Who Invented the Trinity Nuclear Test’s Christy Gadget? Patents and Evidence from the Archives

Authors :: Mark B. Chadwick
Thomas Chadwick
Source :: Nuclear Technology. 207:S356-S373
Publication Year :: 2021
Publisher :: Informa UK Limited, 2021.
Abstract: The Christy Gadget is the informal name for the plutonium device detonated in the Trinity test on July 16, 1945. In September 1944, Robert Christy, working in the theoretical implosion group, propo...

Subjects :: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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