The Black Hole of Los Alamos Will Sell You A $5 Atomic Bomb Detonator Cable
Posted by Alex_Pasternack on Thursday, Aug 19, 2010
The Black Hole is a surplus store in Los Alamos, New Mexico, located not far from where the first nuclear test (and many more) took place 65 years ago last month.
It’s not your typical souvenir store; they recycle a smörgåsbord of scientific equipment, electronics, lab supplies, nuclear by-products, and other materials related to the Manhattan Project (see an inventory here, including detonator cables and giant old calculators , but no bombs). Amanda Condon of SometimesDaily visited them over the winter.
The best part is when founder “Atomic” Ed Grothus (above) decided to send some canned “organic plutonium” to President Clinton. The Secret Service didn’t like that very much. Because, you know, plutonium will kill you.
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