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| [[File:Ghost Bomb.jpg|thumb|Earliest known poster for '''''Ghost Bomb'''''.]] | | #REDIRECT [[Ghost Bomb]] |
| '''''Ghost Bomb''''' is a science fiction horror film loosely based on the '''demon core''': a plutonium sphere involved in two criticality accidents at the Los Alamos Laboratory on August 21, 1945, and May 21, 1946, each resulting in a fatality.
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| == In the News ==
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| File:Bloodmoney Nights.jpg|link=Bloodmoney Nights|'''''[[Bloodmoney Nights]]''''' is a science fiction historical drama novel by Philip K. Dick.
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| == History (nonfiction) ==
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| The '''demon core''' was a spherical 6.2-kilogram (14 lb) subcritical mass of plutonium 89 millimeters (3.5 in) in diameter, manufactured during World War II by the United States nuclear weapon development effort, the Manhattan Project, as a fissile core for an early atomic bomb.
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| The core was prepared for shipment as part of the third nuclear weapon to be used in Japan, but when Japan surrendered, the core was retained at Los Alamos for testing and potential later use.
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| It was involved in two criticality accidents at the Los Alamos Laboratory on August 21, 1945, and May 21, 1946, each resulting in a fatality. Both experiments were designed to demonstrate how close the core was to criticality with a tamper, but in each case, the core was accidentally placed into a critical configuration. Physicists '''[[Harry Daghlian (nonfiction)|Harry Daghlian]]''' and '''[[Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|Louis Slotin]]''' suffered acute radiation syndrome (ARS) and died soon after, while others present in the lab were also exposed.
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| The core was melted down in summer 1946 and the material recycled for use in other cores.
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| == Fiction cross-reference ==
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| * ''[[Bloodmoney Nights]]''
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| * [[Gnomon algorithm]]
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| * [[Gnomon Chronicles]]
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| == Nonfiction cross-reference ==
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| * [[Harry Daghlian (nonfiction)]]
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| * [[Demon core (nonfiction)]]
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| * [[Gnomon Chronicles (nonfiction)]]
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| * [[Louis Slotin (nonfiction)]]
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| == External links ==
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| * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core Demon core] @ Wikipedia
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| === Social media ===
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| * [ Post] @ Twitter (16 July 2023)
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| * [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1607210967682908160 Post] @ Twitter ()
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| [[Category:Fiction (nonfiction)]]
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| [[Category:Films]]
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| [[Category:Ghosts (nonfiction)]]
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| [[Category:Bombs (nonfiction)]]
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| [[Category:Nuclear war (nonfiction)]]
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| [[Category:War (nonfiction)]]
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| [[Category:Nuclear war (nonfiction)]]
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