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The demon core: A scary story of sloppy science from the Manhattan Project
2014-08-20 19:41:49| Extremetech
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 professionalism. Except they weren't. The demon core of plutonium claimed numerous lives at Los Alamos due to sloppy science.
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