So you could control me. Well, 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.
Oppenheimer
13.9s
I was just kidding. (chuckles) - No, he hates 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-wing past. You hired me because of it.
Oppenheimer
7s
- Dr. Lawrence. - Leslie. I'd like to remind you what we talked about in Berkeley. Compartmentalization. I understand completely.
Oppenheimer
9s
GROVES: Better off without him. (door slams shut) Aren't you more concerned about his discretion out there? We'll have him killed.
Oppenheimer
10.1s
Physics and New Mexico, huh? (chuckles) My God. What a trek. That's why you need a liaison. I'm appointing Lomanitz.
Oppenheimer
6.8s
You're gonna be okay. This way, gentlemen. (stirring music playing) (speaking indistinctly)
Oppenheimer
2s
All it needs is a saloon.
Oppenheimer
47.3s
LAWRENCE: Greetings from Berkeley. 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. - (laughter) - 'Kay. Gentlemen, to business. There were rumors of espionage at Los Alamos. ROBERT: Unsubstantiated. Unsubstantiated. STRAUSS: I'm told that there were Communists on the project. We didn't knowingly employ any Communists. I just want to know, were any of them involved in discussions of the Super? I seem to remember you demanding your brother come to Los Alamos. My brother had left the Party by then. What about Lomanitz? Lomanitz was never employed at Los Alamos. He was a liaison. Our security was tight, as former Colonel Nichols well knows. 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.
Oppenheimer
43.5s
You are aware that the Nazis have a two-year head start. Dr. Oppenheimer, the fact that your security clearance is proving difficult to obtain is not my fault. It's yours. May not be your fault, but it's your problem. Because I'm going. STRAUSS: And how many people were in these, uh, - open discussions? - NICHOLS: Too many. Compartmentalization was supposed to be the protocol. We were in a race against the Nazis. And now the race is against the Soviets. - Not unless we start it. - STRAUSS: Robert. They just fired a starting gun. What's the nature of the device they detonated? ROBERT: The data indicates it may have been a plutonium implosion device. 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.
Oppenheimer
22.3s
What about the Super? Does Truman even know about it? Did we brief him on that? Not specifically. ROBERT: We still don't know if a hydrogen bomb's technically feasible. Right, my understanding is that Teller proposed it? - ROBERT: Yes. - At Los Alamos? Teller's designs have always been wildly impractical. You'd have to deliver by ox cart. - Not airplane. - LAWRENCE: Oppie. I'm sorry, Dr. Lawrence, you want to comment?
Oppenheimer
19.3s
Because if it can put us ahead again, the President of the United States needs to know about it. (scoffs) And if the Russians know about it already, from a spy at Los Alamos, then we've gotta get going. There's no proof there was a spy at Los Alamos. Robert.
Oppenheimer
6.2s
I still haven't heard that my security clearance - has been approved. - It hasn't. We're going to Chicago tomorrow. No, you should wait.
Oppenheimer
4.4s
Doesn't matter who I associate with. I don't talk about those secrets.
Oppenheimer
4.1s
Not a word. What did you think that would do to me?
Oppenheimer
2.2s
(dramatic music playing)
Oppenheimer
1.3s
No.
Oppenheimer
16.3s
ROBB: Doctor, did you think social contacts between a person engaged on secret war work and Communists was dangerous? My awareness of the danger would be greater today. I mean, it's fair to say that during the war years, you felt that such contacts were potentially dangerous.
Oppenheimer
9.3s
(elevator dings) ROBERT: Were conceivably dangerous, yes. ROBB: I mean, really, known Communists.