Characters include Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer and his wife Kitty, Edward Teller, General Leslie Groves, and Robert Wilson.

General Leslie Groves wanted a central laboratory at an isolated location for safety, and to keep the scientists away from the populace.

In September 1942, the Army Corps of Engineers placed the newly formed Manhattan Project under the command of General Leslie R. Groves, charging him with the construction of industrial-size plants for manufacturing plutonium and uranium.

General Groves visited the site in January and established the Hanford Engineer Works, codenamed " Site W ".

According to Lieutenant General Leslie Groves, the primary military leader in charge of the Manhattan Project, Mills was anxious to have a very determined man involved, and – though he knew that Rickover was " not too easy to get along with " and " not too popular " – in his judgment Rickover was the man who the Navy could depend on " no matter what opposition he might encounter, once he was convinced of the potentialities of the atomic submarine.

The professional history of radioactive weaponry may be traced to a 1943 memo from James Bryant Conant, Arthur Holly Compton, and Harold Urey, to Brigadier General Leslie Groves of the Manhattan Project and to a 1940 science fiction story, " Solution Unsatisfactory " by Lt. J. G. Robert A. Heinlein, USN ( R ).

Conant, Compton, and Urey to Brigadier General L. R. Groves, Manhattan District, Oak Ridge, Tennessee ; declassified June 5, 1974.

A Mojave Desert Army base near Rice, California was considered the best location, but was opted against because General Leslie Groves, military head of the project, did not wish to have any dealings with Gen. George S. Patton, commander of the base, whom he disliked.

In 1962, General Groves wrote to Oppenheimer about the origin of the name, asking if he had chosen it because it was a name common to rivers and peaks in the West and would not attract attention, and elicited this reply:

Lieutenant General 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 that developed the atomic bomb during World War II.

In 1940 Groves, who " had a reputation as a doer, a driver, and a stickler for duty ", became special assistant for construction to the Quartermaster General, tasked with inspecting construction sites and checking on their progress.

Groves ' superior wrote a critical report on him, but the Chief of Engineers, Major General Edgar Jadwin, interceded, attributing blame to Groves ' superiors instead.

On 19 August 1941, Groves was summoned to a meeting with the head of the Construction Division, Brigadier General Brehon B. Somervell.

Groves met with Major General Wilhelm D. Styer in his office at the Pentagon to discuss the details.

" Isidor Rabi considered the appointment " a real stroke of genius on the part of General Groves, who was not generally considered to be a genius ..."

Groves met with the Chief of United States Army Air Forces, General Henry H. Arnold, in March 1944 to discuss the delivery of the finished bombs to their targets.

The Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, met with Groves on 30 January 1948 to evaluate his performance.

The Army's candidate to direct the tests, General Leslie Groves, head of the wartime Manhattan Project that built the bombs, did not get the job.

At the urging of British scientist — who had made crucial calculations indicating that a fission weapon could be completed within only a few years — by 1941 the project had been wrested into more capable bureaucratic hands, and in 1942 came under the auspices of a Military Policy Committee led by General Leslie Groves.

After D-Day, General Groves ordered a team of scientists — Project Alsos — to follow eastward-moving victorious Allied troops into Europe to assess the status of the German nuclear program ( and to prevent the westward-moving Russians from gaining any materials or scientific manpower ).

Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineer District, it refers specifically to the period of the project from 1941 – 1946 under the control of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie R. Groves.

Retired General Leslie Groves, who had headed the Manhattan Project, served as chief of research and development during part of this time. M1911A1 U. S. Army semi-automatic pistol manufactured by Remington Rand.

OSRD handed the atomic bomb project, better known as the Manhattan Project, over to the Army, with Brigadier General Leslie R. Groves as project director.

Indeed, as already noted, the Court proceeded on the assumption that the executives involved in the dealings between Du Pont and General Motors acted `` honorably and fairly '' and exercised their business judgment only to serve what they deemed the best interests of their own companies.

Mr. Eban's explanations and Israel's undertakings were noted in the text of General Assembly Resolution 273 ( III ) Admission of Israel to membership in the United Nations, 11 May 1949.

* 1142 – Execution, believed wrongful, of noted Song Dynasty General Yue Fei.

When Franz Halder, the Chief of the Army General Staff, heard of the state of the Kriegsmarine, and its plan for the invasion, he noted in his diary, on 28 July 1940, " If that plan is true, all previous statements by the navy were so much rubbish and we can throw away the whole plan of invasion ".

General Franz Halder noted in his diaries that, by destroying the Soviet Union, Germany would destroy Britain's hope of victory.

However, in 2006 the Victorian Auditor General noted that in spite of $ 750 million spent, " We found that the delivery of more frequent fast rail services in the Geelong, Ballarat, and Bendigo corridors by the agreed dates was not achieved.

The report noted that once General Marshall received information about the impending attack, he immediately passed it on.

Lieutenant General Guy C. Swan noted that SAMS graduates were indispensable in Europe after the fall of the Berlin wall and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact.

The committee also noted, " The natural tendency of all such organizations is to violence and crime ; hence it was that General Forrest and other men of influence in the state, by the exercise of their moral power, induced them to disband .”

As proof that Hitler was serious about Raeder's " Mediterranean plan " in late 1940, Kallis noted that Hitler made a major push to bring Spain into the war between September – December 1940, and on 12 November 1940 ordered the Army General Staff to treat planning for Operation Felix as their first priority.

The liturgical calendar in that form of the Roman Rite ( see General Roman Calendar of 1962 ) differs in some respects from that of the present ordinary form, as will be noted below, and also from the earlier General Roman Calendar of Pope Pius XII, the still earlier General Roman Calendar of 1954 and the original Tridentine Calendar.

The biographer of General Douglas MacArthur, noted historian William Manchester makes it plain in his seminal biography of the General, American Caesar, that acting as porters was well down the natives ' list of acceptable voluntary activities and that they would fade away without great inducements.

The General Assembly, on 19 January 1957, noted " with regret and concern the failure of Israel to withdraw from Egyptian territory ".

It also noted that in violation of the provisions of the General Armistice Agreement concerning the DMZ, the Zone had been crossed by the Israeli forces that entered Syria.

He noted that the General Land Office had little to do with the Treasury and also highlighted the Indian Affairs office, part of the Department of War, and the Patent Office, part of the Department of State.

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An AV Club critic noted that " Admiral General Aladeen and Rufus T. Firefly share the same bloodline, representing a more generalized contempt for world leaders of any stripe, whether they don a ' supreme beard ' or a greasepaint moustache.

The Social General Strike noted the complexity of modern industry, identifying the many stages in the manufacturing process and geographic dispersal of related manufacturing locations as weaknesses of the industrial process during any labor dispute.

Prior to that, he was a noted New York municipal bond lawyer, director of Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign, and one of Nixon's closest personal friends ; after his tenure as Attorney General, he served as director of Nixon's 1972 presidential campaign.

As Attorney General, Mitchell was noted for personifying the " law-and-order " positions of the Nixon administration, amid several high-profile anti-war demonstrations.

Often noted that this raid on New London and Groton was to divert General Washington and the French Army under Rochambeau from their march on Yorktown, Virginia.