Name: Rufus The Demon
Duration: P00H05M29S
Description: A short telling of the story of how the Demon Core, the third plutonium core developed in The Manhattan Project - originally intended to be dropped on Japan along with the first two - found its way to being research material instead of a weapon, still managing to cause death and destruction along the way.

Rufus The Demon

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A short telling of the story of how the Demon Core, the third plutonium core developed in The Manhattan Project - originally intended to be dropped on Japan along with the first two - found its way to being research material instead of a weapon, still managing to cause death and destruction along the way.

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August '45, two bombs dropped
Waiting on the third
Truman orders further ones stopped
Time to observe

The third core's day never came
Remained in Los Alamos

Time and substance gave rise to the experiments
Begin tickling the dragon's tail
Reflecting neutrons into the core

Learning just what it takes to
Induce criticality

Placing tungsten carbide bricks
Until the last one slipped
And then

A brief blue glow flashes inside the room
The wave of heat passes so soon
The Geiger's tick quickens into a scream
Flush with ions, flooded with doom

Twenty five agonizing days
Til Harry died
What now, but to halt all research
But the thirst for knowledge continues

A cap of beryllium
Lowered to enclose the pit
Ever delicately tipped
Til the screwdriver slipped
And then

A brief blue glow flashes inside the room
The wave of heat passes so soon
The Geiger's tick quickens into a scream
Victim to the invisible stream

Only nine days later, Slotin died
Such work is suicide
But pales in comparison to the
Victims of Japan

A brief blue glow flashes inside the room
The wave of heat passes so soon
3D sunburn unfolds through the body
Geiger tick tock shortens your clock
The core enclosed similar to a tomb
The coffin nail plutonium

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released February 1, 2021

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