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  • WOT: Explosives Expert (Vietnamese-American in charge of developing bunker-buster)

    05/01/2006 12:47:51 PM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 15 replies · 1,085+ views
    Washington Post ^ | 04/27/06 | Robin Tierney
    Explosives Expert Anh Duong, 46, Laurel By Robin Tierney Special to The Washington Post Sunday, April 30, 2006; Page M03 Explosives expert Anh Duong led the team that, in just 67 days, developed the first U.S. thermobaric bomb -- a device that detonates a cloud of chemicals and creates shock waves that destroy everything in its range. Called the "bunker buster," the weapon was designed to destroy enemy cave and tunnel command posts in the post-Sept. 11 Afghanistan war. Now, as a science advisor at the Pentagon, she devises anti-terrorism technologies. Duong, who at age 15 fled Vietnam with her...
  • A Race To Get A New Bomb For Cave War [re: thermobaric BLU-118/B]

    08/05/2002 7:56:18 AM PDT · by Stand Watch Listen · 12 replies · 456+ views
    Baltimore Sun | August 4, 2002 | Robert Little
    <p>Weapon: An inspired team of scientists in Maryland rushed to build a device that could wipe out the mountain hideouts of Taliban and al-Qaida forces.</p> <p>Destruction of the cave's mouth was frighteningly complete. The bomb had skipped through the entrance and erupted in a violent spray of jagged steel, blasting the walls and floor into dust. Where there was wood, suddenly just ash and vapor.</p>