Explosives Tech

explosives technician who conducted early testing at the Manhattan Project because she had small fingers & could easily reach inside bombs to set triggers; she and her group tested various configurations of the conventional explosives assemblies that would be used to detonate both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki weapons & were the assembly crew for the world's first nuclear explosion, code-named Trinity, which took place at the Alamogordo Bombing Range in a desert area of south-central New Mexico on July 16, 1945;

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Category:
Airplane Mechanic

Completion Status:
yes

Patent Number:
N/A

Co-Inventor:
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