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 trag… ...

Have you heard of the Demon Core? Though it sounds like some kind of a superstitious group, ... There was a flash of blue light and a blast of heat as the "49 Metal" went super critical, ...

Of course, the Trinity test's nuclear core, the demon core, and the first two atomic bombs used in combat were manufactured by the same Los Alamos Laboratory, chaired first by Robert Oppenheimer ...

The demon core of plutonium claimed numerous lives at Los Alamos due to sloppy science. By Sebastian Anthony August 20, 2014 Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) ...

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 ...

Enter the "demon core". Sitting at a sizeable 6.2 kilograms (13.7 pounds) and 8.9 centimeters (3.5 inches) in diameter, this spherical mass of radioactive plutonium (at the time named "Rhufus ...

Google Trends, he found that Demon Core had become explosively popular in the United States since around 2019. Below is a graph showing the trends of 'Demon Core (blue)' and 'Slowtin (red)' along ...

The demon core, that 14-pound lump of plutonium that claimed the life of Louis Slotin, began its existence as rods of uranium-238, a relatively stable isotope, at the Hanford Site in Washington State.

The demon core: A recreation of Slotin's 'tickling the dragon's tail' experiment. It's hard to believe that all that kept Slotin and his fellow scientists alive was the blade of a screwdriver.