientific mind of our time.
- Of his time.

Einstein published his theory of
relativity more than 40 years ago now.

I remember it's a quantum world it revealed.

"God doesn't play dice."

Precisely.

You never thought of studying
physics formally, Mr. Strauss?

I had offers, but I
chose to sell shoes.

Louis Strauss was once
a lowly shoe salesman.

No, just a shoe salesman.

- I'd love to introduce you.
- No need.

I've known him for years.

Albert?

What was that?
[What did you tell him?]

Oh, he's fine.

Mr. Strauss, there are things in
my past you ought to be aware of.

Well, as chairman of the AEC, I have
access to your security file. I've read it.

You're not worried?

Why would I be worried after
everything you've done for your country?

Times change, Mr. Strauss.

Well, the purpose of this institute is to
provide a haven for independent minds.

That's you.

You are the man for the job.

Well, then I'll consider it.

I'll see you at the
AAC meeting tomorrow.

This is one of the most prestigious
appointments in the country.

Yes, and a great commute.

That's why I'm considering it.

So Dr. Oppenheimer brought your
attention to his past associations,

- before you appointed him?
-Yes.

And they didn't concern you?

But just then I was entirely
consumed with what he must have said

to Einstein to sour him on me.

[Laughter]

But later?

Well, we all know
what happened later.

Doctor, your time in Europe,

you seem to meet with a wide
range of other countries' physicists.

- Yes, that's right.
- Any Russians?

None that spring to mind.

If you'll just allow me to
continue with my statement...

Mr. Robb, you'll have ample
opportunity to cross-examine.

After Gottingen, I moved on to Leiden
in Holland, where I first met Isidor Rabi.

[Excuse me.]

- A Yank.
- Lecturing on the new physics?

This I have to hear.
I'm an American myself.

How surprising.

Let me know if you
need any help at the end.

[Oppenheimer speaking in Dutch]

[Oppenheimer speaking in Dutch]
- Wait, what's he saying?

- Oh, no, thank you.
- It's a long way to Zurich.

If we get any skin here, we're gonna
lose you between the seat cushions.

- I'm Rabi.
- Oppenheimer.

I caught your lecture on
molecules. Caught some of it.

We're a couple of New York
Jews. How do you know Dutch?

Well, I thought I'd better learn
it when I got here this semester.

You learn enough Dutch in six weeks
to get a lecture on quantum mechanics?

Well, it's a challenge
to myself. [?]

Quantum physics wasn't challenging enough.

Schwitzer!

Schwitze.

Show off.

Dutch in six weeks, but you never learned Yiddish.

You don't speak it so
much by the side of the park.

Screw you.

- You homesick?
- Oh, you know it.

Ever get the feeling our kind
isn't entirely welcome here?

Physicists?

That's funny.

Not in the department.

They're all Jewish too.

Eat.

This German you
have to seek out.

- Heisenberg.
- Right.

[foreign language]

One might belittle the presumption
that, behind the quantum world,

there still hides a real world,
in which causality holds, but...

such speculations seem to
us, to say it explicitly, fruitless.

Thank you.
Have a great day.

- [Exciting.]
- Thank you.

Dr. Oppenheimer.

Oppenheimer, yes.

I liked your paper on molecules.

- Probably because you inspired it.
- If I inspire anything else, let me know.

- We could publish together.
- I have to get back to America.

Why?

There's no one there taking
quantum mechanics seriously.

That's exactly why.

He's pining for the
canyons of Manhattan,

canyons of New Mexico.

- You're from New Mexico?
- No, New York, but my brother and I

have a ranch outside Santa Fe.

- That's the America I miss right now.
- Then it's best you get home.

Cowboys!

Ha-ha, that's him. No, me
and horses... I don't think so.

Nice to meet you.

Did you ever encounter Heisenberg again?

Not in person, no. But...

You might say our paths crossed.

On returning to America, I accepted positions
at both Caltech and Dublin Berkeley.

RADIATION LABORATORY

Dr. Lawrence, I presume?

- You must be Oppenheimer.
- Yes.

I hear you want to start a
school of quantum theory.

I am starting it, next door.

They put you in there.

I swore it.

Wanted to be close
to you experimentalists.

Theory will get you only so far.

We're building a machine
to accelerate electrons.

- Magnificent.
- Would you like to help?

Build it? Oh, no. Heh hah, no no.

But I am working on
theories I'd like to test with it.

- When do you start teaching?
- I've got my first in an hour.

Seminar?
Pupil.

One student?

That's it?

I'm teaching something
no one here has dreamt of.

But once people start
hearing what you can do with it-

There's no goin' back.

- Oh, I must have missed a...
- Mr. Lomanitz?

Nah-

Yeah.

Yes, this is him. Please, take a seat.

What do you know about
quantum mechanics?

- I have a grasp on the basics.
- Then you're doing it wrong.

Is life made up of particles or waves?
Quantum mechanics says it's both.

How could it be both?

- It can't.
- It can't.

But it is. It's paradoxical.

And yet, it works.

Ah.

Thank you. Mr. Lomanitz,
you're going to be okay.

Mr. Snyder.

Now let's consider a star.

A star, a vast furnace
burning in outer space.

Fire pushing upwards
against its own gravity.

Balanced.

And if that furnace cools, and
gravity starts winning, it contracts.

Density increases.

Correct.

Increasing gravity.

- Increasing density.
- And?

It's a vicious cycle until...
I mean, what's the limit here?

I don't know.

See where the math takes us. I guarantee
it's somewhere no one's been before.

Me?

Yes, you. Your math is better than mine.

Dr. Oppenheimer's file contained
details of his activities in Berkeley.

Why would they have started a file
on Dr. Oppenheimer before the war?

Well, you'd have to ask Mr. Hoover.

I'm asking you, Admiral Strauss!

Uh, my assumption is that
it was connected to his, uh...

left-wing political activities.

You shouldn't let them bring their
politics in the classroom, Bobby.

I wrote that.

Lawrence, you embraced
the revolution in physics.

Can't you see it everywhere else?

Picasso, Stravinsky, Freud, Marx.

Well, this is America, I mean.
We had our revolution.

Seriously.

Keep it out of the lab.

Well, out of the lab,

my landlady is having a
discussion room tonight.

Interested?

I have sampled the
Berkeley political scene.

It's all just philosophy post-grads
and communists talking integration.

You don't care
about integration?

I want to vote for it, not talk
about it. Especially on a Friday.

Come on, let's eat.

I'm meeting my brother there.

And how would these activities
have come to the attention of the FBI?

Well, if I remember correctly,
the FBI was taking license plates

outside suspected communist
gatherings and his name popped up.

Jesus Christ.

- Sorry.
- Frank.

- Uh, you remember Jackie?
- [Good evening.]

Robert!

I want you to meet Chevalier.

Dr. Haakon Chevalier,
Dr. Robert Oppenheimer.

Pleasure, pleasure. This
is my little brother, Frank.

- And this is...
- Still Jackie.

Hello, Still Jackie.

- Chevalier, you're in...
- Languages, and your reputation precedes you.

What have you heard?

That you're teaching a radical
new approach to physics.

I have no chance of understanding,
but I haven't heard you're a party member.

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

Frank and I are thinking
of joining, just the other day.

I support a range of causes.

Spanish Civil War?

A democratic republic being
overthrown by fascist thugs.

- Who wouldn't?
- Our government.

They think that socialism is
a bigger threat than fascism.

Not for long. Look at what
the Nazis would do to the Jews.

I send funds to colleagues in Germany
to emigrate. I have to do something.

Ach, my own work is so... abstract.

- What are you working on?
- What happens to stars when they die?

Do stars die?

Well, if they do, they'd
cool, then collapse. In fact,

the bigger the star, the
more violent its demise.

Their gravity gets so concentrated,
it swallows everything.

- Everything, even life.
- Can that really happen?

The math says it can.
If we can get published,

then perhaps one day
an astronomer finds one.

But right now all I have is theory,
which can't impact people's lives.

Well, if you're going to send money to
Spain, do it through the Communist Party.

They can get it to the front lines.

Mary [similar ???], please.

I'm Jean.

Robert.

Haakon Chevalier. Union
meeting at Serber's last month.

Right, right, yes. Thank you.

Robert here says
he's not a communist.

Well, then he doesn't
know enough about it.

Oh, I've read Das Kapital, all
three volumes. Does that count?

It would make you better
read than most Party members.

It's turgid stuff. There's some
thinking, um, ownership is theft.

- Property.
- Property?

Property, not ownership.

I'm sorry, I read it in
the original German.

Oh.

It's not about the book.
It's about the ideas.

And you sound uncommitted.

I'm committed to thinking freely
about how to improve our world.

Why limit yourself to one dogma?

You're a physicist. You
pick and choose rules?

Or do you use the discipline to
channel your energies into progress?

I like a little wiggle room.

You always tow the party line.

I like my wiggle room, too.

What?

Wait, wait, wait!

- Unexpected.
- What?

For a physicist.

You only have a shelf full of Freud?

Well, actually, my background's more...

Jungian?

You know analysis.

When I was a post-grad at
Cambridge, I had a little trouble.

I'll bite.

- I tried to poison my tutor.
- Did you hate him?

- I liked him very much.
- You just need to get your lay.

Took my analyst two years, and I don't
think they ever put it that succinctly.

You thought everyone could boast you're
more complicated than you actually are.

- We're all simple souls, I guess.
- [Not me.]

What's this?

Sanskrit.

You can read this?

I'm learning.

Read this.

Well, in this part, Vishnu
[assumes his many-armed form]...

No, no.

Read the words.

"And now I am become Death.

Destroyer of worlds."

This'll do.

We'll break before dawn.

The air cools overnight.

Just before dawn, we'll break.

So, I'm getting married.

Frank, congratulations!

Thanks, thank you, Jackie.

Yeah, to Jackie.

The waitress.

Oppie, you're right. He's letting
up. I'm gonna see if there's any stars.

All your talk about the common man.

Jackie's not good enough for you.

We joined the party and you
can't hide your discipline now.

Why?

Is that because that's
supposed to be your thing?

I haven't joined the party, Frank.

And I don't think she should
have convinced you to either.

- Half of the faculty is gonna be...
- Not that half.

I'm your brother Frank, and
I want you to be cautious.

And I wanna wring your neck!

I won't live my life
afraid to make a mistake.

You're happy. I'm happy.

So then I'm happy you're
happy that I'm happy.

I feel like I can see one of those
dark stars that you're working on.

You can't.

It's the whole point.

Gravity swallows light.

It's like a kind of hole in space.

Is Frank okay?

Yes.

He just has a shitty brother.

It is special here.

When I was a kid,

I thought if I could find a way

to combine physics

and New Mexico,

my life would be perfect.

A little remote for that, yes.

Let's get some sleep.

That mesa we saw today, one
of my favorite places in the world.

Tomorrow we'll climb it. What's it called?

Los Alamos.

I didn't expect to see you today.

I have to make an appointment.

Hey, wait.

Alvarez?

Oppie! Oppie!

What? What is it?

They've done it.

They've done it. Hahn and
Strassmann from Germany.

They split the uranium nucleus.

How?

- Bombarding the neutrons.
- It's a nuclear fission.

- They did it. They split the atom.
- It's not possible...

I'm gonna try to reproduce it.

See? Can't be done.

Very elegant.

Quite clear.

There's just one problem.

Where?

Next door.

Alvarez did it.

Look!

These fission pulses,
they're massive.

I've seen 30 of these
in the past 10 minutes.

Theory will take
you only so far.

During the process,

Extra neutrons boil off, which could
be used to split other uranium atoms.

Chain reaction. You're
thinking what I'm thinking?

[You, me,] every other physicist
around the world has seen it used.

I'm just... What? What are we all thinking?

A bomb, Alvarez.

A bomb.

I told you, Robert, no
more fucking flowers.

- I don't understand what you want from me.
- I don't want anything from you.

You say that and then you call.

Well, don't answer.

I'll always answer.

Fine.

Just no more flowers.

You're not coming?

You have to know when
you're beaten, Robert.

It's not that simple, Hoke.

Chevalier, good to see you.

