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At Los Alamos, New Mexico,...

history · 21 August 1945 · 79 years ago

At Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States, American physicist Harry Daghlian, Jr. of the Manhattan Project accidentally dropped a tungsten carbide brick onto a plutonium bomb core and received a fatal dose of 510 rems of radiation. 

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