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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.

Who is that the security point?

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.

Hard to know?

Well, I've only read the transcripts.

I would want to justify their own life.

You weren't there?
As chairman, I wasn't allowed to be.

Are they really going to ask about it?

It was years ago.
Four years ago. - I thought.

Oppenheimer still divides America.

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

Senator Thoreau, don't ask me
to say not to feel like you're on trial.

No, it's coming out differently
just sit down. Really, Mr. Thoreau?

Admiral Thoreau is a visual.
This is a formality.

President Eisenhower's asked you
to be in his cabinet.

Senate really has no choice
but to confirm him.

And who should they bring up, Oppenheimer?

When they bring up Oppenheimer.
You answer honestly.

No senator can deny.
He did your duty.

It'll be uncomfortable.

We're going to justify their whole life.

Why don't you leave the United States?

I wanted to study the new physics.

Was there nowhere here?

I thought Berkeley had the leading
theoretical physics department.

Yes, one side built it.

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

Well, you're happier there than in America.

Happier?
Yes.

No.

No, I--

I was homesick..

emotionally mature..

troubled by visions of a..

human universe.

You've listened to laugh.

Have you had any sleep?

Start again.

I need to go to the lecture, sir.

Why?

It smells boring.

I think it's gone.

- All right.
- Let's go.

Oh, you're not you, Oppenheimer.
You finished Coachman's place.

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 the world inside

our world, a world of energy
and paradox

that not everyone can accept.

All right.

Fields, meet J. Robert Oppenheimer.

What's the J stand for?
Nothing.

You are at my lecture.

You ask the only good question.

No one's denying his insight.

This is laboratory work that
needs a little to be desired.

I heard you gave the same answer.
Yes, and you ask the same question.

Why ask again?

I'd like 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 each beaker's and potion's.

Go somewhere they let you think.

Got to get born.

Get to Germany.
Study under Max Born.

Learn the ways of theory.

I'll send word.
Or more.

How's your mathematics?

Not good enough.
The physicist he wants to be.

Algebrous-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.

As 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 crowns,
the great metaphysics.

And I was determined to
get him to run the Institute.

Dr. Oppenheimer,

An honor.
- Mr. Strauss.

It's pronounced Strauss.

Open Hagra, the name of the war you served
and the land of the Jewish.

I'm a president of Temple of Manuel
in Manhattan.

Strauss is just a sudden pronunciation.

Anyway, welcome to the Institute.

I think you'll be very happy here.

Yes, well, if you love the community,

the procession comes with
that house for you and your wife

and your two children.

Yes, two.

I'm a great admirer of your work.

I'm very righteous about
training Mr. Strauss.

I'm sorry, calling room four o'clock.

Do you know I'm not trained in physics or

anything else, and I'm self-prolonged now.

Oh, I can relate to that.
Really?

Yes, my father was one.

This would be your office.

I'm told he's there most after this.

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 he's quite a moral and revealed.

God doesn't play dice.

Precisely.

Never thought of studying physics formally
Mr. Strauss.

I had authors, but I chose to sell shoes.

Louis Strauss was once a lordy
shoe salesman.

Not 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 say, O?

Well, he's fine.

Mr. Strauss, there are things
in my past you'll be aware of.

Well, as chairman of the ADC, I have
access to your security file at Red Hood.

You're not worried.

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

Well, the time has changed, 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, I'm not considering it.

I'll see you at the ADC meeting tomorrow.

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

Yes.

The 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.

But later?

Well, we all know what happened later.

Dr. Your.. your time in Europe,

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

Yes, that's right.

Any Russians?

Not in this thing to mind.

If you'll just allow me to continue
with my statement-- Just stay around.

You'll have ample opportunity
to cross-exactment.

After getting in, I moved on to

Leiden and Halbens where I first met--

Is it all right?

Hi, Yang.

Lecturing on the new physics.

This I have to hear.

I'm an American myself.

Oh, how surprising.

Well, let me know
if you need any help with the English.

What's he saying?

No, thank you.

It's a long way to Zurich.

We get every skin here. We're going
to lose you between the sea cushions.

I'm robin.

Oppenheimer.

I caught your lecture on molecules.

I caught some of it.

We're a couple of new you'll choose
How do you know that?

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

You learned enough Dutch in six weeks
to get a lecture on quantum mechanics.

I had to challenge myself.

Quantum physics wasn't challenging enough.

Show off.

Dutch in six weeks,
but you never learned yet.

I don't speak it so much
my side of the park.

Screw you.

You homesick or you know it.

If you get the feeling all kind isn't
entirely welcoming,

This is just--
- It's funny.

They're all Jewish too.

Eat.

This is German you have to seek out.

Hasbro.
Right.

One might be led to the presumption
that behind the

quantum world there still hides
the real world in which

causality holds, but such speculations
seem to us to say explicitly fruitless.

Thank you.
Have a great day.

Thank You.

Dr. Oppenheimer.
Yes.

I liked your paper and molecules.

Probably because you're inspired.
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 Latin.

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
Harrison Burke again?

Not in person.
No, but, uh,

You might say our paths crossed.

I'm returning to America.

I accepted positions at both
Caltech and David Burke there.

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 thought I'd 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.

Ha ha.
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 is trapped of.

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

There is no going back.

Oh, I must have just, uh-- Mr. Lomont?

Yeah. Yes. This is it.

Please.

Take a seat.

What do you know about
quantum mechanics?

I have a grasp on the basis.

And you're doing it wrong.

Is light made up of particles or waves?

Quantum mechanics is its focus.
How could it be both?

A.K.

But it is.
It's paradoxical.

And yet, it works.

Thank you.

Mr. Lomont, it's going to be okay.

Mr. Snyder.

Now, let's consider a star.

A star on a vast furnace burning
in outer space.

Fire pushing upwards against
its own gravity.

It's balanced.

But if that phrase cools, then
gravity starts winning. It contracts.

Density increases.

Correct.

Increasing gravity.
Increasing density.

And it's a vicious cycle until...
What's the limit here?

I don't know.
See, when the math takes us.

I guarantee you
it somewhere no one's been before.

Me?

Yes, you and your math is better than mine.

Dr. Oppenheimer's file contained
details and activities in Berkeley.

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

Well, you have
to ask Mr. Hoover.

I'm asking you, Admiral Strauss.

Well, my assumption..

..is that he was connected to his

left-wing political activities.

You shouldn't have let them write
their politics in the classroom, Oppey.

I wrote that.

Lawrence, you've increased
the revolution in physics.

Can you see it everywhere else?

Picasso, Stravinsky, Froy, Marx...
Well, this is America.

We had our revolution.

Seriously.

Keep it out of the lab.

Well, out of the lab, my landlady's having
a discussion about tonight.

Interesting.

I have sampled the
Berkeley political scene.

It's all just philosophy postgrads and
communists talking integration.

You don't care about integration.

I want to vote for it, not talk about it.

Especially on Friday.

Come on, let's eat.

I'm meeting my brother there.

And how would these activities
occur to the intention of the FBI?

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

outside of the suspected communist
gatherings in the island.

His name popped up.

Jesus Christ. Sorry.
Frankly, but...

I do remember Jackie.
Good night.

Robert, I want you to meet John.

Dr. Hopin Stavallier, Dr. Robert
Oppenheimer. Pleasure.

