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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...
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    1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer...
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  • Leslie Groves (1896–1970), American general in command of the Manhattan Project Leslie Groves (cricketer) (1911-1990), New Zealand cricketer Leslie Bob...
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    similar to the bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki. Lieutenant general Leslie Groves expected to have another "Fat Man" atomic bomb ready for use on 19 August...
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  • could be weaponized. In 1942, during World War II, US Army Colonel Leslie Groves, the director of the Manhattan Project, recruits Oppenheimer as the...
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  • Catherine Steadman, Ben Allen as Edward Teller, William Gaminara as General Leslie Groves, Ross Armstrong as Haakon Chevalier and Jack Holden as Robert Wilson...
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    major impetus to gain Congressional approval for the project; Colonel Leslie Groves was responsible for overseeing the project for the U.S. Army Corps of...
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    and orange groves in Florida. Historically, groves were considered sacred in pagan, pre-Christian Germanic and Celtic cultures. Helen F. Leslie-Jacobsen...
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    January 1944 and attracted enough support for Oppenheimer to approach Groves. Groves gave approval, but he had concerns. The Manhattan Project had spent...
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    executive Sonny Vaccaro in Affleck's acclaimed sports drama Air, as well as Leslie Groves in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer. Producer only Stolen Summer (2002)...
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  • respectively. In September 1942, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Colonel Leslie Groves, who oversaw construction of the Pentagon, is assigned to head the ultra-secret...
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  • Leslie Joseph Groves (9 June 1911 – 4 September 1990) was a New Zealand sportsman. He played 16 first-class matches for Otago between the 1929–30 and 1949–50...
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    1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the US Army Corps of Engineers. The Army component of the project...
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  • and directed by Joseph Sargent. It starred Brian Dennehy as General Leslie Groves, David Strathairn as Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer and Michael Tucker as...
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    Brigadier General Leslie R. Groves Jr., was appointed director of what became known as the Manhattan Project. By October 12, 1942, Groves and Oppenheimer...
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  • in reference to one of Donne's poems, as a tribute to her. In 1962, Leslie Groves wrote to Oppenheimer about the origin of the name, and elicited this...
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  • chairman Vannevar Bush) and as a scientific advisor to Major General Leslie Groves of the Manhattan Project during World War II. During her career, Tolman...
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    later figure prominently in Nichols's career, was First Lieutenant Leslie Groves. For his service on the expedition, Nichols was awarded the Nicaraguan...
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    atomic bomb. In a memorandum to the U.S. Secretary of War, General Leslie Groves describes the yield as equivalent to 15,000 to 20,000 tons of TNT. Following...
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    houses at Los Alamos (as specified by Groves), but Nichols said to Los Alamos scientists that housing there was Groves' problem not his. Rents were set based...
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    the mesa. Dudley had rejected the school as not meeting Groves' criteria, but as soon as Groves saw it he said in effect "This is the place". Oppenheimer...
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    April 1945, Marshall asked Groves to nominate specific targets for bombing for final approval by himself and Stimson. Groves formed a Target Committee...
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  • Committee." Leslie Groves was selected to lead the Manhattan Project to develop the first nuclear bomb. Impressed by Oppenheimer, Groves appointed him...
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  • Project Leslie Groves (cricketer) (1911-1990), New Zealand cricketer Martin Groves, British hillclimb driver Mike Groves, Cricketer Naomi Jackson Groves (1910-2001)...
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    O. Squier, class of 1887, developer of Muzak, early radio engineer Leslie Groves, class of 1918, chief engineer for the Manhattan Project and the Pentagon...
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  • Hawaiian Department Lloyd Fredendall, commander of U.S. Second Army Leslie Groves, who ran the Manhattan Project and oversaw The Pentagon design and construction...
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    the War Powers Act of 1941 to Leslie Groves for the Manhattan Project. The authority, given in a memorandum to Groves dated April 17, 1944, was retroactive...
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  • von Braun, a German rocket scientist with robotic prosthetic limbs. Leslie Groves, a no-nonsense US Army general and director of the Manhattan Projects...
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    Teller, who suggested the use of strontium-90. James B. Conant and Leslie Groves were also briefed, but Oppenheimer wanted to proceed with the plan only...
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    Jack Aeby Jerry C. Begay John J. Dempsey Thomas Farrell Enrico Fermi Leslie Groves John E. Miles Chester Nez Lloyd Oliver Willard Varnell Oliver J. Robert...
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