Fat Man and Little Boy Page #2

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And as I leave here

to unravel my own small destiny,

I congratulate each of you

on being the best of the best.

I have faith in you all.

God keep you, and may your lives

be rich and sweet.

- Thank you.

- We'll miss you, Oppie!

We'll miss you, Oppie!

Good luck, Oppie!

Hurry up!

Move it, move it!

Let's move that thing out back.

Sir!

- Good afternoon, sir.

- Give me the good news, Jack.

We've got utilities on

throughout camp.

We've got the sewage problem taken

care of. We have water throughout.

- Got the two science buildings...

- Not good enough.

We gotta be

a couple of weeks behind.

You know, I got a bunch

of scientists up there.

They're just wandering,

bumping into each other.

Get some bodies in here. In a week,

I wanna be two weeks ahead.

I don't think we have

accommodations, sir.

Why would they want

accommodations?

You think they'll sleep?

All right, get some tents,

but put it on your EOR.

Didn't I ask for dogs

around that perimeter fence?

- Yes, sir.

- I don't see any.

They're coming, general.

So...

...whatever goes on around here

is privileged information.

No exceptions. No wives, no barbers.

No exceptions!

What you see,

what you hear, what you read,

what you dream about,

whatever...

...gives you heartburn or feeds your

ulcers, whatever gives you the sweats,

keeps you up at night, whatever,

all of that...

...belongs to the United States Army.

Or to me, if that makes you feel

more comfortable.

Now, you gotta come down

out of the clouds, gentlemen,

and get into the business

of winning a war.

I'm gonna say it once.

I'm only gonna say it once.

Those of you who know, know.

Those of you who don't, don't.

You are not here to be comfortable.

All right?

You are here

to go beyond the theoretical,

the speculative, the fanciful.

You are here to harness

your God-given talents,

your minds, your energy,

in the practical pursuit of one thing:

A military weapon.

Nuclear one.

An atomic bomb.

Keep the muttering

to just a minimum, gentlemen.

Why bother with a bomb?

Why not just drop that man on Berlin?

- When you talk about it...

- It will have the same effect.

...it will be referred to as ''the gadget''

or ''the device''.

Is that clear?

There is one word

that I don't wanna hear.

And that's the word ''impossible''.

- You're two days late.

- I went to 109 East Palace Street

to report to Mrs. McKibben,

but there was nobody there.

So I hopped a construction bus, and it

damn near drove me back to Chicago.

I've been sitting on trains, buses,

railway stations for 60 hours.

I asked about this place in Santa Fe,

and they said it didn't exist.

It doesn't.

So where does a fellow

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