Fat Man and Little Boy (6/9) Movie CLIP - I'm Dead (1989) HD
Why Hacker News recommends it
Linked in threads about the demon core and criticality accidents as a dramatic recreation.
What it is
A Movieclips excerpt from the 1989 film Fat Man and Little Boy in which John Cusack's character assembles a bomb core and a criticality accident occurs. It is a film dramatization of a real Manhattan Project accident.
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What Hacker News said
Cites chiph · 2017-09 · on “‘Criticality safety event’ occurred at LANL’s plutonium facility”
Recreation of the criticality event in 1945 from the movie Fat Man and Little Boy , with John Cusack [this video]
Cites ortusdux · 2023-05 · on “The Demon Core (2016)”
I wonder if this event will be in the new Oppenheimer movie. I do like John Cusack's rendition: [this video]
Cites JoeDaDude · 2023-07 · on “The Blue Flash: A careless slip led to a fatal accident in the Manhattan Project”
A dramatization of the accident was part of the film Fat Man and Little Boy, clip below: [this video] A little more factual dramatization was presented in the TV show Dark Matters titled "Risky Radiation" but I am unable to locate a video clip atm. [LINK]