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The Manhattan Project
1986 · Film · 118 min
Directed by Marshall Brickman
A gifted high school student steals plutonium from the secret nuclear weapons facility in his home town in order to construct his own nuclear bomb, win a national science fair, and expose the government's secrets.
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Might consider checking Tom Clancy's sources from The Sum of All Fears (which centers on a terrorist plot to detonate a nuclear device)
Also a fun 80s movie called The Manhattan Project (John Lithgow was in it)
Or the late-90s movie The Peacemaker (starring Clooney & Kidman)
I'm not a nuclear scientist. I haven;'even played on on TV, but your story could be pretty fun :)
Isn't getting the timing right just "zap all the bits at the same time" ?
Are these still basically a soccer ball of explosives encircling a core of subcritical nuclear material that "just" needs to be compressed?
I think all of my knowledge of nukes might be based on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manhattan_Project_(film) xD
Came here to mention The Manhattan Project, too (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091472/). I liked Matthew Broderick in later movies, but WarGames and The Manhattan Project are the roles I remember him best in.
Did anyone else have a flashback to the movie The Manhattan Project just now?