>>12757695I don't think they're laughing at America or even the Manhattan Project in general. All the memes I've seen look like they're laughing at the very premise of having such a cavalier attitude towards something so dangerous, or at most, laughing at Slotin.
And it always is Louis Slotin that is the target of these memes, not Harry Daghlian (it killed two guys in two different incidents, remember?) Why is that? Because Harry Daghlian butterfingered a brick but he wasn't willfully in disregard of safety procedures when it happened. His death was what you could call a legitimate accident. Louis Slotin though? He was known for idiotic bravado. He was deliberately violating safety procedures to be a showoff, other people told him this, and told him that he'd die if he kept doing it. He kept doing it anyway. His screwdriver stunt was incredibly moronic, which is why the screwdriver stunt specifically is the subject of these memes.
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