On May 21, 1946, Louis Slotin tickled the dragon’s tail once too often. Slotin, the scientist who assembled the first atom bomb before it was detonated at Alamogordo, N.M., and who was dubbed by his ...
The facts: At 3:20 p.m. on May 21, 1946, in a government atomic-weapons lab in Los Alamos, N.M., the young Canadian physicist Louis Slotin was conducting a demonstration with plutonium for some ...
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The Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb wasn't without its own dangers. Experiments on a so-called "demon core" of plutonium caused the deaths of two Manhattan Project physicists. Both ...
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Less than a year later, on May 21, 1946, Louis Slotin would become the demon core’s second victim. Slotin, a 35-year-old physicist, was performing another test to verify how close to criticality the ...
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Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. A Red Orchid Theatre opens its 2010-2011 season with LOUIS SLOTIN SONATA, written ...
There were 100 directions playwright Paul Mullin and director Eberhard Koehler could have taken with Mullin's play Louis Slotin Sonata. Fortunately, for those who enjoy ample doses of organized chaos ...
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 writer Ben ...
Science certainly isn't short of drama. But filmmakers and playwrights often duck out when it comes to showing science as it really is. They tend to prefer a cartoon version that rarely bears much ...
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