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HAROLD M. AGNEW
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... SCHWARZ HAROLD MELVIN AGNEW, a scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project that gave the United States its first atomic bomb and who later became the third director of Los Alamos National Laboratory, died September 29, 2013, at his home in Solana Beach, California.
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... Under his leadership, the laboratory developed an underground test containment program, completed the Meson Physics Facility, acquired its first Cray supercomputer, and trained the first class of International Atomic Energy Agency weapons inspectors. Los Alamos was commissioned with developing the W76 device,
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... . Along with Nobel Laureate Hans Bethe, he was the first to receive the Los Alamos National Laboratory Medal (2001)
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... Maybe it will turn around." In a 2005 BBC interview he said, "About three quarters of the US nuclear arsenal was designed under my tutelage at Los Alamos. That is my legacy." Harold Agnew had an impressive life that paralleled the development of nuclear energy: He participated in the first controlled nuclear chain reaction; assisted in the development of the first atomic bomb; witnessed the first (and only)
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