Thin Man (nuclear bomb) and the name came from the Dashiell Hammett detective novel "The Thin Man" and series of movies by the same name. The "Fat Man" bomb would be round and fat and was named after Sydney Greenstreet's character in "The Maltese Falcon". "Little Boy" would come last and be named only to contrast to the "Thin Man" bomb. Oppenheimer assembled a team at the Los Alamos Laboratory to work on plutonium gun design that included senior engineer Edwin McMillan and senior physicists Charles Critchfield and Joseph Hirschfelder. Critchfield had been working with sabots, which Oppenheimer believed would be required by the
The Man Who Knew Too Little The Man Who Knew Too Little The Man Who Knew Too Little is a 1997 spy comedy film starring Bill Murray, directed by Jon Amiel, and written by Robert Farrar and Howard Franklin. The film is based on Farrar's novel "Watch That Man", and the title is a parody of Alfred Hitchcock's 1934 film "The Man Who Knew Too Much" and his 1956 remake of the same title. Wallace Ritchie (Bill Murray) flies from Des Moines, Iowa, to London, United Kingdom, to spend his birthday with his brother, James (Peter Gallagher). As James hosts a business dinner, he sets Wallace