This sounds fascinating in a train wreck kind of way, but doesn’t appear to be streaming anywhere -- not even for rent. My local library has two copies of Mitchell’s book, though, which seems like it will be more edifying.
The scene where Cochren receives a fatal radiation dose is based on actual incidents during the Manhattan project. Physicists Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin were each exposed to fatal radiation during experiments with a just-barely-subcritical plutonium core (look up the "Demon Core" for details).
This sounds fascinating in a train wreck kind of way, but doesn’t appear to be streaming anywhere -- not even for rent. My local library has two copies of Mitchell’s book, though, which seems like it will be more edifying.
I watched a YouTube rip. (Apologies to all.) It's also on DVD, through Warner Archive.
It shows up on Turner Classic Movies every now and again.
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The scene where Cochren receives a fatal radiation dose is based on actual incidents during the Manhattan project. Physicists Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin were each exposed to fatal radiation during experiments with a just-barely-subcritical plutonium core (look up the "Demon Core" for details).
I expect that’s also the basis for the accident involving John Cusack’s character in Fat Man and Little Boy.