deadhost.exe on Instagram: "On May 21, 1946, physicist Louis Slotin was performing a high stakes experiment known as “tickling the dragons tail” at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Slotin was using a 6.2 kilogram plutonium core, later known as the Demon Core, to establish the exact point of criticality. He was manually lowering a beryllium tamper over the core using only the blade of a flathead screwdriver to maintain a tiny gap that allowed neutrons to escape. The horror began