Good job, Barbara, good to see you.

And illustrious Dr. Oppenheimer.

I'm Eltenton. Come.

Please, please.

Let me have a say a word about
organized labor on campuses.

Yes?

Coming through, coming through.

I work at Shell.

We signed up chemists,
we signed up engineers.

So why not scientists
and academia?

Oppie! Oppie! Oppie!

Teachers are unionized.
Why not professors?

Don't you have somewhere to be?

Lawrence, academics have rights, too.

Look, it's not that. I've
got a group coming.

- Oh. I'll sit in.
- Not this one.

Richard, Dr. Bush. What
brings you two up north?

Richard, you tell Ruth I'll be
down in Pasadena Thursday.

Paper of Black Holes, it's in!

Where's Hartland? Get
Hartland. Get Hartland.

September 1st, 1939.

The world's gonna
remember this day.

Oh, Hartland, our paper.
It's in print.

You've been upstaged.

During the Battle of Britain, I found
myself increasingly out of sympathy with the

policy of neutrality that
communists advocated.

But after Hitler invaded
Russia and we became allies,

these communist
sympathies, do they return?

No.

I need to make clear
that my changing views

on Russia did not mean a short break
from those who held different views.

For a year or two, during
a previous marriage,

my wife, Kitty, had been a
Communist Party member.

This is where I keep the good stuff.

I thought this was
Mr. Toleman's house.

I live with them
when I'm at Caltech.

Do you two need anything?

Welcome, Lucy.

So, you're a biologist.

Well, somehow I have
graduated to housewife.

Can you explain quantum mechanics to me?

Seems baffling.

Yes, it is.

Well, this glass.

This drink.

This countertop.

Our bodies...

All of it.

It's mostly empty space.

Groupings of tiny energy
waves bound together.

By what?

Forces of attraction strong
enough to convince us

that matter is solid.

It's not my body
passing through yours.

You're married to Dr. Harrison.

I'm not married.

There is someone that I feel...

She feels that way.

Sometimes.

Not enough.

You know, I'm going to New Mexico.

To my ranch with friends.

You should come.

I meant with your husband.

Yes, you did.

Because you know it won't
make a bit of difference.

Why did you marry him?

I was lost and he was kind.

Lost?

Well, my previous
husband had died...

at 28, and I wasn't really
ready to be a widow.

Who's your first husband?

Nobody.

My second husband was Joe Dallet.

He was, um, from
money like me, but

he was a union organizer
in Youngstown, Ohio.

Felt hard.

How hard?

Hard enough to spend the next four
years living off beans and pancakes,

handing out the Daily
Worker at factory gates.

By 36, I just told Joe I
couldn't take it anymore.

I quit the party.

A year later, I wanted him back.

Him, not the Daily Worker.

He says "Well, I'll meet
you on my way to Spain."

Went to fight for the Loyalists?

And then he went to
the Brigades and I waited.

And?

Joe got himself killed first time he
popped his head out of the trench.

Ideology got Joe killed.
For nothing.

The Spanish Republic is a nothing.

My husband offered
both our futures to stop

one fascist bullet from
embedding itself in a mud bank.

That's the definition of nothing.

Seems a little reductive.

Pragmatic.

Now here I am.

[In the middle of nowhere.]

I didn't want you to
hear it from anyone else.

At least you didn't bring me flowers.

We both know I'm not
what you want, Jean.

Yeah, but it's a door closing.

No.

Not as far as I'm concerned, no.

You knocked her up. Fast work.

Can't keep a good man down.

I meant her.

She knew what she wanted.
What about the husband?

We talked. They're
getting a divorce.

So we can get married
before she starts showing.

How civilized.

You idiot. This is
your community.

You think the rules don't
apply to the golden boy?

Brilliance makes up for a lot.

Don't alienate the only people in
the world that understand what you do.

One day you may need them.

Federation of Architects,
Engineers, Chemists, Technicians.

Lomanitz?

- What do you get paid a month?
- That's not the point, Lawrence.

What do any of you have in common
with farm laborers and dock workers?

Plenty.

Everybody out.

Now!

Not you.

What are you doing?

It's a trade union.

Filled with communists.

So? I never joined the party.

They won't let me bring you onto
the project because of this shit.

They won't even let me
tell you what the project is.

- Oh, I know what the project is.
- Oh, really?

We've all heard about Einstein
and Siller's letter to Roosevelt

warning him that Germans
could make a bomb,

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

And I don't?

It's not your people they're
herding into camps. It's mine.

You think that I tell
them about your politics?

The next time you're
coming home from a meeting,

why don't you take a
look in the rearview mirror?

Listen to the sounds on your phone
line and stop being so goddamn naive.

Why would they care what I do?

Because you're not just
self-important, you're actually important.

Okay.

I get it.

If you could just be a
little more pragmatic...

I'll talk to Lomanitz, I'll talk to the
others. You don't have to worry. It's done.

Lawrence.

Then welcome to the war.

I filled out my first security questionnaire,
and was informed that my involvement with

with the left-wing groups would not prove
a bar to my working on the atomic program.

Why were his Communist associations
not seen as a security risk during the war?

Senator, I can't possibly answer
for a security clearance granted years

- before I ever met the man.
- Fine. What about after?

After the war, Dr. Oppenheimer was the most
respected scientific voice in the world.

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

That's why he advised the
Atomic Energy Commission.

- So who's that?
- Really accusing me of...

I think they just want to know what
happened between 1947 and 1954

to change your mind on
Oppenheimer's security clearance.

I didn't. I was chair of
the AEC, but it wasn't me

that brought the charges against Robert.
- Who did?

Some former staff member
of the Joint Congressional Committee.

He was a rabid
anti-communist named Bordon.

He wrote to the FBI
demanding they take action.

- The FBI? Why not go to the AEC, Director?
- And get caught holding the knife yourself.

What did Borden have
against Oppenheimer?

This is the McCarthy era.

People hounded out of
jobs for any hint of red.

Reading Oppenheimer's security
file of his communist brother,

sister-in-law, fiancee,
best friend, wife.

It's before we even
get to the Chevaliers.

But how would Borden have
access to Oppenheimer's security file?

Because somebody gave it to him.

Somebody who
wanted Robert silenced.

- Who?
- Who knows?

Robert didn't take care not to upset
the power brokers in Washington.

His opinions on the atom became definitive,

and he wasn't always
patient with us mere mortals.

I came in for plenty of harsh
treatment. There was a...

AEC vote on the export
of isotopes to Norway,

and they drafted up [?] Robert
to make me look like a fool.

But Dr. Oppenheimer, we've already heard
from Admiral Strauss that these isotopes

could be useful to our enemies in
the production of atomic weapons.

Congressman, you could use a shovel
in making atomic weapons. In fact you do.

You could use a bottle of beer in
making atomic weapons. In fact you do.

I say isotopes are less useful
than electronic components,

but more
useful than a sandwich!

Genius is no guarantee of wisdom.

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

Kitty?

Kitty?

Kitty?

The project.

I'm in.

I'm in.

Let's celebrate.

Shouldn't you go with him?

I have been calling to him all fucking day.

I don't know how to say this.
I'm ashamed to ask.

Anything.

- Take Peter.
- Sure.

For a while, Hoke. A while.

Does Kitty know you're here?
Yes, of course she knows.

Of course she knows.
We're awful people.

Selfish, awful people.

Can I ask?

Selfish, awful people.

They don't know
they're selfish and awful.

Sit, sit, sit.

Robert, you see beyond
the world we live in.

There is a price
to be paid for that.

Of course, we'll help you.

Everything's changing,
Rucker [?] and I.

Having a child was
always going to...

The world is pivoting
in some new direction.

Reforming.

This is your moment.

- We're putting together a crew to study...
- We shouldn't be doing anything.

You should.

Lawrence won't get this done.
Or Tolman, or Rabi. You will.

Who are the uniforms?

I thought you might know.

Dr. Oppenheimer.

I'm Colonel Groves.
This is Lieutenant Colonel Nichols.

Have that dry-cleaned.

Well, if that's how you treat...

a Lieutenant Colonel, I'd hate to
see how you treat a humble physicist.

If I ever meet one,
I'll let you know.

Ouch.

Fears of combat all over the world,
but I have to stay in Washington.

Why?

I built the Pentagon.
The brass likes it so much,

they made me take over the
Manhattan Engineer District.

Which is?

Be a smartass. You
know damn well what it is.

You and half of every
physics department

across the country, that's
problem number one.

I thought problem number one
would be securing enough uranium ore.

1,200 tons. Bought
the day I took charge.

Processing?

Just broke ground at
Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Now I'm looking
for a project director.

And my name came up.

Nope.

Even though you brought quantum
physics to America, which made me curious.

What have you found out?

You're a dilettante, a womanizer,
a suspected communist.

I'm a New Deal Democrat.

I said "suspected."

Unstable, theatrical,
egotistical, neurotic.

Nothing good, no. Not
even "he's brilliant," but...

Well, brilliance is taken for
granted in your circle, so no.

The only person who had anything
good to say was Richard Tolman.

Tolman thinks you have integrity, but...

He also strikes me as a guy who
knows more about science than people.

Yet here you are. You
don't take much on trust.

I don't take anything on trust.

- Why don't you have a Nobel Prize?
- Why aren't you a general?

- They're making me one for this.
- Perhaps I'll have the same luck.

A Nobel Prize for making a bomb?

Alfred Nobel invented dynamite.

So how would you proceed?

You're talking about turning theory
into a practical weapon system

faster than the Nazis.
- We'll have a 12-month head start.

- 18.
- How could you possibly know that?

Our fast neutron
research took six months.

The man they've undoubtedly put in
charge would have made that leap instantly.

- Who do you think they put in charge?
- Ferdinand Heisenberg.

He has the most intuitive understanding
of atomic structure I have ever seen.

- You know his work?
- I know him, just like I know Walter.

Both of them, von Weizsacker, Diebner.
In a straight race, the Germans win.

We've got one hope.

Which is?

Anti-Semitism.

What?

Hitler called quantum physics
"Jewish science," right to Einstein's face.

Our one hope is that
Hitler is so blinded by hate,

that he's denied Heisenberg proper
resources, because it'll take vast resources.

Our nation's best scientists working
together. Right now they're scattered.

Which gives us
compartmentalization.

All minds have to see the
whole task to contribute efficiently.

Poor security may cost
us the race. Inefficiency will.

- The Germans know more than us anyway.
- The Russians don't.

Remind me, who
were we at war with?

Somebody with your past doesn't
want to be seen downplaying the

importance of security
from our communist allies.

Point taken, but no.

You don't get to say no to me.

My job is to say no to
you, and you're wrong.

- So you have the job now?
- Well, I'm considering it.

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

My favorite response: Oppenheimer
couldn't run a hamburger stand.

I couldn't.

But I can run the Manhattan Project.
[(And the 1xBet slots, apparently.)]

BWOO-WOMP

BWOO-WOMP

JUST PICK ONE IDIOT

OH WAIT

DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU'RE RICH?!

HOLY FUCK I LOVE PAYING TAXES

SO DEEP SO META YOU'RE WATCHING
OPPENHEIMER BUT IT'S 1XBET ALL THE WAY DOWN

COOL TWIST LIKE THAT BEN
AFFLECK MOVIE HYPNOSIS

There's a way to balance those things.

Keep the rad lab here at
Berkeley, under Lawrence.

Met lab in Chicago,
under Szilard.

The large-scale refinery,
where did you say, Tennessee?

- And Hanford.
- And Hanford.

All America's industrial,
mining, scientific innovation,

connected by rail, focused on one
goal, one point in space and time.

And it comes together here, in a secret
laboratory. In the middle of nowhere,

secure, self-sufficient.
Equipment, housing, the works.

Keep everyone there until it's done.
They'll need a school, stores, a church.

Why?

If we don't let scientists bring their
families, we'll never get the best.

You want security built in town?
Build it fast.

Where?

Welcome to Los Alamos.

Look, there's a boys' school
we'll have to commandeer,

and the local Indians could
not bear for buried rights, but...

But from that, nothing.
Forty miles, any direction.

We'll have to find the perfect spot.

