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Oppenheimer · 2023 — 第 12 / 28 章 · 1'59" · C1

Teller Pitches the H-Bomb, Explained：the business at hand

A room full of physicists is being walked through fission when one of them admits to being bored and pitches something bigger: a fusion bomb. Use hydrogen, crush the atoms under enormous pressure, and the yield jumps from kilotons to megatons. "We all entered this room knowing a fission bomb was possible," he says, before offering the new idea.

あらすじ

In a meeting at Los Alamos, the group is walked through how a fission bomb would work when Teller interrupts. He proposes using hydrogen instead of uranium or plutonium, crushing the atoms under great pressure to start a fusion reaction that would yield megatons, not kilotons. When asked how to generate the force, he answers: a small fission bomb.

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the business at handin terms ofhang oninduce a reaction

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このシーンの表現

the business at hand

手头正要做的事；当前的正事

泰勒在会上谈起氢弹构想，奥本海默打断他，提醒大家回到当前最要紧的工作上。

Let's set the long-term plans aside and deal with the business at hand.

このシーンの他の表現

  • in terms of

    以……为单位；从……方面来说；用……来衡量

  • hang on

    等等；先别急

  • induce a reaction

    引发、诱发（某种）反应

このシーンのメモ一覧

32 行のセリフに 19 件のメモ

表現 · B2man-madeThe biggest man-made explosion in history.
発音man-made

elision

The biggest man-made explosion in history.
文法 · B2if it were a nuclear

subjunctive

Now let's calculate how much more destructive it would have been if it were a nuclear
表現 · B2in terms of somethingExpressing power in terms of tons of TNT.
文法 · C1Oak Ridge refined

reduced relative clause

Here's the amount of uranium Oak Ridge refined all of last month.
表現 · A2a way to do somethingNow, if we can enrich these amounts, we need a way to detonate them.
表現 · B2are we boring youAre we boring you, Edward?
表現 · A2a little bitA little bit, yes.
表現 · B1may I ask whyMay I ask why?
表現 · B1be possibleWe all entered this room knowing a fission bomb was possible.
表現 · B2leave it with somethingHow 'bout we leave it with something new?
表現 · B1instead of somethingInstead of uranium or plutonium, we use hydrogen.
発音Instead of

liaison

Instead of uranium or plutonium, we use hydrogen.
表現 · B1under pressureWe compact the atoms together under great pressure to induce a fusion reaction.
文法 · B2to induce a fusion reaction

infinitive of purpose

We compact the atoms together under great pressure to induce a fusion reaction.
文法 · B2not kilotons

not but

Then we'll get not kilotons,
表現 · B1there we areThere we are.
発音There we are

liaison

There we are.
表現 · C1the business at handWell, since we're going to need one anyway, can we get back to the business at hand?

「Teller Pitches the H-Bomb」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene is about who gets to change the subject. A lecture is ticking along, explaining yield in terms of tons of TNT, and then boredom becomes a proposal: forget fission, use fusion. Teller's pitch is elegant and terrifying precisely because it is simple - a small fission bomb becomes the trigger for something far larger, and the scale jumps from kilotons to megatons. "We all entered this room knowing a fission bomb was possible," he says, which frames his idea as the natural next thought rather than a leap. The scene also quietly dramatizes how these scientists talk past the moral weight of what they are building; the meeting ends by returning to "the business at hand," as if nothing had changed. It has.

Theme

AmbitionA bored scientist turns a lecture into a pitch for a weapon far more powerful than the one on the table.
PowerThe scene reduces an apocalyptic weapon to a simple idea: pressure, fusion, megatons.

発音のポイント

  • man-made — elision
  • Instead of — liaison
  • There we are — liaison
The biggest man-made explosion in history.

A reference point used to impress the scale of the coming weapon on the room.

We all entered this room knowing a fission bomb was possible.

A framing that presents fusion as the obvious next step rather than a new idea.

We compact the atoms together under great pressure to induce a fusion reaction.

The plain-words explanation of how a hydrogen bomb would actually work.

Well, since we're going to need one anyway, can we get back to the business at hand?

A dry attempt to close the tangent and return to the meeting's original agenda.

このシーンについての質問

What is Teller proposing?

Instead of a fission bomb using uranium or plutonium, he proposes using hydrogen and crushing the atoms under great pressure to start a fusion reaction, which would produce megatons instead of kilotons.

Why is Teller bored?

The lecture is explaining a fission bomb he already assumes is possible. He wants the room to leave with something new, and his boredom is what drives the scene forward.

How is the fusion reaction supposed to be triggered?

By a small fission bomb. When someone asks how to generate enough force to fuse hydrogen atoms, that is his answer.

Why does the scene return to the business at hand?

Because even the new proposal depends on building a fission bomb anyway, so one of the scientists suggests going back to the original agenda.

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