Oppenheimer is a 2023 epic (3 hours long) biographical thriller drama film that tells the story of American theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. It follows Oppenheimer’s life who, along with a team of scientists, helped develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II. The movie is based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, which chronicles Oppenheimer's studies, his direction of the Los Alamos Laboratory and his 1954 security hearing.
Dayton, Ohio had a part in the Manhattan Project. The chemical company Monsanto developed a process for making polonium to be used as the detonator of the bomb.
Researchers and workers exposed to the polonium knew there was a health risk, and after the war Monsanto worked to understand that risk. Monsanto leased the top three floors of a warehouse being used by General Electric at 601 East Third Street. There they made a laboratory to study the effect of polonium radiation on humans.
Woodard Development is the current owner of the building. It has been refurbished and renamed the Manhattan Building.
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From Dayton to Los Alamos there was research done. An engineer described the process of gaseous diffusion to me once, terrifying.
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