Moving Into Nuclear Research
After his studies in radar, Titterton decided to pursue an interest in nuclear technology and joined the British Scientific Mission in USA, which was working on the development of the first nuclear weapons. In July 1945 he was a senior member of the timing group that fired the first nuclear weapon at Alamogordo, New Mexico. A year later he was promoted to Chief Instrumentation Advisor to the Task Force Commander at the Bikini Atoll nuclear weapons testing facility. For the following year, he was Head of Electronics in the Los Alamos laboratory.
For the next three years, Titterton headed Nuclear Emulsion and Cloud Chamber Research at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment in Harwell, Oxfordshire.
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