Admiral Strauss, I'm interested in your relationship with Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer. You met him in 1947? Correct. You were commissioner of the Atomic Energy Commission? I was, but I-I actually met Robert in my capacity as board member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton because after the war, he was world-renowned as the great man of physics, and I was determined to get him to run the Institute. (birds chirping) (soft music playing)
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Oh, he's fine.
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General Groves. He transferred me to London.
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(sighs) Klaus Fuchs, the British scientist that you put onto the implosion team at Los Alamos, turns out he was... he was spying for the Soviets the whole time. I'm sorry.
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(cabinet door closes)
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When's this place supposed to open?
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We have no choice.
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Wherever the hell this is.
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You're happy, I'm happy. So then I'm happy you're happy - that I'm happy. - (chuckles)
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(thunder rumbling)
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I'm gonna try to reproduce it.
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So, you're a biologist. Well, somehow I have graduated to housewife. Can you explain quantum mechanics to me? Seems baffling. Yes, it is. Well, this glass, this drink... - (knocks countertop) - this countertop, uh, our bodies... all of it. It's mostly empty space. Groupings of tiny energy waves bound together. By what? Forces of attraction strong enough to convince us that matter is solid. Stop my body passing through yours.
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What's this? Sanskrit. You can read this? I'm learning.
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Ah. So, I'm getting married. - Frank. Congratulations! - Thank you. - Thank you. - To Jackie? - Yeah, to Jackie. - (clears throat) The waitress. Oppie, you're right. It's lettin' up. I'm gonna go see if there's any stars. All your talk about the common man, but Jackie's not good enough for you, hmm? ROBERT: Mm-mm. We join the Party and you can't - hide your disapproval. Why? - Oh, now, I... Is that because that's supposed to be your thing? I haven't joined the Party, Frank. And I don't think she should have convinced you to either. Half of the faculty is Communist. Not that half.
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This'll do. (clicks tongue)
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Ideology got Joe killed. For nothing. Spanish Republic isn't nothing. My husband offered both our futures to stop one fascist bullet from embedding itself in a mudbank. That's the definition of nothing. Seems a little reductive. Pragmatic. Now here I am.
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LAWRENCE: You shouldn't let them bring up politics in the classroom, Oppie. I wrote that. Lawrence, you embrace the revolution in physics. Can't you see it everywhere else? Picasso, Stravinsky, Freud, Marx. LAWRENCE: Well, this is America, Oppie. We had our revolution.