Plot summary
A truck carrying radioactive nuclear waste disappears, and Don figures that a dirty bomb will be set off in downtown Los Angeles. When three suspects are caught but refuse to turn on each other, Charlie must try to convince one of them to give up the others and also the location of the waste. David Marshall Grant and Roxanne Hart guest star. In 1946 Manhattan Project physicist Louis Slotin used his body to protect fellow scientists during an accident with a plutonium experiment at Los Alamos; he died of exposure to the ionizing radiation 9 days later after his " walking ghost phase ". Mathematics used: Prisoner's dilemma and radioactive decay; Caesium-137
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