This is my little brother Frank.

And this is... Still Jackie.
Hello, still Jackie.

you're in languages, and
your reputation receives you.

What have you heard? I'm glad you're
teaching a radical new approach to physics.

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

I'm not.No, not yet.

Frank and I think you're joining.
I support a range of policies.

It's been a civil war,

a Democratic republic being
overthrown by fascist thugs who wouldn't.

A government?

They think that socialism is the
biggest threat to them fascists.

Not for long.
A bit of other Nazis are due to the Jews.

I send funds to colleagues in Germany
to have a greater eye to do something.

My old work is so abstract.

What are you working on?

What happens to stars when they die?

Do the stars die?

Well, if they do, they'd cool..

And collapse, in fact..

The bigger the star,
the more violent it's demise.

Their gravity gets so concentrated
it swallows everything.

Everything you can like.

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.
Sorry, I said you were pleased.

I'm Jane.

Robert. Oh, Conchobelia, you
and me in service last month.

Right, right, yes. Thank you.

Robert here says he's not a Communist.

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

The wife does cover down all
three volumes. Does that count?

It would make you better read the
most bloody members' church and stuff.

There's some thinking. Ownership is theft.

Property.
Property?

Property, not pollution. 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.

Well, 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 clean with a room.

You always tell the party line.

I like my level room, too.

What?

Wait, wait, wait.

Unexpected... What?

For a physicist.

You only have a shelf full of Freud.

Well, I actually have my

backgrounds more... Young Ian?

You know analysis.

When I was in post-credit
Cambridge, I had a little trouble.

How about you?

I tried to poison my tutor.

Did you hate him?

I liked him very much.

You just need to get laid.

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

You have everyone convinced you you're
more complicated than you actually are.

You're all simple souls, I guess.

I'm learning.

What's this?

Sanscrit

You can read this.

I'm learning.

Read this.

Well, in this part, fish do let the
low system of the arms... You know.

Read the words.

And now I have become dead.

Destroyed off worlds.

This'll do.

A little break before dawn.

Air cools overnight.

Just before dawn.
No breaks.

So, I'm getting married.

Frank, congratulations.

Thanks, Jackie.

Yeah, to Jackie.

The waitress?

I'll be your right.

He's letting up.
I'm gonna see him say stars.

All your talk about the common man.

Jackie's not good enough for you.

We join the party, and you can't
hide your discipline now. Why?

Is that because that's
supposed to be worth it?

I haven't joined the party, Frank.

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

Half of the faculty is gone.
Yeah, that half.

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

And I want to ring 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
are happy that I'm happy.

If you look, I can see one of those
dark stars that you're working on.

You can't.

It's the whole point of
gravity swallows light.

It's like a kind of hole in space.

Is Frank okay?
Yes.

He just says 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.

New Mexico we saw today.

One of my favorite places in the world.

Tomorrow with climate.

What's it called?

Los Alamos.

I didn't expect to see you today.

I'll have to make an appointment.

Robert?

Tommy! Tommy! What?

What is it?
They've done it.

They've done it.

They split the uranium nucleus.

How?

I'm worried about neutrons.

It's a nuclear fission.

They did it.
They split the atom.

Stop my skull.

I'm going to 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,

external transport office could be
used to submit other uranium atoms.

Chain reaction.

You're thinking what I'm thinking.

You're weird.

Every other physicist around
the world has seen you.

I'm just wondering,
what are we all thinking?

A bomb, Alvarez.

A bomb.

I told you, Rob, no more fucking flowers.

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

But you say that, and then you call.
Well, don't answer.

I'll always answer.

Fine.

Just no more flowers.

They're not coming.

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

It's not that simple, ok?

So, Barlier, good to see you.

We don't have Barbara,
good to see you.

And illustrious
Dr.Oppenheimer.

I'm Alton Tippett.
What should I please, please?

Can I just say a word
about organized labor?

Coming through, coming through.
I work at Shell.

We sign up chemists,
we sign up engineers.

There's a bit of a
science in that position.

Teachers are unionized.
Why not? Professors.

Don't you have somewhere to be?

Lawrence, academics of rights too.

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

Oh, let's get in.
Not this one.

That's it. Dr. Bush. What
brings you two up north?

Richard, you tell Ruth that I'll be
down to passing you into Thursday.

April Black Holes, it's in!

Where's Harvard?

Get Harvard.

Get Harvard.

September 1st, 1939. The
world's been removing this thing.

Oh, Harlan, 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.

Relator Hitler invaded
Russia and we became allies.

These Communists simply stood their return?
No.

I need to make clear that
my changing views on Russia

did not mean a sharp 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 right. He's a good stuff.

I love him, Mr. Paulman.

I live with them. I'm a limicantic.

Do you need anything?
Look at Ruthie.

So, you're a biologist.

Well, somehow I have
graduated to housewife.

Can you explain
quantum mechanics to me?

It seems badly.
Yes, it is.

Well, it's glass.

This drink.
It's countertop.

Our bodies.

All of it.

It's mostly empty space.

Groupings of tiny energy
waves bound together.

Of 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, I don't know.

You know, going to New Mexico,

to my ranch with friends, you should come.

I met with your husband.

Yes, you did.

Because you know it won't
make a better difference.

Why did you marry him?

I was lost.

He was kind.

Lost?

Well, your previous husband had died.

At 28, it wasn't really
ready to be a widow.

Who's your first husband?

Nobody.

My second husband was Joe Dallad.

He was from a money like me, but

he was a union organizer
in Youngstown, Ohio.

How hard.
How hard?

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

handing out the Daily
Worker back to Regates.

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

Quit the party.
Your later on wanted it back.

Him, not the Daily Worker.

He sits well and meets you on my
way to Spain. I'm going to the lawless.

And then he went to
the Regates and I waited.

And...

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

My ideology got Joe killed.
For nothing.

What's the kind of Republic? Is it nothing?

My husband offered both
our futures to stop one

fascist bullet from
embedding itself in a mud bag.

That's the definition of nothing.

This seems a little reductive.
Magnetic.

Now here I am.

Who the hell is this?

Not in one unit heard from anyone else.

At least you didn't bring me flowers.

They're both in a one,
not what you want, Jane.

Yeah, but it's the door closing.

No.

Not as far as I'm concerned, no.

You knocked her up. Fast work.

Can't keep a good man down.
Yeah.

I need her.

She knew what you wanted.

What about the husband?

We talked. They're getting a divorce.

So we can get married
before she starts showing.

I was civilized.

You idiot. This is your community.

You think the rules don't
apply to the Golden Boy?

Brilliant specs have been a lot.

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

One day you might need them.

F.A.E.D.

Federation Department of Dext.
Engineers, chemists, technicians.

Luminous.
What do you get paid a month?

It's nothing point-wise.

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

Plenty.

Everybody out?
No!

Not you.

What are you doing?

It's a trade union.

We've come in it so long.

I would try to pardon you.

They won't let me bring you on
with a 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 Sitter'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.

But I don't?

It's not your people.
They're hurting the 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 rear view mirror,

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

I really care what I do.

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

Okay.

I get it.

And if you could just
be a little bit pragmatic,

I'll talk to the loaners,
I'll talk to the others.

You don't have to worry. It's done.

Alliance.

