(via Kyle Hill) In Russia in 1997, an unfortunate technician answered the question, “what would have happened if the ‘Demon Core’ was never stopped in 1946?” This episode of [HALF-LIFE HISTORIES] ...
In The True Story of the Demon Core, Dr. Ben Miles dives into the chilling and tragic events surrounding the infamous plutonium core used during the Manhattan Project. The Demon Core, responsible for ...
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 ...
Less than a year later, on May 21, 1946, Louis Slotin would become the demon core’s second victim. Slotin, a 35-year-old physicist, was performing another test to verify how close to criticality the ...
Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester.View full profile Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from ...