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One of the coolest video games ever made!

The Party will forgive me... I was just a petty-bourgeois eight-year-old playing FIFA98...

Louis Slotin (Winnipeg, December 1, 1910 – Los Alamos, May 30, 1946) was a Canadian physicist who participated in the famous Manhattan Project. On May 21, 1946, Slotin, along with several of his colleagues, was conducting tests related to an experiment aimed at triggering a nuclear reaction by placing two beryllium hemispheres around a plutonium core. Slotin grasped the top hemisphere, holding it with the thumb of his left hand through a hole at the top of the hemisphere. Contrary to the experimental protocols, which mandated the use of special spacers to separate the two hemispheres, Slotin removed the spacers and instead used the end of a screwdriver. At 3:20 PM, the screwdriver slipped, and the upper beryllium hemisphere fell, causing a "prompt critical" reaction and a discharge of high-energy radiation. At that moment, the scientists in the lab observed a "blue glow," due to the ionization of the air (and not Cherenkov radiation, which has the same color purely by coincidence) and felt a burst of heat. Slotin tasted a metallic flavor in his mouth and experienced a sharp burning sensation in his left hand, which instinctively pulled back, lifting the upper hemisphere and allowing it to fall to the floor. He was exposed to a lethal dose of neutrons and gamma radiation (about 2100 rem, or 21 Sv), the same dose he would have absorbed had he hypothetically been 1500 meters from the explosion of an atomic bomb.
Just outside the building, Slotin vomited. Vomiting is a common initial symptom of exposure to high doses of ionizing radiation (radiation sickness). The scientist was rushed to the hospital, where doctors had to inform his parents of their son's imminent and inevitable death. Due to the extreme secrecy of the project, the incident was kept strictly confidential, even within the lab itself. Robert Oppenheimer and other scientists later recounted the intense emotional stress they had to endure to continue working while knowing about their dying colleague. After the incident, assembly operations were no longer performed manually. Louis Slotin's agony lasted nine days: he died on May 30, in the presence of his parents. Three of the seven survivors of the incident died years later from causes likely related to radioactive exposure.

Memento, have you already listened to Cult of Youth?!

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In the cover portrait, he resembles Ramelli..

I have to feel this for sure. I'll review it!

I thought it was a horror story set in the Milan subway...

Better the previous ones