- For?
- Success.

Build the town. Fast.

Let's go recruit some scientists.

Why would I leave my family?

I told you, you could
bring your family.

I'm not a soldier, are we?
A soldier?

There's the general, I've
got all the soldier I need.

What can I tell them?

Heisenberg, Diebner, Bothe and Bohr.
What do these men have in common?

- The greatest minds on atomic theory.
- Yes, and?

As much as you like. Until
you feel my boot on your balls.

You know isotopes, and you know
explosives better than anyone in the world.

But you can't tell us what you're doing.

I don't know how Nazis have them.
The newsboys in Copenhagen...

Under Nazi occupation, did they
stop printing newspapers in Princeton?

Why would we go to the middle of
nowhere for who knows how long?

- For a year or two or three?

My general, could you...
give us a moment?

It's about unleashing
a strong force...

...before the Nazis do.
- Oh my God.

- It was all work for the Nazis.
- No, never.

- Not they, [?] have we?
- We don't.

That's why I need you.

- Why would you think I'd do that?
- Why? Why?

How about because this is the most
important fucking thing to ever

happen in the history
of the world?

How about that?

Fuck.

They're not going to
let me onto this project.

And failing a security check is not going
to be good for a career even after the war.

So you're a fellow traveler. So what?

This is a national emergency. I've got
some skeletons, they put me in charge.

- They need us.
- Until they don't.

Is there any chance of
getting Bohr out of Denmark?

No, no dice. I checked
with the British.

Until we get Allied boots back onto
the continent, there's just no way.

Is he that important?

How many people do you know
who've proved Einstein wrong?

It really would be
quicker to take a plane.

No, a plane's too risky.
The country needs us.

Harvard guys, they say the
building's too small for this cyclotron.

Get them together with the architects.

When's this place supposed to open?

Two months.

Robert, you're the great
improviser, but this...

you can't do in your head.

Four emissions.
Experimental, theoretical,

metallurgical.
- Who's running theoretical?

- I am.
- That's what I was afraid of.

You're spread too thin.

So you take theoretical.

I'm not coming here, Robert.

Why not?

You drop a bomb, and it
falls on the just and the unjust.

I don't wish the culmination
of three centuries

of physics to be a weapon
of mass destruction.

Izzy, I don't know if we can
be trusted with such a weapon,

but I know the Nazis can't.

They have no choice.

The second thing you have to do is appoint
Hans Bethe to run the theoretical division.

Wait. What was the first?

Take off that ridiculous
uniform. You're a scientist.

- Groves is insisting we join.
- Tell Groves to go shit in his hat.

They need us for who we are.
So be yourself. Only better.

This is the only key.
And Teller's already here.

- Can I just show him in?
- No, let's wait for the others.

- Let's get started.
- Hello, Edward.

Yes?

Gentlemen, we will work here until
the T-section at Los Alamos is finished.

- Edward, can I?
- This is more important.

When I calculated the chain reaction,
I found a rather terrible possibility.

No, this can't be right.
Show me how you did your calculations.

Yes.

This is fantasy.

Teller's calculations
can't be right.

Do it yourself, while
I'm at Princeton.

- What for?
- To talk to Einstein.

But there's not much common
ground between the two.

That's why I
should get his view.

Albert.

Ah, Dr. Oppenheimer.
Have you met Dr. Godel?

We walk here most days.

Trees are the most
inspiring structures.

- Albert, might I have a word?

Of course. Excuse me.

Some days, Kurt refuses to meet.

Even Princeton is convinced that
the Nazis can poison his food, hm?

Hmm?

What?

- Whose work is this?
- Teller's.

What do you take it to mean?

Neutrons smash into nucleus, releasing
neutrons to smash into other nuclei.

Criticality, point of no return,
massive explosive force-

But this time the chain
reaction doesn't stop.

It would ignite the atmosphere.

If we detonate an atomic device
we might start a chain reaction that...

...destroys the world.

So here we are, hm?

Lost in your quantum world of
probabilities, and needing certainty.

- Can you run the calculations yourself?
- No, no.

About the only thing you and I have in
common is a disdain for mathematics.

- Was working on this in Berkeley.
- Hans Bethe.

Well, you'll get to the truth.

And if the truth is catastrophic?

Then you stop, and you share
your findings with the Nazis.

So neither side
destroys the world.

Robert, this is yours. Not mine.

Teller's wrong.
He's wrong.

When you know Teller's critical
assumptions, the real picture emerges.

[In short?]

The chances of an uncontrolled
nuclear reaction are near-zero.

Near... zero?

Oppie, this is good news.

- Can you run them again?
- No, you'll get the same answer.

To actually detonate one of these things, the
best assurance you're going to get is this.

Near zero.

Theory will take you only so far.

- Hello!
- Hi!

- We missed him.
- You want to adopt?

Oh, she's kidding.

We wanted to see you before we left.

For parts unknown.

You know who I ran into
the other day? Eltenton.

Oh.

The chemist from
Shell, the union guy?

Yeah. The F.A.A.C.T. guy.

He was moaning about
how we're handling the war.

How so?

Lack of cooperation
with our allies.

Apparently, the government's not
sharing any research with the Russians.

He said most scientists
think the policy is stupid.

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

He mentioned that if anyone had
anything they wanted to pass on,

going around official
channels, that he could help.

That would be treason.

Yes, of course.

I just thought you should know.

The brat is down. [?]
Where are the martinis?

Coming right up.

The conversation ended there.
Nothing in our long-standing friendship

would have led me to believe that Chevalier
was actually seeking information.

And I am certain that he had no idea
of the work in which I was engaged.

It has long been clear to me that I
should have reported this incident at once.

The Oppenheimer situation
highlights the tension between

scientists and the security
apparatus, in hopes of learning how

the nominee handles such
issues during his time in the ABC.

We'll have a scientist
appearing before the committee.

- Who are they bringing in?
- They haven't said.

Mr. Chairman, if I may, I'm
nominated for Commerce Secretary.

Why is it the
opinion of scientists?

This is a cabinet post, Admiral.
We seek a wide range of opinions.

I'd like to know the name
of the scientist testifying.

I'd like the chance
to cross-examine.

This is not a court.

Formality, huh?

No presidential cabinet
nominee has failed to be confirmed

since 1925. This is just
how the game is played.

It's in the bag,
Lewis. So play nice.

They bring in a
scientist, so what?

You don't know scientists
like I do, Counselor.

They resent anyone who questions their
judgment, especially for most of them.

I was chair of the AEC. I'm easy to
blame for what happened to Robert.

We can't have the Senate thinking the scientific
community doesn't support you, sir.

Or should we pivot?

- To what?
- And embrace it.

"I fought Oppenheimer,
and the US won."

I don't think we
need to go there.

Isn't there someone we can call
who knows what really happened?

- Teller.
- It'll make an impression.

Can you get the name of
the scientist they've called?

- Probably.
- Find out if he was based in Chicago,

or Los Alamos during the war.
- Why does that matter?

Well, if he was based in Chicago,
they worked on under Szilard and Fermi.

They had the cult of Bobby at Los Alamos.
Robert built that damn place.

He was founder and mayor,
sheriff. All rolled into one.

Well, all it needs is a saloon.

There's no kitchen.

Really? I'll fix that.

Barbed wire?

Guns?

- I'll be...
- We're at war, Hans.

Halifax. 1917.

A cargo ship carrying
munitions explodes in the harbor.

A vast and sudden
chemical reaction.

The biggest man-made
explosion in history.

Now let's calculate how
much more destructive

it would have been
if it were a nuclear,

and not a chemical reaction,
expressing power in terms of tons of TNT.

- But it would be in thousands.
- Well then...

Kilo-tons.

Using U-235, the
bomb will need a...

I'm sorry.

"Gadget" will need a
33-pound sphere about this size.

Or using plutonium,
a 10-pound sphere.

Here's the amount of uranium
Oakwood's refined all of last month.

And the Hanford plant
made this much plutonium.

Now, if we can enrich these amounts,
we need a way to detonate them.

- Are we boring you, Edward?
- A little bit, yes.

May I ask why?

We all entered this room knowing
an efficient bomb was possible.

How about we leave it with something new?

Such as?

Instead of uranium or
plutonium, we use hydride.

Heavy hydrogen, deuterium.

You see, we compact
the atoms together,

under great pressure, to
induce a fusion reaction.

And we'll get not
kilotons, but megatons.

Okay, hang on, hang on. So how do you
generate a force to fuse hydrogen atoms?

A small fission bomb.

There we are!

Well, since we're going to need one anyway,
we can get back to the business at hand...

The isotopes issue
wasn't your most important

policy disagreement
with Dr. Oppenheimer.

It was the hydrogen
bomb, wasn't it?

As colleagues, we agreed to
disagree on a great many things.

And one of them was the need
for an H-bomb program, yes.

Thanks. Convening. On
short notice. I can't believe it.

Well, here we are. Catch
me up. What do we know?

One of our B-29s over the North
Pacific has detected radiation.

- Do we have the filter papers?
- There's no doubt what this is.

- The White House says there's a doubt. [?]
- Wishful thinking, I'm afraid.

Are those the long-range
detection filter papers?

It's an atomic test.

The Russians have a bomb. We're
supposed to be years ahead of them, but...

What were you guys doing in Los Alamos?
Was the security tight?

- Of course it was. You weren't there.
- Forgive me, Doctor.

But I was there.

You can now consider the
actual mechanics of detonation.

- Any ideas?
- I call this shooting.

Fire a chunk of fissionable
material into a larger

sphere with enough
force to achieve criticality.

- What do we think? Anyone?
- I've been thinking about implosion.

Explosives around the sphere
blast inwards, crushing the material.

- I'd like to investigate that idea.
- I'll talk to ordnance.

Okay, you blow things up.

- Progress?
- Nice to see you too.

Meet the British contingent.

It's Oppenheimer. Klaus Fuchs.

- How long have you been British?
- Since Hitler told me I wasn't German.

Ah, come work for Los Alamos.

The school's up and running.

The bar.

Always running.

And I thought of a way
to reduce support staff.

- Is that?
- Mr. Severin, yes.

I've offered jobs to all the wives
of men, librarians, computation.

We cut down on staff,
keep families together.

- Are these women qualified?
- Don't be absurd.

These are some of the
brightest minds in our community.

They're already
security cleared?

I've informed General Groves
you've been holding cross-divisional

open discussions on a nightly basis.
- Shut them down.

Compartmentalization is the
key to maintaining security.

Only the top men.

Who presumably
communicate with subordinates?

These men aren't stupid.
They can be discreet.

I don't like it.

You don't like anything
enough for that to be a fair test.

Once a week. Top men only.

You'd like to bring my brother here?

No.

Herr Nichols?

I still haven't heard that my security
clearance has been approved.

- It hasn't.
- I'm going to Chicago tomorrow.

That should wait.

You are aware that the Nazis
had a two-year head start?

Dr. Oppenheimer, the fact
that your security clearance

is proving difficult to
obtain is not my fault.

It's yours.

It may not be your fault, but it's
your problem. Because I'm going.

And how many people were in these, uh...

...open...
- Open.

...discussions?

Too many. Compartmentalization
was supposed to be the protocol.

We were in a race
against the Nazis.

Now the race is
against the Soviets.

- Not unless we start it properly.
- They just fired the starting gun.

What's the nature of the
device they detonated?

Data indicates it may have been
a plutonium implosion device.

Like the one you
built at Los Alamos.

The Russians have a bomb.
Truman needs to know what's next.

What's next?
Arms talks.

- Arms talks.
- Obviously.

What about the super? Does
Truman even know about it?

Did we brief him on that?

Not specifically.

We still don't know if a hydrogen
bomb is technically feasible.

Right, my understanding is
that Teller proposed to him.

- Yes.
- At Los Alamos?

Teller's designs have
always been wildly impractical.

You'd have to deliver
by oxcart, not airplane.

- Oppie!
- So, Dr. Lawrence, any comment?

No.

Because if it can
put us ahead again,

the President of the United
States needs to know about it.

And if the Russians know
about it already from a spy...

at Los Alamos, then
we've got to get going.

