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

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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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@chiph2017 · 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 [VIDEO]

@ortusdux2023 · in “The Demon Core (2016)”

I wonder if this event will be in the new Oppenheimer movie. I do like John Cusack's rendition: [VIDEO]

@JoeDaDude2023 · 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: [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]