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reviews.imdb.com - : This is yet another telling of the story of the development of the atomic bomb. I have been informed by a knowledgeable person (L. Badash) that the total count of such films is between 4-6. This story is well documented by many historians: Hersey, Jungk, most recently, Rhoades, and dozens of other authors. more...
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deseretnews.com - : One problem with ''Fat Man and Little Boy'' is that it's redundant. The same story was told in the TV-movie ''Day One'' earlier this year and J. Robert Oppenheimer was the subject of a PBS special a couple of years ago. more...
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : During the dark war days of 1942, the U.S. government gathered a group of the most brilliant scientists in the nation and sent them to live in the dust and mud of Los Alamos, N.M., where the Army had hammered together a town for them overnight. Their mission on this top-secret base was to design and build an atomic bomb. They made an odd assembly, the intellectuals from Berkeley and Chicago, the refugees from Hitler, the tinkerers and craftsmen who were to physically construct the bomb, and all of their wives, children, lovers, pets, libraries, pianos and eccentricities. To weld them together, the Army assigned Gen. Leslie R. Groves, whose previous task had been to build the Pentagon. more...
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