A college student's physics project is really a functional atomic bomb.A college student's physics project is really a functional atomic bomb.A college student's physics project is really a functional atomic bomb.
Ron Carey
- Officer Carl Levitt
- (credit only)
James Gregory
- Inspector Frank Luger
- (credit only)
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- TriviaThe year before this episode aired, a Princeton University physics student named John A. Phillips gained international fame as "The A-Bomb Kid" when he published a paper explaining how to build an atomic bomb using about $2000 worth of easily acquired materials. As here, he was an underachieving student. Also similarly, both his paper and a non-working model he had built were confiscated by the FBI. He later became an anti-nuclear activist, and in 1983 formed a successful non-partisan political consulting firm with his brother, of which he is still CEO (as of 2022).
- GoofsAfter the FBI declares the device to be "classified," the agent abandons it in the squad room instead of making sure that it is safeguarded.
- Quotes
Evelyn Kruger: [Barney offers her coffee] I can't drink coffee, I got a gall bladder I wouldn't wish on Marshal Tito! I'll take some tea though.
- ConnectionsReferences The F.B.I. (1965)
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Phil Leeds and Rod Colbin
"Atomic Bomb" begins with an apartment manager (Al Ruscio, first of five) literally raising a stink about one tenant, a young man (Will Seltzer, first of two) whose place looks like 'Frankenstein's laboratory' (according to Nick). What he's done for his Master's thesis is create a portable prototype for an atomic bomb, which stumped Sgt. Kavanaugh (Stephen Pearlman), betting his 22 years of experience (and all 10 digits) that it's nothing but a stereo. Dietrich reacts instantly to the tiny device, to everyone's amazement ("where the hell's he get the atomic bomb?"). Phil Leeds (third of seven) plays Harry Kruger, whose wife (Helen Verbit, first of three) worries that he'll allow himself to be frozen cryogenically for 100 years by Mr. Swanson (Rod Colbin, second of seven). After reconsidering his wife's feelings, Kruger changes his mind, to Swanson's disappointment. His attempt to coerce Wojo proves unsuccessful ("I think things ought to be natural, that's all...making a guy a popsicle ain't my idea of natural!").
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