Then we'll come to the war.

I filled out my first security
questionnaire and was

informed that my involvement
with left-wing groups

would not prove a lie to my
working on the atomic program.

Why were his communist associations

not seen as a security
rescue during the war?

Senator, I can't possibly
answer for a security

clearance Grant years
before I ever met him.

What? What about now?

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

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

That's why he advised the
Atomic Energy Commission.

So who's that?

Really accusing me of it.

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?

I'm a former staff member
of the Joint Congressional Committee.

There's a rabid
anti-communist named Borton.

He wrote to the FBI
demanding they take action.

FBI wouldn't go to the AEC, Rick.

And get caught holding the knife yourself.

Was it Borton having a son?

This was the McCarthy era.

People hounded out of jobs

for him, and he had to rat him.

Reading Oppenheimer's
security file was caught on a

minister's brother, sister, and

the fiancé, best friend, wife.

Before we even get to the
ship on the AEC Institute.

How would Borton have access
to Oppenheimer's security file?

Because somebody gave it to him.

Somebody would look
at Robert's silence too.

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 an AEC vote on
the export of isotopes to Norway.

And they drafted it, Robert,
to make me look like a fool.

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

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

Countess Menyuk used a
shuttle to make atomic weapons.

In fact you do?

You could use a bottle of
beer to make atomic weapons.

In fact, you knew.

I'd say isotopes are
less useful than electronic weapons,

but more useful than a sandwich.

Genius is no guarantee of wisdom.

Look at this man who
saw so much of me so blind.

Kitty?

Kitty?

Kitty?

Project.

I'm in.

I'm in.

Let's celebrate.

Shouldn't you go, huh?

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.

I've known for a while, Hulk.

A while.

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

Of course she knows.

We're awful people.

Selfish, awful people.

Forget I asked.

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, Robert.

Harry child was always going to change.

The world is pivoting
in some new direction.

Reforming.

This is your moment.

We're putting together a group to study.

We should be doing anything.

You should.

Lawrence won't get this done.

We're told, Monor Ravi, you will.

Who are the uniforms?

I thought you might have them.

Dr. Oppenheimer.

I'm Colonel Brooks.

This is Lieutenant Colonel Nichols.

Have that drag link.

That's how you treat Lieutenant Colonel.

I came to see how you
treat a humble, this is his son.

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

How much?

Theaters of combat all over the world.

But I have to stay in Washington.

Why?

I built the Pentagon.

Nebraska likes it so much they made me
take over the Manhattan Engineer District.

Which is?
Whatever.

Being 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.

1200 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 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.

And here you are.

You don't take much of 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?

I'll put a Nobel in meant a dynamite.

So how would you proceed?

You're talking about
turning theory

into a practical weapon system
faster than the Nazis.

We have a 12-month head start.
18.

How could you possibly know that?

Our fast neutron research took six months.

The man they want doubted to put in
charge would have made that leap instantly.

Who do you think they put in charge?
Bernard Heisenberg.

He is 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 us, Isaac and Diebner

in his 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, cause
us the race inefficiency, will.

The Germans know more than us anyway.

The Russians don't.

Remind me, who are we at war with?

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

the importance of security
from our communist allies.

We're taking, but no.

You don't get to say no to me.

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

So you have the job now?

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.

Just a way to balance those things.

Keep the right lab here in
Berkeley under Lawrence.

Met lab in Chicago under some of the large
scale of finding wordages in Tennessee.

And Hanford.

All Americas, industrial, mining,
scientific innovation,

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

And it comes together here.

A secret laboratory in
the middle of nowhere.

Secure, self-sufficient,
equipment housing works.

Keep everyone there until it's done.

They'll need a school, a
store, or a church. Why?

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

And you want security built in town?

Build it fast.

Where?

Welcome to Los Alamos.

There's a boy school that
will have two of the common

gear and the local Indians
can prepare for buried rights.

But from that, nothing.

40 miles in any direction.

I have to find the
perfect spot..

for success.

Build the town fast.

Let's go recruit some scientists.

Why would I need my family?

I told you, you can bring your family.

I'm not a soldier.
I'm a soldier.

This is general.
I've got all the soldier I need.

What can I tell?

How's it looking?
Both of them bored.

What do these men have in common?

The greatest minds on atomic theory.

Do you understand?

As much as you like.

Do you feel my food on your balls, sir?

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 Nazis to have them.

The news boys 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.

Imagine the country.

Give us a moment.

It's about unleashing the strong force.

Before the Nazis don't.

My God.

The hills won't work for the Nazis.
No, never.

They have them.
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 that ever happened
in the history of the world?

How about that?

They're not going to
let me out of 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.

Someone.

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 bored out of Denmark?

Yeah, 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 of true dance time, Paul?

It really would be
quicker to take a plane.

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

Papa, guys, this ain't a building.

This is all for the cyclotron.

Count together the architects.

When's this place supposed to open?

Two months.

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

it can't do in your head.

Four emissions.

Experimental.

Theoretical.

Memoir journal.

Overrunning theoretical.

I am?

That's what I was afraid of.

You spread too thin.

So you take theoretical.

I'm not coming here, Robin.

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.

Is he?

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

But I know the Nazis can't.

We have no choice.

The second thing you have to do is appoint

Holmes Bethe to run
the theoretical division.

Ray, 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.

And the better.

This is the only key.

And tellers are already here.

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

Let's get started.

On the right.

Yes, gentlemen.

So we will work here until the

T-section at Los Alamos is finished.

Edward, can I?
It is more important.

Can I calculate the chain reaction?

I found a rather troubling possibility.

No, but this can't be a lie.

Show me how you did your population.
Yes.

This is fantasy.

Tellers calculations can't be right.

Do you know, sir,
what I got at Princeton?

What for?

I talked to Einstein.

Well, there's not much
comment on the truth at all.

That's why I should get his view.

Albert.

No, Dr. Oppenheimer

How have you met Dr. Gert?

We walk here most days.

Things are the most inspiring structures.

Albert, I have a word.

No, of course.
Just read.

Some days, he refuses to read.

Even in Princeton,

he's convinced
that the Nazis can poison his food.

Whose work is this?

Tellers.

What do you take it to mean?

Entrance, smash into nucleus, release me.

Entrance, smash into other nuclei.

Criticality, what do no return
massive explosive force can do?

It's time the chain reaction doesn't stop.

It would ignite the atmosphere.

We detonate an atomic device,

we might start
a chain reaction that destroys the world.

So here we are, huh?

Lost in your quantum world of

probabilities and leading certainty.

Can you run the calculations yourself?

No.

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

Who's working on this in Berkeley?
Hans Beidman.

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.

Albert,

this is yours, not mine.

Tellers home,

he's home.

When you now tell us critical assumptions,
there are any picture emerges Outline.

Chances are not before
nuclear reaction are near zero.

Near zero?

Oh, this is good news.

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

Until we actually detonate
one of these things,

the best assurance
you're going to get is this.

Near zero.

The area will take you only so far.

Hello.
Hello.

We missed him.

You want to adopt?

She's kidding.

We wanted to see you.
What we left.

For parts unknown.

You know who I ran into the other day?

Eltonton.

Oh, McAllister Michelle.

Are you a new guy?

Yeah, the F.A.A.C.T guy.

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

Also, 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.

