Did A Nuclear Bomb Kill People Without Exploding?

At first glance, there's nothing so terrible about it. A silver ball inside of a metal structure? That's not scary unless you know what the ball is. It's a so-called demon core, the heart for atomic bombs. In The Alloy, There's a fissionable plutonium with tungsten carbide around it, a reflector that excites the core and makes it unstable. It only takes one touch to be crippled.

It only takes one sudden move to be killed. If you leave it unattended, something even worse will happen. The scientists would study this core, and understand it was dangerous, but ignored the voice of reason. What were they up to? Where did the name demon come from and where is it now? How did the demon try to get to its creator, and how did everyone around it get possessed?

There were times when the periodic table stopped at the element 92 uranium, and then she came. Lisa Meitner.

Austrian physicist and radiochemist, phenomenal scientist. The first woman professor in the history of the University of Berlin. She of all people could solve the Riddle that tormented everyone, the process of nuclear fission. She explained how new elements could be obtained by attacking uranium with neutrons and where the energy comes from. Lisa thought that she was serving science and the world while she was solving the Riddle.

But as soon as the president of the United States, Roosevelt learned about the discovery, he ordered the scientists to keep quiet and the military to organize a secret project for developing nuclear weapons. Millions were spent. The best foreign scientists and engineers were taken to Los Alamos closed laboratory in the New Mexico desert, the place where Lisa's discovery was put into practice and where the demon obtained a vessel.

But who woke it up? The hot evening of August 1945? A young scientist from Los Alamos, Harry Doglian Junior, left his office after a working day. Having finished dinner around 9:00, Harry decided to return. He passed the security guard, who was a little surprised, but let him in any way. At that moment, the scientist decided to experiment with the demon core.

But what made him do it, and why? At such a late hour, he placed a ball between the tungsten carbide blocks, which served as a reflector for neutrons hurtling from the core. With the addition of each new block, the core was approaching a dangerous state. When neutrons have nowhere to go, an uncontrolled chain reaction is triggered. Well, attempting to install a new block, Daglian dropped it right on the plutonium.

And suddenly a flow of blue light hit the ceiling. Daglian tried to destroy the block construction and appease the core, but it was too late. It happened. The skin on his hand became covered with blisters and came off. Perry fell into a coma and died 25 days later from severe radiation sickness.

Becoming the first victim of the sinister corps. He was 24. Did Mightner know about that? No, she didn't. Chased by the Nazis away from everyone, she fully dove into her work. Meanwhile, the demon was trying to find her.

Lisa's nephew, Otto Frisch, joined a secret US project as part of the British Mission. Anticipating a great job in Los Alamos, he asked Lisa to join him and come with him. Lisa loved Otto like the son she never had. Frisch was there when she discovered Fission, but Lisa responded to his offer the only way she could. I will have nothing to do with the bomb.

But did the Curse of the Demon Core end there? A year after Daglian, the scientist Louis Slotn repeated the experiment with the core. He did it about a dozen times and felt very confident. On the 21st of May, 1946, Slotn decided to conduct an unscheduled experiment. In the presence of several colleagues, the scientist placed the plutonium core between 2 hemispheres that functioned as reflectors.

In order not to share the fate of Dogland, Louise Slotn held the upper sphere, leaving the way out for the neutrons. That was smart, Apart from the fact that he was doing it with an ordinary car screwdriver. No one stopped him, and at one point the screwdriver just slipped, the spheres closed and the room was filled with blue light. Slotn instantly pushed the hemispheres back, but one second was enough.

This time it wasn't just one death. Flatten died nine days later in terrible agony at the age of 35. Others who were present eventually died of radiation-induced diseases. The rest began to take the power of the core seriously. the US authorities decided to destroy the Demon Core by detonating it during nuclear testing, but they failed to do so. The core had already been too unstable.

The core was subsequently melted down for the manufacture of other weapons. The demon hasn't disappeared, but in a way it has taken new forms. 1966 an American B52G aircraft are patrolling the area as usual, with four thermonuclear bombs on board.

The fuel starts to run out rapidly. The B52G is trying to refuel in the air and collides with a tanker aircraft. Two of the bombs that fell ruptured, causing radiation and land contamination. All members of the crew died in 1968. In another incident, a bomber of the same type is conducting a combat patrol, also with four nuclear weapons.

During the flight over Greenland, a fire inexplicably breaks out on board. The plane was doomed. It crashes, leaving a huge black spot on the ice. 3 munitions collapsed and caused extensive land contamination. The 4th one that fell into the water was never found.