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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.

Your Honor.

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.

An hour 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?

Exactly.

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.

Oi, Oppenheimer.

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.

Louis.

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. Rabinheimer 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. Yura, 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 one of it.

I'm a knight.

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--

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.

What are you thinking?

Dr. Oliver.

Oh my god.

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 off when I work.

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.

Oh, 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, they're still going back.

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

Not.

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.

A.K.

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 accrues, 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 it somewhere no one's been before.

Me?

Yes, you and your math is better than mine.

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

Why would they have started the file on Dr. Abenheimer 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, Bobby.

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.

Stavallier, 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, but 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.

I expected... 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?

Sand cream.

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 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. Rottenheimer.

I'm Alton Tippett.

No.

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 believe 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.

It's a 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.

F.A.E.D.

F.A.E.D.

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 bond.

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.

And what did 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?

Roger.

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 unicorns?

I thought you might have them.

Roger, Robert, 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.

Biggest 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.

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?

Didn't you?

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?

I don't think I'd.

I don't think I'd.

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. Albert Heidman.

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 world 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 FAACT 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.

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.

Yes.

Banks, 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 Albinheimer, 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?

Daily indicates that they have been named plutonium explosion devices.

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 Albinheimer?

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.

Got two hearts.

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

Departmentalization, I understand completely.

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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