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In Jonathan Hickman and Nick Pitarra’s comic, The Manhattan Projects, the protagonists aren’t a bunch of musclebound men in tights or sword-wielding barbarians, but rather men of science. Each character is based (sometimes loosely) on actual scientists who were part of the famed Manhattan Project during World War II. This direct parallel with the real world has surely left many a reader wondering how these alien-killing, robot-destroying scientists compare to the real men with whom they share a name. In this article, I compare the principal cast of the book with their counterparts to determine just how far removed from reality Hickman’s science fiction really is. Fact: J. Robert Oppenheimer
FACT VS. FICTION - The Manhattan Projects
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