Interview: 'Manhattan' Production Designer Ruth Ammon Discusses Recreating The Manhattan Project's Los Alamos

When you're working on a television series based on historical events, one of the most important jobs is getting everything as close to historically accurate as possible to make that show seem more realistic.

That's the job of Ruth Ammon, production designer for WGN's Manhattan, a series that tells the story of the men and women who lived on the top-secret Los Alamos, N.M., base during the Manhattan Project, the government venture that gave us the first atomic bomb.