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 ...

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Have you heard of the Demon Core? Though it sounds like some kind of a superstitious group, rest assured that is not what it is. Instead it refers to the time in which scientists at the Los Alamos ...

The so-called Demon Core was a cursed object, a 6.2 kilogram mass of plutonium intended to be installed in a nuclear weapon. Instead, slapdash experimental techniques saw it feature in several tragic ...