Reed Akley: “(I met him once,) Werner Heisenberg. He’s the world’s most brilliant scientific mind and he’s running Hitler’s bomb project. Never forget, that is the man you’re competing with.”
Frank Winter: “We’re building a weapon unlike any weapon the world ever seen…It releases the power of an ancient star. If it works, and it’s going to work, it’ll be more destructive than all the bombs dropped in all the wars in history put together. It’ll bring armies to their knees cities will disappear in the blink of an eye. The world will be united in peace by the most noble and just country in the history of mankind. Or it will burn to the ground. Whoever builds it first, that’s the end game. So it has to be us.”