Science is humanity's never-ending quest to discover and understand the world around us.

But there are some things in this world that even the most avid scientists regret discovering,

from what's lurking in the deepest depths of Chernobyl to a mysterious sphere that can take decades off your life in the blink of an eye.

Well, I guess it's time to grab the holy water as we investigate the

cursed objects that science should have left alone.

You're listening. You're listening. You're listening. You're listening.

You're be amazed.

At the climax of World War II, the United States military dropped two atomic bombs known

as Little Boy and Fat Man on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The resulting devastation forced Japan to surrender, but if Japan hadn't surrendered,

the U.S. had a third atomic bomb in store.

Though technically, it was only the radioactive heart of the bomb that had been constructed,

a 14-pound subcritical mass of plutonium, some 3.5 inches in diameter.

After the war ended, the plutonium core was retained at Los Alamos Research Center for testing.

It was fondly nicknamed Rufus. However, soon after a series of fatalities, it would go by a new name, the Demon Corps.

Because it was designed to be placed in a bomb, the plutonium mass only had a slim margin before

it went supercritical.

This is where the bomb would achieve an exponential nuclear chain reaction.

In simpler terms, it had explode.

Scientists would test how close the bomb was to a supercritical state by lowering a half shell of beryllium, known as

the tamper, over the plutonium core. The tamper would reflect the neutrons emitted off

the radioactive plutonium and fire them back towards the core, causing more neutrons to be

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