Archive image from page 106 of Dahlgren (1977). Dahlgren dahlgren00mcco Year: 1977 The Manhattan and Elsie Projects 97 Mr. Meyers was the Head of Dahlgren's Special Projects Division for test and evaluation of nuclear devices. knew they were working on something that was highly classified, but they didn't have the overall perspective. Dahlgren had several of the small pieces. I think Dr. Kemper mentioned determining aerodynamic properties of a shape which could be dropped from an aircraft. At that time, I was working in the Light Armor Division, and we tested peculiar little pieces of ell
Archive image from page 106 of Dahlgren (1977). Dahlgren dahlgren00mcco Year: 1977 The Manhattan and Elsie Projects 97 Mr. Meyers was the Head of Dahlgren's Special Projects Division for test and evaluation of nuclear devices. knew they were working on something that was highly classified, but they didn't have the overall perspective. Dahlgren had several of the small pieces. I think Dr. Kemper mentioned determining aerodynamic properties of a shape which could be dropped from an aircraft. At that time, I was working in the Light Armor Division, and we tested peculiar little pieces of elliptically shaped armor plate that we were told were highly classified and which I'm now sure were partsof the armor that went around an atomic device. We didn't know that then. We just knew we were doing something that was very urgent and that we couldn't talk about it. There may have been other pieces here and there at Dahlgren that I didn't know about. I believe that later on, when they determined that atomic devices could be built, the first atomic weapon device was built under the Manhattan Project. I'm not too sure about that, but the device that evolved was carried out to Alamogordo, New Mexico, and set up on top of a 100-foot tower and tested. Dr. William A. Kemper, former physicist at the Dahlgren Laboratory, was interviewed, regarding the Dahlgren history, by Jack Brooks, Jr., at Dahlgren in January 1975.
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