A-bomb history

[Fritz]

been watching an older show called Manhattan which is about ...
The Manhattan Project aka the American development of the Atomic "gadget".
With some writers embellishment. Just finished the 1st season. It's pretty good. But what do I know.

I did not know that project name was because its' first offices were actually in Manhattan, at 270 Broadway.
Over its' lifetime, it employed 600000 people.
The site was so secret that one mailbox, PO Box 1663, served as the mailing address for the entire town in NM.

https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/m...an-project

Cost around $2B in 1945 $.
https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2013/11/...n-project/

Had over 20 sites around the US and Canada & the mother country.
Probably no more than a few dozen men in the entire country knew the full meaning of the Manhattan Project, and perhaps only a thousand others even were aware that work on atoms was involved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project

the project to end WWII and all wars forever.

..... can't be right all the time.

[Racer X]

The nuclear material came from the Hanford works outside Richand, WA. My partner's dad did a bunch of demolition work for them in the '70s, and I have a cousin who works there in HR. The whole Tri-Cities are got its real start from Hanford. Mom lived in Richland in a former government ranch house. Can't remember the model letter, but there weren't that many of them. My aunt and another cousin live in former government homes there as well.

I have a bunch of the moderating "smoked" marbles floating around the house too. The radiation turned the clear glass root beer/gray colored.

They still barge reactor cores up the Columbia River past the Tri Cities for burial at Hanford. The ultimate superfund site.

[hal]

us this what you're talking about? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3231564

looks good - don't know how I missed it

[pqrst]

I’ve visited Los Alamos NM and the great Bradbury Museum about the development of the bomb. And three years ago, I went to visit the Trinity test site. They open it twice a year to the public. It is on an active Army base. Took that one off my bucket list. The Very large array (VLA) is sort in the area so I saw that too!

[Buzz]

I was hoping for another season before it was cancelled.
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[Racer X]

pqrst wrote:
I’ve visited Los Alamos NM and the great Bradbury Museum about the development of the bomb. And three years ago, I went to visit the Trinity test site. They open it twice a year to the public. It is on an active Army base. Took that one off my bucket list. The Very large array (VLA) is sort in the area so I saw that too!

Oh, I forgot. My partner's older brother was on a crew doing demo work and clean-up at Trinity. He absolutely REFUSED to try and bring back some of the fused sand. He said everyone was searched when they left every shift. He absolutely HATED working his plasma cutting gear while wearing the nuclear haz-mat suit. He'd go through gallons of water every day.

Do you need to sign up for a spot when Trinity opens up on those 2 days?

[Ombligo]

The $2B spent on the Manhatten project was the second most expensive program as the development of the B-29 bomber ran close to $3B. In a close third, the Norden bombsight cost $1.5B. Those are all 1945 dollars, today that would be $31B (Manhatten) , $47B (B29) and $24B (Norden) or $101B total - the cost of a single B1 bomber (half the projected cost of the B21 or ten F35 fighters.

All three were instrumental in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

[Fritz]

y, hal, that's the one. pretty good thru the 1st season.
sounds like it is incomplete from Buzzs' post.
yet another goes incomplete.
Darn the Luck ! ! !

Rachel Brosnahan is the "lead", but it's very much an ensemble cast.
Olivia Williams, who was a bigger part in Counterparts, is very good.
Some of the others are a little weak.
But the story, production etc are very strong and make up for the weaknesses.

[pdq]

Just curious - does it have a Richard Feynman character in it?

[Fritz]

not that I'd recognize. Perhaps an amalgamation thereof.
The only t2l cast are Oppie, Stimson, and I think an Army General.
But then, I don't know much of the history or where Feynman fits in.