There's no proof there
was a spy at Los Alamos.

Robert.

They put it under the football stadium?

It feels not in use anymore.

Just as well.

- Oppie!
- Dr. Fermi.

- I hear you've got a little town.
- Yes, come and see.

How could things tick [?]
in a place like that, ah?

Everybody will go crazy.

Thank you the vote
of confidence, Szilard.

Do we really... really
need that on the notes?

Aren't you gonna try it out?

We did.

The first self-sustaining
nuclear chain reaction.

Didn't Groves tell you?

No.

Dr. Oppenheimer? I tried
personnel. I asked if I could type.

Can you?

Harvard forgot to teach that on
the graduate chemistry course.

Condon, put Mrs. Hornig
here on the plutonium team.

What the hell were you doing in Chicago?

- Visiting the mets.
- Why?

- You can't do that.
- Why?

Because we-we have every right.

You have just the rights that
I give you. No more, no less.

We are adults trying to run a project here.
This is ridiculous.

Tell him.

Compartmentalization is
the protocol we agreed to.

Enough of this madhouse.
Nobody can work under these conditions.

You know what?
Generalissimo, I quit!

Thanks for nothing.

Better off without him.

Aren't you more concerned
about his discretion out there?

We'll have him killed.

No, just kidding.
He hates me, not America.

You know, General, not everyone
has levers to pull like mine.

I don't think I understand.

You didn't hire me despite my
left-wing past. You hired me because of it.

So you could control me.

No, I'm not that subtle.
I'm just a humble soldier.

You're neither humble, nor just a
soldier. You studied engineering at MIT.

- Guilty as charged.
- Well, now we understand each other,

perhaps you can get
me my security clearance,

so I can perform
this miracle for you.

General Groves,
were you aware of

Dr. Oppenheimer's left-wing
associations when you appointed him?

I was aware that there
were suspicions about him.

I was aware he had a very
extreme liberal background.

In your opinion, would he ever
consciously commit a disloyal act?

I would be amazed if he did.

So you had complete
confidence in his integrity?

At Los Alamos, yes. Which
is where I really knew him.

Do you know that your
security officers on the project

advised you against the
clearance of Dr. Oppenheimer?

They could not, and would
not, clear him until I insisted.

And it's safe to say that you
had a pretty good knowledge

of Dr. Oppenheimer's
security file.

I did.

Then there's only really one
question I need answered here today.

In light of the current AEC guidelines,
would you clear Dr. Oppenheimer today?

Do you have the guidelines?

Under current AEC guidelines, would
you clear Dr. Oppenheimer today?

Physics and New Mexico, huh?

My God.
What a trick.

- That's why you need a liaison.
- We're appointing Lomanitz.

You're gonna be okay.
This way, gentlemen.

- Dr. Lawrence.
- Leslie.

I'd like to remind you what
we talked about at Berkeley.

Departmentalization, I
understand completely.

Greetings from Berkeley.

I am here to update you on our
progress and solicit your input.

To do so, I am going to have to share a few
things that General Groves told me not to.

Sorry General, I said I
understood, not that I agreed.

Gentlemen, business!

- There were rumors of espionage at Los Alamos,
- Unsubstantiated. There's no such thing. [?]

and I'm told that there were
communists on the project.

I just want to know, were any of them
involved in discussions at the super?

I seem to remember you demanding
your brother come to Los Alamos.

- My brother had left the party by then.
- What about Lomanitz?

Lominitz was never employed
at Los Alamos. He was a liaison.

Our security was tight, as former
Colonel Nichols well knows.

Our security was as tight as it could be given the
personalities involved, but attempts were made.

- What is that supposed to mean?
- We've all read his file here.

Do we need to talk about Gene Tatlock?

Or the Chevalier incident?

Excuse me.

Mr. Lomanitz, line one!

Hello, Rossi. What?
O-Okay, just calm down.

[Another mistake. (?)]

- Lomanitz just got drafted.
- We are at war, Doctor.

Don't be an asshole, Nichols.
We need this kid. Fix it, will you?

It wasn't a mistake. Your friend Lomanitz
was [?] trying to unionize the radiation lab.

- He promised to quit all that.
- Well, he hasn't.

The security officer at Berkeley is
concerned about communist infiltration

through that union, the FA...
- FAECT.

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

Your Q clearance came through.

It's important you not maintain or renew
any questionable associations.

Doctor, did you think
social contacts

between a person engaged on secret
war work, and communists, was dangerous?

My awareness of the danger
would be greater today.

It's fair to say that
during the war years,

you felt that such contacts
were potentially dangerous.

Were conceivably dangerous, yes.

They really were!

Knowing communists.

Look...

I've had a lot of secrets
in my head for a long time.

Doesn't matter who I associate
with, I don't talk about those secrets.

You said in your statement that
you had to see Gene Tadlock in 1943.

You left...

...not a word.

What did you think that would do to me?

- I wrote.
- Pages of nothing.

Where did you go?

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

Because you're a communist.

Why did you have to see her?

She had indicated a great
desire to see me before we left.

At that time I couldn't, but I
felt that she had to see me.

She was undergoing psychiatric
treatment. She was extremely unhappy.

Did you find out why
she had to see you?

Because she was still in love with me.

You spent the night together, didn't you?

Yes...

You drop in and out of my life
and you don't have to tell me why.

And that's power. Not
that I enjoy.

I'd rather be here for you as
you need.

But you have
other priorities now.

I have a wife and child.

That's not what either
of us is talking about.

Jean, you asked me to come.

And I'm glad I did.

But I can't see you again.

But what if I need you?

You said you would
always answer.

Not a word?

Did you think that
consistent with security?

As a matter of fact, it was.
Not a word.

When did you see her after that?

I never saw her again.

I can make the last
train back to Princeton.

Kitty, I didn't say anything
that I hadn't already told you.

Today you said it
to history, didn't you?

This is a closed hearing.

If they don't release the fat scoop, I'm sure you will.

- I was in trouble.
- Well, you were under enough to me,

when you went to see Gene.

You know that you...

You sit there, day after day,

letting them pick
our lives to pieces.

But why won't you fight?

Robert, I'm not putting her out there.

Dr. Oppenheimer! This is
an honor. Please, take a seat.

I just wanted to check
whether I should...

talk to Lomanitz while I'm
here, given your concerns.

I'd say that's really up to you,
Professor, but I'd be cautious.

Understood.

Oh, and, um, as
regards to the union,

I wanted to give you a heads
up on a man named Eltington.

A heads up?

Yes, just that he might
bear watching is all.

I'd love to get more details.

I have an appointment now,
and I leave early tomorrow.

Well, come back
as early as you like.

Since you don't
have the time now.

- You went back the next morning.
- I did. I had to, really.

This time there was another man.

- He said his name was Pash.
- Pash. You met Colonel Pash?

Colonel Pash, could you please read
from your memo dated June 29, 1943?

"Results of surveillance
conducted on subject

indicate further possible
Communist Party connections."

"Subject met with and spent
considerable time with one Jean Tatlock,

a Communist, the record
of whom is attached."

- The subject being Dr. Oppenheimer?
- Yes.

- Whom you had not met?
- Not then, but soon after.

He's the head of security for
the project. Shouldn't I know him?

No, he should[n't?] know you.

I would never put you
in a room with Pash.

Why not?

When Pash first heard
about Lomanitz,

he told the FBI he was
going to kidnap him,

take him out on a boat, and
interrogate him in the Russian manner.

General Groves has placed
in me a certain responsibility,

and it's like having a child, though
I can't see, by remote control.

So to actually meet you is...

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

Oh, no. Whatever
time you choose.

Mr. Johnson told me the
conversation you had yesterday,

which I'm very interested in.
He's had me worried all day.

Yes, but I didn't want to talk to
Lomanitz without authorization.

That's not the particular interest that I
have. It's something a little bit more...

In my opinion, more serious.

And when the FBI
pointed out that such

information wouldn't
be admissible in court,

Pash made it clear
he had no intention

of leaving any witness
left to prosecute.

Now, the FBI talked him down, but,
that's the man you're dancing with.

Together, you've heard
there are other

parties interested in the
work of the radiation lab?

A man attached to the
Soviet consul indicated,

through intermediate people,
to people on this project,

that he was in a position
to transmit information.

Well, why would anyone on
the project want to do that?

Frankly, I can see that there might be
an argument for the commander-in-chief

informing the Russians,
they're our allies, after all, but...

I don't like the idea
of it going out the back door.

It might not hurt to
be on the lookout for it.

And you said that to Pash.

I was trying to put it into context
that Russia's not Germany.

Boris Pash is the son of a
Russian Orthodox bishop.

Born here, but in 1918 he went
back to Russia to fight the Bolsheviks.

This is a man who has killed
communists with his own hands.

I'm not the judge of who should
or should not have information.

It's my business to stop it
from going through illegally.

Could you be a
little more specific?

There's a man whose name was mentioned
to me a couple of times, Eltonton.

I believe he's a chemist
who works at Shell.

He talked to a friend of his, who's an
acquaintance of someone on the project.

And you thought Pash
would be satisfied with that?

I was attempting to give them
Eltonton without opening a can of worms.

I told them a cock
and bull story.

- Did you lie to General Groves, too?
- No.

I admitted to him
that I'd lied to Pash.

Do you recall his conversation
about the Chevalier incident?

I've seen so many versions of it.

Wasn't confused before, but
I'm certainly getting there now.

- And what was your conclusion?
- That he was under the influence of

the typical American
schoolboy attitude.

That there's something
wicked about telling on a friend.

Well now, might we know through
whom the contact was made?

That would involve people who
are not to be involved in this.

Is that someone a
member of the project?

A member of the faculty,
yes, but not in the project, no.

Ah...

So Eltonton made his approach through
a member of the faculty here at Berkeley.

As far as I know, as far as I know, yes.

But there-there-there may have
been more than one person involved.

Gentlemen, if I... if I
seem uncooperative,

I think you can understand
it's because of my insistence

on not getting innocent
people into trouble.

You're trying to protect your
friend. Who's protecting you?

Oh, you could.

- If you gave me the name...
- If you order me to, I'll do it.

That's a mistake, Robert.
You need to volunteer this name.

Did he give you the name?

- He did.
- But not then, did he?

- No.
- No, in fact,

it was some months
later, wasn't it?

It was.

- You've seen his persistence.
- Well, you are.

You are persistent,
but that's your job.

And my job is to protect
the people that work for me.

Instead of us going
on certain steps,

which may come
to your attention,

and be disturbing to you,

I would like to discuss
those with you first.

I'm not formulating a plan, I'll
just have to digest the whole thing.

In the months in between your
interview with Dr. Oppenheimer, and

his eventual naming of Chevalier,
did you expend resources trying to find

the name of the intermediary?
- Considerable resources, yes.

Without the name, our
job was extremely difficult.

- And when did you receive the name?
- I was gone by the time Oppenheimer

- finally offered it up.
- Gone?

They felt my time would
be better spent in Europe,

determining the status
of the Nazi bomb project.

Who did?

General Groves.

He transferred me to London.

It's a little early for
a Christmas party.

Something's up.

Tolman's been away.

Where?

Ruth won't tell.

Come on, Murphy.

You can tell me, how can you tell?

Compartmentalization, Oppie.

What makes you think I
know where he is, anyway?

Because you're doing a pretty good job of
knowing where Mr. Donovan is when it counts.

Like now?

Attention!

Early Christmas present for you all.

The British pilot put
me in the bomb bay.

He showed me the oxygen,
you know, but I messed it up.

Um, when they opened me up
in Scotland, I was unconscious.

But I pretended
I'd been napping.

Please enjoy your party.

- Is it big enough?
- To end the war?

To end all war.

Heisenberg sought
me out in Copenhagen.

I was chilling with my old
student working for the Nazis.

He told me some
things to draw me out.

Sustained fission
reactions in uranium.

That sounds more like
a reactor than a bomb.

Did he mention
gaseous diffusion?

He seemed more
focused on heavy water.

- As a moderator?
- Yes, instead of graphite.

What?

He took a wrong turn.

We're ahead.

And with you here
to help us, Niels...

So could you give us
a moment, gentlemen?

