Frank winters biography manhattan project

Manhattan, an ambitious new series on the mostly obscure cable channel WGN, is about the building of the atomic bomb.

It takes place in Los Alamos, N.M., where the physicist Robert Oppenheimer and General Leslie Groves led a small city with a singular purpose.

However, the show is not about those giants of scientific and military though.

Charlie isaacs manhattan project

Charlie isaacs manhattan project

Who is frank winter based on

Is frank winter a real person

The series follows the scientists invited to a secret location in Los Alamos, NM, to develop the atomic bomb.

But one person is missing: Frank Winter, whom we last saw with a bag over his head, being driven away from Los Alamos.

If the rest of the show is to be anything like the pilot, it will be a show about the drama in the lives of the minor players in the most intense production of scientific knowledge the world has ever seen.

Manhattan is not a documentary.

It's a scripted show, with fictional characters, But it's worth verifying how well the TV show corresponds with the historical reality of the Manhattan project.

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The show introduces us to Los Alamos through the eyes of two main sets of characters: the Winters and the Isaacs.

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