Weimorts, Albert Lee, Jr.

▪ 2006

      American civilian engineer (b. March 6, 1938, DeFuniak Springs, Fla.—d. Dec. 21, 2005, Fort Walton Beach, Fla.), earned the nickname “father of the mother of all bombs” for his work in developing the 9,840-kg (21,700-lb) Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb. The MOAB, built for the Second Persian Gulf War but never used, was the largest guided air-dropped weapon in history. Weimorts also spearheaded the design of the 2,250-kg (5,000-lb) GBU-28 “Bunker Buster” bomb used to destroy fortified underground facilities in Iraq during the First Persian Gulf War (1990–91).

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