The Blue Flash Lasted One Second. He Spent 9 Days Dying From It.

Añadido: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]In 1946, [music] a metal sphere the size of an orange killed two men without a single drop [music] of blood. They called it the demon core.

[00:00:11]Inside [music] a top secret lab, scientist Louis Slotin was propping open a plutonium bomb dome with nothing [music] but a simple screwdriver.

[00:00:21]His hand slipped, the screwdriver fell, [music] the dome snapped shut. A silent flash of glowing blue light filled the room. In that [music] split second, Slotin's fate was sealed. He was hit with a massive invisible wave of lethal radiation. He was [music] a dead man walking. Over nine agonizing days, >> [music] >> his DNA literally unraveled from the inside out until he died. The archive is open. Subscribe [music] or stay blind.