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Fat Man and Little Boy

Movie (1989)

This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built.

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Released:	Oct 20th, 1989
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Fat Man and Little Boy Main Cast

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Paul Newman
plays Gen. Leslie R. Groves

Dwight Schultz
plays J. Robert Oppenheimer

Bonnie Bedelia
plays Kitty Oppenheimer

John Cusack
plays Michael Merriman

Laura Dern
plays Kathleen Robinson

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Movie Trivia/Goofs

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Movie Goof (factual errors): The experiment that Michael Merriman is performing, with the two hemispheres of beryllium surrounding a core of plutonium and held apart with a screwdriver, is what was called "tickling the dragon's tail". The movie mistakenly assigns that nickname to the "drop" experiment that Merriman did a bit earlier in the movie.
Movie Goof (continuity error): At the beginning of the movie, when General Groves is slicing the Pentagon cake, there are no flags on it. But in the next scene when his aide is walking with him down the hallway, there is an obvious miniature flag on the piece the aide is carrying.
Movie Goof (factual errors): It was actually Neddermayer who proposed the implosion theory.
SPOILER: The incident with the plutonium hemispheres is based on two real life accidents that killed physicists Harry K. Daghlian and Louis Slotin in September 1945 and May 1946 respectively. Slotin had participated in the team that assembled the Trinity device.

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