I'm not here to help, Robert.

I knew you could
do this without me.

- Why did you come?
- To talk about after.

The power you're about to
reveal will forever outlive the Nazis.

And the world is not prepared.

"You can lift the stone without being
ready for the snake that's revealed."

We have to make the politicians
understand this isn't a new weapon.

It's a new world.

I'll be out there doing
what I can, but you...

You're an American Prometheus.

The man who gave them the
power to destroy themselves.

And they'll respect that.

Then your work really begins.

I'm sorry, Oppie, but there's a call.

From San Francisco.

Robert!

Robert?

Robert.

Robert.

What happened?

Your father called.

We found her
yesterday in the bath.

Who?

She's taken pills.
Left a note outside.

She took barbiturates, but there
was chloral hydrate in her blood.

There was a note.

Jean Tatlock?

We were together.

She said she needed me. I...

I don't know why. [?]

I wouldn't...

I don't know why. [?]

I knew it was me. It was me.

You don't get to commit sin.

And then I was all feeling sorry for
you, because you had consequences. [?]

You put yourself together.

You know, people
here depend on you.

Donald, would you like
to contribute here, please?

You're on your own now.

I'm not quitting my job because
plutonium is radioactive.

We just don't know what it might
do to the female reproductive system.

Your reproductive system is more
exposed than mine, presumably.

Can we please? The
implosion device is nowhere.

Can't rush everything.
Oppie, please.

Well, there's rushing, and there's
getting on with it, so take it easy.

Wait, wait, wait.
Neddermeyer is doing his job.

Teller's not helping.
You're not helping.

I've been asking for detonations
on the implosion lenses for weeks.

- The British can do it. Fuse.
- Absolutely.

It's your job, Teller. I'm
engaged in research.

On a hydrogen bomb
we're not even building!

I won't work with that man.

Oh. Let him go.

- He's a prima donna!
- I agree.

- He should leave Los Alamos.
- OK.

Kisty, you replace Neddermeyer.
Seth, I'm putting you on plutonium.

Lilli, you go up for Kisty.
Because he needs you.

Fuchs, you take Teller's role. I'm putting
you exclusively on the implosion device.

And no one is leaving Los Alamos.

- They won't let me leave!
- No, I won't let you leave.

Forget Hans, forget fission.

Stay here, research what you want.
Fusion, the hydrogen bomb, whatever.

We'll need to discuss it.
You don't have time to debate. [?]

You're a politician now, Robert. You've
left physics behind many, many years ago.

Once a week.

One hour, you and me.

Now raise this fucking barrier!

So the super was under development
on your watch at Los Alamos?

Yes.

And yet, after the war,
you tried to deny it was viable.

No, no, no. I pointed out
technical difficulties with it.

Didn't you try to
kill it at the AEC meeting after

the Russian bomb test?
- No.

But that was the recommendation
of the AEC, was it not?

After hours of discussion
about the best response.

An H-bomb is 1,000 times
the power of an A-bomb.

Its only intended target
would be the largest cities.

- It's a weapon of mass genocide.
- Izzy.

Draw some circles on
this side of the map,

where they would target us,
starting in New York. That's D.C.

It's a weapon of attack
with no defensive value.

- Deterrence.
- Deterrence?

Do we really need more deterrence
than our current arsenal of atomic bombs?

You drown in 10 feet of water
or 10,000, what's the difference?

We can already drown, actually.
Hey, that'll get us around this. [?]

As I said, Teller's designs are still as
impractical as they were during the war.

An hydrogen bomb can be made
to work, Oppie. You know that.

I don't believe we should commit
all our resources to that chance.

Then how would you have Truman
reassure the American people?

Simply by limiting the
spread of atomic weapons

through international
control on nuclear energy.

- By which you mean world government.
- The United Nations, as Roosevelt intended.

Well, I asked what
Truman should do, right?

The world's changed. It's not fascism, but
communism, that now threatens our survival.

Lewis, do you understand,
if we build a hydrogen bomb,

the Russians will have no
choice but to build their own?

Could they be working
on one already?

Based on information gathered
from a spy at Los Alamos.

There's no spy at Los Alamos.

Gentlemen, let's not get sidetracked.

I say we use this moment to gain
concessions from the Russians

by committing that we will
not build a hydrogen bomb.

- Thereby revealing its existence.
- Which you seem convinced they already know.

Alright.

At this point, I'd like the
committee members to meet

in privacy to finalize
our recommendations.

I'm just not sure you want
to go down this route, Lewis.

With respect, we are the advisory
committee. We will give them our advice.

Dr. Oppenheimer? Hi.

William Borden.
Joint Committee on Atomic Energy.

Oh, nice, nice.

During the war I was a pilot.

One night, flying back from a
raid, I saw an amazing sight.

I got a meteor.
A V2 rocket headed England.

I can't help but imagine
what it will be

for such an enemy rocket
to carry an atomic warhead.

Let's make sure we're not
the ones to make that possible.

Oppie, I don't think you
want to go up against Strauss.

If we both speak,
they'd listen to me.

When you speak, they hear a prophet.
When Strauss speaks, they hear themselves.

They'll listen to a prophet.

A prophet can't be
wrong. Not once.

Did you accuse Oppenheimer of
sabotaging the development of the super?

I was never one of those to
bandy around terms like sabotage.

- And Mr. Borden wasn't?
- As I understand it, possibly.

How was Mr. Borden able to put
together such a detailed indictment?

He was no longer a government
employee, but he appears to have had

unlimited access to Dr. Oppenheimer's file.

Might Mr. Nichols have given him access
to the file? Or someone else at the AEC?

That's very serious accusations.

Is it your intention to suggest that
Dr. Oppenheimer was disloyal to the United States?

I've always assumed, and still assume,
that he's loyal to the United States.

I believe this, and I shall believe it, until
I see very conclusive proof to the opposite.

Do you, or do you not believe that
Dr. Oppenheimer is a security risk?

I think my take is that when Hitler
blew his brains out in that bunker,

it is my humble opinion
that there is no need

for that bomb to be [?]
anywhere except that test site.

Well, we at least have to
take a moment to think about

whether the means justify
the ends any longer because...

Germany is about to surrender.

It's no longer the enemy who are the
greatest threat to mankind. It's our work.

Hitler's dead. It's true.

But the Japanese fight hard.

Their defeat seems assured.

Not if you're a G.I. preparing to invade.

We can end this war.

But how do we justify using
this weapon on human beings?

We're theorists,

yes?

We imagine a future, and
our imaginings horrify us.

They won't fear it until
they understand it,

and they won't understand
it until they've used it.

When the world learns the
terrible secret of Los Alamos,

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

A peace based on the kind of international
cooperation that Roosevelt always envisaged.

- Progress?
- Two years and a billion dollars' worth.

- Hard to put a price on it.
- Not really, just add up the bills.

Rural free deliveries.
80 babies delivered the first year.

This year we've had 10 a month.

Birth control?

That's a bit out of my
jurisdiction, General.

Clearly.

Head down.
Folks, head down.

That's the bomb.

Two viable bombs.

I need a date.

September.

July.

That's the sweet spot, gentlemen.

August.

July.

Tests in July.

But I need my brother.

Frank goes to the desert.
He's left politics behind.

He's been working with
Lawrence for two years.

What do we call the test?

"Batter my heart,

three-person God."

What?

Trinity.

You insisted on bringing on your
brother Frank, a known communist.

Former communist.

You brought a known
former communist...

onto America's most secret and
important defense project.

I knew my brother could
be trusted. Absolutely.

And you felt your judgment was sound
on who on the team could be trusted?

Folks, head down.

Everybody ready?

- I hope you learned something.
- Yeah, we've learned we're gonna need

to be a lot further away.
- Well, figure it out, fast.

We leave for Washington in the
morning. We're going to give him a date.

You're a long way from Chicago, Leo.

If we don't act now, they're going
to use this thing against Japan.

We booked a meeting with
Truman, but somebody killed it.

You're meeting the Secretary of War.

Just because we're building it, doesn't
mean we get to decide how it's used.

History will judge us from Earth.

In Chicago, we put
together a petition.

I'm not... I'm not
getting into this.

Just tell me your concerns,
and I will allay them.

My concerns? Germany's defeated.

Japan's not going to hold out alone.

How could you know
that? You got us into this.

You and Einstein, with your letter to
Roosevelt saying we could build a bomb.

Against Germany?

That's not how weapons
manufacture works, Szilard.

Oppie, you have to help.

Fermi's in the meeting.
Lawrence is in the meeting.

They're not you. You're the great salesman of
science. You can convince anyone of anything.

Even yourself.

Excuse me.

The firestorm in Tokyo killed
100,000 people, mostly civilians.

I worry about America when we
do these things and no one protests.

Pearl Harbor, and three years
of brutal conflict in the Pacific,

buys a lot of latitude
with the American public.

- Enough to unleash the atomic bomb?
- The A-bomb might not cause as much damage

as the Tokyo bomb, yes.
- What are we estimating?

In a medium-sized city, ah,

20, or 30,000 dead.

Yes, but don't underestimate the
psychological impact of an atomic explosion.

A pillar of fire, 10,000 feet tall,

deadly neutron effects for a mile,

in all directions, from one single device.

Dropped from a barely-noticed
B-29, the atomic bomb will be...

a terrible revelation
of divine power.

If that's true, it would be definitive.

World War II would be over.

Our boys would come home.

Military targets?

But there aren't any big enough.

Perhaps a vital war plant
with workers housed nearby.

And we could issue a warning
to reduce civilian casualties.

They'd send everything they have up
against us, and I'd be up in that plane.

If we announce it,
and it fails to go off,

we'd scupper any chance
of a Japanese surrender.

Is there no way to demonstrate a
bomb to Japan to provoke surrender?

We intend to demonstrate it in
the most unambiguous terms.

Twice.

Once to show the weapon's power,

and a second to show that we can
keep doing this until they surrender.

We have a list of 12 cities to choose from.

Sorry, 11.

I've taken Kyoto off the list,

due to its cultural significance
to the Japanese people.

Also, my wife and I honeymooned there.

It's a magnificent city.

Let me make this simple for you, gentlemen.

According to my intelligence,
which I cannot share with you,

the Japanese people will not surrender,

under any circumstances,

short of a successful and total
invasion of the home islands.

Many lives will be lost,
American and Japanese.

The use of the atomic bomb
on Japanese cities will save lives.

If we retain moral advantage.

How so?

Well, if we use this weapon
without informing our allies,

they'll see it as a threat,
and we'll be in an arms race.

How open can we
be with the Soviets?

Secrecy won't stop the Soviets from
becoming part of the atomic world.

- We've been told they had no uranium.
- You've been misinformed.

A Russian bomb is a matter of time.

The program needs to
continue at full pace after the war.

Secretary Simpson, if
I may, not all scientists

on the
project are in agreement.

In fact, this might be a moment
to consider other opinions.

If you talk to scientists...
- The Manhattan Project has been plagued

from the start by certain scientists of
doubtful discretion, and uncertain loyalty.

One of 'em just tried to
meet with the President.

Now, we need these men,

but as soon as it's practical,

we should sever any such scientists from
the program. Wouldn't you agree, Doctor?

If a Russian bomb is inevitable,

perhaps we should invite
their top scientist to Trinity.

President Truman has no intention
of raising expectations

that Stalin be included
in the atomic project.

Informing him of our breakthrough,

and presenting it as a
means to win the war,

need not make
unkeepable promises.

But, the Potsdam
Peace Conference in July

will be President Truman's last
chance to have that conversation.

Can you give us a working bomb by then?

Absolutely.

We will test fire before the conference.

Ground zero. Observation posts at
10,000 yards, north, south, and west.

- Where do we trigger from?
- South, 10,000.

And base camp is
10 miles south here.

And there's a further observation
post on that hill, 20 miles away.

That's right. Trigger
lines already went in.

The Air Force requested a
line of flights for their B-29.

What B-29? Our bomb's on the tower.

They want to use the test

to confirm a safe operating distance.
- That's risky.

But not as risky as
dropping one over Japan,

and hoping that we were
right about the blast radius.

