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American physicist Harry Daghlian's radiation-burned right hand 9 days after he had manually stopped a prompt critical fission reaction during an accident with a plutonium sphere, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States, 29 August 1945; he would die from radiation poisoning 16 days later. NSFW 800x590

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