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Timeline of Events

1945

8.21.1945

Physicist Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

10.18.1945

The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

1946

5.21.1946

Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

1976

3.4.1976

The first Cray-1 supercomputer is shipped to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico.