The Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb wasn't without its own dangers. Experiments on a so-called "demon core" of plutonium caused the deaths of two Manhattan Project physicists. Both ...

In The True Story of the Demon Core, Dr. Ben Miles dives into the chilling and tragic events surrounding the infamous ...

Less than a year later, on May 21, 1946, Louis Slotin would become the demon core’s second victim. Slotin, a 35-year-old physicist, was performing another test to verify how close to criticality the ...

At the Los Alamos Laboratory in the United States, there was a subcritical mass of plutonium weighing about 14 pounds (6.2 kg) that was used in various experiments and took the lives of two scientists ...

Demon Core ' is a research-use plutonium lump that was converted from a nuclear weapon that was planned to be dropped on Japan, and is known for dangerous criticality experiments that are performed ...

Raised under the tutelage of Sonic the Hedgehog and the Gunstars. Jorge came from an age where protagonists never spoke and instruction manuals were over 50 pages long. When Jorge isn't writing about ...