3.6M views · Mar 3, 2012 · 2:41 · 0 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2017–2023
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.
Why Hacker News points people here: Linked in threads about the demon core and criticality accidents as a dramatic recreation.
“Recreation of the criticality event in 1945 from the movie Fat Man and Little Boy , with John Cusack”
Film dramatization of the 1945 criticality accident
Recreation of the criticality event in 1945 from the movie Fat Man and Little Boy , with John Cusack this video
“I do like John Cusack's rendition”
Cusack's dramatization of the accident
I wonder if this event will be in the new Oppenheimer movie. I do like John Cusack's rendition: this video
“A dramatization of the accident was part of the film Fat Man and Little Boy, clip below”
Film dramatization of the fatal accident
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
