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(scoffs) ROBERT: He may not be wrong. Stimson is now telling me we bombed an enemy that was essentially defeated. TELLER: Robert, you've all the influence now. Please. Urge them to continue my research on the Super. I neither can nor will, Edward. Why not? It's not the right use of our resources. Is that what you really believe? J. Robert Oppenheimer. Sphinx-like guru of the atom. Nobody knows what you believe.
Oppenheimer
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ROBB: After the Russian A-bomb test, did Dr. Lawrence come to see you about the hydrogen bomb? You'd be better off asking him. Well, I fully intend to. Would you say that Dr. Oppenheimer was unalterably opposed to the H-bomb? No, he-he thought that a fusion program would come at the expense of our awfully good fission program. But that proved not to be the case. In the event both could be done. Suppose 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 a man who has accomplished what Dr. Oppenheimer has? Look at his record. We have an A-bomb and a whole series of it. We have a whole series of Super bombs. What more do you want? Mermaids? TELLER: But I've known Secretary Strauss for many years, and I feel it a necessity to express the warm support for science and scientists Lewis has shown. We'll break now, unless there's any immediate business. STRAUSS: 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.
Oppenheimer
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Terrible ones. But yet you testified in here that the bombing of Hiroshima was very successful. - Technically successful. - ROBB: Oh! Technically, it was very successful. And it is also alleged to have helped end the war. Would you have been in support of the dropping of a hydrogen bomb on Hiroshima? That would make no sense at all. - Why? - The-the target is too small. Well, supposing there had been a target in Japan big enough for a thermonuclear weapon, would you have been opposed to the dropping of it? This was not a problem with which I was confronted... Well, I'm confronting you with it now, sir. It was all part of his plan. He wanted the glorious, insincere guilt of the self-important to wear like a fuckin' crown. Say, "No, we cannot go down this road," even as he knew we'd have to. Would you have been opposed to the dropping of a thermonuclear weapon on Japan - because of moral scruples? - Yes, I believe I would, sir. Well, did you oppose the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima because of moral scruples? - We set forth our arguments... - (tense music building) No, you, you, you. I'm asking you. - I set... I set forth... - ROBB: Not we. You, you, you! Our arguments against dropping it, but I did not endorse them. You mean after working night and day for three years building the bomb, you then argued against the use of it? (laughs) I was asked by the Secretary of War what the views of scientists were. I gave him the views against and the views for. You supported the dropping of the atom bomb on Japan. - What do you mean "support"? - ROBB: Didn't you? - You supported it! - What do you mean "support"? Well, you helped pick the target, didn't you? - (muffled rumbling) - I did my job. I was not in a policy-making position at Los Alamos. I would have done anything I was asked to do. Well, then you would have built the H-bomb too, - wouldn't you? - I couldn't. I didn't ask you that, Doctor! And the GAC report which you co-authored after the Soviet atomic test said a Super bomb should never be built! What we meant, what I meant was... - ROBB: What you, who? Who? - What I meant... (tense music continues) And wouldn't the Russians do anything - to increase their strength? - (music stops) (raises voice): If we did it, they would have to do it. Our efforts would only fuel their efforts, just as it had with the atomic bomb. "Just as it had with the atomic bomb," exactly! No moral scruples in 1945, plenty in 1949.
Oppenheimer
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What do moral qualms have to do with that? Wha... What do moral qualms - have to do with it? - ROBB: Yes. Oppenheimer wanted to own the atomic bomb. He wanted to be the man who moved the Earth. He talks about putting the nuclear genie back in the bottle. Well, I'm here to tell you that I know J. Robert Oppenheimer, and if he could do it all over, he'd do it all the same. You know he's never once said that he regrets Hiroshima? He'd do it all over. Why? Because it made him the most important man who ever lived. (voice quivering): Well, we've... we've freely used the atomic bomb... ROBB: In fact, Doctor, you assisted in selecting the target to drop the atomic bomb on Japan, - didn't you? - Yes. ROBB: Well, then you knew, did you not, that by dropping that atomic bomb on the target you selected, that thousands of civilians would be killed or injured, is that correct? Yes, not as many as turned out... Oh. Well, how many were killed or injured? - 70,000. - ROBB: 70,000 at both Hiroshima and... 110,000 at both. ROBB: On the day of each bombing? (tense music playing) Yes. And in the weeks and years that followed? It has been put at somewhere between 50 and 100,000. - 220,000 dead at least? - ROBERT: Yes. Any moral scruples about that?
Oppenheimer
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ROBB: Are you familiar with the fact your husband was making contributions to the Spanish Civil War as late as 1942? I knew that Robert gave money from time to time. Did you know this money was going into Communist Party channels? Don't you mean "through"? - Pardon? - I think you mean "through Communist Party channels," don't you? - Y-Yes! - Yes? - Yes! - KITTY: Yes. Then would it be fair to say that this meant that by 1942, your husband had not stopped having anything to do with the Communist Party? You don't have to answer that yes or no. You can answer that any way you wish. I know that, thank you. It's your question. - It's not properly phrased. - Do you understand - what I'm getting at? - I do. Then why don't you answer it that way? 'Cause 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... Are there two types of Communists? Intellectual Communists and your plain old regular Commie? (laughs) Well, I couldn't answer that one. EVANS: (laughs) I couldn't either.
Oppenheimer
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Can a distinction be made between Soviet Communism and Communism? Well, in the days when I was a member, I thought they were definitely two things. - Oh? - I thought that the Communist Party of the United States was concerned with our domestic problems. I now no longer believe this. Believe the whole thing's linked together and spread all over the world, and I have believed this since I left the Party 16 years ago. - But... - Seventeen years ago. My mistake. - But you said... - Sorry, 18. Eighteen years ago.
Oppenheimer
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However, in the light of your continuing associations and disregard for the security apparatus of this country, together with your somewhat disturbing conduct on the hydrogen bomb program and the regrettable lack of candor in 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 the coming days. That is all.
Oppenheimer