The Rift

AUTHOR’S NOTE

I write factual fiction. I gather real events and add in a fictional premise and characters.

Area 51, aka Groom Lake, does have the third-longest runway in the world, and it was an alternative landing site for the space shuttle.

On August 21, 1945, Harry K. Daghlian did receive a fatal dose of radiation at Los Alamos and died twenty-five days later.

On May 21, 1946, Louis Slotin did receive a fatal dose from what Enrico Fermi did call the demon core.

There have been sixty criticality accidents involving nuclear material. So far. That have been reported.

Operation Paperclip did exist.

Unit 731 did exist.