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Oppenheimer movie

Nope not seen it yet, not a theater type guy
never really have been, too many rude people, talking or on cell phone etc.

I'm waiting a couple months it'll be on cable Xfinity

thanks for the review @gooser
 
Cillian Murphy was awesome in the Peaky Blinders
Great show!
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I hope General Leslie Groves gets a positive mention in the movie. There would have been no A bomb without him.
Probably not mentioned in the movie......to separate the heavy Uranium 238 from 235 in the gaseous diffusion process, Nickel was found to be the only metal that withstood the corrosive Uranium Hexafluoride gas. Problem was, more nickel was needed than was available in the free world at that time.

Chrys engineers had recently invented Nickel plating, they were consulted & ordinary steel was Nickel plated to solve the problem.
 
Geoff 2 said:
I hope General Leslie Groves gets a positive mention in the movie. There would have been no A bomb without him.
Probably not mentioned in the movie......to separate the heavy Uranium 238 from 235 in the gaseous diffusion process, Nickel was found to be the only metal that withstood the corrosive Uranium Hexafluoride gas. Problem was, more nickel was needed than was available in the free world at that time.

Chrys engineers had recently invented Nickel plating, they were consulted & ordinary steel was Nickel plated to solve the problem.
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It's true that Chrysler engineers suggested nickel plating as a way to stretch the material. But they didn't invent the process as it had been around since before 1850, well before Walter Chrysler himself was even born.
 
Many guns were nickel plated in the mid/late 1800s continuing right up to today.
 
Posts 7 & 8.

There are different methods of Nickel Plating. Not all were invented in the 1850s.
For the Manhattan Project, Chrys Nickel plated the steel tubes in the gaseous diffusion plant, which solved the problem of insufficient solid Nickel.

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Geoff 2 said:
Posts 7 & 8.

There are different methods of Nickel Plating. Not all were invented in the 1850s.
For the Manhattan Project, Chrys Nickel plated the steel tubes in the gaseous diffusion plant, which solved the problem of insufficient solid Nickel.

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Yes, the process evolved over several decades. Chrysler most likely used the Watts bath method that was developed During WWI. This is still the most commonly used method today.
 
Planning to go this weekend and will report back ...

Ive been told its pretty good



UPDATE. saw it this afternoon. And IMO A Very good movie. If your history. It will be hard to follow.
 
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DeltaV said:
I don't go to movie theaters. Anyway,

A Manhattan Project historian comments on ‘Oppenheimer’
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Thanks, That was good. As with any film adaptation. Liberties are taken to make the experience enjoyable for movie goers.

Good to know a lot of the film was accurate in most instances, just maybe not depicting an accurate timeline.


I read the book by Chris Wallace last year and is a very good read that explains some of the events a little deeper that were happening at the time.

And just ordered the book in which the film is based on.

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I just watched the movie. I lost any respect I may have had for Robert Oppenheimer afterwards. Perhaps that's what the director intended.

Tonight I'm watching Oppenheimer: The Real Story documentary.
 
It’s interesting for sure, I’m fascinated with history, the mid west really played a big part, at Malinckrodt and another place on the Il side of the river where the processed some of the raw hot materials. There are some dang good documentaries one I found on YT. A woman speaks of her dads work at Malinckrodt.. they were very dangerous and lots of good folks died not knowing what or why. The dust was all around the area, folks handled it and were unprotected. They were very careless or loose with the materials and the effects of it will on past today. It was a shame in reality. We won the war, lots of folks died to make it happen and many are unknown not just our uniformed guys. History repeats they say I hope not. It had to be done and we did save lives and a lot of them at that.
 
I did see it and I was not impressed with it.

#1. It jumped around in time so many times making it confusing.
#2. Too drawn out. They could have easily cut 45 minutes out of it.
#3. I would have thought that there would be some actual footage of the bombs devastation in Japan.
 
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