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TL;DR: it became the Demon Core, after its core was repurposed in criticality experiments with poor methodology. Though the article is mostly about the politics

TL;DR: it became the Demon Core, after its core was repurposed in criticality experiments with poor methodology. Though the article is mostly about the politics of Japan's surrender, and of maybe/not dropping the third bomb. Kinda offtopic: > Private Robert Hemmerly, was also irradiated but survived, only to die of cancer 33 years later. The phrasing is odd, "only to ..." is a colloquialism to indicate bad luck, as in to escape one bad event only to immediately fall to another bad event. But living 33 more years is a good amount of life! (and long enough interval to start doubting a direct causality between the irradiation and the cancer)

grvbck 2y ago
> and long enough interval to start doubting a direct causality between the irradiation and the cancer A report from Los Alamos Scientific Lab (1979) draws the same conclusion: For example, a brother of [Hemmerly] also died of leukemia (and three other siblings are believed to have had cancer). This makes it likely there is a familial component to the development of the disease. https://www.orau.org/ptp/pdf/accidentsurvivorslanl.pdf https://www.orau.org/ptp/pdf/accidentsurvivorslanl.pdf