Oppenheimer ( 2023)

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Dr Oppenheimer? Dr Oppenheimer?
Oppenheimer: Yes your honour
This is not court, we understand you wish to release a statement into the record
Oppenheimer: Derogatory information, in your indictment of me, to fully understand my work, you need to know my life

Strauss: The whole hearing took a month
Are they really going to ask about that? It was years ago
Senate Aide: Four years
Strauss: Five

Senate Aide: They told me to make you feel like this wasn’t a trial
Strauss: I didn’t until you said that

Who would want to justify their entire life?

Robb: Were you happier there than at Cambridge?
Oppenheimer; No, I was homesick, useless in the lab, troubled by visions of a hidden universe

Christ, Oppenheimer have you had any sleep?

Oppenheimer: I need to go to to the lecture
Why?
Oppenheimer; It’s Niehls Bohr
I completely forgot , everyone class dismissed, not you Oppenheimer, finish coating those pallets


Niehls Bohr: Quantum physics is not a step forward but a new world, Einstein opened the door, we peered inside

J Robert Oppenheimer
Niehls; What does the J stand for?
Nothing apparently
Niehls: I remember you from my lecture , you asked the only good question
No-one’s denying his insight, it’s his laboratory work that leaves little to be desired
Oppenheimer: You taught the lecture
Niehls: At Harvard and you asked the same question, why ask again?
Oppenheimer: I didn’t like your answer
Niehls: Did you like it better yesterday?
Oppenheimer: Very much so
Niehls: You can lift the stone while being ready for the snake that reveals itself

Get out of Cambridge with his beakers and potions, go somewhere that allows you to think
Born
Niehls: Go to Coopenhagen, seek Max Born, I’ll send word

Oppenheimer: Wormhole
Niehls: Algebras like sheet music, the important thing is not can you understand the music? Can you hear the music?
Oppenheimer: I can

Chairman Magnuson: You were the chairman for the Atomic energy commission
Strauss: Yes I was, I didn’t meet Robert in my capacity until the institute of Advance science, he was renown as a great mind of science, I was determined to get him to run the institute

Oppenheimer : Mr Strauss
Strauss: It’s pronounced Strass

: I’m at the temple nu , Strass is just the Southern pronunciation

He’s there most afternoons I’m told , it always confused me why you never involved him in the Manhattan project , greatest scientific mind of our time
Oppenheimer: Of his time, Einstein published his theory of relativity more than 40 years ago, never fully grasping what it meant
Strauss: I can introduce you
Oppenheimer; No need, I’ve known him for years


Strauss: This is one of the most prestigious appointments in the country
Oppenheimer; With a tremendous commute, that’s why I’m considering it

Chairman Magnuson: Dr Oppenheimer told you about his past right away, this didn’t come as a security risk?
Strauss; I was entirely consumed by what he’d said to Einstein to make him sour on me

Oppenheimer: After Copenhagen I moved to Leiland in Holland , where I met Isidor Rabi

Rabi: A yank teaching a lecture on quantum , this I gotta see, I’m am American myself, let me know if you need any help with the English

( Oppenheimer speaks Dutch)

Rabi: It’s a long trip to zuric, you get any skinnier, we’re gonna lose you between the seat cushions , Rabi
Oppenheimer: Oppenheimer

Rabi: You learnt Dutch in six weeks? Quantum physics wasn’t challenging enough for you?

Rabi: You learnt enough Dutch in six weeks but never learnt Yiddish
Oppenheimer: Don’t speak it much on my side of the park
Rabi; Ever get the feeling our kind’s not welcome here
Oppenheimer: Scientists?
Funny


Oppenheimer: I have to get back to America
Heisenberg: Why? No-one there’s taking quantum physics seriously

Heisenberg: You’re from New Mexico?
Oppenheimer: New York, but my brother and I have a ranch just outside of Santa Fe, that’s the America I’m missing right now
Heisenberg: Well then you better get home cowboys
Rabi: That’s him, me and horses I don’t think so

Chairman Magnuson: Why was a file started before the w*r?
Strauss: You’ll have to ask Hoover
I’m asking you!
Strauss: It’s my assumption it was regards to his left wing political activities

Lawrence; They gave you that room
Oppenheimer: I asked for it to be next to you experimentalists
Lawrence: Theory can only get you so far
We’re building a machine to help accelerate electrons, wanna help?
Oppenheimer: Build it ? No but I am teaching on it
Lawrence: Seminar?
Oppenheimer: Pupil
Lawrence: One student

Oppenheimer: Is light made up of particles or waves?
How can that be possible? It can’t, it’s paradoxical yet it works

Oppenheimer: My land lady’s having a discussion tonight, wanna come?

