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.
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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)
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(thunder rumbling)
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Joe got himself killed first time he popped his head out of the trench.
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Three years, 4,000 people, $2 billion. Well, if it doesn't go off... (sighs) we're both finished.
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Let's get to South Observation. Pull 'em out. ROBERT: We can make our determination there. (tense music continues)
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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)
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(wind whistling)
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(breathing heavily)
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(stomping intensifying)
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Never. Mr. President, the-the Russians have good physicists and-and... and abundant resources. - Abundant? (laughs) - Yes. - I don't think so. - (chuckles) Well, they'll-they'll put everything they have and...
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ROBERT: So I'll be here at South Observation point with Frank and Kistiakowsky. You'll all be assigned to Base Camp, West Observation or Far Observation. (suspenseful music continues)
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We go on the night of the 15th. It's a hard deadline, so if anyone has anything, speak now.
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Shall I come with you to Washington?
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Well, you'll keep me informed.
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GARRISON: You let my client sit here and potentially perjure himself, and all this time, you had a recording? Nobody told your client to misrepresent his former answers. Misrepre... It-it was 12 years ago. Can we hear this recording? You don't have the clearance, Mr. Garrison. But you're reading it into the record. Please, please. Is this proceeding interested in entrapment or in truth? If it's truth, where's the disclosure? Where's the witness list? Mr. Garrison, this isn't a trial, as you are well aware. Evidentiary rules do not apply. We are dealing with national security. Yes, sir, with all due respect, I fail to see how national security prevents the prosecution from providing us - with a list of witnesses. - Perhaps we are in need - of a brief recess. - ROBERT: Gentlemen, you have my words. If you say they're from a transcript, then I'll accept it. I've already explained I made up a cock-and-bull story. But why would anyone make up such an elaborate story? Because I was an idiot. Why lie? Well, clearly with the intention of not revealing who the intermediary was. Your friend, Haakon Chevalier, the Communist. Is he still your friend? Yes.