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[Watchmen] Did anyone ever try to recreate the accident that turn John into Dr. Manhattan?

I imagine someone would attempt it at least once after seeing what John became. Was it like a once-in-a-trillion accident that he managed to survive it? Or could you start taking reservations and pump out Dr. Manhattans like candy?
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They tried many times. It was not even a secret program or anything, there were open calls for volunteers, particularly in academic circles. The thing is, Dr. Manhattan made it abundantly clear that his profound understanding of particle physics, in conjunction with the methodical and patient approach that he developed as the son of a watchmaker were both crucial to the success of that excruciating process that he underwent as he was putting himself back together. 

For a few years, volunteers from physics departments from all over the world underwent the process of disintegration. There was not any evidence whatsoever about anyone of them "surviving" or managing to take even the most rudimentary steps towards putting themselves back together. For all intents and purposes, they stepped into the chamber and died painfully. 

In time, the flow of volunteers became a trickle, and eventually it dried out altogether. And the thing is...a procedure like this can only be performed on volunteers of high intellectual caliber and moral probity. A certain right wing radio host came out with the "brilliant" idea of "forced volunteering" for death row inmates, making a laughingstock out of himself as soon as somebody pointed out that "success" would have implied giving God-like powers to the likes of Charles Manson.