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19 months?
It seems such a short time.
:18:06
19 months coincides
with our anticipated delivery date
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from Oak Ridge. Gentlemen,
we have 19 months, that's it...
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...to box, wrap
and deliver this package.
:18:16
Are there any dissenters?
:18:20
No?
:18:23
Good.
:18:24
Nineteen months
and starting from scratch, Jesus.
:18:28
Still, Oppie's got the best theoreticians
and engineers in the world.
:18:33
Some of these guys are legends and
so young. The place is a hothouse.
:18:37
Doc, he seems like
he's gonna be a good man.
:18:40
Reckons we'll be working with funny
stuff. He's gonna be looking out for us.
:18:44
He's got a whole wing of the hospital
that looks like Noah's Ark.
:18:48
I think of Jimmy fighting in the
Philippines, and I can't complain.
:18:52
I love you, but I gotta go.
General wants a progress report.
:18:56
When Groves wants something,
he wants it now.
:18:58
Again.
:19:02
We build a cannon, and at the end
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weld a stopper
made from a subcritical mass.
:19:08
We fabricate a shell
made from another subcritical mass
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and fire it down the barrel.
:19:15
- How much of both materials?
- Projecting 30 pounds.
:19:18
30 pounds is as far away
as the moon.
:19:21
We're trying to tap the energy
that fuels the universe.
:19:24
It's petrifying. All we've got
so far are problems,
:19:27
and that doesn't include the ones
we haven't thought about.
:19:30
Shake down the bad news.
I'm getting used to it.
:19:33
At the moment, there are
two problems. Pre-detonation.
:19:36
The gadget disintegrates
before it explodes.
:19:39
Second, it's the weight problem.
:19:41
For the slug to travel at the velocity
we need,
:19:44
the gun barrel
would be so heavy, so thick,
:19:46
I don't think we'd get the gadget
off the ground with a crane.
:19:50
If they're talking about a slug
with a seven-inch diameter,
:19:54
then you'd have to have a barrel
thickness of at least four inches.