| Brian Dunne | |
| Occupation: | Aeronautical Engineer |
| Birth Date: | 8 January 1924 |
| Birth Place: | Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| Death Date: | [1] |
| Death Place: | La Jolla, United States |
| Orion's chief scientist | |
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. He worked on Project Orion as an experimentalist. 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.