For the first time publicly, the team behind ‘Manhattan’ dive deep into the beloved series, revealing unwritten story arcs as well as alternate castings for key roles, among them the pivotal part of Oppenheimer himself.
“Oppenheimer puts the umbrella of reality over the whole thing,” Schlamme says, calling him a “landmark that grounded the piece in a certain way.” “I think it was really important that it wasn't a fictionalized Oppenheimer."'s second season finale concluded on the night of the Trinity test in New Mexico, which took place only a few weeks before the weapons were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki—killing between 129,000 to 226,000 people, most of them civilians.
A fourth season would have leaped ahead briefly time. “It was going to deal with what happens to all of these scientists and their families as they're reckoning with the secrets that they've been keeping from each other,” Shaw says. “But also, what is it for them to suddenly become these celebrities and avatars of this new nuclear age and of this choice to have dropped the bomb?”
“And in fact, it fell to a bunch of scientists, some of whom were the architects of the bomb themselves, who had been flown out to Japan and were looking at the wreckage of this thing that they've brought to life, that previously existed only as a bunch of equations on chalkboards,” Shaw adds. “And they are charged with proving the fact that radiation sickness is a fiction, even as some of their colleagues back at home are getting sick and dying.
In those later episodes of the series, scientists who were complicit in the originating the atomic bomb finally rise up against newer developments that would have created even more devastation. “In those years of the Cold War, as there was enormous pressure to develop a different kind of bomb—what they were calling the Super Bomb—to become the hydrogen bomb,” Shaw says.
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