National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Reginald C. Augustine served in the Army Air Corps during World War II. In 1944, he was assigned to the Alsos Mission, the Manhattan Project’s counterintelligence mission in Europe to determine how far Nazi Germany had gotten on the path to building an atomic bomb.
Harry Daghlian (1921-1945) was an American physicist. He died in 1945 from radiation poisoning after a criticality accident at Los Alamos.
