21st August 1945: The Demon Core fatally irradiates physicist Harry Daghlian during an experiment at Los Alamos Laboratory

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Daghlian was working alone when he accidentally dropped a block of tungsten onto the plutonium core, which increased the reflection of neutrons and pushed the system into a supercritical ...

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