Christy Pit Definition
noun
An early design of pit (core of an implosion -type nuclear weapon ), used in the detonation over Nagasaki , Japan , in August 1945.
The principal insight behind the Christy pit was that a solid, subcritical core of plutonium could be compressed to criticality.
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Origin of Christy Pit
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Named after Canadian-American physicist Robert F. Christy , who worked on the Manhattan Project to produce the first nuclear weapons.
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