Can you run them again? No, you'll get the same answer. Till they actually detonate one of these things, the best assurance you're going to get is this. Near zero.
Oppenheimer
21.6s
So here we are, hmm? Lost in your quantum world of probabilities and needing certainty. Can you run the calculations yourself? (chuckles) About the only thing you and I have in common is a disdain for mathematics. Who's working on this in-in Berkeley? Hans Bethe. Well, he'll get to the truth.
Oppenheimer
1.8s
Four divisions.
Oppenheimer
11s
You know, some days, Kurt refuses to eat. Even in Princeton. He's convinced that the Nazis can poison his food. Mm. Hmm? Huh.
Oppenheimer
14.5s
Coming right up. Conversation ended there. Nothing in our long-standing friendship would have led me to believe that Chevalier was actually seeking information, and I am certain that he had no idea of the work in which I was engaged.
Oppenheimer
14.9s
What do you take it to mean? Neutrons smash into nucleus, releasing neutrons to smash into other nuclei. Criticality, a point of no return, massive explosive force. But this time, the chain reaction doesn't stop.
Oppenheimer
11.3s
And if the truth is catastrophic? Then you stop. And you share your findings with the Nazis. So neither side destroys the world.
Oppenheimer
4.1s
Whose... Whose work is this? Teller's.
Oppenheimer
11.7s
When I calculated the chain reaction, I found a rather troubling possibility. BETHE: No. But this can't be right. Show me how you did your calculations. TELLER: Yes.
Oppenheimer
6.5s
That would be treason. Yes, of course. I just thought you should know.
Oppenheimer
19.4s
You knocked her up, fast work. - Can't keep a good man down. - (scoffs) I meant her. She knew what she wanted. What about the husband? We talked, um, they're getting a divorce, so... we can get married before she starts showing. How civilized.
Oppenheimer
2.1s
I thought you might know.
Oppenheimer
3s
(sentimental music continues)
Oppenheimer
3.8s
Uh, General, could you give us a moment?
Oppenheimer
5.1s
Now I'm looking for a project director. And my name came up? Nope.
Oppenheimer
34s
You're a dilettante, a womanizer, a suspected Communist... I'm a New Deal Democrat. I said "suspected." Unstable, theatrical, egotistical, neurotic... Nothing good, no? Not even "he's brilliant, but..." Well, brilliance is taken for granted in your circle, so no. No, the only person who had anything good to say was Richard Tolman. Tolman thinks you have integrity, but he also strikes me as a guy who knows more about science than people. Yet here you are. You don't take much on trust. I don't take anything on trust.
Oppenheimer
27.8s
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)
Oppenheimer
10.6s
You drop a bomb and it falls on the just and the unjust. (sighs) I don't wish the culmination of three centuries of physics to be a weapon of mass destruction.
