Christy pit
Meaning
Noun
- An early design of pit (core of an implosion-type nuclear weapon), used in the detonation over Nagasaki, Japan, in August 1945.
Origin
- Named after Canadian-American physicist Robert F. Christy, who worked on the Manhattan Project to produce the first nuclear weapons.
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