Pass the popcorn ... this makes for a great movie.
2 posted on
07/26/2012 8:40:05 PM PDT by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
Crossroads Able, a 23-kiloton air-deployed nuclear weapon detonated on July 1, 1946. This bomb used, and consumed, the infamous Demon core that took the lives of two scientists in two separate criticality accidents.
3 posted on
07/26/2012 8:48:57 PM PDT by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
To: DogByte6RER
I have to say that was a very interesting read.
Thanks for posting it ^^
4 posted on
07/26/2012 8:53:57 PM PDT by
chris37
(Heartless.)
To: DogByte6RER
Louis Slotin was one hell of a guy.
7 posted on
07/26/2012 9:01:43 PM PDT by
struggle
(http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
To: DogByte6RER
8 posted on
07/26/2012 9:14:54 PM PDT by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they were.)
To: DogByte6RER
But when two friends both disregarded basic safety precautions, and were both claimed by the same core, it's not surprising that it gets a name. Sounds like suicide by hubris to me. There's nothing mysterious about disregarding basic safety precautions. I admit that radiation dangers probably weren't completely understood in those days but I'm sure both of those geniuses knew what had happened to Madame Curie.
To: DogByte6RER
11 posted on
07/26/2012 9:46:34 PM PDT by
TEXOKIE
To: DogByte6RER
Daghlian and Slotkin’s accidents were recreated in the film “Fatman and Little Boy.” Bad way to go.
12 posted on
07/26/2012 10:07:28 PM PDT by
Timber Rattler
(Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
To: DogByte6RER
14 posted on
07/26/2012 10:13:16 PM PDT by
Dogbert41
("...The people of Jerusalem are strong, because the Lord Almighty is their God" Zech. 12:5)
To: DogByte6RER
Bookmark, and I got to read some more, again. I thought the core would not go critical until compressed by implosion. Were these cores just barely sub-critical, and if so, how the hell were they to be assembled?
I thought the tampers and neutron reflectors were part of the core assembly in the early bombs? Need to go read the "Making of the Atomic Bomb" again, though I just reread it a rew weeks ago.
To: DogByte6RER
17 posted on
07/26/2012 10:45:19 PM PDT by
dragonblustar
(Allah Ain't So Akbar!)
To: DogByte6RER
Richard Feynman called these experiments “tickling the tail of a sleeping dragon.”
To: DogByte6RER
It was a movie. Fat Man and Little Boy.
24 posted on
07/27/2012 1:11:46 AM PDT by
lefty-lie-spy
(Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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