Strauss; As I recall the FBI were taking license plates outside of suspected communist gatherings and his name came up

Oppenheimer: This is brother Frank and Jackie his
Jackie: Just Jackie
Your reputation precedes you
Oppenheimer: What have you heard?
That you have a radical new approach to quantum physics that I couldn’t understand

Oppenheimer: I send money to my colleagues in Germany to export , we have to do something
What are you working on now?
Oppenheimer: What happens when a star dies ?
Can stars die?
Oppenheimer: If they can, they cool and collapse, the bigger the star, the more violent the expl*si*n

Robert here says he’s not a member of the party
Jean Tatlock: Then he doesn’t know enough about it
Oppenheimer: I read Das Kapital, all three volumes
Ownership is theft
Jean: Property
Oppenheimer: Property?
Jean: Property not theft
Oppenheimer: I read it in the original German

Jean: Do you question everything?
Oppenheimer: I like a little wiggle room

Jean: Do you channel that energy into progress?
Oppenheimer : Do you always tell the party line?
Jean: I like a little wiggle room too

Jean: Unexpected
Oppenheimer: You have a shelf full of Freud?
Jean: Actually my background is more analysis
Oppenheimer: My two years as an undergrad at Cambridge, I tried to poison my tutor
Jean: Did you hate him?
Oppenheimer; I liked him very much
Jean: Can you read Sanskrit?
Oppenheimer: I’m learning
Jean: Read this
Oppenheimer: Here it says
Jean: No , read the words
Oppenheimer; Today I am become death, the destroyer of worlds

They split the atom
Oppenheimer: It can’t be done
Lawrence: There’s one problem
Oppenheimer: Where?
Lawrence: Alvarez did it

Oppenheimer: Cool down allowing for more uranium neutrons

Lawrence: I think I see the dying star you’re working on
Oppenheimer: You can’t , that’s the point, gravity swallows space

Groves: Have that dry cleaned
Oppenheimer: If that’s how you treat Colonel Nichols, I’d hate to know how you treat me a humble scientist
Groves; If I ever meet one, I’ll let you know

Groves: I built the Pentagon, Brass liked it so much, they want me in charge of the Manhattan Engineering district
Oppenheimer: Which is?
Groves: Don’t be a smartass, you know what it is, you and every scientist across half the country, that’s the problem
Oppenheimer: I thought the problem would be securing enough uranium ore
Groves: 20, 000 tons from Oak Ridge Tennesse
I need a project director


Oppenheimer: Why did you marry him?
Kitty: I was lost and he was kind
Lost?
Kitty; At 28, I wasn’t ready to be a widow
Who was your first husband?
Kitty; My first husband was nobody, my second husband was Joe Ballet, he fell hard
Oppenheimer: Fell hard?
Kitty: Hard enough to be living off beans and pancakes and giving out the daily worker at factory functions

My third husband
Oppenheimer: He fought for the loyalists
Kitty: He went to the bridge, d*ed the minute he stuck his head out of a fox hole

Kitty: My husband sacrificed both our futures to stop one fascist b*llet from embarking itself in the mud

Oppenheimer: We both know I’m not what you want
Jean: At least you didn’t bring me flowers
Oppenheimer: I wanted you to hear it from me

Jean: You knocked her up? Fast work
Oppenheimer: Can’t keep a good man done
Jean: I meant her, she knew what she want , what about the husband?
Oppenheimer: We talked , they’re getting a divorce before she starts showing signs

