13 Famously Wrong Decisions That Ruined Lives

—Environmental_Tank_4

“You’d think after Harry Daghlian’s death nine months earlier, with the same plutonium core, that Louis Slotin would have been doing everything to not have a repeat of the accident that killed his colleague in such a horrific way.”

—Welshgirlie2

Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin were both physicists who worked on the plutonium orb (later to be labeled “demon core” due to their deaths) and suffered “agonizing deaths” after making slips of the hand while working on the orb at Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico. Slotin made a mistake nine months after Daghlian’s fatal slip. You can read the full story here.