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

going around official
channels, that he could help.

There would be treason.

Yes, of course.

I just thought you should know.

The bra is down.

We're at the martinis.

Coming right up.

Conversation entered there.

Nothing in our long-standing
friendship would have led me to believe.

that Chevelia 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 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.

They're bringing them.
They haven't said?

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

Why?
To seek the opinion of scientists.

This is a cabinet post-table.

We seek a wide range of opinions.

I'd like to know the name
of the scientists 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're bringing the scientists or what?

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

They resent anyone of questions that
have judgement, especially for all of them.

I was chaired at the ABC.

I'm easy to blame for what happened wrong.

But we can't have the Senate
taking the scientific community.

It doesn't support you, sir.

Or should we have that?

So what?
An invasive.

I fought Oppenheimer in the U.S. one.

I don't think we need to go there.

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

Tell her.
They'll make an impression.

Can you get the name of
the scientists 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 their

silver to confirm he had not
the cult of obvious. Los Alamos.

Robert built that damn place.
He was founder of air sheriff.

Honored him to one.

Oh, that means it's a salute.

There's no kitchen.

Billy.

What was that?

Barbed wire.

Guns.

Okay.

Burned war, Hans.

Halifax.

1917.

Carver 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 Salsas.

Well then, kill all the tons.

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

Sorry.

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

Or using plutonium, the 10-pound sphere.

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

And the Hanford plan made
this month with Antonio.

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

Are we boring him, Edward?

A little bit, yes.

I asked why.

We all entered this through
knowing efficient bomb was possible.

How about we leave it with something new?

Such as?

Instead of uranium or
plutonium, we use hydrogen.

Heavy hydrogen.

Deuterium. You see, we
compact the arms 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 enough force to
fuse hydrogen atoms?

A small fish of gold.

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

The isotopes issue
wasn't your most important

policy disagreement with Dr. Abenheimer.

It was the hydrogen bomb, wasn't it?

Colleagues, we agreed to

disagree and agreed many things.

And one of them was the
need for a H-bond program.

Thanks, convenient and
short notice. I can't believe it.

I know we are. Catch me up.

What do we know?

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

Do we have the filter papers?

There's no doubt about what this is.

White House officers are down.

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 with the security tank?

Of course it was. You weren't there.

Forgive me, Doctor.

But I was there.

We 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.
How about Suks?

How long have you been British?

Since Hitler told me I wasn't German.

Ah. Got a Mark in Los Alamos.

Suppose I'm running?

Far? Always running.

And that's a lot of ways
we do support the staff.

Is that Mr. Silver?

Yes. I've offered jobs to all the lives
of men, librarians, for 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.

And they're already
security, cleared.

I've informed General
Grills you're going to hold in

cross-deficient local
discussions on a nightly basis.

Shut them down. Compartmentalization
is the key to maintaining security.

Only 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.

We'd like to bring my brother here. No.

I'm Nicholas.

I still have the nerve that my
security clearance has been approved.

It has, and... Go to Chicago tomorrow.

No, you should wait.

You are aware that the Nazis
have a two-year head start.

Doctor 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... discussions?

Too many compartmentalizations
were supposed to be the protocol.

You're in the race against the Nazis.

No, the race is against the Soviets.

Not unless we started.

Robert, they just
fired the starting gun.

What's the nature of the
price of their detonators?

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 other super does Truman even
know about it? Do we prefam on that?

Not specifically.

We still don't know if it had a
hydrogen ops. Technically feasible.

Right. My understanding is
that the teller proposed it. Yes.

Tellers designs have always been
wildly impractical.

You'd have
to deliver by ox cart.

Not airplane.

Not me.

Sir, Doctor Albinheimer.
Coming?

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 gotta get going.

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

Robert.

Put it under the football stadium.

It feels no use in the morning.

Just as well.

Poppy, time to firmie.

What was that?

My wedding.

Are you, you got a little town?
Yes. I'm at sea.

How could things trade
in a place like that? Huh?

Everybody will go crazy.

Thank you for the thought
of confidence, Soled.

Do we really, do we really
think that on the nose?

Are you gonna try it out?
We did.

Diverse, self-sustaining
nuclear chain reaction.

Any groups tell you?

Doctor Oppenheimer?

I tried personnel.

I asked if I would type.

Can you? Harvard forgot to teach
that on the graduate chemistry course.

London, put us a sword here.

What the hell are you doing in Chicago?

Visiting the men.
Why?

You can't do it.
Why?

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 mad-ass where
nobody can work under these conditions.

You know what?

General Lee Simo, I quit.

Thanks for nothing.

Better off without him.

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

We'll have him killed.

I'm just kidding.

It's 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 wind 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 association is
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.

He had complete
confidence in his integrity.

That was Alamos.

Yes, which is where I really knew him.

General, 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 pretty good

knowledge of
Dr. Oppenheimer's security file.

I didn't.

Well, there's only really one
question I 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.

I'm appointing Lominance.

You're gonna be okay.

This way, gentlemen.

Ms. Lee, I'd like to remind you
what we talked about in Berkeley.

Departmentalization, I
understand completely.

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.

Okay, gentlemen, business.

There were rumors of espionage,

unsubstantiated Los Alamos.

I'm told that there were communists
on the project, knowingly involved.

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

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

My brother had left the party by then.

What about Lominance?

Lominance was never employed at Los Alamos.

He was a liaison.

Our security was tight as former
Colonel Nichols well known.

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.

One minute. Only one.

Hello, Rusty.
What?

Okay, just calm down.

Lominance 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 Lominance has been trying to
unionize the radiation lab.

You promised to quit all that.

Well, he hasn't.

Security officer at
Berkeley is concerned about

communist infiltration
through that union to F.A.

F.A.C.D.

Well, I'm there next week.

I'll drop in to see him.

Your cue 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 communist 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.

We're conceivably dangerous, huh?

Really?

No one 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 Tatlock in 1943.

He 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.

What 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?

She was sitting there 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.

Gene, 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.

Is that a word?

Did you think that consistent with
insecurity? As a matter of fact it was.

Not a word.

Well, did you see her after that?

I never saw her again.
Mm-hmm.

I can make the last
train back to Princeton.

I didn't say anything
that I had already told you.

The day you said it to history, didn't you?

So close to you.

If they don't, we'll use the transcript
and show you will. I'll send her off.

Well, are you wondering after
me when you left to see Gene?

No, you... You sit there.

Day after day, letting them
pick our lives to pieces.

Why won't you fight?

Father, I'm not putting her out there.

Dr. Oppenheimer, it's an art.
Please take a seat.

Maybe, um, I just wanted to
check whether I should talk to

you in more minutes 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 Union, I wanted to

give you a heads up and
a man named Eltonton.

A heads up?

Yes, just that he might
be watching his own.

I'd love to get more details.

I have a point, but now
and I'd leave early tomorrow.

I'll come back as early as you
like. Since you 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,
would 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

gene, Tatlock, Communist,
the record of whom is attached.

The subject being Dr. Raupmanhunde.
Yes.

Whom you had not met.

Not that, but soon after.

He's the head of security for
the project, shouldn't I know him?

No, he should know you.

I would never put you in a room with Pash.
Why not?

When Pash first heard about luminance,
he told the FBI he was gonna 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, and I can't see.

I have remote control.

