Hard to believe they made it from discovery to deployment in less than 3 years
Hard to believe my Grandpa worked at Hanford in support of it in those 3 years, and Dad began working in the Hanford reactors in 1955.
Hard to believe I was in Nuke Weapons Tech school 46 years ago.
Third generation nuclear biz in 1971?
Likely not many of us.
How’s that third eyeball doin?..................
My dad worked on the Manhattan project.
He told me that at the time, he was living in an apartment. Seems he became friends with a science fiction buff who lived in the same building. The friend knew that my dad was working on some top secret military project. One day, to my dad’s shock, he announced that he had figured out what the project was. It seems that all discussion of atomic bombs had abruptly disappeared from sci-fi literature, so he concluded that the a-bomb was, in fact, the secret project.