5 Cold War Mistakes That Nearly Killed Us All
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Cold War
Nuclear
World History
Try reading this if you haven't it was recounted in the day one film....
During the final weeks of World War II in Europe, as Allied armies swept across a chaotic, battle-torn Germany, two teams of the world's leading nuclear scientists were desperately at work. One team, sequestered in the New Mexican desert, hastened to assemble the atomic bombs that would shake the world later that summer. The other team, a group of Nazi-sponsored physicists and technicians in southern Germany, struggled to do something that,...
This was tue really good flick, with Brian denehy, who did an awesome portrayal of mgen groves, he either got an award, or was nominated, I think, maybe an Emmy perhaps, I can't recall...help also looked exactly like him, which obv helped, as well, of course....
Day One (1989 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Day One is a made-for-TV documentary-drama movie about The Manhattan Project, the research and development of the atomic bomb during World War II. It is based on the book by Peter Wyden. The movie was written by David W. Rintels and directed by Joseph Sargent. It starred Brian Dennehy as General Leslie Groves, David Strathairn as Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer and Michael Tucker as Dr. Leo Szilard. It premiered in the United States on March 5, 1989...
I'd heard about this a long time ago, it was in that otherwise awful film fat man and little boy, where Paul Newman was terrible as mgen Leslie r groves, the part where, if you'll recall, was done by john Cusack, I'd sent this on a cpl wks ago or so, though it seemed relevant here, also....
Louis Slotin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louis Alexander Slotin (1 December 1910– 30 May 1946) was a Canadian physicist and chemist who worked on the Manhattan Project. During World War II, Slotin conducted research at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He performed experiments with uranium and plutonium cores to determine their critical mass values. On 21 May 1946, Slotin was conducting a demonstration when he accidentally initiated a fission reaction, which released a burst of hard...
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