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The Manhattan Project

In Our Time: Science

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Leslie Rgroves - A Dynamo in the Manhattan Project

leslie rgroves was a dynamo, and many say he was indispensable to the success of the manhattan project. He directed a million men and spent eight billion constructing camps, air bases, munition plants, hospitals and even the pentagon. J robert oppenheimer, a brilliant physicist at u. C berkeley, was an unlikely choice to direct the scientific research but groves ignored the critics. The relationship was a delicate balancing act, but groves and oppenheimer made it work and produced the world's first atomic bomb in 27 months.

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