And tomorrow we'll climb it. LAWRENCE: What's it called?
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ROBERT: That mesa we saw today, one of my favorite places in the world.
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I'm gonna try to reproduce it.
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Bombard it with neutrons. ALVAREZ: It's a nuclear fission. They did it, they split the atom. It's not possible. (stimulating music playing)
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LAWRENCE: How?
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ALVAREZ: Oppie! Oppie! ROBERT: What? What is it? They've done it. They've done it. Hahn and Strassmann in Germany. They split the uranium nucleus.
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LAWRENCE: Very elegant. Quite clear. - There's just one problem. - Where? Next door. Alvarez did it. - But then look... - (pulsing) these fission pulses, they're massive. I've seen 30 of these in the past ten minutes. Theory will take you only so far. (gasps) During the process... extra neutrons boil off, which could be used to split other uranium atoms. Chain reaction. You're thinkin' what I'm thinkin'. You, me, and every other physicist around the world who's seen the news. I'm... what? What are we all thinking? A bomb, Alvarez. A bomb. I told you, Robert, no more fucking flowers.
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Ideology got Joe killed. For nothing. Spanish Republic isn't nothing. My husband offered both our futures to stop one fascist bullet from embedding itself in a mudbank. That's the definition of nothing. Seems a little reductive. Pragmatic. Now here I am.
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I don't understand what you want from me. I don't want anything from you.
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Well, you say that and then you call. Well, don't answer. I'll always answer.
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Fine. Just no more flowers. (breathing heavily)
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Wherever the hell this is.
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See? Can't be done.
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(indistinct chatter)
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So, you're a biologist. Well, somehow I have graduated to housewife. Can you explain quantum mechanics to me? Seems baffling. Yes, it is. Well, this glass, this drink... - (knocks countertop) - this countertop, uh, our bodies... all of it. It's mostly empty space. Groupings of tiny energy waves bound together. By what? Forces of attraction strong enough to convince us that matter is solid. Stop my body passing through yours.
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(Kitty laughing) KITTY: Oop! This way. This is where I keep the good stuff. Well, I thought this was the Tolmans' house. I live with them while I'm at Caltech. Do you two need anything? ROBERT: We're good, Ruthie.
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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, and during a previous marriage, my wife Kitty had been a Communist Party member.