Don't let 'em slow us down,
we're firing on the 15th.

The 15th? That's the 15th.

15th.

So I'll be here at
South Observation Point

with Frank and Kistiakowsky.

You'll all be assigned to Base Camp,
West Observation, or Far Observation.

No, no!
Carefully, all right?

Are those safe distances?

They're based on
your calculations.

Time to stand behind your
science, Hans. Literally.

What about the radiation cloud?

Without high winds, it
should settle within 2-3 miles.

Evacuation measures are in place.

But we need good weather
for visibility, so it has to be fine.

Everybody out!

- Go on the night of the 15th.
- It's a hard deadline.

So if anyone has
anything, speak now.

Okay, stop! Now
everybody, mattresses.

Put those mattresses
there underneath.

[Could this be our]
final implosion test?

- [It's not too much.]
- Do it.

Is there anything else that might stop us?

That's happening, isn't it?

I'll send a message,

if it's gone our way,

"Take in the sheets."

Robert.

I'm glad.

Oppie's [betting on] a very
modest three kilotons.

- Teller's, he was 45.
- 20!

20,000 tons of TNT.

And does anyone want the side action
on atmospheric ignition?

- Are you saying we'll have to delay?
- I was saying it would be prudent.

This weather hasn't
reached the site.

[Teller's?] calling to tell
you the implosion test failed.

Hello, Hans? Yes, he's here.

Yes.

Is he wrong?

No. No.

So we're about to fire a dud.

- No.
- Explain!

Well, I can't. I just, I...

I just know, I know the
implosion lenses will work.

If we fire these detonators
and they don't trigger a reaction,

two years' worth of plutonium will
be scattered across White Sands.

A month of my salary against
ten bucks, says it starts.

Jesus.

The winds pickin' up at zero,
not the rain. Lightning's circling.

Think it might be time to
tell your men to get away

from the steel tower
with the atomic bomb.

Let's get to South
Observation.

Pull 'em out, and we make
our determination there.

The team hasn't slept for two nights!

If we stop now and leave the bomb
safe, we won't be back here for weeks!

Then we'll miss Potsdam! I gotta get word
to Truman by seven, our window's closing.

- What is this doing?
- Raining, blowing, lightning.

- For how long, damnit?
- Hold strong!

- It won't be before dawn.
- How could you know that?

I know this, Ted. The storm cools
overnight, just before dawn. Storm breaks.

You could be right, but

schedule as late as possible.
- Five-thirty.

Sign your forecast. If
you're wrong, I'll hang you.

- Tell 'em all. Five-thirty.
- Five-thirty, five-thirty!

Three years, four thousand
people, two billion dollars.

So it doesn't go off.
We're both finished.

I'm betting on three kilotons.

Anything less, I
won't get what it is.

Now, what did Fermi mean
by, uh, atmospheric ignition?

Well, we had a moment where
it looked like the chain reaction

from an atomic device
might never stop.

Setting fire to the atmosphere.

And was Fermi still taking side bets on it?

Call it gallows humor.

Are we saying there's a chance that when
we push that button, we destroy the world?

Nothing in our research over
three years supports that conclusion,

except it's the most
remote possibility.

- How remote?
- Chances are near zero.

Near zero?

What do you want from theory alone?

Zero would be nice.

In exactly one hour...

and 58 minutes, we'll know.

It's going up.

The army party's left zero,
they're heading this way.

Throw in your switches.

- Turn the cars!
- Ready for emergency evacuation.

Everybody take a welder's glass.

Everybody take a welders glass.

Twenty minutes.

Twenty minutes!

That's 20!

I'd like a drink.

- Feynman?
- No.

The glass stops the UV.

What stops the glass?

I'll head to base camp.

Best of luck.

Robert?

Try not to blow up the world.

- [Push?] that needle.
- If the detonators don't charge,

and the voltage drops below one volt,
you hit that button, you abort. Understood?

Understood.

Two minutes to detonation.

Everybody down!

Do not turn around until you
see light reflected on the hills.

Then look at the explosion
only through your welder's glass.

90 seconds to detonation.

80 seconds to detonation.

Is it plugged in? [?]

Yeah.

60 seconds to detonation.

These things are hard on your heart.

Thirty seconds.

Detonators primed!

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"And now I am become Death,

the destroyer of worlds."

It worked.

You owe me 10 dollars!

Go on!

I'm good for it, [?] Kisty.

You are!

Yes, you are!

Get me Potsdam right away.

Send a message to Kitty.

- We can't say anything.
- Tell her to take in the sheets.

- Hello?
- Hi, Kitty?

What? What? Charlotte?
Charlotte, go ahead.

Oh, um, well, I don't know.

He's just told me to tell you to bring in the sheets.

Kitty?

If the antennae are too high in the
air, the blast won't be as powerful.

With respect, Dr. Oppenheimer,
we'll take it from here.

Did Truman brief Stalin at Potsdam?

The brief would be an overstatement.

He referred to a powerful new weapon, to Stalin.

The culprit used it against Japan.

That's it?

Robert, we've given them an
ace. It's for them to play the hand.

You're aiming for the sixth ?

It's up to the COO [?] in the Pacific.

Should I come with you to Washington?

What for?

Will you keep me informed?

Of course.

As best I can.

Would the Japanese surrender
if they knew what was coming?

I don't know.

Have you seen Szilard's petition?

How the hell does Szilard
know about the Japanese?

You're not signing it, are you?

Many people have.
A lot of people.

Edward,

the fact that we built this bomb does not
give us any more right or responsibility.

to decide how it's
used, and anyone else.

But we're the only
people who know about it.

I've told Stimson the various
opinions of the community.

I thought it's your opinion?

Once it's used,

nuclear war, perhaps...

all war,

becomes unthinkable.

Until somebody
builds a bigger one.

I thought they would call.

It's only the fifth.

In Japan, it's the sixth.

Charlotte?

Try Groves.

Anything?

Charlotte?

Truman's on the radio.

Sixteen hours ago,

an American airplane

dropped one bomb on Hiroshima,

and destroyed its
usefulness to the enemy.

That bomb has more power
than 20,000 tons of TNT.

It is an atomic bomb.

It is the harnessing of the
basic power of the universe.

Groves, line one.

General?

I'm very proud of you,
and all of your people.

It went alright.

Apparently it went with a tremendous bang.

Oh. Everyone here is feeling
reasonably good about it.

It's been a long road.

I think one of the
wisest things I ever did

was when I selected the
director of Los Alamos.

We have spent more than two billion dollars

on the greatest scientific
gamble in history,

and we have won.

Oppie! Oppie! Oppie!

The world...

will remember this day.

It's too soon to...

It's too soon to determine

what the results of the bombing are.

But I'll bet the Japanese didn't like it.

I'm so proud.

So proud of what you have accomplished.

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

Dr. Oppenheimer?

Dr. Oppenheimer?

Nice picture. [?]

President Truman will see you now.

Doctor Oppenheimer, it's an honor.

- Mr. President.
- Please.

Thank you.

Secretary Byrnes.

How's it feel to be the most
famous man in the world?

Now, you helped save
a lot of American lives.

- What we did at Hiroshima was...
- And Nagasaki.

Obviously.

Your invention let us
bring our boys home.

Well, it was hardly... my invention.

It was. You're on the cover of Time.

Jim tells me you're concerned
about an arms race for the Soviets.

Ah, yes, ah,

It's that, uh, now is
our chance to secure...

international cooperation on atomic
energy, and-and-and I'm concerned...

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

I don't think I could give you...

Never!

Never.

Mr. President, the Russians have
good physicists, and abundant resources-

- Abundant?
- Yes.

I don't think so.

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

I hear you're leaving Los Alamos.

What should we do with it?

Give it back to the Indians.

Um, Dr. Oppenheimer...

if what you say about
the Soviets is true,

we have to build up Los
Alamos, not shut it down.

Mr. President, ehm..

I feel that I have
blood on my hands.

You think anyone
in Hiroshima, or...

Nagasaki, gives a shit
who built the bomb?

They care who dropped it. I did.

Hiroshima isn't about you.

Dr. Oppenheimer.

Don't let that crybaby back in here!

Robert saw that
hand-wringing got him nowhere.

By the time I met him,

he'd fully embraced his
"Father of the Bomb" reputation.

Used his profile to influence policy.

Doctor, in the years
following the war,

would you say that you exerted a great
influence on the atomic policies of the USA?

I think "great" would
be an overstatement.

Really? What about
the issue of isotopes?

Were you not personally responsible for
destroying all opposition to their export?

...Could use a bottle of beer,

in making atomic weapons. In fact, you do.

I was the spokesman, but the opinion
among scientists was unanimous.

All along, with McCarthy on the
rise, he knew he was vulnerable.

His brother was blacklisted by
every university in the country.

Lomanitz went to working
on the railroad, laying track.

Chevalier went into exile.

But none of that stopped Robert from
pushing the GAC to recommend arms control,

instead of the H-Bomb.

He was devastated when Truman rejected their recommendation.

I miss Richard more than I can bear.

I know. I know.

I'm just glad he didn't live to see what this is all about.

Here comes the
birthday boy, to gloat.. [?]

Have fun.

Robert, my son and
his fiancee

are desperate to meet the
father of the atomic bomb, so...

- Is this a bad time?
- What do you think, Lewis?

I think it must have been a blow for you.

For the world.

The world? What does Fuchs
mean to the rest of the world?

Fuchs?

Klaus Fuchs?

Oh dear. You haven't heard.

Klaus Fuchs, the British scientist that you
put onto the implosion team at Los Alamos.

Turns out he was...

He was spying for the
Soviets the whole time.

I'm sorry.

After the truth about
Fuchs came out,

the FBI stepped up
surveillance on him.

He knew his phone was tapped.

It was followed everywhere.

His trash picked through.

But he never stopped
speaking his mind.

A man of conviction.

And maybe he thought fame
could actually protect him.

When Osno took office,
he saw one more chance.

He took it.

America and Russia
may be likened...

to two scorpions in a bottle.

Each capable of
killing the other,

but only at the
risk of his own life.

Now, there are various
aspects of this policy.

A lot of scientists blame me, but
how was I supposed to protect him?

...are too secret
for discussion.

Candor is the only remedy.

Officials in Washington need to
start leveling with the American people.

That was the last straw
for Robert's enemies.

So he had to lose
his security clearance.

And with it, his credibility.

But how could they do it?

He was a war hero.

He'd already told
everyone about his past.

Borden dredged it all up.

How could Borden get access
to Oppenheimer's FBI file?

Could it have been Nichols?

No, it can't have been.
Actually, he didn't do that.

Whoever did unleashed a firestorm
that burned a path in the White House,

right to my desk at the AEC.

You've seen 'em in there, right?

It took my whole life to get here.

The cabinet of the United States of America,
now in front of the entire country,

and they want to put
me back in my place.

A lowly shoe salesman.

Lewis, we can win this thing.

I think we can get the
Senate to grasp

that you did your duty,
painful though it was.

- Now, will Hill's testimony back us up?
- Hill will be fine.

I don't really know him, but he was
one of Szilard's boys in Chicago.

And they'd never
forgive Robert for not

supporting the petition
against bombing Japan.

This was taken 31 days after the bombing.

Virtually everyone in the street, nearly a mile around,

was instantly and seriously...

burned.

The Japanese spoke of people who

wore striped clothing, upon whom
the skin was burned in stripes.

There were many who
thought themselves lucky,

who climbed out of
the ruins of their homes

only
slightly injured.

But they died anyway.

They died days, or weeks later,

from iridium-like rays
emitted in great numbers

at the moment of the explosion.

Did you read this
crap in the papers?

The British physicists say

the atomic bombings were
not the last act of World War II,

but the first act of this
Cold War with Russia.

Which physicist?

I think you knew him.
Patrick Blackett.

It may not be wrong.
Stimson is now telling me

we bombed an enemy that
was essentially defeated.

Robert, you're all the influence now.

Please,

urge them to continue
my research on the super.

I neither can nor will, Edward.

Why not?

It's not the right use of our resources.

Is that what you really believe?

J. Robert Oppenheimer?
Sphinx-like guru of the atom.

Nobody knows what you believe.

