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  1. Jul 18, 2023 · Leslie Groves was the director of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II. Learn about his military career, retirement, book, and death after the movie Oppenheimer.

  2. General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were a study in contrasts, yet both were indispensable to the success of the Manhattan Project. Both men were extremely ambitious and overcame personal differences to achieve their common purpose.

  3. Project Y was the designation for the top-secret design and production of the atomic bombs for the Manhattan Project. General Leslie Groves, director of the Manhattan Project chose Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist, to lead Project Y, which is today better known as Los Alamos.

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  5. Meanwhile, Groves had met with J. Robert Oppenheimer, a physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, and discussed the creation of a laboratory where the bomb could be designed and tested. Groves was impressed with the breadth of Oppenheimer's knowledge.

  6. Jul 20, 2023 · No one person can be credited with producing the world's first atomic bomb but two men had outsize achievements in that effort: physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and Army Lt. Gen. Leslie...

  7. Mar 8, 2024 · Leslie Groves, center, Robert Oppenheimer, in a pale hat, and others pose next to the remains of the tower destroyed by the testing of the Trinity bomb in a photo dated from September 1945,...

  8. Jul 13, 2023 · General Leslie Groves, the military leader of the Manhattan Engineer District, was the person responsible for finding a scientific director for the bomb project. According to a 2002 biography...

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