Editing Exploding-bridgewire detonator (section)

== History ==
The EBW was invented by [[Luis Walter Alvarez|Luis Alvarez]] and [[Lawrence H. Johnston|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 system with two EBW "horns" attached to a single booster charge, which then fired each of the 32 explosive lens units.<ref name="Coster-Mullen">
{{cite book
 |last=Coster-Mullen
 |first=John

 |author-link=John Coster-Mullen 
 |title=Atom Bombs: The Top Secret Inside Story of Little Boy and Fat Man
 |year=2002
 |publisher=John Coster-Mullen
 |chapter=Chapter 5: Fat Man
 |pages=59–66, 218–220
 |oclc=51283880
 |id=ASIN B0006S2AJ0
}}</ref><ref name="RISI-History">{{cite web |title= RISI Industries Technical Topics 05-93 History |url=http://www.teledynerisi.com/1techtopics/pdf/0593.pdf |publisher=RISI Industries |date=May 1993 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006013132/http://www.teledynerisi.com/1techtopics/pdf/0593.pdf |archivedate=October 6, 2011 |accessdate=July 14, 2017}}
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