[DogByte6RER]

Pass the popcorn ... this makes for a great movie.

[DogByte6RER]

FYI ... some more references:

The Curse of the Demon Core

http://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/28/the-curse-of-the-demon-core/

The Manhattan Project’s Fatal “Demon Core”

http://www.physicscentral.com/buzz/blog/index.cfm?postid=8146939447898984108

The Demon Core

http://talesfromthenuclearage.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/the-demon-core/

[DogByte6RER]

Crossroads Able, a 23-kiloton air-deployed nuclear weapon detonated on July 1, 1946. This bomb used, and consumed, the infamous Demon core that took the lives of two scientists in two separate criticality accidents.

[chris37]

I have to say that was a very interesting read.

Thanks for posting it ^^

[struggle]

Louis Slotin was one hell of a guy.

[editor-surveyor]

BFL

[Bernard Marx]

But when two friends both disregarded basic safety precautions, and were both claimed by the same core, it's not surprising that it gets a name.

Sounds like suicide by hubris to me. There's nothing mysterious about disregarding basic safety precautions. I admit that radiation dangers probably weren't completely understood in those days but I'm sure both of those geniuses knew what had happened to Madame Curie.

[TEXOKIE]

bfl

[Timber Rattler]

Daghlian and Slotkin’s accidents were recreated in the film “Fatman and Little Boy.” Bad way to go.

[Dogbert41]

ping

[doorgunner69]

Bookmark, and I got to read some more, again. I thought the core would not go critical until compressed by implosion. Were these cores just barely sub-critical, and if so, how the hell were they to be assembled?

I thought the tampers and neutron reflectors were part of the core assembly in the early bombs? Need to go read the "Making of the Atomic Bomb" again, though I just reread it a rew weeks ago.

[dragonblustar]

Ping for later reading.

[concentric circles]

Richard Feynman called these experiments “tickling the tail of a sleeping dragon.”

[lefty-lie-spy]

It was a movie. Fat Man and Little Boy.