Harold Agnew, a former Los Alamos National Laboratory Director who worked on the Manhattan Project and later led the effort to train the first group of international atomic inspectors, died Sunday, his family announced. He was 92. 
  
 This 1970 photo provided by the Los Alamos National Laboratory shows Norris Bradbury, left, and Harold Agnew, right, the second and third directors of Los Alamos National Laboratory, posing for a photo.... (Associated Press) 
  
 Agnew died at his home in Solana Beach, California, while watching football and had been suffering from chronic lymphocytic leukemia, his family said. 
  
 According to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Agnew was its third director and served from 1970 to 1979. Under his leadership, Los Alamos developed an underground nuclear test containment program, acquired the first Cray supercomputer, and trained the first class of International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors. 
  
 He is credited with developing "fail-safe" methods for nuclear weapons that are still used today, the lab said. 
  
 "His contributions to the laboratory made us the institution we are today," current LANL Director Charlie McMillan said in a statement. "It was his vision _ decades ago _ that recognized that national security science brings value to a broad spectrum of breakthroughs. Los Alamos and the nation will be forever in Harold's debt." 
  
 During the Manhattan Project, a World War II program that provided enriched uranium for the atomic bomb, Agnew went to the top secret city of Los Alamos as a graduate student. He was a scientific observer on the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. 
  
 Agnew completed his graduate studies under Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago following World War II and returned to Los Alamos to work in the Weapons Nuclear Engineering division, where he stayed until he became lab director. 
  
 In a 1998 interview with the National Security Archive, a nonprofit group that examines formerly secret U.S. government documents, Agnew said he felt that the world wouldn't see another nuclear bomb attack but still had fears about one during the Cold War. 
  
 "I thought that we had such a retaliatory capability that no sane individual would attack the United States. I just didn't see that happening," Agnew said. "Clearly we were worried with the transport of missiles into Cuba, that being that close that could be a threat and in a way you could argue that Soviets were always very clever." 
  
 Following his career at Los Alamos, Agnew became president and CEO of General Atomics, a position he held until 1985. He chaired the General Advisory Committee of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and served as a science adviser to the White House from 1982 to 1989. 
  
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 Follow Russell Contreras at http://twitter.com/russcontreras ||||| Harold Agnew, a leading figure of the nuclear age who helped design the first atomic bomb as a member of the Manhattan Project, led efforts after World War II to make the weapons more secure and championed the development of nuclear power during a prodigious career that included nearly a decade as director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory has died. He was 92. 
  
 Harold Agnew: In the Oct. 2 LATExtra section, the obituary of nuclear physicist Harold Agnew, who helped design the atomic bomb as a member of the Manhattan Project, misspelled the last name of physicist Lawrence Johnston as Johnson. 
  
 Agnew died Sunday while watching football at his home in Solana Beach, Calif., his family said in a statement released by Los Alamos. He had chronic lymphocytic leukemia. 
  
 In a career that spanned more than 50 years, Agnew held a unique vantage point on the nuclear era. A physicist who trained under Enrico Fermi, he helped build the world's first reactor, flew alongside the Enola Gay when it dropped its devastating load on Hiroshima and headed Los Alamos' weaponry division during a prolific postwar period when the lab developed many new weapons, including the thermonuclear warhead for the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile. 
  
 "Harold was an innovator," said Los Alamos National Laboratory historian Alan Carr. "The vast majority of weapons in the nuclear stockpile were designed at Los Alamos and Harold had a hand in designing most of them — I'd say about 75%." 
  
 Agnew, in an interview with the BBC in 2005, said he considered his seminal contribution to building the U.S. nuclear arsenal to be "my legacy." He remained an unapologetic hawk throughout his life, even after many of the leading scientists of the early nuclear era, including Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer, expressed moral qualms about the bomb and its consequences. 
  
 "My feeling towards Hiroshima and the Japanese was, they bloody well deserved it," he told The Times in 1984. "The whole damn thing has been turned around as if we were the bad guys." 
  
