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Oppenheimer Meets President Truman, Explained:blood on my hands

Oppenheimer comes to the White House to talk arms control, but the meeting turns on one confession. He says he feels he has "blood on my hands"; Truman answers that no one in the bombed cities cares who built the weapon, only who dropped it, and tells him Hiroshima is not about him.

あらすじ

At the White House, Oppenheimer is welcomed and praised for helping end the war, though he insists the weapon was hardly his invention. He raises the risk of an arms race and the need for international control of atomic energy. When he says he has "blood on my hands," Truman dismisses it, telling him that people care who dropped the bomb, not who built it.

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blood on my handsGive it back to the Indiansisn't about yougive a shit

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このシーンの表現

blood on my hands

手上沾着血;对某人的死负有责任

在白宫椭圆形办公室,奥本海默对杜鲁门总统说出自己对广岛和长崎死者的负罪感。

I can't pretend I don't have blood on my hands.

このシーンの他の表現

  • Give it back to the Indians

    把它还给印第安人(一句轻率的打发话)

  • isn't about you

    这不是关于你的;别往自己身上揽

  • give a shit

    在乎;当回事(多用于否定或反问,粗俗)

このシーンのメモ一覧

46 行のセリフに 25 件のメモ

表現 · B2the most famous person in the worldHow's it feel to be the most famous man in the world?
表現 · B2save livesYou helped save a lot of American lives.
表現 · B2bring someone homeYour invention let us bring our boys home.
文法 · B2let us bring our boys home

causative

Your invention let us bring our boys home.
発音let us

liaison

Your invention let us bring our boys home.
表現 · C1hardly one's somethingWell, it was hardly my invention.
表現 · B1on the cover of somethingIt was you on the cover of Time.
表現 · B1be concerned about somethingJim tells me you're concerned about an arms race with the Soviets.
表現 · B2now is our chance to do somethingit's that, uh, now is our chance to secure
表現 · C1cooperation on somethinginternational cooperation on atomic energy, and... and I'm concerned...
表現 · B2abundant resourcesMr. President, the-the Russians have good physicists and-and... and abundant resources.
発音abundant resources

stress

Mr. President, the-the Russians have good physicists and-and... and abundant resources.
表現 · C1put everything one has into somethingWell, they'll-they'll put everything they have and...
表現 · B1what to do with somethingWhat should we do with it?
表現 · B1give something back to someoneGive it back to the Indians.
文法 · B2Give it back to the Indians

imperative

Give it back to the Indians.
文法 · C1if what you say about the Soviets is true

conditional

if what you say about the Soviets is true,
表現 · B2build something upwe have to build up Los Alamos,
表現 · B2shut something downnot shut it down.
表現 · C1have blood on one's handsI feel that I have blood on my hands.
スラング · C1gives a shitgives a shit who built the bomb?
表現 · B2it isn't about someoneHiroshima isn't about you.
発音isn't about you

liaison

Hiroshima isn't about you.
表現 · B2let someone back inDon't let that crybaby back in here.
スラング · B2crybabyDon't let that crybaby back in here.

「Oppenheimer Meets President Truman」を読み解く

What's really going on

The Oval Office scene is a collision between two ways of thinking about responsibility. Oppenheimer arrives wanting to talk about the future - arms control, the inevitability of a Soviet bomb - and ends by confessing something personal: "I feel that I have blood on my hands." Truman refuses the frame entirely. For him, the question is not who designed the weapon but who ordered it used, and he tells Oppenheimer that the bombed cities care "who dropped it." Then comes the colder line, "Hiroshima isn't about you," which reduces the physicist to one cog in a machine. The theatre of it is that Truman barely pauses before moving on: he praises the bomb as a lifesaver, dismisses the guilt, and afterward has no patience for the man at all.

Theme

GuiltOppenheimer confesses his conscience, and the president refuses to share or even hear it.
PowerThe scene shows the scientist's moral urgency meeting the state's cold calculus.

発音のポイント

  • let us — liaison
  • abundant resources — stress
  • isn't about you — liaison
I feel that I have blood on my hands.

A confession of personal guilt for the deaths caused by the weapon he helped build.

Your invention let us bring our boys home.

The official framing of the bomb as a life-saving achievement rather than a moral problem.

How's it feel to be the most famous man in the world?

Small talk that treats the bomb as a triumph and a celebrity moment.

Don't let that crybaby back in here.

A cold verdict delivered once Oppenheimer has left, dismissing his guilt as weakness.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Oppenheimer say he has blood on his hands?

He feels personally responsible for the deaths caused by the atomic bomb. It is a moral confession rather than a legal one, and it is the emotional center of the scene.

How does Truman respond?

He rejects the confession. He says no one in the bombed cities cares who built the weapon, only who dropped it, and tells Oppenheimer that Hiroshima is not about him.

What is the meeting supposed to be about?

Arms control: Oppenheimer wants to use the moment to secure international cooperation on atomic energy and to warn about an arms race with the Soviets.

What does Truman say after Oppenheimer leaves?

He tells the room not to let that crybaby back in, showing how little patience he has for the physicist's guilt.

Why is the weapon called not his invention?

Oppenheimer insists it was hardly his invention, even as others credit him, because the bomb was the work of many people and the state that ordered it.

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