Comments on: Christy’s Gadget: Reflections on a death

By: Three losses | Restricted Data

Three losses | Restricted Data — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:57:19 +0000

[...] last generation of people who worked on the first atomic bombs is passing away. The bomb still exists. We should be doing more to preserve these sites, even if they make us [...]

By: George Gamow and the atomic bomb | Restricted Data

George Gamow and the atomic bomb | Restricted Data — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:50:34 +0000

[...] Robert Christy usually gets the credit for the solid core. It was Teller’s initial idea, but it was Christy who proved it would work. [↩] [...]

By: Bill Higgins

Bill Higgins — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 14:22:08 +0000

Three cheers!

By: Fred deSousa

Fred deSousa — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:45:05 +0000

Alex,

We’ve restored the history site. We’re hoping to upgrade it for the Lab’s 70th anniversary commemoration next year, but will stay in the meantime. http://www.lanl.gov/history/

We’re proud of our history and look forward to the next 70 years. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Regards,

Fred deSousa
Los Alamos National Laboratory

By: Alex Wellerstein

Alex Wellerstein — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:49:49 +0000

Thank you for passing that on!

By: BJR

BJR — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:28:22 +0000

Alex,

Very sorry to see another Manhattan Project veteran pass. You may already be aware of it but the late Wolfgang K.H. “Pief” Panofsky organized an event to note the 60th anniversary of the Trinity test at the National Academy of Sciences in 2005. Documents, audio files and a transcript from the event are archived here: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/cisac/PGA_049740 and http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/cisac/PGA_049739 Dr. Christy and 10 other scientists detail their experiences on the day of the test and during the Manhattan project. Many of the talks are rather remarkable, especially Dr. Donald Hornig’s account of “babysitting the live bomb” in the tower during the lighting storm the night before the test, I recall that his account was broadcast on NPR after the 2005 event – BJR

By: Alex Wellerstein

Alex Wellerstein — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 15:48:46 +0000

They have told me, over the phone, that they might put it back up if people like you and me let them know we miss it. I hope they do. It was waaay better than anything Livermore had ever put up. (Hint, hint.) I have copies of almost all (~140) of the PDF documents they put on the old site, though, for what that's worth.

By: Patrick McCray

Patrick McCray — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:19:54 +0000

The loss of the LANL web site was a real bummer.