63 years ago today, the United States detonated the first atomic bomb at Trinity.
There he prepared and directed a facility for the first explosion of a nuclear bomb, the “Trinity Test.” Following the fearsomely successful explosion early in the morning of July 16, 1945, he congratulated J. Robert Oppenheimer and the others, then made his legendary remark, “Now we are all sons of bitches.” Oppenheimer later remarked that this was the best thing anyone had said just after the test. Ken subsequently was deeply dedicated to the control of nuclear weapons.
(via matt fraction’s twitter, wired, harvard university gazette)
