The Demon Core was meant to be the heart of the third atomic bomb. What made scientists so afraid of the Demon Core? In today's video we look at one of the most powerful materials found on this Earth, ...

(via Kyle Hill) In Russia in 1997, an unfortunate technician answered the question, “what would have happened if the ‘Demon Core’ was never stopped in 1946?” This episode of [HALF-LIFE HISTORIES] ...

In 1946, a P-239 plutonium core scheduled for detonation-by-nuclear-bomb was harmlessly melted down and reintegrated into the United States’ nuclear stockpile. That was the end of a 14-pound metallic ...

A plutonium core from the Manhattan Project became deadly when two laboratory accidents exposed scientists to fatal radiation. Why Elon Musk says saving for retirement will be 'irrelevant' in the next ...

I think we can all agree that the physicists, engineers, and chemists who worked on the Manhattan Project -- which ultimately ended World War II -- were consummate geniuses and paragons of ...