Fat Man and Little Boy Page #3

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get some chow around here, huh?

- We already ate.

- Oh, great.

Oh, if you wanna take a shower,

I'd take one now.

They turn off the water at 2:00.

Keep those two men back there.

We still gotta run the power through.

Yeah, you two men there!

Higher! A little more.

All right, that'll do it.

Open this door, now!

Sorry. I couldn't get in.

Give it a month, you'll do that

because you can't get out.

- You Merriman?

- Yeah.

Richard Schoenfield.

I'm the doctor around here.

You're just what I'm looking for

in a roommate, a little brute strength.

Holy sh*t!

- What in God's name is this?

- It looks like a fridge.

Oh, yeah, it does.

It looks stuck.

I guess you arrived just in time then.

Thank God you're here.

Which end would you like?

Are you ready?

- You want me to get it myself?

- Lift.

Oppie's boys.

No problem left unsolved.

Gentlemen, this project

has been separated into three areas.

The physics.

How much material do we need?

Should it be plutonium

or uranium 235?

Second, manufacture of material,

but that's out of our hands.

That's Oak Ridge, Tennessee

and Hanford. And third,

our responsibility,

and this is a cinch...

Yeah, sure.

...build the device, test it,

and just hope that we can control it.

Gentlemen, we are here...

...at the beginning.

Our objective is here.

We have a deadline of 19 months.

It seems such a short time.

with our anticipated delivery date

from Oak Ridge. Gentlemen,

we have 19 months, that's it...

...to box, wrap

and deliver this package.

Are there any dissenters?

No?

Good.

Nineteen months

and starting from scratch, Jesus.

Still, Oppie's got the best theoreticians

and engineers in the world.

Some of these guys are legends and

so young. The place is a hothouse.

Doc, he seems like

he's gonna be a good man.

Reckons we'll be working with funny

stuff. He's gonna be looking out for us.

He's got a whole wing of the hospital

that looks like Noah's Ark.

I think of Jimmy fighting in the

Philippines, and I can't complain.

I love you, but I gotta go.

General wants a progress report.

When Groves wants something,

he wants it now.

Again.

We build a cannon, and at the end

weld a stopper

made from a subcritical mass.

We fabricate a shell

made from another subcritical mass

and fire it down the barrel.

- How much of both materials?

- Projecting 30 pounds.

as the moon.

We're trying to tap the energy

that fuels the universe.

It's petrifying. All we've got

so far are problems,

and that doesn't include the ones

we haven't thought about.

Shake down the bad news.

I'm getting used to it.

At the moment, there are

two problems. Pre-detonation.

The gadget disintegrates

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