D A Martin

Little Man D A Martin

February 1945 - Oppenheimer creates two nuclear weapons that would later be deployed over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A third bomb based on plutonium was never finished due to the high concentration of the isotope plutonium-240. February 2008 - A terrorist attack next to the Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center near Dimona ended the life of civilians and became the first "successful" terrorist attack in Israel in over a year. July 2008 - A spillage of over 18,000 liters of uranium solution were released in the Tricastin Nuclear Site in France, it was deemed an accident. November 2008 - Israel breaches the "cease-fire" with Hamas initiating Operation Double Challenge attacking a residential area in the Gaza Strip to destroy an underground tunnel allegedly used to capture Israeli soldiers and smuggle goods. These series of unrelated events shaped the life of Miles Jordan, the head physicist at the Tricastin Nuclear Site. A man on a journey to find himself. This is his story.