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‘The Bomb Lady’ and the Forerunner of the ‘Bunker Buster’ Used in Iran

While a child in wartime Vietnam, Anh Duong vowed to one day help the soldiers who saved her. She and her Navy team helped revolutionize American munitions.

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Anh Duong led a team of U.S. military scientists that created an explosive in the same family as the bunker buster used in Iran.

In a Year of Working Dangerously, Fear of Trump Marks Public Service Awards

The Trump administration’s large cuts to the federal work force turned an annual celebration of federal workers into a reminder of loss.

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David Lebryk, a former top Treasury Department official, said on Tuesday that “most of my career was spent trying to be unnoticed.”
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