Company Overview
During the Manhattan project, a tricky technical problem emerged regarding energy levels of the conventional explosive stage of the first nuclear weapon. There was acute disagreement between the explosives experts and the physicists as to what exactly the problem was. A gifted technician on the project named Berlin Brixner had the idea to take a high speed picture. He was familiar with the work of Cearcy D. Miller, who had demonstrated the principle of relaying an image at high speeds through a rotating mirror in the 1930's.