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How a Screwdriver Slip Caused a Fatal 1946 Atomic Accident

Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: A specially illustrated BBC story created by artist/writer Ben Platts-Mills tells the remarkable story of how a dangerous radioactive apparatus in the Manhattan Project killed a scientist in 1946. "Less than a year after the Trinity atomic bomb test," Platts-. ....

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