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| | John Hayward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | Vice Adm. John Hayward, a weapons expert who helped develop the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, in the closing days of World War II, died on Sunday, May 23rd, at his home in Atlantic Beach, Fla. He was 90. |
 | | In 1944 he joined the Manhattan Project, the wartime effort to design and build atomic weapons, and was assigned to the China Lake Naval Ordnance Test Station in California, where he helped develop the implosion components of the plutonium bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945. |
 | | He is survived by a son, John Jr., of Newport; four daughters, Shelley Klein of Fern Park, Fla., Marion Pontzer of Sterling, Va., Victoria Hayward of Neptune Beach, Fla., and Jennifer Bramhall of Oakland, Calif.; a sister, Marjorie Madey of Baton Rouge, La., 22 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren. |
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