The Demon Core Experiments

The deadly joke for Monty Python, where they just tested it on a guy was real just with radiation. In the early Cold War of the 50s and 60s there's a decent chance your immediate commanding officer was a six foot tall sculpture made of uranium as part of a long term study by the CIA to see how many different kinds of cancer they could give a personal life. They did that in Iraq too, but with burn pits. The demon core is basically two two big hemispheres of plutonium with a sort of on a shaft and then shims inserted at sort of every sort of few millimeter intervals. It took into die for aftersort of. Your radiation sickness. This