fat man and little boy - tickling the dragon
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@BoCo8888 its referred as "tickling the dragons tail", also as "don't push your luck", because the test was to see the neutron count from the core to see how long it would take to reach critical, this was actually the second test the first also resulted in a death and so the core was referred to as the "demon core".
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wheres the tickle part
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@Blahblobify I know this video is not accurate, it seems like they wanted to time compress the actions taken after the excursion, Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) covers both accidents in detail in their online museum.
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Dude google it, the two incidents this scene is based on are fascinating history.
Yes, they made mistakes, but not as simple as this Hollywood Movie.
We owe a tremendous debt to the men and women that built The Bomb.
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What I have never understood about these two accidents is how "non-geek" both scientists behaved, any regular geek would have loved to design and build a cool test apparatus to do the experiments safely. At Los Alamos during this time they would just have had to ask and they would have gotten anything they wanted. Television cameras and CRT's existed at this time. I bet there were engineers at Los Alamos who were chomping at the bit to do it, but were prevented by the physicists in charge.
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Stotin's death bought about greater understanding on the effect of acute radiation syndrome.
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@BevoBill31 Thank you Bill, Good point. TMFW
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...Really? You're going to set your coffee cup right there on top of that clipboard of data? .....really?
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@themanfromwem the chalk nor anything else in the room was contaminated. This was an exposure event.
... and besides, even if it was contaminated, they all just got blasted with a lethal dose, so what's a few extra rem at that point.
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He was a true hero, had I went into there with a firearm, I would have shot him in the chest and head, that would have been the best I could do for him. I was unable to cure him.
stupid idiot that dropped his coffee!!!!!!!!
googleboy314 1 year ago 4
@capitaltrading I'm pretty sure you didn't see the Demon Core, considering it was used in the Able detonation in 1946.
Mrslippyfists 9 months ago 3