William Sterling Parsons17 September 1943
The Los Alamos gun-assembly programme fires its first test shot while concentrating on a high-velocity plutonium gun design.
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The Los Alamos gun-assembly programme fires its first test shot while concentrating on a high-velocity plutonium gun design.
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