Daily MOS: The Windscale Fire
They started to produce tritium at Windscale in a reactor ill-designed for it. It’s a bastard isotope with a bad attitude and two neutrons.
WWII
Daily MOS: The Minnesota Starvation Experiment
At the guinea pig unit, 500 conscientious objectors volunteered to take part in medical experiments. Ancel Keys’ starvation experiment was one of them.
Daily MOS: The Bioterrorist Ransom of Anthrax Island
How does that conversation go? “Yeah, I need a test site. Uh-huh, anthrax. Yes, a whole island.”Will 80 sheep off the coast of Scotland do?”
Daily MOS: Porton Down & Ethics in Experimentation
A more accurate name would be “Porton Down: we killed so many bunnies it got weird.”
Daily MOS: na na na na na na na na BAT BOMBS
Napalm Loaded Hibernating Mexican Free-Tailed Bats. Now that’s my goddamn band name.
Daily MOS: The Demon Core
At the end of WWII, we had the unused heart of a nuclear bomb sitting around waiting to fuck shit up. Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory couldn’t be expected to just leave it alone. It was so shiny. So new. So full of untapped data.