Oppenheimer; I know what it means for the nazis to have a b*mb
Lawrence: And I don’t?
Oppenheimer: It’s not your people they’re herding into camps

Lawrence: Why don’t you listen to the sounds on your phone lines? Stop being so g*dd*mn naive
Oppenheimer: Why do they care what I do?
Lawrence: Because you’re not just self important, you’re actually important

Using U233 , we’ll need a sphere of this size, this is all the uranium Oak Ridge refined last month, all the plutonium

Oppenheimer: Are we boring you Edward?
Teller: Yes
Oppenheimer: Why?
Teller; We all left this room knowing a fission b*mb was possible, how bout we leave learning something new

Instead of plutonium or uranium, use hydrogen, great pressure causing a fusion reaction



Senate Aide: Politicians can’t know the scientific community doesn’t support you
Strauss: Can you get the name ? If they were based in Chicago under Svitzer or Los Alamos?
If they were in Chicago, they weren’t part of Oppenheimer’s cult at Los Alamos, Oppie founded that place, he was founder, sheriff and mayor

Kitty: All it’s missing is a saloon

Oppenheimer: There’s been a screw up, Lomanitz has been drafted
Nichols: It wasn’t a screw up, we are fighting a w*r
Lomanitz was trying to unionize the radiation lab
Oppenheimer: He promised to quit all that
Nichols: Well he hasn’t , I received your security clearance

Strauss: Russia has a hydrogen b*mb, how’d they get ahead of us on this?


Strauss: Wasn’t security tight?
Nichols: Security was as tight as it could be with the personalities involved
What’s that mean?
Nichols: We’ve all read his file, do I need to bring up Jean Tatlock or the Chevalier incident?
Oppenheimer: Excuse me

Oppenheimer: She was undergoing psychiatric treatment, extremely unhappy, she had to see me
Robb: Why did she have to see you?
Oppenheimer: Because she was still in love with me

Jean; You drop in and out of my life, can’t tell me why, now that’s power
Oppenheimer: I want to be here for you as you feel I need to be
Jean: You have other priorities ?
Oppenheimer: I have a wife and child
Jean: We both know that’s not what we’re talking about

Robb: You spent the night with her didn’t you?
When did you see her again?
Oppenheimer: I never saw her again

Ruth: What makes you think I know where he is?
Oppenheimer: Because you know where Richard is when it counts

Niehls: The British pilots put me in the b*mb bay, they showed me the oxygen but I messed it up, when they opened up in Chicago, I was unconscious but I pretended I was napping
( Laughter)
Is it big enough?
Oppenheimer; To end the w*r?
Niehls: To end all w*r


Niehls: He’s more focused on heavy water
As a moderator?
Niehls: Instead of graphite
Yes!
Oppenheimer: He’s taken a wrong turn

Oppenheimer: Research what you want , hydrogen, we’ll need to discuss
Teller: You don’t have time to meet, you’re a politician Robert, you left physics behind many years ago

Groves: What did Kist mean by atmospheric ignition?
Oppenheimer: There was a chance we could start a chain reaction that keeps going
Groves: Are you saying there’s a chance when we push that button, we could destroy the world ?
Oppenheimer: Chances are near zero
Groves: Near zero?
Oppenheimer: What do you want from theory alone?
Zero would be nice

Oppenheimer: Nothing concludes us to believe that

Fennmann: The glass stops the UV
Teller: What stops the glass?

Teller, Is it rubbed in?

Groves: Robert try not to blow up the world

Oppenheimer: Today I am become death, destroyer of worlds


Oppenheimer: Did Truman brief Stalin on Potsland
Groves: Brief is an understatement
He told Stalin we had a b*mb
That’s it?
Groves: We gave them an ace, it’s up to them to play the hand
Oppenheimer: You’re aiming for the sixth?
Can I come with you to Washington?
Groves: What for?
Oppenheimer: Keep me informed
Groves : Of course

Oppenheimer: I thought they’d call
Kitty: It’s only the fifth
Oppenheimer: In Japan it’s the sixth

Hoover: An American airplane has dropped a b*mb on Japan, more power than 20, 000 tons of TNT , it’s an atomic expl*si*n, destroying its usefulness to the enemy

