During World War II, he helped develop the proximity fuze, used to detonate explosives when they are close enough to damage their target.
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In the post-World War II era, a number of new proximity fuze systems were developed, including radio, optical and other means.
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One type of warhead was a proximity fuze, as the rocket was originally intended to be used as an air-to-air rocket.
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:See our Wikipedia article on the " proximity fuze " for good detail on what was developed during and before World War 2.
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U . S . General George S . Patton said that the introduction of the proximity fuze required a full revision of the tactics of land warfare.
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During 1940-42 a private venture initiative by Pye Ltd, a leading British wireless manufacturer, worked on the development of a radio proximity fuze.
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Prior to his lunar work he was Senior Physicist at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory during World War II working on the Proximity fuze.
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To preserve the secret of the proximity fuze, its use was initially permitted only over water, where a dud round could not fall into enemy hands.
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However, Aleksander Feklisov also claimed that Julius Rosenberg supplied him with a whole proximity fuze, which would corroborate at least this part of Greenglass'testimony.