Do you?

One final time, our program
director, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer.

I hope that in years to come, you will
look back on your work here with pride.

But today, that pride must be
tempered with a profound concern.

If atomic weapons are to be added
to the arsenals of a warring world,

then the day will come when people
will curse the name of Los Alamos,

Uh, sorry, Admiral.

Stopped off to get this.

Seems pretty favorable.

There's Oppenheimer. What's the caption?

Uh, "J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Strauss fought him,

and the US won."

That'll work?

Those were your words from the other day.

We needed to pivot.

But how would you know what
Time Magazine's gonna write?

Henry Luce is a friend.

You sat here and let
me tell you how it's done,

but you've been
far ahead all along.

Survival in Washington.

It's about knowing how to get things done.

Right.

What was it you said about Borden?

Why get caught holding
the knife yourself?

Are you kidding me, saying
Borden was holding the knife for you?

It's gonna come down to
how much influence Borden's

been able to exert on Teller.

Did I say something funny?

"Borden, Borden, Borden,"
when we all know that it's Strauss...

Lewis brought me
to Princeton, Kitty.

And then you're familiar
with him in front of Congress.

But more useful than a sandwich!

[How did I do?]

Maybe a little too well, Robert.

That was six years ago.

You know, they're truly
vindictive, patient as saints.

Strauss has been perfectly
clear that he is neutral.

Wake up! It is Strauss!

It's always been Strauss, and you know it!

Why won't you fight him?

It wasn't Nichols, or Hoover,
or one of Truman's guys.

It was you.

You gave the file to Borden.

You set him on Oppenheimer.

- You convinced him...
- Borden...!

Didn't take any convincing.

Take your time,
use the entire file.

Write up your conclusions,
send them to the FBI.

The material's
obviously extensive,

but there's nothing new here.

Your conclusions will end.

And they'll have to be answered.

Hoover passes them to McCarthy?

Oppenheimer's too slippery
for that self-promoting clown.

I've talked it over
with Hoover.

He'll hold McCarthy at bay
while you do this with the AEC.

- Trial?
- No, no trial.

You can't give
Oppenheimer a platform.

You can't martyr him.

We need a systematic destruction
of Oppenheimer's credibility,

so he can never again speak
on matters of national security.

Then what?

A shabby little room.
Far from the limelight.

A simple bureaucratic procedure
is Q clearance. It's up for renewal.

You send your accusations to the FBI.

Hoover sends them to the AEC.
You're forced to act.

You write up an indictment.

Tell Oppenheimer his security
clearance must not be renewed.

But offer him the
chance to appeal.

As you can see,
Robert, it's not yet signed.

- May I keep this?
- No.

If you do decide to appeal,
they'll have to send you a copy.

When he appeals, and trust
me, he will, I appoint a board.

They will, of course, have a counsel.

- Prosecutor?
- In all but name.

- Who?
- Roger Robb.

Ouch.

Robb will have security clearance
to examine Oppenheimer's file.

As will the great board.
Defense counsel will not.

A closed hearing.

So-called derogatory
information in your indictment.

No audience, no reporters,
no burden of proof.

No burden of proof?

We're not convicted.

Just denying.

What is it you said?

This is just how the game is played.

Well, forgive my naivete.

Amateurs seek the sun, get eaten.

Power stays in the shadows.

But, sir, you're... you're
out of the shadows now.

Yeah, that's why
this has to work.

Well...

Teller's testifying this morning.

That'll help. And then...

Hill's in the afternoon.

Hill is gonna help us too.

As you can see,
Robert, it's not yet signed.

- May I keep this?
- No.

If you do decide to appeal, then
they'll have to send you a copy.

Take my car
and driver, I insist.

I'll have to consult
my lawyers, Lewis.

Of course.
But don't take too long.

I can't keep Nichols at bay.

I'm sorry it's come to this, Robert.

I think it's wrong.

Nichols wants me to fight, so
he can get it all on the record.

Strauss wants me to walk away.

Strauss knows that you can't do that.
You'd be accepting the charges.

You'll lose your job.

You will lose your reputation.
We'll lose our house.

Robert, we have to fight.

As AEC counsel, I can't represent you.

I'll call Lloyd Garrison.

Oh, he's good.

The best, but I have to warn you.

This won't be a fair fight.

During your interview with Boris
Pash in 1943, did you refer to microfilm?

No.

Tab 11, page 1, paragraph 3.

You never said, "Man of the
consulate, expert in the use of microfilm."

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I would
like to know what document

Mr. Robb is quoting from, and if
he might be furnished with a copy.

The document is classified, Mr. Garrison.

I think we should get back
to firsthand information.

This is firsthand.

How so, Roger?

There was a recording of the interview.

You let my client sit here
and potentially perjure himself,

and all this time, you had a recording?

Nobody told your client to
misrepresent his former answer.

Misrepresent? It was 12 years ago.

Can we hear this recording?

You don't have the
clearance, Mr. Garrison.

You're reading it into the record.

Please, please. Is this proceeding
interested in entrapment or in truth?

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

Where's the witness list?

Mr. Garrison, this isn't a
trial, as you are well aware.

Evidentiary rules do not apply.
We are dealing with national security.

Yes, sir, with all due respect,
I fail to see how national security

prevents the prosecution from
providing us with a list of witnesses!

We are in need need a brief recess.

You have my words.

If you say they're a
transcript, then I'll accept it.

I've already explained I
made up a cock-and-bull story.

And why would anyone make
up such an elaborate story?

Because I was an idiot.

Why lie?

Clearly with the intention of not
revealing who the intermediary was.

Your friend, Haakon Chevalier,
the communist.

He still your friend?

Yes.

Dr. Robbie, thank you for coming.

Do you who else the
prosecution has called?

Teller, obviously.
They've asked Lawrence.

- What did he say?
- He wasn't going to help them, but...

But?

Strauss told him that you and Ruth Tolman
have been having an affair for years.

The whole time you were
with them in Pasadena,

he convinced Lawrence that
Richard died of a broken heart.

- That's absurd.
- What's the heart? [?]

A broken heart.
We should never find out.

Is Lawrence gonna testify?

I don't know.

Dr. Robbie, what governmental
positions do you currently hold?

I am the chairman of the
general advisory committee

to the AEC, succeeding
Dr. Oppenheimer.

And how long have you
known Dr. Oppenheimer?

Since 1928. I know him quite well.

Well enough to speak to the
bearing of his loyalty and character?

Dr. Oppenheimer is a man
of upstanding character.

And he is loyal to the
United States, to his friends,

to the institutions
at which he is part.

Eat.

What was that?

Nothing to worry about.

After the Russian A-bomb test,

did Dr. Lawrence come to see
you about the hydrogen bomb?

You'd be better off asking him.

Well, I fully intend to.

Would you say that Dr. Oppenheimer
was unalterably opposed to the H-bomb?

No, he thought that a
fusion program

would come at the expense of
our awfully good fission program.

But that proved not to be the case.

In the event, [?] both could be done.

Suppose if this board did not feel
satisfied

that any testimony here of
Dr. Oppenheimer had been wholly truthful,

what would you say whether
or not he should be cleared?

Why go through all
this against a man

who has accomplished
what Dr. Oppenheimer has?

Look at his record.

We have an A-bomb and a whole series of it.

We have a whole series of super bombs.
What more do you want?

Mermaids?

But I've known Secretary
Strauss for many years.

And I feel it a necessity to
express the warm support,

for science and scientists,
Lewis has shown.

We'll break now. Unless
there's any... any objections?

Senator, I'd like to once again request

that we're furnished
with a list of witnesses.

And I will remind the nominee that we don't
always have that information in advance.

We do know that Dr. Hill
will be here after lunch.

Mr. Chairman, our next
scheduled witness, Dr. Lawrence,

has apparently come
down with colitis.

So we'll proceed with
William Borden instead.

Mr. Borden, please take a seat.

Mr. Borden,

during your investigation into Dr. Oppenheimer,
did you reach certain conclusions?

I did.

And did there come a time when
you expressed those conclusions in a letter

to Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, the
Federal Bureau of Investigation?

That is correct.

Prior to the writing of the letter,
did you discuss the writing

of the letter with anybody attached
to the Atomic Energy Commission?

I did not.

- Excellent. Do you have a copy of the letter?
- One in front of me.

Would you please be so
kind as to read it yourself?

"Dear Mr. Hoover, the
purpose of this letter is to state..."

- I'm sorry, I'm
sorry, if I could have...

What is the purpose of the delay?
He's simply going to read the letter.

Mr. Chairman, this is the
first I've seen of this letter.

And I see statements
here, at least one,

of a kind that I don't think anyone
would like to see go into the record.

These are accusations that
have not previously been made,

that are not part of the
indictment from Nichols.

Accusations of a kind that
I don't think belong here.

The witness wrote this
letter on his own initiative,

laying out evidence that has
already been before the board.

His conclusions are valid
testimony, just like

the positive conclusions of friends of
Dr. Oppenheimer. It cuts both ways.

How long has counsel been
in possession of this letter?

I don't think I should be subject to
cross-examination by you, Mr. Garrison.

Mr. Garrison, given that we
on the board have all read

the letter, wouldn't it be
better to have it in the record?

Let's proceed.

"Dear Mr. Hoover,

the purpose of this letter
is to state my opinion,

based upon years of study of
the available classified evidence,

that, more probably than not,

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

The following
conclusions are justified.

One, between 1929
and 1942, more probably than not,

J. Robert Oppenheimer was a
sufficiently hardened Communist

that he volunteered
information to the Soviets.

Two, more probably than not, he has since
been functioning as an espionage agent.

Three.

More probably than not, he has
since acted under a Soviet directive

in influencing United
States military policy."

I'm sorry, Robert.

Is anyone ever going to tell the
truth about what's happening here?

We will now hear from Dr. David Hill.

Dr. Hill, would you care
to make a statement?

Thank you.

I've been asked to testify
about Louis Strauss,

a man who has given years of
service in high positions of government,

and who is known to be earnest,
hard-working, and intelligent.

The views I have to express are my own,

but I believe that much I have
to say will help to indicate why

most of the scientists in this country
would prefer to see Mr. Strauss

completely out of government.

You're-you're referring to the
hostility of certain scientists,

directed toward
Mr. Strauss, because of his

commitment to security, as
demonstrated in the Oppenheimer affair?

No.

Because of the personal vindictiveness
he demonstrated against Dr. Oppenheimer.

Order! Order!

It appears to most
scientists around this country,

that Robert Oppenheimer
is now being pilloried,

and put through an ordeal, because
he expressed his honest opinions.

Dr. Bush, I thought I was
performing a service to my country

when hearing this case.
- No board, in this country,

should sit in judgment of a man
because he expressed his strong opinions.

If you want to try that
case, you should try me.

Excuse me, gentlemen,
if I've... become stirred.

But I am.

Dr. Hill, we've already heard that
Mr. Strauss did not bring the charges,

or participate in the hearings
against Dr. Oppenheimer.

The Oppenheimer matter was...

initiated, and carried through, largely
through the animus of Louis Strauss.

Oppenheimer made mincemeat
out of Strauss' position

on the shipments
of isotopes to Norway,

and Strauss never forgave
him this public humiliation.

Another controversy between them centered
around their differences in judgment

on how the H-bomb would
contribute to national security.

Strauss turned to the personnel
security system in order to

destroy Oppenheimer's effectiveness, and
Strauss was able to find a few ambitious men

who also disagreed with
Oppenheimer's positions and envied him,

his prestige in government circles.

I've always assumed, and still assume,
that he is loyal to the United States.

I believe this, and I shall believe it, until
I see very conclusive proof to the opposite.

Do you, or do you not believe that
Dr. Oppenheimer is a security risk?

In a great number of cases, I
have seen Dr. Oppenheimer act in a way

which was, to me,
exceedingly hard to understand.

I thoroughly disagreed with
him on numerous issues,

and his actions frankly appeared
to me confused and complicated.

To this extent, I feel I want to
see the vital interests of this country

in hands which I understand
better, and therefore trust more.

- Thank you, Doctor.
- Thank you.

Sorry.

