Every brick Daghlian added to the assembly pushed the plutonium core incrementally closer to supercriticality. The experiment was designed to approach that threshold as closely as possible — and gather data. The Los Alamos physicists named experiments like this for a reason. Working late and alone, Daghlian's neutron monitor warned him. He stopped. He began to withdraw the final brick. And then he dropped it.
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