[mkjessup]

This is a fine opportunity to raise the subject of the late Harry K. Daghlian, Jr., who worked on the Manhattan Project and who accidentally irradiated himself in late August 1945, while conducting an experiment at Los Alamos.

What happened was a criticality accident that occurred when he accidentally dropped a small tungsten carbide brick onto a 14 lb plutonium bomb core. The particular core, intended for use as the THIRD atomic bomb had Japan not surrendered was called the "Demon core", which claimed the life of fellow scientist Louis Slotin in a similar accident.

The so-called Demon core was ultimately used during the Crossroads series of atomic tests in the Pacific, specifically the 'ABLE' test.


Those little Norks haven't got a clue of what they are truly tampering with. In a perfect world they would blow themselves up, along with the Dear Leader.

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[nully free associating]

Plutonium, Pluto, god of the underworld, demon core, demon pass, democrat...