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 ...

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 ...

I think we can all agree that the physicists, engineers, and chemists who worked on the Manhattan Project -- which ultimately ended World War II -- were consummate geniuses and paragons of ...