The Manhattan Project
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Jenny Anderman: This isn't funny. Do you know what this is like? It's like when you read about, I don't know, Anne Frank or something and you say to yourself, Jesus why didn't they do something. The whole world is collapsing. They just sat around, life as usual, maybe it'll go away, but it never goes away it only gets worse and nobody thinks about the future. What's the matter?
Paul Stephens: Who's Anne Frank?

Ben, Night Guard Medatomics Lab: They got stuff in there that will zap your gonads right off.

Paul Stephens: I never thought I'd say this to anybody, but I got to go get the atomic bomb out of the car.

Official: Sir, what about evacuation?
Lt. Colonel Conroy: Evacuation? Of who?
Official: The people.
Lt. Colonel Conroy: Oh, you mean New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Canada... those people?

Paul Stephens: Incredible! Dr. Strangelove is in there hitting on my mother, and watching my tapes.

Elizabeth Stephens: Paul, did you build an atomic bomb?
Paul Stephens: Only a little one.

Dr. John Matthewson: You try to tough it out with them, they'll lock you in a room somewhere and throw away the room.

Jenny Anderman: Why are you doing this?
Moore: Because life, my dear, is more than just freezing toads.

Factual error: To achieve critical mass and create a nuclear explosion, the plutonium in Paul's device would have to be compressed very precisely. The sphere he placed it into is too large, when he heats it the plutonium would not be distributed evenly, even if it rotates while heated and the amount of plutonium in the jug he steals is not not nearly enough to fill it completely. A smaller sphere was required.

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Trivia: After the six wires are cut to defuse the weapon, you can see the amount of time left on the clock is 07:16:45, which is the date of the first successful test of the Atomic Bomb.

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Question: What was given to Paul to make him talk?

Answer: To further elaborate, sodium pentothal, AKA "truth serum" places the subject in a sedated state; the subject is then questioned while under its influence because it is supposedly very difficult (but not impossible) to lie while under its influence.

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Answer: Sodium Pentothal.

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