Season 1 of Manhattan was the single best season of network television ever aired. Too bad it didn't find a larger audience. Sam Shaw & company were GENIUS here.
Oops Jemez mountains. The bomb was tested in the desert south of Albuquerque. The lab in Los Alamos still does tons of scientific research in all areas, chemistry ( proton and neutron excellerator, medical, human genome, plants that eat radiation, on and on. The military areas are now under top security since 9/11. They created a instrument that looks like a phone in a briefcase. By touching a missile they can tell immediately if it's normal, chemical or biological. Sad am would not let them use it back then. It was used on a NCIS LA Episode...but I'm sure it's in use.
Sigh, this is where my inner nerd nitpicks 1:44 how does he know just by looking at the equation what it is? Stephen Hawking would need time to processes it and he does complex equations in his head all the time, not to mention they're still variables a bunch of blank slots. Hell how does he even know what a nuke is? It's like knowing what a car is before you're helping invent the first one. Are there real scientist portrayed in the show? Richard Feynman or Albert Einstein for example. I know it's a drama, it's main focus is on the characters and their interactions but like I said, nitpicks.
Well, yes he would need time to process it, but he is said to be one of the smartest of his time, and the theory which would have been more publicly available, could have been known to him, so he could see that the energy source was atoms splitting, and that itself was enough to make the majority of the equation obvious in intent.
Thanks. Sure, the guy was smart not just for his time, he was smart ahead of his time. The shows are always meant to be entertaining. If not - producers lose money. In reality, those smart people usually have very boring lives from regular people perspective.
I hardly find Einstein's life boring, have you ever read about it? He was dreadfully human, cheated on his wife, and even told her before their marriage "Expect neither intimacy nor fidelity." It's just that he's idolized beyond humanity, to the extent that people can no longer form human relation's with the character's they're told they are, when in reality, they can be related to, or at least interesting to see.
Well, Einstein was a Jew. Do you know that cheating in Jew culture traditionally was acceptable. A.E. needed to kill that boredom by doing something out of his scope. It does not matter how passionate and crazy a person is about his work, he still needs some sort of variety in life. It is easy for us to say that A.E. had "interesting life". Einstein loved his paycheck and he knew he had a gift. Many men look for an affair b/c they have enormous stress at work that deals with heavy responsibility. I am a woman - no excuse for those men, but the truth is men still exercise outside affairs b/c it is a short cut for stress relief and wives in most cases do not take a role of a therapist. The wives want to be loved. Men also want to be loved but they do not want to deal with the aftermath consequences. Sorry, life.
