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    Fat Man and Little Boy (6/9) Movie CLIP - I'm Dead (1989) HD

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    3 HN mentions · mentioned in 3 months, 2017–2023

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    2:41 · 3.6M views · Mar 3, 2012

    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.

    Linked in threads about the demon core and criticality accidents as a dramatic recreation.

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    3 comments from Hacker News

    1. @JoeDaDudeJul 2023· in “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]

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    2. @chiphSep 2017· in “‘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

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    3. @ortusduxMay 2023· in “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

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