Immediately after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945,
Immediately after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945,
the U.S. Army began preparing a third bomb to be dropped on Japan. But just one day before that bomb was due to be ready, Japan surrendered and World War II came to a close. The plutonium orb that would have been the bomb's heart was then left at the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico to be experimented on and held in reserve, should the U.S. ever need its terrifying power again.
the U.S. Army began preparing a third bomb to be dropped on Japan. But just one day before that bomb was due to be ready, Japan surrendered and World War II came to a close. The plutonium orb that would have been the bomb's heart was then left at the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico to be experimented on and held in reserve, should the U.S. ever need its terrifying power again.
But even when confined to a laboratory setting, this particular plutonium core still proved lethal. In 1945 and 1946, it killed two scientists in agonizing fashion after they merely made tiny slip-ups while experimenting with it. After that, it became known as the "demon core" and was locked away, never to be used again.
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