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Stephen Kasunic

Mechanical EngineerLos Alamos, NM

EngineerManhattan Project Veteran
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Stephen Kasunic was a mechanical engineer. He worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, as a design engineer in the Weapons Experimental Experimental Physics (W-1) group on the steering committee for the gun-type bomb assembly. After the war, he continued to work at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Weapons Engineering (WX-1) as a project assistant chief engineer and then as chief design checker. 

Stephen Kasunic’s Timeline
1938 Received bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Detroit.

19431976 Oct 1st Worked at Los Alamos Laboratory until his retirement.

1998 Aug 29th Passed away.

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