Brian Boru Dunne II (January 8, 1924 - November 30, 2017) was Project Orion's chief scientist.
Dunne worked on explosive model tests in Point Loma, San Diego alongside Jerry Astl and Morris Scharff.
He continued to work for General Atomics and later started his own firm called Ship Systems.
[2] Dunne was the chief experimental scientist on Project Orion.
Dunne and Howard Kratz set up a facility for firing explosive-driven plasma jets as sample pusher-plate targets, after explosive-driven flights were cancelled.