Oppenheimer/Trailer transcripts

== Opening Look ==
Lewis Strauss: Thanks for convening on short notice. I can't believe it... but here we are.
J. Robert Oppenheimer: This atomic test...
Strauss: The Russians have a bomb. We're supposed to be years ahead of them, but there it is. What were you guys doing in Los Alamos?
Strauss: And how many people were in these, uh... "Open discussions"?
Kenneth Nichols: Too many; compartmentalization was supposed to be the protocol.
Oppenheimer: We were in a race against the Nazis.
Strauss: So now the race is against the Soviets.
Oppenheimer: Not unless we start it.
Strauss: Robert. They just fired a starting gun.
Strauss: What's the nature of the device they detonated?
Oppenheimer: Data indicates it may have been a plutonium implosion device.
Strauss: Like the one you built at Los Alamos.
Oppenheimer: A secret laboratory, in the middle of nowhere... Keep everyone there until it's done.
Leslie Groves: Why?
Oppenheimer: If we don't let scientists bring their families, we'll never get the best.
Groves: Build 'em a town.
Robert Serber: Why would I leave my family?
Oppenheimer: I told you, you can bring your family.
Kenneth Bainbridge: I'm not a soldier, Oppy!
Oppenheimer: A soldier? He's a general, I've got all the soldier I need.
Oppenheimer: What can I tell them?
Groves: As much as you like, 'til you feel my boot on your balls.
Oppenheimer: You know isotopes, and you know explosives.
But you can't tell us what you're doing.
Serber: Why would we go to the middle of nowhere for who knows how long?
Oppenheimer: For a year, or two, or three.
Oppenheimer: It's about unleashing a strong force before the Nazis do.
Bainbridge: Oh, my God...
Groves: How about because this is the most important thing to ever happen in the history of the world?!
Hear you got a little town.
Everybody will go crazy.
They won't let me leave!
Oppenheimer: I won't let you leave.
Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer: It's happening, isn't it?
Oppenheimer: I don't know if we can be trusted with such a weapon. But I know the Nazis can't.
You can convince anyone of anything, even yourself.
Oppenheimer: Hitler's dead, but the Japanese fight on.
Nobody knows what you believe. Do you?
Strauss: There were rumors of espionage...
Oppenheimer: Unsubstantiated.
Strauss: ...at Los Alamos.
Oppenheimer: There's no proof there was a spy at Los Alamos.
Roger Robb: You thought your judgement was sound about who on the team could be trusted.
Oppenheimer: No one is leaving Los Alamos.
What are you doing?!
Oppenheimer: Well, we had a moment where it looked like the chain reaction from an atomic device might never stop.
Groves: Are we saying there's a chance that, when we push that button, we destroy the world?
Oppenheimer: The chances are near zero.
Groves: Near zero?
Oppenheimer: What do you want from theory alone?
Groves: Zero, would be nice!
Would the Japanese surrender if they knew what was coming?
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