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May 21, 2016 · A re-creation of the plutonium core that briefly went critical on May 21, 1946, resulting in the death of the Manhattan Project physicist Louis Slotin.
- Alex Wellerstein
Louis Alexander Slotin (/ ˈ s l oʊ t ɪ n / SLOHT-in; 1 December 1910 – 30 May 1946) was a Canadian physicist and chemist who took part in the Manhattan Project.
Jul 20, 2023 · One day in Oppenheimer's Manhattan Project, a brief, casual moment of carelessness killed one scientist and severely injured another. In this specially illustrated story, the artist and...
Jul 29, 2023 · Experiments on a so-called "demon core" of plutonium caused the deaths of two Manhattan Project physicists. Both scientists died after their hands slipped, causing the core to release deadly...
Aug 5, 2015 · As the facts of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki filtered back to Los Alamos in August and September, the earlier exuberance of the Manhattan Project's scientists and engineers turned...
Jul 15, 2020 · For the elite scientists, engineers and military brass of the Army’s remote nuclear weapons facility at Los Alamos, New Mexico, the night of July 15–16, 1945, was one of excruciating tension ...
One question we get asked a lot is, how many people died during the Manhattan Project? Historian Alex Wellerstein has discovered a list of all the fatal accidents that occurred at Los Alamos in 1943 through September 1946. There were 24 deaths during this period.
