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He was kind of a hollow man after that. charles oppenheimer: what we say inside the family is it hurt his feelings. he didn't like it, but he didn't talk about it. he never made one statement about it publicly. he never asked for an apology, and he retreated back into where he came from. bird: he still kept his job at princeton, but he wasn't doing any more physics. these were kind of sad years. murrow: and professor einstein is still here, too, isn't he? oh, yeah. indeed he is. uh, indeed he is. uh... does he ever call you up on the telephone? hmm, sometimes. i think he... he calls me, uh, wh...

He was kind of a hollow man after that. charles oppenheimer: what we say inside the family is it hurt his feelings. he didn't like it, but he didn't talk about it. he never made one statement about it publicly. he never asked for an apology, and he retreated back into where he came from. bird: he still kept his job at princeton, but he wasn't doing any more physics. these were kind of sad years. murrow: and professor einstein is still here, too, isn't he? oh, yeah. indeed he is. uh, indeed he is. uh... does he ever call you up on the telephone? hmm, sometimes. i think he... he calls me, uh, wh...

He felt he couldn't give up his security clearance. he couldn't agree with them that he wasn't fit to serve his government. else: he should have told them to get lost. he should have said, "i am the atomic bomb. "i won world war ii. fuck off." for whatever reason, he didn't tell them to get lost he decided to fight it. bird: and before he goes down to washington, he meets with einstein to tell him he's gonna be absent for a few weeks, and einstein's reaction is quite startling. albert says, "but, robert, you are mr. atomic. "you don't need them. they need you. just walk away. why should you go...

He felt he couldn't give up his security clearance. he couldn't agree with them that he wasn't fit to serve his government. else: he should have told them to get lost. he should have said, "i am the atomic bomb. "i won world war ii. fuck off." for whatever reason, he didn't tell them to get lost he decided to fight it. bird: and before he goes down to washington, he meets with einstein to tell him he's gonna be absent for a few weeks, and einstein's reaction is quite startling. albert says, "but, robert, you are mr. atomic. "you don't need them. they need you. just walk away. why should you go...

Bird: he decides he doesn't want to work any longer on building more bombs. he resigns from los alamos, and he accepts a position as director of the institute fo advanced studies in princeton, where he becomes einstein's boss, so to speak. he's probably the most famous scientist in america, and he's trying to use that celebrity status to have influence. he gets an appointment with harry truman in the oval office oppenheimer's agenda is to persuade harry truman of the importance of controlling this technology. and he starts to make this pitch. and truman interrupts him with a question, saying, ...