James McCormack
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James McCormack Jr. was a United States Army officer who served in World War II, and was later the first Director of Military Applications of the United States Atomic Energy Commission.
James McCormack (right) is congratulated by Major General Lauris Norstad after being presented with the oak leaf cluster to his Legion of Merit
McCormack at West Point in 1932
Inscription from former AEC Chairman David E. Lilienthal to James McCormack from a copy of Lilienthal's 1963 book, Change, Hope and the Bomb.
Norris Bradbury
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Norris Edwin Bradbury was an American physicist who served as director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory for 25 years from 1945 to 1970. He succeeded Robert Oppenheimer, who personally chose Bradb
James McCormack
…thermonuclear weapons, then known as the "Super". McCormack became an early advocate of the Super, which promised yields in the megaton range, and directed Norris Bradbury at the Los Alamos National Laboratory to proceed with its development even at the detriment of other weapons. The debate over the merits of the Super…
Norris Bradbury
Bradbury's Los Alamos badge
Trinity Test, July 1945. Bradbury stands next to the partially assembled Gadget atop the test tower.
Bradbury (left) sits at a table with Leslie Groves of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project (center) and Eric Jette