National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Edgar Sengier (1879 – 1963) was the director of Union Miniere du Haut Katanga. After being warned by British scientists regarding the potential danger were the uranium ore to fall into the wrong hands, Sengier decided to transport half the uranium stockpile from the Congo to the United States in 1940.
Walter Goodman joined the Special Engineer Detachment at Los Alamos in 1943. Goodman worked as an electrical engineer on the implosion bomb with Manhattan Project scientists Luis Alvarez and Harold Agnew.
John E. Cantlon served as a 2nd lieutenant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He participated in the mission to Nagasaki as the co-pilot of the Big Stink, though he was regularly assigned to the Necessary Evil.
