Robert F. Christy, a former California Institute of Technology professor who helped design the trigger mechanism for the atomic bombs used in World War II, died Wednesday in Pasadena. He was 96.
On July 16, 1945, the first nuclear bomb exploded in the desert sands of New Mexico under the watchful gaze of Manhattan Project scientists. Known as the Trinity test, the blast marked the beginning ...
The Manhattan Project occurred between 1942 and 1946. It employed over 129,000 people at its peak and cost a total of $2 billion. The project produced the first working nuclear bombs and ushered in ...
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