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When I say "we" I mean Luis Alvarez and me. Of course there were others involved. I was just out of Berkeley as a physics major when the War in Europe started (I was born in 1918), and I hitched the start of my career to this fascinating man, Alvarez. | When I say "we" I mean Luis Alvarez and me. Of course there were others involved. I was just out of Berkeley as a physics major when the War in Europe started (I was born in 1918), and I hitched the start of my career to this fascinating man, Alvarez. | ||
[[Image:Alvarez2.jpg|thumb|left|Luiz Alverez (From Discovering Alverez)]] | [[Image:Alvarez2.jpg|thumb|left|Luiz Alverez (From Discovering Alverez)]] [[Image:Ernest_O._Lawrence.jpg|thumb|right|Ernest Lawrence]] | ||
Revision as of 13:00, 17 September 2008
Adventures at Wartime Los Alamos
Contributors: Lawrence Johnston, IEEE Life Fellow. Submitted on his behalf by the IEEE History Center Staff.
This article will discuss three major topics. First about how we experienced life in wartime Los Alamos. Second, the work we did on the Fat Man Implosion type of bomb, and third, the three wartime bomb events: the Trinity Test of the Fat Man bomb, and the job that took us to the Tinian Pacific base, and the delivery missions of the bombs to Japan - Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
When I say "we" I mean Luis Alvarez and me. Of course there were others involved. I was just out of Berkeley as a physics major when the War in Europe started (I was born in 1918), and I hitched the start of my career to this fascinating man, Alvarez.
