It would ignite the atmosphere. (whooshing) When we detonate an atomic device, we might start a chain reaction that... destroys the world.
Oppenheimer
22.1s
So we're about to fire a dud? - No. - Explain. Well, I can't. I just... I-I just know. I know the implosion lenses will work. If we fire these detonators and they don't trigger a reaction, two years' worth of plutonium will be scattered across White Sands. A month of my salary against ten bucks says it lights. - Jesus. - (thunder rumbling) (tense music continues)
Oppenheimer
2.3s
(thunder rumbling)
Oppenheimer
4s
Joe got himself killed first time he popped his head out of the trench.
Oppenheimer
9.1s
Three years, 4,000 people, $2 billion. Well, if it doesn't go off... (sighs) we're both finished.
Oppenheimer
7.6s
Let's get to South Observation. Pull 'em out. ROBERT: We can make our determination there. (tense music continues)
Oppenheimer
20.9s
Why did you have to see her? Because she had indicated a great desire to see me before we left. At that time, I couldn't, but I felt that she had to see me. She was undergoing psychiatric treatment. She was extremely unhappy. Did you find out why she had to see you? (grim music playing)
Oppenheimer
2.4s
(wind whistling)
Oppenheimer
2.7s
(breathing heavily)
Oppenheimer
3.2s
(stomping intensifying)
Oppenheimer
1.3s
Yeah.
Oppenheimer
2.9s
(intense music playing)
Oppenheimer
1.2s
Charlotte.
Oppenheimer
16.5s
Are you saying we'll have to delay? I'm saying it would be prudent. This weather, has it reached the site? (tense music playing) (thunder rumbling) (telephone ringing) Bethe is calling to tell you the implosion test failed. ROBERT: Hello, Hans. Yes, he's here.
Oppenheimer
7.2s
Yes. (thunder rumbling) - Is he wrong? - No. - No? - No.
Oppenheimer
20s
But they won't fear it until they understand it, and they won't understand it until they've used it. When the world learns the terrible secret of Los Alamos, our work here will ensure a peace mankind has never seen. A peace based on the kind of international cooperation that Roosevelt always envisaged. (scattered applause)