So, we actually need you.

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

No, no, no. I will tell you the truth.

Mr. Johnson told me the conversation
you had yesterday,

in which I'm very interested.

He said he worried all day.

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

That's not the particular interest that
I had, but it's something a little more,

uh, my opinion more serious.

Now, 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?

The man attached to the Soviet Council
indicated, through intermediate legal,

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 there are allies, after all,

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

It might not hurt to be.
I'm gonna look out for it.

And you said that to Pash?

I was trying to put it in the
context of Russia's not Germany.

Ors 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 him
from going through it legally.

Would 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 that
would be satisfying, then?

I was attempting to give
them Eltonton without opening

a can of worms I told them
a cock and ghost for you.

Do you let a general grow, too?
- No.

I admit it to him
that I'd like to perish.

Do you recall his conversation
about the Chevalier incident?

I've seen so many versions
of it. I wasn't confused before,

but I'm certainly
getting there now.

Then 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.

Oh, well. Might we know
through when the contact is made?

That wouldn't involve people
who are not involved in this.

Is that someone a member of the project?

A member of the faculty,
yes, but not in the project.

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

As far as I know, yes. There may have
been more than one person involved.

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?

You could. If you gave me the
name, 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 that, did he?

No. No. In fact, it was
some months later, wasn't it?

It wasn't.
You seem his persistence.

Well, you are... you are
persistent, but that is 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.

And I'm 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?

It 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. I'm told it's been away.

Where?

Ruth's old town.

Come on, you'll think.
Can't tell me who can you tell.

How about mentalization, I'll be. What
makes you think I know where he is anyway?

Because you're doing a pretty good job of
knowing what Mr. Dorman is when it comes.

Like now?
Attention!

Early Christmas present for you all.

The British pilot put me in the ball. They
filled me the oxygen, but I messed it up.

When they opened me up in
Scotland, I was unconscious.

But I pretended I'd been napping.
Please enjoy your party.

He's big enough to end war.

Heisenberg sought me out in Copenhagen.

I was chilling, 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 you mention gaseous diffusion?

He seemed more focused on heavy water.

As a moderator?
Yes, instead of graphite.

What?

He took a wrong turn.

Or a head.
And was you here to help us, Nils?

So could you give us a moment, gentlemen?

I was not here to help Robert.

I knew you could do this without me.

Where 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've lift the stone without being
ready for the sting 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.

And your work really begins soon.

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

From San Francisco.

Robert!

Robert?

Robert?

Robert?

Robert?

What happened?

My father called.

We found her yesterday in the bath.

Who?

She's taken pills.

Left a note on sight.

She took barbiturates with
Nils Cloraleirid in her blood.

There was a note.

She looked out the lock.

We were together.

She said you needed me, I...

I don't know.
I wouldn't.

I don't know.
I can't.

No, it wasn't me. It was me.

You don't get to come
in the city when your nose

all feels so every bit
of it has consequences.

You poor insult, Dickens.

It'll be clear to bend on you.

Donald, would you like to contribute
here, please? You're on the lookout.

Mom, 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.

Tell me, please.
The approach device is nowhere.

Can't rush everything.

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

You're right. The man who is doing his job.

Tell us what's happening.

You're not helping.

I've been asking for detonations
under your florsion lenses for weeks.

The British can do it. Fuse.

Absolutely.
It's your job, Tada.

I'm engaged in the research.

We're not hiding them
both. We're not even building.

I've brought one for the event.
Oh, no.

Let him go.

He's a prima Donna.

I agree. He should leave right now.
Okay.

Kisti, you replace Metabyte.
Seth, I'm putting you on plutonium.

Lily, you go in for Kisti.

Because he needs you,
Fuchs, you take Tada's role.

I'm putting you exclusively
on the implosion device.

And no one is leaving Los Alamos.

They both would believe.
No. I won't let you leave.

Forget Hans. Forget Fuchs.

Stay here. Research what you want.

Fuchs and the hydrogen bomb.
Whatever. We'll meet to discuss.

You don't have time to meet.

You're a politician now, Robert.

You've left physics behind
many, many years ago.

One week. One hour. You and me.

Now raise this fucking barrier.

So the super was an underdevelopment
on your watch in Los Alamos.

Yes.

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

No, no, no. I pointed
out technical differently.

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 one thousand
times the power of an A-bomb.

Its only intended target
would be the largest city.

It's a weapon of mass genocide.

Is he dressed in circles
on this side of the map,

where they would target us,
starting in New York? As a DC.

It's a weapon of attack. No
difference involved in deterrence.

Do we really need more deterrence
than our friend, our slow atomic bombs?

You drown in ten feet of water or
ten thousand, what's the difference?

We can already drown.

We can only drown in two feet.

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

An hydrogen bomb can be
made to work, I'll be 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 and nuclear energy.

By which mean world government.

The United Nations has
Roosevelt intended it.

Well, I asked what Truman should do, right?

The world's change is 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 spy at Los Alamos?

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've seen
convinced they already know.

All right. 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 get down to this.

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

Okay.

Dr. Oppenheimer.
Hi.

William Borden.

Joined committee on atomic energy.
Oh, it is.

During the war, I was a pilot.

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

I got a meteor. A V-2
rocket headed England.

I can't help but imagine
what it will be for

such an enemy rocket
to carry an atomic war.

Quiet.

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

Bobby, I don't think you
want to go up against Shros.

If we both speak, they listen to me.

When you speak, they hear a prophet.

When Shros speaks, they hear themselves.

They 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 be
any wrong terms like sabotage.

But Mr. Borden was?

As I understand it, possibly.

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

He was no longer a government employee.

He appears to have had unlimited
access to Dr. Oppenheimer's file.

Like Mr. Nichols, I've 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 is
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 read it until I
see very conclusive proof to the opposite.

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

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.
Yes.

Mr. Bonger, the enemy who were the
greatest threat to mankind, it's our work.

It was dead. It's true.

With a Japanese fight on.

Their defeat seems assured.

Not if you're a GI prepared to invade.

We can end this war.

But how do we justify using
this weapon, she thinks.

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
peace mankind has never seen.

The peace based on
the kind of international

cooperation that
Roosevelt always envisaged.

Progress?

Two years and a million dollars worth.

Hard to put a price in your town.

Not really. Just out of the bills.
Rural free deliveries.

Eighty babies delivered the first year.

This year we've had ten a month.

Earth controls that do not
align to restriction general.

Clearly.
General.

Head down. Here you
are. Folks, head down.

That's the war. Two
viable bombs. I need a date.

September.
July.

That's a sweet one,
gentlemen. August. July.

Test.

July.

I need my brother.

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

He's been working with
Mars for two years now.

What do we call the test?

A pet of my heart. A three person god.

What?

Truly.

You insisted on bringing
on your brother Frank.

A known communist.
Former communist.

You brought a known former communist.

On to America's most secret
and important defense project.

I knew my brother could be trusted.
Absolutely.

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

Folks, head down.
Everybody ready?

I hope you learned something.

We've learned we're going to need to
be a lot farther away. I'll figure it out.

We need a 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 in East Japan.

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

You were 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 for that.

In Chicago, we put together a petition.

I'm not... I'm not telling you to do that.

Just tell me your concerns and
I will leave 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.

I guess Germany.

