Brian Dunne

Brian Boru Dunne II (January 8, 1924 - November 30, 2017) was Project Orion's chief scientist. Dunne worked on explosive model tests in Point Loma, San Diego alongside Jerry Astl and Morris Scharff. He continued to work for General Atomics and later started his own firm called Ship Systems.^[2]

Brian Dunne
Born	(1924-01-08)January 8, 1924 Santa Fe, New Mexico
Died	November 30, 2017(2017-11-30) (aged 93)[1] La Jolla, United States
Occupation	Aeronautical Engineer
Title	Orion's chief scientist

Project Orion

Dunne was the chief experimental scientist on Project Orion. He worked on Project Orion as an experimentalist. Dunne and Howard Kratz set up a facility for firing explosive-driven plasma jets as sample pusher-plate targets, after explosive-driven flights were cancelled.^{[citation needed]}

Media appearances

• History Undercover: Code Name Project Orion (1999) ^[3]
• To Mars by A-Bomb: The Secret History of Project Orion (BBC, 2003) ^[4]