None of this is depicted in Oppenheimer. An earlier film about the Manhattan Project, 1989’s Fat Man and Little Boy, which stars Paul Newman as General Leslie Groves (played in Oppenheimer by Matt ...

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 ...

In The True Story of the Demon Core, Dr. Ben Miles dives into the chilling and tragic events surrounding the infamous plutonium core used during the Manhattan Project. The Demon Core, responsible for ...

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Nuclear fission is a powerful phenomenon. When the conditions are right, atomic nuclei split, releasing neutrons that then split other nuclei in an ongoing chain reaction that releases enormous ...