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What horrible deaths! They never did talk about how long those other six man who ran out of the room how long they lived? I'm sure they died within months or a couple years because the gamma radiation went right through them!
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
"Demon core
Demon core
The Demon Core was a spherical 6.2-kilogram subcritical mass of plutonium 89 millimetres in diameter, manufactured during World War II by the United States nuclear weapon development effort, the Manhattan Project, as a fissile core for an early atomic bomb. It was involved in two criticality accidents, on August 21, 1945, and May 21, 1946, each of which killed a person."...
"Demon core
Demon core
The Demon Core was a spherical 6.2-kilogram subcritical mass of plutonium 89 millimetres in diameter, manufactured during World War II by the United States nuclear weapon development effort, the Manhattan Project, as a fissile core for an early atomic bomb. It was involved in two criticality accidents, on August 21, 1945, and May 21, 1946, each of which killed a person."...
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