This video explores the chilling story of the Demon Core, a subcritical plutonium sphere developed during the Manhattan Project. Although never used in combat, it caused two deadly criticality accidents that killed physicists Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin.
While well-documented in classified military archives, this story remained largely unknown to the public for decades. It raises important questions about what nuclear history has been emphasized — and what has been omitted. The Demon Core serves as a stark example of how certain narratives around nuclear weapons have been shaped or sanitized over time.
Would love to hear your thoughts on how incidents like this are remembered—or erased—from public consciousness. Is this part of a broader historiographical trend?
by SKG_Unknown
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It’s literally some of the most talk about topic of engineer nerds about how you should take safety procedure seriously.