The unknown third atomic bomb of the United States?
In fact, the original plan of the United States was not just to throw "little fat men" and "little boys" to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, but to prepare for a third hand.
Truman knew very well that one bomb could not defeat Japan at all, so one shot was two bombs, directly allowing 200,000 Japanese to die in this man-made disaster, and what the Japanese did not know was that the third bomb of the United States was still in secret progress, but the result was a bit unexpected, the third nuclear bomb that the United States was preparing to ship to Japan, did not deliver to Japan, but killed a group of American scientists.
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The third bomb was planned to be assembled on August 16, 1945, but something went wrong in the middle, and the core of the prepared plutonium ball atomic bomb was placed in the Los Alamos laboratory, so it was postponed to August 19.
It can only be said that Japan left a way back for itself, and immediately surrendered when the United States ordered the third bullet to destroy itself. Otherwise, there will be no accidents, and it will be another human disaster destined to take 100,000 lives.
To know that Japan surrendered at that time, it was not only us who were happy, but also the scientists who made this bomb, and the third bullet did not explode, which meant that the plutonium ball weighing 6.2 kilograms could be used by them, and there was no need to waste such precious and rare plutonium.
This group of scientists did not expect that the plutonium that excited them would eventually become the culprit who sent them to Huangquan Road!
Later, people also called this plutonium core "demon core", why did there be such a big reversal?
To know that the atomic bomb is not an ordinary nuclear bomb, others want to have a fuse and detonator, the atomic bomb does not have, so the mass of this plutonium core reaches a certain critical point, it will produce a chain reaction, and finally bring super strong nuclear radiation, how strong is it?
Deadly enough!
To put it in layman's terms, it is to constantly inflate a balloon, and finally it can't hold on to the explosion, and the question now facing this group of scientists is, what is the critical mass of plutonium?
The United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, of which the "little boy" used the core of the uranium ball, and the method of detonation was to shoot a small piece of uranium in the barrel of the gun into a large piece of uranium, instantly exceeding the critical mass.
The "big fat man" this one is also the core of the plutonium ball, and uranium, not directly with the barrel of the gun, but in the plutonium ball core around a circle, ready to detonate the explosives first, so that the surrounding plutonium to the middle squeeze, reaching the critical mass can be instantaneously exploded, destroying human beings.
Scientists are constantly testing in order to get the critical mass of plutonium, and once the experiment is unsuccessful, it is a fatal blow.
The first physicist to die at the hands of plutonium was named Harry Daglian, and on the night of Tuesday, August 21, 1945, Harry, who was supposed to return home from work, turned back to the laboratory, and the security guard at the door saw that it was an acquaintance and did not stop him.
Taking advantage of the fact that there were no experimenters, Harry put a layer of bricks made of tungsten carbide around the plutonium ball, why did he put this thing?
Because tungsten carbide can be released reflectively from neutrons, the plutonium ball gradually reaches the critical mass point.
So Harry while putting bricks while using the instrument to measure the data, said that it was late and fast, the last piece of tungsten carbide fell directly on the plutonium ball because of the hand slip, instinctive reaction, Harry took it down with his hand, what he did not expect was that the deadly nuclear radiation had taken a step ahead, and suddenly a blue light appeared in the night, and at the same time a heat wave pounced on Harry.
A few days after the incident, Harry's hands began to fester and he died 25 days later.
Saying that no one was as unlucky as the security guard, because he was sitting only 3.5 meters away from the nuclear bomb, he finally suffered from radiation leukemia and died many years later. Is it true that with this lesson the laboratory will strengthen management? Not really!
Can you imagine a tiny ball that killed a bunch of American physicists?
Nine months after Harry's death, on Tuesday, May 21, 1946, another physicist, Louis Slotin, also died here, if Harry was a hairy boy, then Louis was a very experienced player, when using a metal cover to cover the plutonium ball to test the critical mass, it was necessary to slowly lift the metal cover with a screwdriver, but the old driver also had a time to overturn, the screwdriver slipped down, the entire plutonium ball was covered, a blue light and heat wave gushed out of the metal cover, and the whole laboratory panicked.
Compared with the last 2 people, there can be 8 people in the laboratory this time, including photographers and security guards, but only Louis is the only one who does the experiment, because the nuclear radiation force is too strong, Louis died 9 days after the incident, unfortunately, another scientist standing next to Louis, Graffos, was also tortured by radiation, and it didn't take long for his vision to become blurred and his nerves to become slow, but finally he died of a heart attack.
It is a pity that the same laboratory, in just 9 months, because of this plutonium ball, two physicists died, and what is even more strange is that Harry and Louis are both due to nuclear radiation caused by hand slippage, and the time to do the experiment is the 21st! It's Tuesday! It's because of the hand slip! What's even more outrageous is that the ward where the two people died was still the same!
Whether it's a coincidence, or whether this plutonium ball really has mysterious powers! The physicists finally felt frightened, stopped experimenting with the plutonium ball, and planned to make it the first atomic bomb to explode in World War II, but finally melted it and kept it for storage.
In fact, whether it is the United States or our own country, in order to be able to obtain the atomic bomb, grasp a certain right to speak, the number of people sacrificed in nuclear radiation is innumerable, so they are all great.
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