Charlotte; Colonel Groves on the phone

( on the phone)
Groves : We’re very proud of what you and all those people have done today
Oppenheimer: Everyone here’s feeling reasonably good about it

The Japanese people said some wore striped clothes and the stripes were covered in skin, many who climbed out of the ruins of their homes d*ed days or weeks later

Hoover: What you did in Hiroshima
Oppenheimer: And Nagasaki
Hoover: Well obviously, Your invention brought our boys home
Oppenheimer: Hardly my invention
Hoover: Well it’s you on the cover of Time
Jim tells me you have concerns about an arms race
Oppenheimer: Now is the time to secure international cooperation
Hoover: When are the Russians going to have the b*mb?
Oppenheimer: I couldn’t
Hoover: Never
Oppenheimer: The Russians have great scientists and abundant resources
Hoover: Abundant?

Hoover: What should we do with Los Alamos?
Oppenheimer; Give it back to the Indians
Byrnes: If what you’re saying about the Soviets is true, we need to build up Los Alamos not surrender it
Oppenheimer: I believe I have blood on my hands
Hoover: You think anyone in Hiroshima or Nagasaki gives a sh*t who built the b*mb? They care who dropped it, I did

Garrison: What is the quote to mr Robb is referring and if i might be furbished with a copy?

Garrison: We should get back to first hand information
Robb: This is first hand information

Roy; There’s a recording
You allowed my client to sit here and perjor himself , you had a recording this whole time
No-one told your client to misrepresent his former answers


Garrison: Is this counsel interested in entrapment or in truth? If it’s truth, where’s the discretion?

Oppenheimer; I already said I made up a cock and bull story
My intention was not to reveal the intermediary
Roy: Who was your friend, Chevalier, is he still your friend?
Oppenheimer: Yes

Strauss: Klaus Fachs the British scientist you hired was a spy for the Soviets

Oppenheimer: We dropped a b*mb on an enemy who was essentially defeated
Teller: Is that what you believe? J Robert Oppenheimer sphinx like guru of atomic , who knows what you believe?

Senate Aide: Fought Oppenheimer and the U.S won, that’s what you said
How would you know what the Time was going to print?
Strauss: Henry Lewis is a friend
Senate Aide:,You’ve been sitting here letting me tell you how it’s done when you’ve been far ahead this whole time
Strauss: To survive in Washington you need to know how things are done
Senate Aide: What was it you said? Why get caught holding the Kn*fe? I think Borden was holding the Kn*fe for you


Borden: The material is extensive but there’s nothing new here
Truman than McCarthy
Strauss: Oppenheimer’s too good for that slippery clown, I talked to Truman, he’ll hold McCarthy at bay while you go to the FBI with this

Chairman Magnuson: The Gray board allowed prosecution?
Hill; If I was on the board, I would have pointed out the tactics used by the prosecutor, a man not appointed by the board but by Lewis Strauss
Who is that?
Hill: Roger Robb

Strauss: Why would Hill come down here just to tear me down? What’s his angle?
Senate Aide: Do people need an angle to do the right thing?


Oppenheimer: I was asked the opinion of scientists, I expressed the views for and against

Robb: You would have supported the H b*mb?

Me, me, me, you, you, you
Oppenheimer: If we did it, they did it, our efforts would only fuel their efforts!

When did your moral convictions change in regards to the development of the hydrogen b*mb?
Oppenheimer: When it became clear to me, we intended to use any b*mb we had

Strauss: It it official?
Senate Aide: There were a couple of holdouts
Strauss: Who were the hold outs?
Senate Aide: Three, one, a kid trying to make a name for himself didn’t like how you handled the Oppenheimer incident
Strauss: Who?
Senate Aide: Kennedy, John F Kennedy

His less than candid response in some of his answers, we have denied to renew his security clearance

Oppenheimer; Remember when I came to you with Teller’s calculations
Einstein: Yes, you were worried you might trigger a chain reaction that would destroy the world
Oppenheimer: I believe we did

Kitty: Did you think if you let them tar and feather you, the world would forgive you?