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The demon core - 14lbs of plutonium

The Demon Core was meant to be the heart of the third atomic bomb. What made scientists so afraid of the Demon Core? In today ...
A plutonium core from the Manhattan Project became deadly when two laboratory accidents exposed scientists to fatal radiation ...
I think we can all agree that the physicists, engineers, and chemists who worked on the Manhattan Project -- which ultimately ended World War II -- were consummate geniuses and paragons of ...
In 1946, a P-239 plutonium core scheduled for detonation-by-nuclear-bomb was harmlessly melted down and reintegrated into the United States’ nuclear stockpile. That was the end of a 14-pound metallic ...