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Fat Man and Little Boy
directed by Roland Joffe
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This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built.
Cast:
Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia, John Cusack, Laura Dern, Ron Frazier, John C McGinley, Natasha Richardson, Ron Vawter, Michael Brockman, Del Close, John Considine, Allan Corduner, Joe DAngerio, Jon DeVries
Plot Keywords:
Los Alamos, Biographical, Historical, Robert Oppenheimer, Nuclear Weapons, Atomic Bomb, WWII, Radiation Sickness, 1940s, Nuclear Bomb, Nuclear Explosion, Nuclear Physics, Nuclear Science, Nuclear Testing, Scientific Research
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Infinity
directed by Matthew Broderick
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Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.
Cast:
Matthew Broderick, Jeffrey Force, Peter Riegert, David Drew Gallagher, Raffi Di Blasio, Josh Keaton, Patricia Arquette, James Hong, Emerson Tran, Melissa DeLizia, Dori Brenner, John Hammil, Jack Lindine, Helene Moore, Carl Strano
Plot Keywords:
Hospital, Physics, New Mexico, Tuberculosis, Train, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, Barbecue, Directed By Star, Directorial Debut, Historical, Hodgkins Disease, Los Alamos, Manhattan Project
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Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community
by Jon Hunner
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with references to "Los Alamos".
Excerpt - on Page 14: "
... INVENTING LOS ALAMOS Plateau. In 1746, the Spanish crown bequeathed a land grant to a family of Hispanic settlers that gave them ownership ... "
Key Phrases:
Los Alamos, New Mexico, Manhattan Project, United States, Cold War, Western Area, security revocation, civil defense strategies, atomic utopia, day the sun rose twice, test evacuation, nuclear enterprises
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See all pages
with references to "Los Alamos".
Excerpt - on Page 1: "
... -Horkheimer and Adorno, The Dialectic of Enlightenment The nuclear age began in earnest in New Mexico.' Los Alamos scientists created much more than simply a new technology with the invention of a military atomic device in 1945; ... "
Key Phrases:
Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States, Manhattan Project, Rio Grande, Pajarito Plateau, San Ildefonso, World War, Santa Clara, Soviet Union, New Mexican, Joseph Masco
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