History
The EBW was invented by Luis Alvarez and Lawrence Johnston for the Fat Man-type bombs of the Manhattan Project, during their work in Los Alamos National Laboratory. The Fat Man Model 1773 EBW detonators used an unusual, high reliability detonator systems with two EBW "horns" attached to a single booster charge, which then fired each of the 32 explosive lens units.
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