When the nuclear bomb was being developed, no detonator precise or reliable enough to set it off existed. So, researchers at Los Alamos National Labs built one that was and dubbed it the Exploding-Bridgewire Detonator.
The historical rupture of the atomic bomb makes the moment it was dropped almost ahistorical—Hidezaku Furuya’s videogame documentary forces you to inhabit it as a crewmember of the Enola Gay. It’s quite startling.
