Anh Duong
You would think that the victims of war would be the last ones to get into the business of inventing new arms.
Anh Duong was a teenage girl in Saigon when she fled from the invasion of Communist forces. She stuffed everything she owned into a little duffle bag and, along with her family, made her way to the US.
Anh is now a weapons designer in Washington. She is responsible for engineering America's first "thermobaric bomb". This bomb is designed to be extra deadly when it is dropped into caves. Anh talks with Dick Gordon about what it is like to have seen war from both sides, and her strong connection to freedom.
- Read an article written about Anh after she won the 2007 National Security Medal
- See a photograph of Anh receiving the medal
- Read an article about US plans to send 7000 more troops to Afghanistan
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