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

Faced with the necessity of turning an army of former civilians into a force of over eight million soldiers by 1942 ( a fortyfold increase within three years ), Marshall directed General Leslie McNair to focus efforts on rapidly producing large numbers of soldiers.

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.

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 ).

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.

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.

General William Leslie Cazneau, credited several years earlier with burying the Alamo casualties with full military honors, began ranching in the area c. 1850.

A century later, Leith was a prospective battleground when the Army of the Covenant, led by General David Leslie, threw up an earthen rampart between the Calton Hill and Leith to defend the northern approach to Edinburgh against Oliver Cromwell's forces, under the command of General Monck.

Baner and Leslie had detached one-fourth of the army under General James King, General John Ruthven and General Torsten Stålhandske to take a long detour around the Imperial right flank.

The Battle of Newburn was fought on 28 August 1640 during the Second Bishops ' War between a Scottish Covenanter army led by General Alexander Leslie and English royalist forces commanded by Edward, Lord Conway.

Lieutenant General Sir Leslie James Morshead KCB, KBE, CMG, DSO, ED ( 18 September 188926 September 1959 ) was an Australian soldier, teacher, businessman, and farmer, with a distinguished military career that spanned both world wars.

Lieutenant General ( Australia ) | Lieutenant General Sir Leslie Morshead with General of the Army Douglas MacArthur on Labuan Territory | Labuan in June 1945

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.

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.

Mr Leslie suggested that Walford Davies ' special arrangement for choir and string orchestra should be performed at the Annual General Meeting of NFWI held in the Queen's Hall, London in 1924.

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

General Groves noted in his memoirs that " We made certain that each member of the project thoroughly understood his part in the total effort ; that, and nothing more.

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

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:

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.

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 ).

One day, the children had wanted to get up onto General Burnside's horse.

When Data General introduced the Data General Nova, a company called Digidyne wanted to use its RDOS operating system on its own hardware clone.

He said: " I wanted to call my company General, but there's so many Generals in the U. S .: General Electric, General Motors.

General Bai also wanted to aggressively expel foreign powers from other areas of China.

Undaunted, Luthor gathers together a new Revenge Squad to fight against invading Kryptonians led by General Zod, leaving Superman alive to provide assistance simply because he believed that this ' invasion ' was proof that he had been right about Superman all along and he wanted Superman to live with that knowledge.

With the situation in Afghanistan deteriorating, and the Soviet leadership looking for ways to withdraw, Mikhail Gorbachev wanted Karmal to resign as PDPA General Secretary.

In 1939 the Liberals, recognizing that they would have to choose someone with national stature to be president if they wanted to hold onto power, picked General Estigarribia, the hero of the Chaco War who had since served as special envoy to the United States.

In fact, in 1987 the Director General of Televerket in his speech stated that he wanted the liberalization process to be completed.

During a search authorized by a General warrant ( possibly set up by Sandwich, who wanted to get rid of Wilkes ), a version of The Essay on Woman was discovered set up on the press of a printer whom Wilkes had almost certainly used.

Others wanted the King to speak in Parliament and openly abdicate, rather than be deposed by the Queen and her General.

Although he had serious reservations about the way the German General Staff wanted to conduct negotiations, he accepted the charge, and appointed a government that for the first time included representatives of the Social Democrats, Friedrich Ebert and Philipp Scheidemann.

Haig felt that gains in the south should be exploited, Rawlinson wanted to stick to the original plan by pressing along the entire front and Joffre demanded that Haig aim to capture the heights of Thiepval Ridge but Haig would not agree to this and Joffre then referred him to General Foch to settle the matter.

Gough wanted the Australian 1st Division to attack immediately but the division's British commander, Major General Harold Walker, refused to send his men in without adequate preparation.

Tramiel wanted a military-style name for his company, but names like Admiral and General were already taken, so he settled on the Commodore name.

In January 1915 Field Marshal Sir John French, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force, with the concurrence of other senior commanders ( e. g. General Sir Douglas Haig ), wanted the New Armies incorporated into existing divisions as battalions rather than sent out as entire divisions.

Haig differed with Kitchener over the importance of Mediterranean efforts and wanted to see a strong General Staff in London, but nonetheless valued Kitchener as a military voice against the folly of civilians such as Churchill.

When General Garm Bel Iblis of the New Republic attacked the Ubiqtorate Base on Yaga Minor, Talon Karrde and Admiral Pellaeon – who wanted peace between the Empire and the New Republic – were able to foil Disra and Tierce's scheme by revealing Flim's identity, thanks to a datacard given to Karrde by Jorj Car ' das.

The Connecticut General Assembly wanted to name the town Faire Harbour, but the citizens protested, declaring that they would prefer it to be called Nameaug.

There was disagreement over the site-the " westerners " wanted Rolla, and the " easterners " wanted Dillon, so the General Assembly did not legally declare Rolla to be the official county seat until 1861.

In 1714, John Reid, the first Surveyor General of East Jersey, wanted the county seat located in Freehold Township and thus sold the property to the Board of Chosen Freeholders at a bargain price, what may have been the deciding factor in Freehold's competition with Middletown and Shrewsbury for the site.