:47:02
Set that over there.
:47:07
Look at it, Oppie, it's twisted.
It's got to be flat.
:47:10
I think implosion's nothing but a pipe
dream. I'm sorry I thought of it.
:47:15
I can't do it.
:47:17
Oppie, some way I have to focus...
I have to focus the shock waves.
:47:21
Look at me!
God, I'm running out of ideas.
:47:23
That's an excuse for not thinking.
If you can't, I'll find somebody else.
:47:27
Oppie? Serber needs
you back at the lab right now.
:47:31
- Oppie?
- You said it yourself.
:47:33
Focus. Somebody's working on a way
to focus an explosive shock wave.
:47:37
- I'm gonna find him. Keep working.
- Jesus!
:47:45
You know, if Oppie doesn't let up,
he's going to implode.
:48:02
Inside. Inside.
:48:08
Good news is the new plutonium
makes lots of neutrons.
:48:12
But the bad news is the spontaneous
fission rate is way too high.
:48:16
The reaction will run away with itself.
There will just be a fizzle.
:48:19
- No explosion.
- You're certain of that, Edward?
:48:23
- Who did the calculations?
- Serber.
:48:25
- Himself?
- Serber, personally.
:48:28
So now plutonium is a problem. That
shifts the emphasis back to U-235.
:48:32
Of course, Oak Ridge is not able
to produce that in sufficient quantity.
:48:37
We must go with implosion, but
Neddermeyer has just announced to me
:48:40
that he and implosion
have just reached a brick wall.
:48:47
We can't fall behind.
:48:50
Are you all right, Oppie?
:48:53
You have a deadline to meet.
:48:56
Banked almost a billion dollars on you
guys. That's not working on the cheap.