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[Watchmen] Why has no one ever tried to recreate the experiment that created Dr. Manhattan?

If Dr. Manhattan is the result of a man being disintegrated by a quantum field, why has no one ever tossed another guy in there to try and make Dr. M 2.0?
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Because while it appears to be a freak accident, Dr. Manhattan's creation is a lot of very carefully-placed parts coming together with picture perfect precision.

Jon Osterman is a nuclear physicist and engineer, and grew up gearing up to take over the family watchmaking business; a profession that requires knowledge, finesse, precision, and patience.  He leveraged these skills into his career, making him successful enough to work on the intrinsic field generator that would eventually rip him apart at the atomic level.  And if Dr. Jon Osterman knew anything, he knew atoms.  While it's still unclear why he lived when everyone else to fall into a similar generator died, it's clear that Dr. Manhattan had to piece himself back together atom by atom, tissue by tissue, bone by bone and piece by piece.  There were more failures than successes on this road.  But at the end of the day, Fate asked a man to put structures *in his wheelhouse* together using skills he'd had *since he was a boy*.  Nobody else in the world could've had that those cards to play at those times.

Dr. Manhattan is, in summary, the only one who *could* have become Dr. Manhattan.