“In a small shed at the top of a 100-foot-tall steel tower deep in the New Mexico desert, Donald Hornig sat next to the world’s first atomic bomb in the late evening of July 15, 1945, reading a book of humorous essays. A storm raged, and he shuddered at each lightning flash.”
Donald Hornig has died at age 92. He was the last man to “baby-sit” the original A-bomb before it was detonated and changed history.