We can end this war. MORRISON: But how do we justify using this weapon on human beings? - (murmurs of assent) - (scattered applause)
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And Chevalier went into exile.
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(somber music continues)
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The team hasn't slept in two nights. If we stand down, make the bomb safe, we won't be back here for weeks. Then we'll miss Potsdam. I gotta get word to Truman by 7:00. Our window's closing. What is this doing? Raining, blowing, lightning. - For how long, damn it? - It's holdin' strong. It'll break before dawn. - How could you know that? - I know this desert. Storm cools overnight. Just before dawn, the storm breaks. He could be right, but schedule as late as possible. 5:30! Sign your forecast. If you're wrong, I'll hang you. Frank, tell them all, 5:30. - 5:30, 5:30. - MAN: 5:30.
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(suspenseful music continues) (explosion)
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One might be led to the presumption that behind the quantum world, there still hides a real world in which causality holds, but such speculation seem to us, to say it explicitly, fruitless. Thank you. Have a great day.
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Brilliance makes up for a lot. Don't alienate the only people in the world that understand what you do.
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There is a price to be paid for that. Of course we'll help you.
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4.3s
Robert, you see beyond the world we live in.
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You know, it really would be quicker to take a plane. No, plane's too risky. Country needs us.
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Welcome to Los Alamos. Now, there's a boys school we'll have to commandeer, and the local Indians come up here for burial rites. But, apart from that, nothing. Forty miles. Any direction. Enough to find the perfect spot. - For? - Success.
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(door opens, closes) Well, if that's how you treat Lieutenant Colonel, I'd hate to see how you treat a humble physicist. Ah, if I ever meet one, I'll let you know. (chuckles softly) Ouch. Theaters of combat all over the world, but I have to stay in Washington. - Why? - I built the Pentagon. The brass likes it so much they made me take over the Manhattan Engineer District. Which is? Oh, don't be a smart ass. You know damn well what it is. You and half of every physics department across the country. That's problem number one. I thought problem number one would be securing enough uranium ore. 1,200 tons bought the day I took charge. Processing? Just broke ground at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
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This is the only key. And Teller's already here. - (sighs) - Shall I just show him in? No, let's wait for the others. (door opens)
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So how would you proceed?
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Two months.
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BETHE: When you know Teller's critical assumptions, the real picture emerges. Bottom line? The chances of an uncontrolled nuclear reaction are near zero. Near zero. (breathes heavily) - Oppie, this is good news. - Mm.
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The brat is down. Where are the martinis?
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We're a couple of New York Jews. How do you know Dutch? Well, I thought I'd better learn it when I got here this semester. You learned enough Dutch in six weeks to give a lecture on quantum mechanics? Wanted to challenge myself. Quantum physics wasn't challenging enough. - Schvitzer. - Schvitzer? - Show-off. - (chuckles) Dutch in six weeks, but you never learned Yiddish? They don't speak it so much my side of the park. Screw you. You homesick? Oh, you know it.