In 1945-1946, two Los Alamos physicists (Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin) died from acute radiation syndrome after accidentally triggering criticality excursions with the 'Demon Core,' a 14-pound plutonium sphere built for a third atomic bomb that was never used, demonstrating the lethal dangers of handling nuclear materials during the Manhattan Project.
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14 pounds of plutonium built for the third atomic bomb. The war ended first, 1945. A physicist drops a tungsten brick, dies in 25 days, May 1946.
Another physicist's screwdriver slips, same sphere, 9 months apart. A bomb that never exploded killed two of its makers.
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