That's not how weapons
manufacture works, Cillit.

Hoping 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 when we see a target bomb?

The air bomb might not cause as
much damage as the Tokyo bombs.

What are we estimating?

In a medium-sized city,
20,000 or 30,000 dead.

But don't underestimate the
psychological impact of a atomic explosion.

A pillar of fire 10,000 feet tall.

Deadly neutron effects
from a mile in all directions.

From one single device dropped
from a barely-known SP-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.

It'd send everything
they have up against us.

I'd be up in that plane.

But 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 the
bomb to Japan to propose surrender?

We intend to demonstrate it in
the most unambiguous terms.

Twice.

Once to show the weapons 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.

I'm 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 the longest
American and Japanese.

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

If we retain moral advantage.

How so? If we use this weapon
without informing our allies,

they'll see it as a threat.
We'll be in an arms race.

How often can we be with the Soviets?

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

We've been told they have 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.

Uh, 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 as soon as this project
has been plagued from the start

by certain scientists of doubtful

discretion and uncertain loyalty.

One of them just tried to
meet with the president.

Now, we need these men,
but as soon as it's practical,

we should sever any such
scientist 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.

did 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 boasts 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.

Is that right? Your lines already went in.

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

What B-29? Our bombs on the tower.

They want to use the test to
confirm the safe operating distance.

It's risky.

But not as risky as dropping one over Japan

and hoping that we were
right about the blast radius.

It's a little so astound.
We're firing on the 15th.

The 15th? That's the 15th.

15th.

So while we're here in South Observation

Point with Frank and Kistiakowsky,

we'll all be assigned to base camp,
west observation, or fire observation.

Just a little careful with your eyes.

Your safe distances are
based on your calculations.

Time to stand behind
your science arms, literally.

What about the radiation cloud?

Without high winds, it should
settle within two to three miles.

Vacuation measures are in place.

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

Everybody out.

You're on the night of the 15th.
It's a hard deadline.

If anyone does anything, speak now.

Could you survive an explosion test?

Could not do it.

Is there anything else that might stop us?

It's happening, isn't it?

I'll send a message.

It's gone our way.

Take it in the streets.

Robert.

Which way?

Hope it's take modest 3 kilotonnes.

Talos with 45.
- 20.

Twenty thousand kilos of DNT.

Does anyone wanna see any side action
on atomspheric ignition.

I just say, we have to delay.

This weather has reached a side.

This call is to tell you that
the explosion test failed.

Was he wrong?
No.

No! Explain.

I can't I just.. I just know
I know the explosion lens will work.

If we fire this detonator and
they don't trigger reaction.

2 years worth of plutonium will be
scattered. Across wide stands.

Let's get to stock abbservation.

Pull'em out.
We will make our determination their.

Three years, 4,000 people, $2 billion.

So it doesn't go off.

We both finished.

I'm betting on three kilotons.

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

And what did Fermi mean
by atmospheric ignition?

We had a moment where
it looked like the chain reaction

from a atomic device
might never have stopped.

Setting fire to the atmosphere.

And what 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 was 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.

We've been exactly

one hour, 58 minutes.

We'll know.

It's loading up.

The Army parties left zero.
They're heading this way.

Throw me switches.
Turn the cars.

Ready for emergency evacuation.

After my shoot.

Everybody take a roller splash.

Everybody take a roller splash.

Twenty minutes.

Twenty minutes.

That's twenty.

The ladies.

Come on.
Now.

The glass.

It stops the UV.
It stops the glass.

I had the base 10.
That's the fire.

Robert.

Try to work the world.

What's that needle?

If the detonator's still charged,
the voltage drops by one volt.

You hit that button, you abort.

Understood?
Understood.

Everybody down.

Do not tilt around until you
see what's working on the hills.

Then look at the explosion
holding through your wellness glass.

Ninety seconds to detonation.

These things are hard in your heart.

Thirty seconds.

Detonator is charged.

Seventeen.

Sixteen.

Nine. Eight.

Seven. Six.

Five

Four.

Three.

Two.

One.

And now I am became death.

the destroyer of worlds.

It worked.

No interest dollars.

Go on.

I'm good for it, Kisti.

You are.

Yes, you are.

Give me a pot stand right away.

Hello. Hi, Kisti. What?

Charlotte.
Charlotte, go ahead.

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

Can I help you to
bring in the cheese?

Kitty?

Kitty?

If they did it too high in the air,
the blast would be as powerful.

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

The true one, brief stolen, a pot stand.

The brief would be an overstatement.

He referred to a powerful
new weapon, stolen.

Hope we use it against Japan.

That's it.

The one where we've given them
an ace, it's for them to play the hand.

You're heavy for the six.

It's of the C.O. in the Pacific.

If anything comes through, to Washington.

Before.

When you keep informed.

Of course.

As best I can.

What did the Japanese surrender if
they knew about what was coming?

I don't know.

Everything's here,
that's a petition.

How the hell is so no matter
Japanese? Not signing an item?

Many people are.
A lot of people.

Pidrode.

The fact that we built this
bond does not give us any more,

any more right or responsibility
to decide how it's used.

And anyone else.

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

I'm told steps in the various
opinions of the community.

But what's your opinion?

Once it's used,

Nuclear war.
Perhaps..

all war,

becomes unthinkable.

Until somebody builds a bigger bomb.

I thought they would call.
It's only that fast.

And it's the sixth.

Charlotte?

Trigross?

Anything?

Charlotte?
Trubit's on the radio.

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

It went all right.

Apparently it went with a tremendous bang.

You know, 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 asked him for the
two billion dollars on the

greatest scientific gamble
in history, and we have won.

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. Prison criminals need help.

Dr. Oppenheimer, it's an honor.
Mr. President, please. Thank you.

Sixteen minutes.

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

You helped save
a lot of American lives.

What we did at Hiroshima was--
In Nagasaki.

Obviously. Your invention
let us bring our boys home.

It was hardly my invention.

Well, it's you on the cover at time.

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

Yes. Well, it's that now
is our chance to secure

international cooperation on
atomic energy and I'm concerned.

Did you know when the Soviets
are going to have the bomb?

I don't think I could give you--
Never. Never.

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

Abundance?
Yes.

I don't think so.

Well, don't put
everything they have in--

I hear you're leaving Los
Atoms. What should we do with it?

Give it back to the Indians.

Dr. Oppenheimer, if what
you say about the Soviets is true,

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

Mr. President,

I feel that I have flattened all my hands.

You think anyone in Hiroshima,

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 cry
make me back in here.

Robert saw that hand-wringing
got him nowhere,

and by the time I met him, he fully
embraced his father's bomb reputation

and used his profile to influence policy.

Dr. 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.
We know this statement.

Really? We're going to be sure of isotopes

We're not personally responsible for
destroying all opposition to their export.

Can you, uh, about look beer?
Making atomic weapons, in fact, you do.

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

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

His brother was blacklisted by
every university in the country.

A woman in the squad
working the railroad, laying track.

Like 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 to think of.

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

Here comes the
birthday boy. Pull out.

Have fun with him.

Robert, my son and his fiancée best words
the father of the atomic bomb, so...

Suspect.

What do you think, Lewis?

I think I must have enveloped you.

To the world.

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

Fukes. Class fukes.

Oh, dear. You haven't heard.

