"Groves Recruits Oppenheimer! 🔥 Tense Manhattan Project Scene

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]I built the Pentagon. The brass likes it so much they made me take over the Manhattan Engineer District, which is be a smartass. Know damn well what it is.

[00:00:09]You and half of every physics department across the country. That's problem number one.

[00:00:13]>> I thought problem number one would be securing enough uranium ore. 1,200 tons bought the day I took charge. Now I'm looking for a project director.

[00:00:20]>> And my name came up.

[00:00:22]>> Nope.

[00:00:22]>> Even though you brought quantum physics to America, which made me curious.

[00:00:26]>> What have you found out?

[00:00:28]>> You're a dilotant. A womanizer, a suspected communist.

[00:00:31]>> I'm a New Deal Democrat.

[00:00:33]>> I said suspected, unstable, theatrical.

[00:00:37]>> Nothing good. No, not even. He's brilliant. But >> well, brilliance is taken for granted in your circle, so no.

[00:00:42]>> Here you are. You don't take much on trust.

[00:00:45]>> I don't take anything on trust.

[00:00:47]>> Why don't you have a Nobel Prize? Why aren't you a general? They're making me one for this.

[00:00:51]>> Perhaps I'll have the same luck. A >> Nobel Prize for making a bomb. Alfred Nobel invented dynamite.