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WHEN HE TALKS about the Manhattan Project and all his wartime research, Kistiakowsky repeatedly states that he alone is not responsible for the breakthroughs. He says always, "Me and a great many other people ..." In fact, he established and ran the conventional Explosives Research Laboratory in Bruceton, Pa. And in 1944, he became chief of the explosives division of the Manhattan Project. "In retrospect," Kistiakowsky said. "I saw myself as a technician who tried to carry out the policies of 'statesman', never challenging them. That is the spirit in which I worked during...
During World War II, he became chief of the Explosives Division of the National Defense Research Committee. He established and ran the Explosives Research Laboratory at Bruceton, Pa., and helped to establish a second laboratory, for underwater explosives research, at Woods Hole...
...became a U.S. citizen, settled down at Harvard in 1930 to teach and to do research work on the origins of chemical reactions. As chief of the explosives division of the National Defense Research Committee in World War II, he organized and ran a 600-man explosives laboratory in Bruceton, Pa. Once Kistiakowsky got a rush assignment from the OSS: the allies needed an explosive that could be used for sabotage work in Europe and the Far East; it had to be easy to carry, innocent in appearance. Kistiakowsky's imaginative product was an explosive that looked like flour...