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Warren Nyer

Warren Nyer was 19, a physics student at Chicago, when he was hired as a research assistant with the Office of Scientific Research and Development, an early part of the bomb-building program. Nyer, although he did not have an undergraduate degree, traveled the circuit of the Plutonium Project: Chicago, Oak Ridge, Hanford, Los Alamos, Trinity. He later became a manage­ment consultant to electric utility firms.