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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester.View full profile Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from ...