You shook his fucking hand!?

Oh, I would have spit in his face.

I'm not sure the Board
would have appreciated that.

Isn't that gentlemanly
enough for you? Well, I think

you're all being too goddamn gentlemanly.

Gray must see what Robb is doing.
Why doesn't he just shut him down?

And you shaking Teller's hand.

You need to stop playing the martyr.

Under the current AEC guidelines,
would you clear Dr. Oppenheimer today?

Under my interpretation
of the Atomic Energy Act,

which did not exist when I
hired Dr. Oppenheimer in 1942,

I would not clear him today
if I were on the commission.

Good. Thank you, General. That is all.

But I don't think I'd
clear any of those guys.

That's all.

Dr. Oppenheimer had no
responsibility in the selection,

or the clearance of
Klaus Fuchs, did he?

No. None at all.

And you wouldn't want to leave this
board with any suggestion today that

you're here questioning his basic loyalty to the
United States, and the operation of Los Alamos?

By no means. I hope I didn't lead
anyone to believe otherwise for an instant.

Thank you, General.

Okay.

- We shouldn't keep them waiting.
- She'll be here.

Do you even want her here?

Well, a fool or an adolescent

presumes to know someone else's
relationship, and you're neither, Lloyd.

Kitty and I are grown-ups.

We've walked through fire together.

She'll do fine.

Would you describe your views on
Communism as pro, anti, neutral?

Very strongly against. I have nothing
to do with Communism since 1936.

Since... Since before I met Robert.

That's all.

The record demonstrates that
Oppenheimer was not interrogated by

impartial and disinterested
counsel for the Gray Board.

He was interrogated by
a prosecutor who used

all the tricks of a rather
ingenious legal background.

You are charging now that the
Gray Board permitted a prosecution.

If I were on the Gray
Board, I would have protested

against the tactics of the man who
served in fact as the prosecuting counsel.

A man appointed, not by the Board,

but by Louis Strauss.

Who was this?

Sorry?

Who was this?

Roger Robb.

Mrs. Oppenheimer.

Did you have a Communist
Party membership card?

I'm...

I'm not sure.

Not sure?

Well...

Well?

I mean, presumably,
the act of joining the party

required sending some
money and receiving a card, no?

I'm sorry.

Yes.

It's just it was all so very
long ago, Mr. Robb, wasn't it?

- Not really.
- Long enough to have forgotten.

- You return the card or rip it open?
- The card whose existence I've forgotten.

- Your Communist Party membership card?
- Haven't the slightest idea.

Can a distinction be made between
Soviet Communism and Communism?

Well, in the days when I was a member,
I thought they were definitely two things.

I thought that the Communist
Party of the United States

was concerned with our domestic
problems. I now no longer believe this.

I believe the whole thing's linked
together and spread all over the world,

and I have believed this since
I left the party 16 years ago.

- But...
- 17 years ago. My mistake.

- But you...
- Sorry, 18.

18 years ago.

Are you familiar with the fact your
husband was making contributions

to the Spanish Civil
War as late as 1942?

I knew that Robert gave
money from time to time.

Did you know this money was
going into Communist Party channels?

- Don't you mean through?
- Pardon?

Think you mean through
Communist Party channels, don't you?

- Yes.
- Yes?

Yes.
Yes.

Then would it be fair to say
that this meant that by 1942,

your husband had not stopped having
anything to do with the Communist Party?

You don't have to answer that yes or
no, you can answer that any way you wish.

I know that, thank you. It's your
question. It's not properly phrased.

- Do you understand what I'm getting at?
- I do.

- Then why don't you answer it that way?
- Because I don't like your phrase,

"having anything to do
with the Communist Party,"

because Robert never had anything
to do with the Communist Party as such.

I know he gave money
to Spanish refugees.

I know he took an intellectual
interest in Communist ideas.

The two types of Communists?

Intellectual Communists, and
your plain old regular commie.

Well, I couldn't answer that one.

I couldn't either.

Robert, you can't win this thing.

It's a kangaroo court with
a predetermined outcome.

Why put yourself
through more of it?

I have my reasons.

Goodnight.

He has a point.

- I'm not sure you understand, Albert.
- No?

I left my country, never turned around.

You served your country well.

If this is the reward
she offers you, then...

...perhaps you should
turn your back on her.

Damn it, I happen
to love this country.

Then tell them to go to hell.

Interestingly enough, there's
no longer a confirmation hearing.

It's now a trial.

About [?] a trial!

It's not good he's telling
everyone you initiated the hearings.

He can't prove a goddamn thing.

He certainly can't prove
that I gave the file to Borden.

We're not in court, sir.
There's no burden of proof.

Right, they're not convicting.

Just denying.

Why would Hill come here to
tear me down? What's his angle?

Do people need a reason
to do the right thing?

As he sees it.

I told you.

Oppenheimer poisoned the scientists
against me right from that first meeting.

I don't know what Oppenheimer
said to him that day,

but Einstein wouldn't
even meet my eye.

Oppenheimer knows
how to manipulate his own.

Like Los Alamos.

He preyed on the naivete of scientists

who thought they get a say
on how we use their work.

They'll never think he
was that naive himself.

Doctor, during your work
on the hydrogen bomb,

were you... deterred
by any moral qualms?

Yes, of course.

But you still got on with
your work, didn't you?

Yes, because this was work of exploration,
it was not the preparation of a weapon.

You mean it was more
of an academic excursion?

No, it's not an academic thing,
whether you can build a hydrogen bomb.

It's a matter of life and death.

By 1942, you were actively
pushing the development

of the hydrogen
bomb, weren't you?

Pushing is not the
right word. It was...

Supporting it and
working on it, yes.

So when did these moral
qualms become so strong,

that you actively opposed the
development of the hydrogen bomb?

When it was suggested
that it be the policy

of the United States to
make these things at all costs,

without regard to the balance
between these weapons,

and atomic weapons, as part of our arsenal.

What do moral qualms
have to do with that?

- What do moral qualms have to do with it?
- Yes.

Oppenheimer wanted
to own the atomic bomb.

He wanted to be "The
Man Who Moved the Earth.

He talks about putting the
nuclear genie back in the bottle.

Well, I'm here to tell you that I know.

J. Robert Oppenheimer, if he could
do it all over, he'd do it all the same.

You know he's never once
said that he regrets Hiroshima?

He'd do it all over. Why?

Because it made him the most
important man who ever lived.

We freely used the atomic bomb.

In fact, Doctor, you resisted
in selecting the target

to drop the atomic bomb on
Japan, didn't you?

Yes...

Well then you knew, did you not, that by
dropping that atomic bomb on the target,

you selected that thousands of civilians
would be killed or injured. Is that correct?

Yes, but not as
many as turned out.

Oh. Then how many
were killed or injured?

- 70,000.
- 70,000, both Hiroshima and...

- 110,000 to both.
- On the day of each bombing?

Yes.

And in the weeks and
years that followed?

It has been put at somewhere
between 50 and 100,000.

220,000 dead, at least.

- Yes.
- Any moral scruples about that?

...terrible ones.

But yet you testified in here that the
bombing of Hiroshima was very successful.

- Technically successful.
- Oh! Technically it was very successful.

And it is also an extra
help [?] to end the war.

Would you be supportive of the dropping
of a hydrogen bomb on Hiroshima?

I think that would make no sense at all.

- Why?
- The target is too small.

Well, supposing there
had been a target in Japan

big enough for a
thermonuclear weapon,

would you have been
opposed to the dropping of it?

This was not a problem
with which I was confronted.

Well, I'm confronting
you with it now, sir.

It was all part of his plan.

He wanted the
glorious, insincere guilt

of the self-important
to wear a fucking crown

and say, "No, we cannot go down this
road," even as he knew we'd have to.

Would you have been opposed to
the dropping of a thermonuclear weapon

on Japan because of moral scruples?
- Yes, I believe [?] I would, sir.

Would you have opposed the
dropping of an atomic bomb on

Hiroshima because
of moral scruples?

- We set forth our...
- I know, you, you, you, you!

- I'm asking you...
- I set...

You, you, you!

I set forth our arguments against
dropping it, but I did not endorse them.

You mean after working night and
day for three years building the bomb,

you then argued
against the use of it?

I was asked by the Secretary of
War what the views of scientists were.

I gave them the views
against and the views for.

You supported the
dropping of the atom bomb,

with your plan, [?] didn't you?
- What do you mean "you support?"

- You supported it, I mean.
- What do you mean, support?

Well, you helped pick
the target, didn't you?

I did my job. I was not in a
policy-making position at Los Alamos.

I would have done
anything I was asked to do.

But then you would have built
the H-bomb too, wouldn't you?

I couldn't...

I didn't ask you that, doctor!

And the G.A.C. report, which you co-authored
after the Soviet atomic test, said,

"A super bomb should never be built!"

What we meant, what I meant.

- [We?]
- Look, what I meant...

Who?

Wouldn't the Russians do
anything to increase their strength?

If we did it, they
would have to do it!

Our efforts would only fuel their efforts,
just as it had with the atomic bomb!

Just as it had with the
atomic bomb, exactly!

No moral scruples in 1945, plenty in 1949.

Dr. Oppenheimer,

when did your strong moral convictions
develop with respect to the hydrogen bomb?

When it became
clear to me,

that we would tend to
use any weapon we had.

J. Robert Oppenheimer the martyr,
I gave him exactly what he wanted.

To be remembered for Trinity.

Not Hiroshima.

He should be thanking me.

Well, he's not.

Do we still have enough votes?

Or is the crowning
moment of my career

about to become the most
public humiliation of my life?

Whole Senate's about to vote.

You'll scrape through.

Great, then gather the fucking press.

Dr. J. Robert
Oppenheimer, this board,

having heard testimony
from you, and many of your

current and former
colleagues,

has come to the unanimous
conclusion that you are a loyal citizen.

However...

In the light of your
continuing associations,

and disregard for the security
apparatus of this country,

together with your
somewhat disturbing conduct

on the hydrogen bomb program,

and the regrettable lack of candor in
[some] of your responses to this board,

we have voted, two-to-one,

to deny the renewal of
your security clearance.

A full written opinion, with
a dissent from Mr. Evans,

will be issued to the
AEC in the coming days.

That is all.

Robert.

Robert.

Don't take in the sheets.

Two minutes.

You'll get your chance!

Is it official?

Well, there were a couple
of unexpected holdouts.

I'm denied.

Yeah?

I'm afraid so, sir.

All right.

Who were the holdouts?

Um, there were three.

Led by the junior senator
from Massachusetts.

Young guy trying to make a name for himself,
didn't like what you did to Oppenheimer.

What's his name?

Uh, Kennedy.

John F. Kennedy.

Kitty?

Did you think that if you
let them tar and feather you,

that the world
would forgive you?

It won't.

I'll see.

You told me I'd be okay.

Yeah, well, I didn't
have all the facts, did I?

Here's a fact.

President Eisenhower pinned the
Medal of Freedom on my chest last year.

Because I've always done
what's right for this country.

They don't want me in the cabinet room?
Well, that's... that's fine.

Maybe they should just
invite Oppenheimer instead.

Maybe they will.

I told you. He turned
the scientists against me,

one by one,
starting with Einstein.

I told you about that.
Einstein. Einstein by the pond.

He did, but you know, sir, since nobody...

really knows what they
said to each other that day,

is it possible they didn't
talk about you at all?

Is it possible they spoke about
something, ah, more important?

Thank you.

Albert.

The man of the moment.

You once had a reception
for me in Berkeley.

- They gave me an award, hm?
- Yes.

You all thought that I had lost the
ability to understand what had started.

So...

The award really wasn't
for me, it was for all of you, hm?

Now it's your turn to deal with the
consequences of your achievement.

And one day, when they've
punished you enough,

they'll serve you salmon and potato salad.

Like speeches.

Give you a medal.

Frank...

You are happy unhappy.

Pat you on the back,
tell you all is forgiven.

Just remember,

it won't be for you.

It will be for them.

Albert.

when I came to
you with those calculations,

we thought we might start a chain reaction
that would destroy the entire world.

I remember as well.
What happened?

I believe we did.