Oppenheimer

01:00:09,602 --> 01:00:11,404 All it needs is a saloon. 1199 01:00:39,832 --> 01:00:42,402 There's no kitchen. 1200 01:00:42,435 --> 01:00:46,372 Really? We'll fix that. 1201 01:00:52,278 --> 01:00:55,682 Barbed wire, guns. 1202 01:00:55,715 --> 01:00:56,816 Oppie. 1203 01:00:56,849 --> 01:00:58,484 We're at war, Hans. 1204 01:01:00,887 --> 01:01:03,456 Halifax. 1917. 1205 01:01:03,489 --> 01:01:06,459 A cargo ship carrying munitions explodes in the harbor. 1206 01:01:08,861 --> 01:01:11,798 A vast and sudden chemical reaction. 1207 01:01:15,468 --> 01:01:18,304 The biggest man-made explosion in history. 1208 01:01:18,337 --> 01:01:20,306 Now let's calculate how much more destructive 1209 01:01:20,339 --> 01:01:23,009 it would have been if it were a nuclear 1210 01:01:23,043 --> 01:01:24,711 and not a chemical reaction. 1211 01:01:24,744 --> 01:01:28,381 Expressing power in terms of tons of TNT. 1212 01:01:28,414 --> 01:01:29,916 But it will be thousands. 1213 01:01:29,949 --> 01:01:33,386 Well, then kilotons. 1214 01:01:36,956 --> 01:01:40,326 Using U-235, 1215 01:01:40,359 --> 01:01:42,929 -the bomb will need a... -Uh-uh. 1216 01:01:42,962 --> 01:01:46,033 Sorry. Gadget will need a 33-pound sphere 1217 01:01:46,066 --> 01:01:47,533 about this size. 1218 01:01:47,567 --> 01:01:51,370 Or using plutonium, the ten-pound sphere. 1219 01:01:52,772 --> 01:01:54,006 Here's the amount of uranium 1220 01:01:54,041 --> 01:01:57,376 Oak Ridge refined all of last month. 1221 01:01:59,779 --> 01:02:03,783 And the Hanford plant made this much plutonium. 1222 01:02:04,917 --> 01:02:08,020 Now, if we can enrich these amounts, 1223 01:02:08,055 --> 01:02:10,857 we need a way to detonate them. 1224 01:02:10,890 --> 01:02:12,992 Are we boring you, Edward? 1225 01:02:13,025 --> 01:02:14,627 A little bit, yes. 1226 01:02:14,660 --> 01:02:15,895 May I ask why? 1227 01:02:15,928 --> 01:02:17,363 We all entered this room 1228 01:02:17,396 --> 01:02:19,332 knowing a fission bomb was possible. 1229 01:02:19,365 --> 01:02:21,968 How 'bout we leave it with something new? 1230 01:02:22,001 --> 01:02:23,002 Such as? 1231 01:02:23,036 --> 01:02:25,772 Instead of uranium or plutonium, 1232 01:02:25,805 --> 01:02:26,806 we use hydrogen. 1233 01:02:28,374 --> 01:02:29,976 -Heavy hydrogen. -Hydrogen. 1234 01:02:30,009 --> 01:02:32,779 Deuterium. You see? 1235 01:02:32,812 --> 01:02:34,514 We compact the atoms together 1236 01:02:34,547 --> 01:02:37,617 under great pressure to induce a fusion reaction. 1237 01:02:38,551 --> 01:02:41,387 Then we'll get not kilotons, 1238 01:02:41,420 --> 01:02:42,488 but megatons. 1239 01:02:42,522 --> 01:02:43,456 A big fission reaction... 1240 01:02:43,489 --> 01:02:45,058 Okay, hang on, hang on. 1241 01:02:45,092 --> 01:02:49,796 So how do you generate enough force to fuse hydrogen atoms? 1242 01:02:49,829 --> 01:02:51,898 A small fission bomb. 1243 01:02:51,931 --> 01:02:53,633 There we are. 1244 01:02:55,568 --> 01:02:57,370 Well, since we're going to need one anyway, 1245 01:02:57,403 --> 01:02:59,372 can we get back to the business at hand? 1246 01:02:59,405 --> 01:03:00,740 The isotopes issue 1247 01:03:00,773 --> 01:03:04,410 wasn't your most important policy disagreement 1248 01:03:04,443 --> 01:03:06,079 with Dr. Oppenheimer. 1249 01:03:06,113 --> 01:03:08,514 It was the hydrogen bomb, wasn't it? 1250 01:03:08,548 --> 01:03:11,417 Uh, as colleagues, we agreed to disagree 1251 01:03:11,450 --> 01:03:13,452 on a great many things, uh, 1252 01:03:13,486 --> 01:03:14,720 and, well, one of them 1253 01:03:14,754 --> 01:03:17,824 was the need for an H-bomb program, yes. 1254 01:03:30,670 --> 01:03:33,439 Thanks for convening on short notice. 1255 01:03:33,472 --> 01:03:34,941 I can't believe it. 1256 01:03:35,942 --> 01:03:37,476 Well, here we are. 1257 01:03:37,510 --> 01:03:39,512 Catch me up. What do we know? 1258 01:03:39,545 --> 01:03:42,049 One of our B-29s over the North Pacific 1259 01:03:42,082 --> 01:03:43,583 has detected radiation. 1260 01:03:43,616 --> 01:03:45,384 Do we have the filter papers? 1261 01:03:45,418 --> 01:03:47,420 There's no doubt what this is. 1262 01:03:47,453 --> 01:03:48,654 White House says there's a doubt. 1263 01:03:48,688 --> 01:03:50,123 Wishful thinking, I'm afraid. 1264 01:03:50,157 --> 01:03:52,859 Are those the long-range detection filter papers? 1265 01:03:53,793 --> 01:03:55,862 It's an atomic test. 1266 01:03:58,497 --> 01:03:59,899 The Russians have a bomb. 1267 01:03:59,932 --> 01:04:03,669 We're supposed to be years ahead of them, but some... 1268 01:04:03,703 --> 01:04:06,005 What were you guys doing at Los Alamos? 1269 01:04:06,039 --> 01:04:07,174 Wasn't security tight? 1270 01:04:07,207 --> 01:04:08,708 Of course...