Murphy and the Nazis

"I was running on crazy energy. I went over a threshold to where I was not worrying about food or anything," he says. Oppenheimer subsisted on little more than Chesterfield cigarettes and double-strength martinis, rims dipped in lime. Murphy didn't want to do an impression of the scientist so spent a long time working on hair. The real question for Murphy was what combination, ambition, madness, delusion, depatriate of the Nazi regime, allowed this theoretical physicist to agree to an experiment he knew could obliterate humankind.