 The blunt-spoken scientist had no qualms about advancing his views in Washington. He advised President Carter against a comprehensive ban on nuclear testing in 1978, arguing that it would not only halt the development of new weapons but weaken the deterrence value of the existing arsenal. The White House ultimately abandoned the idea of a test ban. 
  
 At the same time, Agnew spearheaded efforts to substantially improve nuclear security. In the early 1960s, during an inspection of nuclear caches in Europe, he discovered that the only security on an armed U.S. plane was a lone American soldier with a rifle and no training on how to respond to a threat. Under Agnew's tutelage, scientists at Los Alamos devised a coded safety system, called the permissive action link, to prevent arming a nuclear weapon without proper authorization. 
  
 Agnew oversaw the installation of the safety system on all nuclear weapons in Europe as scientific advisor to the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe from 1961 to 1964. 
  
 After the Cold War ended, he was instrumental in molding a new mission for Los Alamos, overseeing the creation of programs unrelated to defense, including projects involving nuclear energy, basic science and biomedical research. 
  
 During his nine-year tenure, Los Alamos also acquired the first Cray supercomputer, developed an underground test containment program and trained the first group of International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors. 
  
 "It was his vision — decades ago — that recognized that national security science brings value to a broad spectrum of breakthroughs. Los Alamos and the nation will be forever in Harold's debt," Los Alamos National Laboratory director Charlie McMillan said in a statement. 
  
 Harold Melvin Agnew was born in Denver on March 28, 1921. He earned a degree in chemistry from the University of Denver in 1942 and joined a research group headed by Fermi, the Italian-born physicist whose work led to the first controlled nuclear chain reaction in Chicago on Dec. 2, 1942. "The [radiation] counter would get going faster and faster," Agnew recalled in The Times about watching the reaction. "That was sort of exciting, but I really didn't understand what the implications were." 
  
 The implications became clearer when he followed Fermi to the Manhattan Project, the top-secret government program at Los Alamos, N.M., where the sole objective was to develop the atomic bomb. 
  
 Agnew was a member of the project from 1943 to 1946. On Aug. 6, 1945, he was aboard a B-29 flying parallel to the Enola Gay when the bomb was unleashed over Hiroshima. With fellow physicists Luis Alvarez and Lawrence Johnson, he measured the yield or force of the explosion using parachutes equipped with blast sensors. The team took turns observing the mushroom cloud through a tiny window. Agnew had brought along a 16-millimeter movie camera to take rare footage of the horrific event. 
  
 Eighty thousand people died in the explosion and thousands more perished later from radiation and other injuries. An additional 60,000 to 80,000 died as a result of the bombing of Nagasaki three days later. 
  
 After the war, Agnew earned his master's and doctorate from the University of Chicago and returned to Los Alamos in 1949. He continued to work on weapon development while serving as a New Mexico state senator, from 1955 to 1961. He was leader of the weapons division when he was named the director of the 7,000-employee lab in 1970. 
  
 In 1979, he left Los Alamos to become president of the San Diego company General Atomics, where he steered the innovation of new reactors, including the helium-cooled reactor. 
  
 Agnew, who retired in 1985, is survived by a son, John; a daughter, Nancy Chapman; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. 
  
 Although he never had regrets about his role in launching the U.S. into the nuclear age, Agnew said he would require every world leader to witness an atomic blast every five years while standing in his underwear "so he feels the heat and understands just what he's screwing around with," he told The Times, "because we're approaching an era where there aren't any of us left that have ever seen a megaton bomb go off. 
  
