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joe_bleau · 2009-04-15 · Original thread
Read "The Deadly Fuze" by Ralph Belknap Baldwin for the story behind the VT fuze development. It's a great engineering story.

http://www.amazon.com/deadly-fuze-secret-weapon-World/dp/089...

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