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Screenshot of science.org: Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal

Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal (science.org)

97 points by xqcgrek2 24 days ago | 47 comments

Science magazine news article reporting that analysis of uranium cubes shows Nazi Germany's experimental reactor lacked enough uranium and heavy water to succeed.

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Screenshot of doomsdaymachines.net: The meme-ification of the “Demon Core”

The meme-ification of the “Demon Core”(doomsdaymachines.net)

379 points by SaberTail 1 year ago | 276 comments

Alex Wellerstein's Substack essay on how the 1946 Demon Core criticality accident that killed Louis Slotin became a subject of dark Internet meme humor.

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Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal(science.org)

The meme-ification of the “Demon Core”(doomsdaymachines.net)

Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal (science.org)