 "And once you've seen one, it's rather sobering." 
  
 elaine.woo@latimes.com |||||
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– Harold Agnew, a physicist who helped build the first atomic bomb and served as a director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, died yesterday at his home in Solana Beach, Calif. He was 92. Agnew, who was suffering from chronic lymphocytic leukemia, died while watching football on TV, the AP reports. A key figure in the nuclear age, Agnew also helped build the world's first reactor and many new weapons in the postwar period. "Harold was an innovator," says a Los Alamos historian, per the LA Times. "The vast majority of weapons in the nuclear stockpile were designed at Los Alamos and Harold had a hand in designing most of them—I'd say about 75%." Unlike many nuclear-era scientists, Agnew remained unapologetic for his contributions. He autographed the "Little Boy" bomb destined for Hiroshima, and flew in a plane alongside the Enola Gay, capturing the mushroom cloud on 16-mm film, the New York Times reports. "My feeling towards Hiroshima and the Japanese was, they bloody well deserved it," he said in a 1984 interview, per the LA Times. Agnew did, however, believe every world leader should be required to watch an atomic blast every five years ... while standing in their underwear. "We're approaching an era where there aren't any of us left that have ever seen a megaton bomb go off," he said. "And once you've seen one, it's rather sobering."
Harold Agnew, en före detta Los Alamos National Laboratory Director som arbetade med Manhattanprojektet och senare ledde ansträngningen att utbilda den första gruppen internationella atominspektörer, dog Sunday, meddelade hans familj. Han var 92. Detta 1970 foto tillhandahålls av Los Alamos National Laboratory visar Norris Bradbury, vänster, och Harold Agnew, höger, den andra och tredje regissören för Los Alamos National Laboratory, poserar för ett foto.... (Associated Press) Agnew dog i sitt hem i Solana Beach, Kalifornien, medan han tittade på fotboll och hade lidit av kronisk lymfatisk leukemi, sade hans familj. Enligt Los Alamos National Laboratory var Agnew dess tredje chef och tjänstgjorde 1970–1979. Under hans ledning utvecklade Los Alamos ett underjordiskt testinneslutningsprogram, förvärvade den första Cray-superdatorn och utbildade den första klassen av Internationella atomenergiorganets inspektörer. Han är krediterad med att utveckla "felsäkra" metoder för kärnvapen som används än idag, sade labbet. "Hans bidrag till laboratoriet gjorde oss till den institution vi är idag", sade nuvarande LANL-chefen Charlie McMillan i ett uttalande. "Det var hans vision _ decennier sedan _ som insåg att nationell säkerhetsvetenskap ger värde till ett brett spektrum av genombrott. Los Alamos och nationen kommer för alltid att stå i Harolds skuld." Under Manhattanprojektet, ett andra världskrigets program som gav anrikat uran till atombomben, begav sig Agnew till den topphemliga staden Los Alamos som doktorand. Han var vetenskaplig observatör vid bombningen av Hiroshima 1945 i Japan. Agnew avslutade sina forskarstudier under Enrico Fermi vid University of Chicago efter andra världskriget och återvände till Los Alamos för att arbeta inom avdelningen för kärnvapenteknik, där han stannade tills han blev labbchef. I en intervju med National Security Archive 1998, en ideell grupp som undersöker tidigare hemliga amerikanska regeringsdokument, sade Agnew att han ansåg att världen inte skulle se ytterligare en atombombsattack men fortfarande hade farhågor om en under kalla kriget. "Jag trodde att vi hade en sådan vedergällningsförmåga att ingen förnuftig individ skulle attackera USA. Jag såg bara inte att det skulle hända," sade Agnew. "Vi oroade oss för att missiler skulle transporteras till Kuba, att det kunde vara ett hot att vara så nära och på ett sätt hävda att sovjeterna alltid var väldigt smarta." Efter karriären på Los Alamos blev Agnew president och VD för General Atomics, en position han innehade fram till 1985. Han var ordförande i General Advisory Committee of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency och tjänstgjorde som vetenskapsrådgivare i Vita huset 1982–1989. ___ Följ Russell Contreras på http://twitter.com/russcontreras اللالدرة Harold Agnew, en ledande person i kärnvapenåldern som hjälpte till att utforma den första atombomben som medlem i Manhattanprojektet, ledde efter andra världskriget ansträngningar