‘Manhattan’ Creator Teases How Scientists Grapple With Morality of Building the Bomb

“He has this sense of conscience about this technology that he’s helping midwife into the world,” Shaw tells TheWrap about John Benjamin Hickey’s character

“Manhattan” creator Sam Shaw feels that Frank Winter (John Benjamin Hickey) has altered his priorities in season two of the WGN America series.

“He has a very different mission now,” Shaw told TheWrap. “He has this sense of conscience about this technology that he’s helping midwife into the world. It’s his moral obligation to exercise some kind of say over how the bomb is used.”

Winter has spent most of this season imprisoned at a U.S. internment camp, where he realized the Nazi bomb he has been racing to defeat was just propaganda drummed up by the U.S.

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