Class fukes. They're
British scientists that

you put onto the implosion
team at Los Alamos.

Turns out he was...
he was a spy of soviet union's.

After the truth about fukes came up,
the FBI stepped up surveillance on him.

He knew his phone was tapped.

He's fallen everywhere.

He's trashed big through.

But never stop speaking his mind.

Man of conviction.

And maybe he thought fame
could actually protect him.

When Eisenhower took
office, he saw one more chance.

He took it.

America and Russia maybe
likened to two scorpions in a bottle.

Each capable of killing the other,
but only at the risk of his own life.

There are various aspects of his policy.

Modern scientists blame me, but
how was I supposed to protect him?

It's a too secret for discussion.

Candor is the only remedy.

Officials in Washington need to
start leveling the American media.

That was last straw for Robert Sotomayor.

So he had to lose his security class.

And with it, his credibility.

But how could they do it?

It was a war hero.

He'd already told everyone about his past.

The board wouldn't have drenched it all up.

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

Could it have been Nichols?

No, I can't imagine if I could do that.

Whoever did, at least if I were a storm
that burned a path from the White House,

or to my desk, the A.E.C.

You see him in there, right?

I worked my whole life to get here.

To Canada, the United States of
America, now and from the entire country.

They're going to put me back in my place.

A low-leaf shoe salesman.

Lewis, we can win this thing.

I think we can get the sun off
the grass, but you did your duty.

A painful bill was.

Will Hill's testimony back us up?

Hill will be fine.

I don't really know him, but it was
when his Silveridge boys in Chicago

never forgave Robert for not supporting
a 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 the ratium-like rays emitted in great
numbers at the moment of the explosion.

Did you read the scrap 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.

They may not be wrong.
Stimson is now telling me

they bound an enemy that
was essentially defeated.

Robert, you have all the influence now.

Please, urge them to continue
my research on the super.

Anything can or will, Edward.
Why not?

It's not the
right use of our resources.

Is that what you really believe?

Gee, Robert Oppenheimer,
sphinx thy guru of the atom.

Nobody knows what you believe.

Do you?

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

I hope that it used to come, and we'll
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.

Sorry, I'm wrong.

Stop, doffs, forget this.

Seems pretty favorable.

There's Oppenheimer. What's the caption?

J. Robert Oppenheimer, straw is fought.

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 was 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.

I was about to know how to get things done.

Right.

What was it you said about Borden?

Why get caught holding the knife yourself?

I make it into the thing that
Borden was holding the knife for you.

It's gonna come down to how much
influence Borden's been able to observe.

Did I say something funny?

It's Borden, Borden, Borden.
When we all know that it's straws.

It looks probably the prince's condition.

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

But more useful than a center.

How many of these?

Maybe a little too well, Robert.

It was six years ago.

You know, they're truly vindictive.

Patient to say it's...

Straws has been perfectly
clear that he is neutral.

Wake up! It is straws!

It's always been straws and you know it!

When will you'll fight it.

It wasn't Nichols or Hoover,
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 using 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 be in.

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. 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 we can never again speak
on matters of national security.

Then what?

We'll shut you around.
Far from the limelight.

A simple bureaucratic procedure
has cute 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.

But 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,
don't let this into a copy.

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

They will, of course, have counted.

Prosecutor?

In all of his name.
Who?

Roger Rob.

Ouch. Rob will have security clearance

to examine Oppenheimer's file.

As will the great board.
Defense counsel will not.

A closed hearing is so-called
derogatory information in your indictment.

No audience, no reporters,
no burden of proof.

No burden of proof.

We're not convicted.

Just an eye.

What is it you said?

This is just how the game is played.

Well, forgive my naivete.

Amateurs, you seek the sun, get eaten.

Power stays in the shadows.

But, sir, you're out of the shadows now.
Yeah, that's why this has to work.

Well,

tell her she's
testifying this morning.

That'll help.

Hill is in the afternoon.

Hill is gonna help us too.

As you can see, Robert, it's not your side.

May I keep this?
No.

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

Take my current driver,I insist.

I'm not gonna sell my lawyers for this.

Of course not.

But don't take too long.

I can't keep Nichols a day.

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

I think it's wrong.

Nichols wants me to find him
so he can get it all on the record.

Stross wants me to walk away.

Stross 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 an AC Council, I can't represent you.

I'll call Lloyd Garrison.

Oh, he's got 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.
Tap 11.

Thanks for my paragraph.

Have you never said man of the consulate
and 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 we might
be furnished with a copy.

The document is classified, Mr. Garrison.

I think we should get back
to first-hand information.

It's his first-hand.

How so, Roger?

There was a recording at 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.

It was 12 years ago. Can
we hear this recording?

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

You were giving it to some front-cut.

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. Garris,

this isn't a trial because 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.

Joanne, you have my words.

She's either from a
transcript or not accepted.

I've already explained how
I made a recoccan-full story.

Then why would anyone make
up such an elaborate story?

Because I was an idiot.

Why lie?

Well, clearly with the intention of not
revealing who the intermediary was.

Your friend, Paquon
Chanaali, here the commist.

He's still your friend?

Yes.

Dr. Rami, thank you for coming.

Now, how has the prosecution has come?

Tell her, obviously, they passed the laws.

What did he say?
He wasn't going down to them.

But Frost told him that you and Ruth Dohmen
have been having an affair for years.

The whole time he looked
at them in Pasadena,

he convinced Lawrence that
Richard died of a broken heart.

what's the heart?
A broken heart.

Richard never found out.

As long as it's gonna testify.

I don't know.

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

I'm the chairman of the General Advisory

Committee to the EIC,
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.

Who's that?
Nothing to worry about.

After the Russian A-bomb test, Dr. Lawrence
came to see you about the hydrogen bomb.

You'd be better off asking him.
What would you 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
off-the-good fission program.

But that proved not to be the case.

In the event both could be done.

Suppose that this board did not feel
satisfied that in his testimony here,

Dr. Oppenheimer
had been wholly truthful.

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

Why go through all
this against the man who

has accomplished with
Dr. Oppenheimer's hands?

Look at his record.

We have an A-bomb and all series of it.

We have all series of super bombs.

What more do you want?

My mates.

But I've known Secretary
Stoltz for many years, and

I feel the necessity to
express the warm support.

For science and scientists, Louis de Chon.

But right now, unless there's any, 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're proceeding with
William Borden instead.

Mr. Borden, please take a seat.

Mr. Borden, hearing 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. Gopover, 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.

You actually did recall the
letter when in front of me.

Would you please be so kind as to me if so?

Dear Mr. Hoover, the
purpose of this letter...

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

What is the purpose of the delay?
You're 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.

These are 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're
on the board and 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 influencing
the United States military policy.

I'm sorry, Robert.

Is anyone else 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 have been asked to testify
about Louis Straws,

a man who has given years of service in
high positions of government

and who is known to be earnest,

hardworking 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. Straws completely
out of government.

You're referring to the hostility
of certain scientists

directed toward Mr. Straws 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 the most scientists around
this country, 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 nearing 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 become stirred, but I am.

Dr. Hill, we've already heard
that Mr. Straws 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 Straws.

Oppenheimer made men speak out
of Straws' position on the shipments of

isotopes to Norway and Straws
never forgave him this public humiliation.