för att göra vapnen säkrare och förfäktade utvecklingen av kärnkraften under en underbar karriär som omfattade nästan ett decennium som direktör för Los Alamos National Laboratory har avlidit. Han var 92. Harold Agnew: I LATEXTRA-avsnittet, dödsannonsen för kärnfysikern Harold Agnew, som hjälpte till att utforma atombomben som medlem av Manhattanprojektet, felstavade fysikern Lawrence Johnstons efternamn som Johnson. Agnew dog söndagen medan han tittade på fotboll hemma i Solana Beach, Calif., hans familj sade i ett uttalande som släpptes av Los Alamos. Han hade kronisk lymfatisk leukemi. Under en karriär som sträckte sig över mer än 50 år hade Agnew en unik utsiktspunkt på kärnvapentiden. En fysiker som utbildade sig under Enrico Fermi, han hjälpte till att bygga världens första reaktor, flög vid sidan av Enola Gay när den släppte sin förödande last på Hiroshima och ledde Los Alamos vapendivision under en produktiv efterkrigsperiod då labbet utvecklade många nya vapen, bland annat termonukleära stridsspetsen för den Minuteman interkontinentala ballistiska roboten. "Harold var en innovatör," sade Los Alamos National Laboratory historiker Alan Carr. "De allra flesta vapen i kärnvapenlagret konstruerades i Los Alamos och Harold hade en hand i att utforma de flesta av dem - jag skulle säga ungefär 75%." Agnew sade i en intervju med BBC 2005 att han ansåg att hans sädesliga bidrag till att bygga USA:s kärnvapenarsenal var "mitt arv". Han förblev en oapologtisk hök under hela sitt liv, även efter att många av den tidiga kärnvapentidens ledande vetenskapsmän, däribland Albert Einstein och J. Robert Oppenheimer, uttryckt moraliska betänkligheter om bomben och dess konsekvenser. "Min känsla för Hiroshima och japanerna var, de förtjänade det för fan", berättade han för The Times 1984. "Det hela har vänts som om vi vore skurkarna." Den rättframme vetenskapsmannen tvekade inte att föra fram sina åsikter i Washington. Han avrådde president Carter från ett omfattande förbud mot kärnvapenprov 1978, och hävdade att det inte bara skulle stoppa utvecklingen av nya vapen utan också försvaga den befintliga arsenalens avskräckande värde. Vita huset övergav i slutändan idén om ett testförbud. Samtidigt gick Agnew i spetsen för ansträngningarna för att avsevärt förbättra kärnsäkerheten. I början av 1960-talet upptäckte han under en inspektion av kärnvapencache i Europa att den enda säkerheten på ett beväpnat amerikanskt plan var en ensam amerikansk soldat med gevär och ingen utbildning i hur man skulle reagera på ett hot. Under Agnews ledning uppfann forskare vid Los Alamos ett kodat säkerhetssystem, kallat den tillåtande aktionslänken, för att förhindra beväpning av ett kärnvapen utan vederbörligt tillstånd. Agnew övervakade installationen av säkerhetssystemet på alla kärnvapen i Europa som vetenskaplig rådgivare till den högste allierade befälhavaren i Europa 1961–1964. Efter det kalla krigets slut var han med och formade ett nytt uppdrag för Los Alamos, och övervakade skapandet av program som inte hade med försvar att göra, bland annat projekt som involverade kärnkraft, grundvetenskap och biomedicinsk forskning. Under sin nioåriga anställning förvärvade Los Alamos även den första Cray superdatorn, utvecklade ett underjordiskt testinneslutningsprogram och utbildade den första gruppen av Internationella atomenergiorganets inspektörer. "Det var hans vision — för årtionden sedan — som insåg att nationell säkerhetsvetenskap ger värde åt ett brett spektrum av genombrott. Los Alamos och nationen kommer för alltid att stå i Harolds skuld", sa Los Alamos National Laboratory-direktören Charlie McMillan i ett uttalande. Harold Melvin Agnew föddes i Denver den 28 mars 1921. Han avlade kemiexamen vid University of Denver 1942 och anslöt sig till en forskargrupp under ledning av Fermi, den italienskfödde fysikern vars arbete ledde till den första kontrollerade kärnkedjereaktionen i Chicago 2 dec 1942. "[strålnings]räknaren skulle komma snabbare och snabbare", erinrade sig Agnew i The Times om att titta på reaktionen. "Det var lite spännande, men jag förstod inte vad det innebar." Konsekvenserna blev tydligare när han följde Fermi till Manhattanprojektet, det topphemliga regeringsprogrammet vid Los Alamos, N.M., där det enda målet var att utveckla atombomben. Agnew var medlem i projektet från 1943 till 1946. Den 6 augusti 1945 var han ombord på en B-29 som flög parallellt med Enola Gay när bomben släpptes lös över Hiroshima. Tillsammans med fysikerna