@wellerstein @funranium Are there any accounts from machinists who made those parts? That seems like a markedly unusual gig.
Jezebel — Los Alamos unshielded nuclear assembly, 17 kg bare sphere of plutonium. A bomb in very, very slow motion.pic.twitter.com/g77imFLe6C
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@xek@wellerstein Part of the Manhattan Project Archive in Los Alamos interviewed several as I recall. Nothing technically detailed. -
@funranium Was that the kind of thing that killed Slotin?@xek@wellerstein -
@rrmutt@funranium@xek It is the kind of thing they made after Slotin's death to avoid the kind of thing that killed Slotin.
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@wellerstein so those three pieces are all plutonium? And they'd bring them close together to do testing? Yikes.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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