Another controversy between them
centered around their differences

in judgment on how the age-old
would contribute to national security.

Straws turned to the
personal security system

in order to destroy
Oppenheimer's effectiveness.

And Straws 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's loyal to the United States.

I believe this and I shall leave it until I
see very conclusive truth to the others.

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

In a great number of cases
I've seen Dr. Oppenheimer act

in a way which was to me
exceedingly hard to understand.

I thoroughly disagree with
him in numerous issues and his

actions frankly appear 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, sir. Thank you.

Sorry.

You shook his fucking hand?

Oh, I could have spit in his face.

I'm not sure the border
would have appreciated that.

Isn't that gentlemanly
enough for you?

I think you're all being too
goddamn gentlemanly.

Gray must see what Rob is doing.
Why doesn't it just shut him down?

And you shaking towers again?

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 class views, did he?

No. None at all.

And you wouldn't want to leave this
board with any suggestion today that you're

questioning his basic loyalty to the United
States in the operation of Los Alamos?

By no means. I hope I didn't lead
anyone to believe otherwise for an instant.

Thank you, General.

You shouldn't keep them waiting.

She'll be here.

Do you even want her here?

Would her fool or an adolescent
presume to know someone

else's relationship? And
you neither have a lawyer.

Kitty and I are grown-ups. We've walked
through fire together.

You will do fine.

Will you describe your views on
Communism as pro-anti-neutral?

Very strongly against. I have nothing
to do with Communism since 1936,

since before I met Robert.

That's all.

The record demonstrates that
Oppenheimer was not interrogated

by impartial and disinterested
counsel for the Grey Board.

He was interrogated by
a prosecutor who used all

the tricks of a rather
ingenious legal background.

You are charging now that the
Grey Board permitted a prosecution.

If I were on the Grey 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 Straus.

Who was this?

I'm sorry?

Who was this?

Roger Roberts.

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?

Yeah.

Sorry.
Yes?

It's just it was all so very long ago.

Mr. Robert wasn't able to do it
long enough to have forgotten.

Would you return the card or rip it up?

The card whose existence I've forgotten.

The Communist Party membership card.
Having the slightest idea.

Can a distinction be made between
Soviet Communism and Communism?

Well, in the days when I was a member,
I thought there 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.

They've all things linked together
and spread all over the world.

And I've believed this
since I left the party.

Sixteen years ago.

Oh, seventeen years ago.

My mistake.

But you... Sorry, eighteen.

Eighteen years ago.

Are you familiar with the
fact your husband was making

contributions to the Spanish
Civil War's latest national anthem?

The Civil War's latest 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? Thank you. It means through
Communist Party channels, don't you?

Yes.
Yes.

Yes. Then would it be fair to say
that this meant that by 1942 your

husband did not stop having anything
to do with the Communist Party?

You 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.

Why don't you answer that?
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 Communist.

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.

I put yourself through more of it.

I had my reasons.

He has that point.

I'm not sure you understand, Albert.
No.

I left my country. Never talk with her.

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 haven't been off this country.

Then tell them to go to hell.

Interesting, Leon. There's no longer
an information 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 file court.
We're not in court, sir.

There's no burden of proof.

Right. They're not convicted.

Just denying.

Why would he all come
here to tear me down? What's the angle?

Do people need a reason to
do the right thing as he sees it?

I told you. Oppenheimer prove

science this against me,
right from that first meeting.

I don't know. But Oppenheimer said to him
that day would last time even meet my eye.

Oppenheimer knows
how to manipulate his own.

He levels elbows. He prayed
on the night of day as

scientists thought they'd get a say
in how he used 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 worth exploration
and was not the preparation of a weapon.

You mean it was more
of an academic excursion?

No, it was not an academic thing.It was
that you could build a hydrogen bomb.

It was a matter of life and death.

By 1942, you were actively pushing
the development of the hydrogen bomb.

Were you pushing the
stuff that I'm working on?

Supporting it and working on it. Yes.

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 moral qualms have to do with that?

What 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
chain back in the bottle.

Well, I'm here to tell you that I know one.

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 means him the most
important man who ever lived.

Well, we freely used the atomic bomb.

In fact, Dr. Yew resisted
in selecting the target

to drop the atomic
bomb on Japan, didn't he?

Yes.

Well, then you knew, did you know that
by dropping that atomic bomb on the target,

you selected the thousands of civilians
with the killer injured. Is that correct?

Yes. Not as many as turned out.

Oh. How many were killed in it?

Seventy thousand.

Seventy thousand of both Hiroshima and...
One hundred and ten thousand of both.

On the day of each bombing.

Yes. One of the weeks and years of follow.

It has been put at somewhere
between fifty and one hundred thousand.

Two hundred and twenty
thousand dead at least. Yes.

And moral scoop was about that.

Terrible ones.

But did you testify to me or that the
bombing of Hiroshima was very successful?

Technically successful.
Technically it was very successful.

And it is also next to a We cannot go
down this road even as human beings.

Would you have been opposed to the dropping
of a thermal nuclear weapon on

You said I would say.

If you were opposed to dropping an atomic

bomb on Hiroshima
because of moral scruples.

We set forth our... I know. Yew, yew, yew.

I asked for... I see you.

I should have forced 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 instrument.

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 job.

You didn't have a problem with your plan.

You supported it.
I didn't 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 asking for.

Well then you wouldn't took
the H-bomb too, wouldn't you?

I didn't ask you that, Doctor.

And the GAC reported you go off
after the show and the target just said.

A super bomb should never be built.

What we meant, what I meant.

I thought you knew what I meant too.

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 school was in 1945 plenty in 1949.

Doctor 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, not Nagasaki.

You should be thanking me.

Well, it is not.

Do we still have enough votes?

Or is the crowning moment
in my career about to

become the most public
humiliation in my life?

Full sentence about to go.

Don't scrape through. Great,
then gather the fucking press.

Doctor J. Robert Oppenheimer,
this board, having her 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 incredible lack of candor and
certain 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 coming days.

That is all.

Board member.

Robert.

Robert.

Don't tell.

Don't take him to sheets.

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?

There were three, led
by the junior senator from

Massachusetts, and a guy
trying to make a name for himself.

Didn't like what you did to Oppenheimer.

What's his name?

Kennedy.
John F. Kennedy.

Did you think that if you let them talk or

infest you, that the
world would forgive you?

It won't.

I'll see.

You told me I'd be okay.

Well, I didn't have all the facts, did I?

Here's the 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, you turned the scientists
against me one by one,

starting with Einstein. I told you
about that, Einstein. I said by the pond.

You did, but you know, sir,

nobody really knows what
they said to each other that

it's impossible they
didn't talk about you at all.

It's impossible they spoke
about something that...

More important than I know.

Thank you.

The man of the moment.

You once held a reception for
me. In fact, he gave me an award.

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.

Now it's your turn to deal with the
consequences of your achievement.

And one day, when they punished you enough,

they'll serve you salmon and potato salad.

Thanks, peaches.

If you are made of...

Oh, Frank. You are happy, I'm happy.

I'll turn the back,
tell you all is forgiven.

Just remember,

it won't be for you.

It will be for them.

Help me.

When I came to you with those calculations,

we thought we might start a chain reaction
that would destroy the entire world.

I am in the world.

What happened?

I believe we did.