And there was their human sacrifice
Although it was a potentially deadly experiment, Slotin had performed the crit test more than two dozen times before. The physicists involved that afternoon had been part of the team that designed the atomic bombs that annihilated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This test was being done in anticipation of the Operation Crossroads test, which would take place at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands a month later.