:05:02
Michael, that's what we call
tickling the dragon's tail.
:05:07
So a slug of uranium
about two by six inches
:05:10
will be pulled by this weight.
:05:13
It begins here, then accelerates
at 32 feet per second per second.
:05:17
It passes between uranium bricks.
We have an instant of criticality.
:05:21
For a split second,
we have a chain reaction.
:05:25
As close as we come
to an atomic explosion in the lab.
:05:28
- Without blowing up.
- Exactly.
:05:30
It's essential to determine the amount
of material the device needs.
:05:34
Ten years ago I could
hardly imagine the stuff.
:05:37
Ten years.
:05:39
Each molecule collected
out of the air, one by one.
:05:45
Hello?
:05:49
What?
:06:00
I have the rare privilege
of speaking for a victorious army
:06:03
of almost five million fighting men.
:06:06
They and the women
who have so ably assisted them
:06:09
constitute the Allied
Expeditionary Force
:06:11
that has liberated Western Europe.
:06:14
They have destroyed
or captured enemy armies
:06:16
totaling more than their own strength
:06:19
and swept triumphantly forward
over the hundreds of miles
:06:22
separating Cherbourg from Lübeck,
:06:24
Leipzig and Munich.
:06:26
These startling successes
have not been bought
:06:28
without sorrow and suffering.
:06:30
In this theater alone,
80,000 Americans
:06:33
and comparable numbers
among the allies
:06:35
have had their lives cut short
:06:37
so that the rest of us might live
in the sunlight of freedom.
:06:52
- Yeah!
- Oh, yeah!
:06:54
What are we gonna do
when this is over?
:06:57
I don't know.
Probably start another one.
:06:59
That's what I love about this job.
A guaranteed future. I'm not wrong.