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A. W. Betts

ColonelLos Alamos, NM

Manhattan Project VeteranMilitary VeteranProvisional Engineer Detachment

Colonel Austin Wortham “Cy” Betts worked under General Kenneth D. Nichols during the Manhattan Project. He was J. Robert Oppenheimer’s deputy at Los Alamos.

Cy Betts was an observer of Operation Crossroads in 1946.

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