Luis Alvarez och Lawrence Johnson mätte han explosionens avkastning eller kraft med hjälp av fallskärmar utrustade med sprängsensorer. Teamet turades om att observera svampmolnet genom ett litet fönster. Agnew hade tagit med sig en 16-millimeters filmkamera för att ta sällsynta bilder av den fasansfulla händelsen. Åttiotusen människor dog i explosionen och ytterligare tusentals omkom senare av strålning och andra skador. Ytterligare mellan 60.000 och 80.000 dog till följd av bombningen av Nagasaki tre dagar senare. Efter kriget intjänade Agnew sin magister- och doktorsgrad från University of Chicago och återvände till Los Alamos 1949. Han fortsatte att arbeta med vapenutveckling samtidigt som han tjänstgjorde som delstaten New Mexicos senator, från 1955 till 1961. Han var ledare för vapendivisionen när han 1970 utsågs till direktör för det 7 000 anställda labbet. 1979 lämnade han Los Alamos för att bli president för San Diego-företaget General Atomics, där han styrde innovationen av nya reaktorer, bland annat den heliumkylda reaktorn. Agnew, som pensionerades 1985, överlever av en son, John; en dotter, Nancy Chapman; fyra barnbarn och tre barnbarnsbarn. Även om han aldrig ångrade sin roll i att sjösätta USA in i kärnvapenåldern sa Agnew att han skulle kräva att varje världsledare bevittnar en atombomb vart femte år medan han står i sina underkläder "så han känner värmen och förstår precis vad han jävlas med", sade han till The Times, "för vi närmar oss en era där det inte finns någon av oss kvar som någonsin har sett en megatonbomb explodera. "Och när du har sett en, är det ganska nyktra." elaine.woo@latimes.com <unk> <unk> Vad är en sammanfattning på ett stycke av ovanstående artikel?
Harold Agnew, a former Los Alamos National Laboratory Director who worked on the Manhattan project and later led the effort to train the first group of international atomic inspectors, died Sunday, his family announced. He was 92. This 1970 photo is provided by the Los Alamos National Laboratory shows Norris Bradbury, left, and Harold Agnew, right, the second and third director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, posing for a photo.... (Associated Press) Agnew died at his home in Solana Beach, California, while watching football and had suffered from chronic lymphocytic leukemia, his family said. According to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Agnew was its third director and served from 1970 to 1979. Under his leadership, Los Alamos developed an underground test containment program, acquired the first Cray supercomputer and trained the first class of International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors. He is credited with developing "failure" methods for nuclear weapons used to this day, the lab said. "His contribution to the laboratory made us the institution we are today," said current LANL chief Charlie McMillan in a statement. "It was his vision _ decades ago _ that realized that national security science brings value to a wide range of breakthroughs. Los Alamos and the nation will forever be in Harold's debt." During the Manhattan Project, a World War II program that gave enriched uranium to the atomic bomb, Agnew went to the top secret city of Los Alamos as a graduate student. He was a scientific observer at the 1945 Hiroshima bombing in Japan. Agnew completed his graduate studies under Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago after World War II and returned to Los Alamos to work in the Department of Nuclear Engineering, where he stayed until he became lab manager. In an interview with the National Security Archive in 1998, a non-profit group investigating previously secret U.S. government documents, Agnew said he felt the world would not see another atomic bomb attack but still had concerns about one during the Cold War. "I thought we had such retaliatory capacity that no sensible individual would attack the United States. I just didn't see that happen," Agnew said. "We worried that missiles would be transported to Cuba, that it could be a threat to be so close and in a way claim that the Soviets were always very smart." After his career at Los Alamos, Agnew became president and CEO of General Atomics, a position he held until 1985. He was chairman of the General Advisory Committee of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and served as a science adviser at the White House from 1982 to 1989. ___ Follow Russell Contreras at http://twitter.com/russcontreras <unk> Harold Agnew, a leading nuclear age figure who helped design the first atomic bomb as a member of the Manhattan Project, led efforts after World War II to make the weapons safer and championed the development of nuclear power during a wonderful career that included nearly a decade as director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory has died. He was 92. Harold Agnew: In the LATEXTRA episode, the obituary of nuclear physicist Harold Agnew, who helped design the atomic bomb as a member of the Manhattan project, physicist Lawrence misspelled Johnston's surname as Johnson. Agnew died Sunday while watching football at home in Solana Beach, Calif., his family said in a statement released by Los Alamos. He had chronic lymphocytic leukemia. During a career spanning more than 50 years, Agnew had a unique vantage point in nuclear times. A physicist who trained under Enrico Fermi, he helped build the world's first reactor, flew alongside Enola Gay when it dropped its devastating cargo on Hiroshima and led the Los Alamos weapons division during a prolific post-war period when the lab developed many new weapons, including the thermonuclear warhead for the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile. "Harold was an innovator," said Los Alamos National Laboratory historian Alan Carr. "The vast majority of weapons in the nuclear stockpile were constructed in Los Alamos and Harold had a hand in designing most of them - I would say about 75%." Agnew said in an interview with the BBC in 2005 that he felt his grain contribution to building the U.S. nuclear arsenal was "my legacy". He remained an unapologetic hawk throughout his life, even after many of the leading scientists of the early nuclear era, including Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer, expressed moral misgivings about the bomb and its consequences. "My feeling for Hiroshima and the Japanese was, they deserved it for fuck's sake," he told The Times in 1984. "It's all turned around like we're the bad guys." The straightforward scientist did not hesitate to present his views in Washington. He advised President Carter against an extensive ban on nuclear testing in 1978, claiming that it would not only stop the development of new weapons but also weaken the deterrent value of the existing arsenal. The White House ultimately abandoned the idea of a test ban. At the same time, Agnew spearheaded efforts to significantly improve nuclear safety. In the early 1960s, during a nuclear cache inspection in Europe, he discovered that the only security on an armed American plane was a lone American soldier with rifles and no training in how to react to a threat. Under Agnews' leadership, scientists at Los Alamos invented a coded security system, called the permitting action link, to prevent the arming of a nuclear weapon without proper permission. Agnew oversaw the installation of the security system on all nuclear weapons in Europe as scientific advisor to the highest Allied commander in Europe from 1961 to 1964. After the end of the Cold War, he co-formed a new mission for Los Alamos, overseeing the creation of programs unrelated to defense, including projects involving nuclear power, basic science, and biomedical research. During his nine-year tenure, Los Alamos also acquired the first Cray supercomputer, developed an underground test containment program and trained the first group of International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors. "It was his vision — decades ago — that realized that national security science is bringing value to a wide range of breakthroughs. Los Alamos and the nation will forever be in Harold's debt," said Los Alamos National Laboratory director Charlie McMillan in a statement. Harold Melvin Agnew was born in Denver on 28 March 1921. He obtained a degree in chemistry from the University of Denver in 1942 and joined a research group led by Fermi, the Italian-born physicist whose work led to the first controlled nuclear chain reaction in Chicago Dec. 2, 1942. "[radiation] counter would come faster and faster," Agnew recalled in The Times about looking at the reaction. "It was a bit exciting, but I didn't understand what it meant." The consequences became clearer as he followed Fermi to the Manhattan Project, the top secret government program at Los Alamos, N.M., where the only goal was to develop the atomic bomb. Agnew was a member of the project from 1943 to 1946. On 6 August 