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  1. 1 day ago · From 1942 to 1946, the project was directed by Major General Leslie Groves of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory that designed the bombs.

  2. 6 days ago · Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer and Matt Damon as Leslie Groves walking through Los Alamos, past Trinity Drive. The original Los Alamos was built at a cost of $2 billion (or $42 billion...

  3. 1 day ago · Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss ( / ˈstrɔːz / STRAWZ; January 31, 1896 – January 21, 1974) was an American government official, businessman, philanthropist and naval officer. He was one of the original members of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) in 1946 and he served as the commission's chair in the 1950s.

  4. May 28, 2024 · J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant physicist behind the Manhattan Project, played a pivotal role in developing atomic weapons and forever changed the course of history with his contributions to nuclear science.

    • Michel Rouzé
  5. May 27, 2024 · The person who oversaw the Manhattan Project, however, was not a scientist. He was Leslie Groves, a brigadier general in the U.S. Army.

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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    4 days ago · Brigadier General Leslie R. Groves Jr. became director of the Manhattan Project on 23 September 1942. He visited Berkeley to look at Lawrence's calutrons, and met with Oppenheimer, who gave him a report on bomb design on 8 October. Groves was interested in Oppenheimer's proposal to establish a separate bomb design laboratory.

  7. 2 days ago · Meet the cast of Oppenheimer. Cillian Murphy plays the role of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Emily Blunt as Kitty Oppenheimer, Matt Damon as Leslie Groves, Robert Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss, Florence Pugh as Jean Tatlock, Josh Hartnett as Ernest Lawrence, Casey Affleck as Boris Pash, and Rami Malek as David Hill. The most popular cast member today is ...

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