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Leslie Richard Groves Jr. (17 August 1896 – 13 July 1970) was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project, a top secret research project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II .
Leslie ‘Dick’ Groves: The Manhattan Project General. General Leslie Groves played a vital role in the development of the atomic bomb. This article appears in: August 2014. By George Davenport Jr. By the spring of 1945, the outcome of World War II was not in serious doubt.
Jul 9, 2018 · Leslie Richard “Dick” Groves, Jr., a career officer in the Army Corps of Engineers, was tasked with assembling the crucial links between government, industry, science, and the military beginning in September 1942, due to his imposing personality, iron will, and remarkable administrative acumen.
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- Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer. Cillian Murphy stars as theoretical physicist J Robert Oppenheimer, known as the “father of the atomic bomb.” Oppenheimer was named the director of the Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico.
- Emily Blunt as Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer. Emily Blunt stars as Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer, who married J Robert Oppenheimer in 1940. Born in Germany, Kitty was a botanist and biologist whose early life was associated with the Communist party after she became the common-law wife of party member Joseph Dallet Jr.
- Matt Damon as Leslie Groves. Matt Damon plays Leslie Groves, who was the director of the Manhattan Project. The group’s mission was to develop the first atomic bomb during World War II.
- Robert Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss. plays Lewis Strauss, who served two terms on the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). Strauss was the organization’s chairman during his second term.
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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Jul 11, 2023 · On Aug. 10, 1945, after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Gen. Leslie Groves wrote a memorandum to Army Chief of Staff George Marshall that a third bomb “of the implosion type” would be ready to ship Aug. 12 or 13, earlier than the original date of Aug. 24.
Washington, DC. In this interview, General Groves discusses the start of the Manhattan Project. He remembers the troubles he had working with Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner and the importance of redundancy in designing the bomb and plants like the T-Plant.
