- (stomping stops) - (exhales) (pensive music playing) GORDON GRAY: Dr. Oppenheimer. Dr. Oppenheimer. As we begin, I believe you have a statement to read into the record. Yes, Your Honor. WARD EVANS: We're not judges, Doctor. ROBERT: No. Of course.
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What do you know about quantum mechanics? I have a grasp on the basics. Then you're doing it wrong. (classical music playing) Is light made up of particles or waves? Quantum mechanics says it's both. How could it be both? - It can't. - It can't. But it is. It's paradoxical, and yet, it works.
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Over here! Mr. Strauss!
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KISTIAKOWSKY: Everybody out.
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Take my car and driver. I insist.
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He took it. America and Russia may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other but only at the risk of his own life. Now, there are various aspects of this policy... STRAUSS: Lot of scientists blame me, but how was I supposed to protect him? Too secret for discussion, candor is the only remedy. Officials in Washington need to start leveling with the American people. (people murmuring) That was the last straw for Robert's enemies. So he had to lose his security clearance. - And with it, his credibility. - (knocking) But how could they do it? He was a war hero. He'd already told everyone about his past. Borden dredged it all up. How could Borden get access to Oppenheimer's FBI file? Could it have been Nichols? No, I can't imagine he'd do that. But whoever did unleashed a firestorm that burned a path from the White House back to my desk at the AEC. You see them in there, right? I've been working my whole life to get here. Cabinet of the United States of America. Now, in front of the entire country, they're gonna put me back in my place.
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KITTY: Everything's changing, Robert. Having a child was always going to change... No, the world, it's pivoting in some new direction. It's reforming.
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It is special here.
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Using U-235, - the bomb will need a... - Uh-uh. Sorry. Gadget will need a 33-pound sphere about this size. Or using plutonium, the ten-pound sphere.
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You left.
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(on phone): Robert. Don't...
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- (playing triumphant beat) - (all cheering)
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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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Kitty? Kitty, are you still there?
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Robert. This is yours, not mine.
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You sat here and let me tell you how it's done, but you've been far ahead all along. Survival in Washington is about knowing how to get things done.
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Then... the second thing you'll have to do is appoint Hans Bethe to run the Theoretical division. (rousing music playing) Wait, 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. Only better. (rousing music continues)