ospalh»Lieutenant Anderson was now working at the Bureau of Ordnance, on a secret radical advance in antiaircraft fuses.«
Eh. #Wouk is sticking in all kinds of references. The Mark 14 torpedo was natural, what with one of the characters a submariner.
Then there is the guy working on this ²³⁵U project, and now the #proximityFuze.
There is no need for this guy, who basically shows up and disappears into the night again, to be *anything*.