1945, he was aboard a B-29 flying parallel to Enola Gay when the bomb was unleashed over Hiroshima. Along with physicists Luis Alvarez and Lawrence Johnson, he measured the output or power of the explosion using parachutes equipped with blast sensors. The team took turns observing the mushroom cloud through a small window. Agnew had brought a 16-millimeter film camera to take rare pictures of the horrific event. Eighty thousand people died in the explosion and thousands more later died of radiation and other injuries. Another 60,000 to 80,000 died as a result of the bombing of Nagasaki three days later. After the war, Agnew earned his master's and doctorate from the University of Chicago and returned to Los Alamos in 1949. He continued to work in gun development while serving as New Mexico State Senator, from 1955 to 1961. He was the leader of the arms division when he was appointed director of the 7,000 employee lab in 1970. In 1979, he left Los Alamos to become president of the San Diego company General Atomics, where he governed the innovation of new reactors, including the helium-cooled reactor. Agnew, who retired in 1985, is survived by a son, John; a daughter, Nancy Chapman; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Although he never regretted his role in launching the United States into the nuclear age, Agnew said he would require every world leader to witness an atomic bomb every five years while standing in his underwear "so he feels the heat and understands exactly what he's messing with," he told The Times, "because we're approaching an era where there's no one of us left who's ever seen a megaton bomb explode. "And when you've seen one, it's pretty sober." elaine.woo@latimes.com <unk> <unk> What is a summary of a paragraph of the above article?
– Harold Agnew, en fysiker som hjälpte till att bygga den första atombomben och tjänstgjorde som chef för Los Alamos National Laboratory, dog igår i sitt hem i Solana Beach, Calif. Han var 92. Agnew, som led av kronisk lymfatisk leukemi, dog medan han tittade på fotboll på TV, rapporterar AP. En nyckelperson i kärnvapenåldern, Agnew hjälpte också till att bygga världens första reaktor och många nya vapen under efterkrigstiden. "Harold var en innovatör", säger en Los Alamos-historiker, enligt LA Times. "De allra flesta vapen i kärnvapenlagret konstruerades i Los Alamos och Harold hade en hand i att utforma de flesta av dem – jag skulle säga ungefär 75%." Till skillnad från många kärn-era forskare förblev Agnew oapologetisk för sina bidrag. Han signerade "Lilla pojken"-bomben avsedd för Hiroshima, och flög i ett plan vid sidan av Enola Gay, och fångade svampmolnet på 16-mm film, rapporterar New York Times. "Min känsla för Hiroshima och japanerna var, de förtjänade det för fan", sade han i en intervju 1984, per LA Times. Agnew ansåg dock att varje världsledare borde tvingas se en atombomb vart femte år... medan han stod i deras underkläder. "Vi närmar oss en era där det inte finns någon av oss kvar som någonsin har sett en megaton bomb explodera", sa han. "Och när du har sett en, är det ganska nyktra."
“Harold Agnew, a physicist who helped build the first atomic bomb and served as head of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, died yesterday at his home in Solana Beach, Calif. He was 92. Agnew, who suffered from chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, died while watching football on television, reports AP. A key figure in the nuclear age, Agnew also helped build the world's first reactor and many new weapons in the post-war era. "Harold was an innovator," says a Los Alamos historian, according to the LA Times. "The vast majority of weapons in the nuclear stockpile were constructed in Los Alamos and Harold had a hand in designing most of them—I would say about 75%." Unlike many nuclear-era scientists, Agnew remained unapologetic for his contributions. He signed the "Little Boy" bomb intended for Hiroshima, and flew in a plane alongside Enola Gay, capturing the mushroom cloud on 16-mm film, reports the New York Times. "My sense of Hiroshima and the Japanese was, they deserved it for fuck's sake," he said in a 1984 interview, per LA Times. Agnew felt, however, that every world leader should be forced to see an atomic bomb every five years... while standing in their underwear. "We're approaching an era where there's no one left of us who's ever seen a megaton bomb explode," he said. "And when you've seen one, it's pretty sober."