Somervell met Groves outside the hearing room where Groves had been testifying before a United States Congress committee on military housing and informed him that " The Secretary of War has selected you for a very important assignment, and the President has approved the selection ...

In October 1942 Groves and Oppenheimer inspected sites in New Mexico, where they selected a suitable location for the laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico.

Groves and Vannevar Bush, the head of OSRD, selected the scientific staff, and appointed Samuel Goudsmit, a University of Michigan physicist with a good command of several Western European languages, as its head.

In the first year, students selected the school colors ( green and white ), team nickname ( Falcons ), fight song (" Rise Up, All Falcons ," music and lyrics composed by Mr. Burton Bronson, Groves Band Director ), names of the yearbook (" Talon ") and newspaper (" Scriptor "), etc.

In April 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Robert M. Groves to head the Census Bureau.

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.

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

People famous in other fields have also called Darien home: Leslie Groves – military head of the Manhattan Project, lived in town after the project ended.

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.

Meanwhile, the new head of G-2, Major General Clayton L. Bissell, at Groves ' and Furman's urging, decided to create a new, even larger Alsos Mission for Western Europe in March 1944.

News of this was met with an icy reception from General Leslie Groves, military head of the project.

In September 1943, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers General Leslie Groves ( Paul Newman ) who oversaw construction of the Pentagon is assigned to head the ultra-secret Manhattan Project, to beat the Germans in building an atomic bomb.

Groves picks University of California, Berkeley physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer ( Dwight Schultz ) to head the team at the project.

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 ).

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

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 September 1942, Groves took charge of the Manhattan Project.

Groves wrapped the Manhattan Project in security but failed to prevent the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from conducting a successful espionage program that stole some of its most important secrets.

After the war, Groves remained in charge of the Manhattan Project until responsibility for nuclear weapons production was handed over to the United States Atomic Energy Commission in 1947.

Groves realized that in the rapidly shrinking postwar military he would not be given any assignment approaching in importance the one he had held in the Manhattan Project, and he decided to leave the Army in 1948.

Groves went to Donald M. Nelson, the chairman of the War Production Board and, after threatening to take the matter to the President, obtained a AAA priority for the Manhattan project.

Groves had previously been nominated for the Distinguished Service Medal for his work on the Pentagon, but to avoid drawing attention to the Manhattan Project, it had not been awarded at the time.

Groves realized that in the rapidly shrinking postwar military he would not be given any assignment approaching in importance the one he had held in the Manhattan Project, as such posts would go to combat commanders returning from overseas, and he decided to leave the Army.

In retirement, Groves wrote an account of the Manhattan Project entitled Now It Can Be Told, originally published in 1962.

Eckert and Mauchly now reported to Leslie Groves, the retired army general who had managed the Manhattan Project.

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.

After the Allied Invasion of Italy in September 1943, Brigadier General Wilhelm D. Styer, the Chief of Staff of Army Service Forces, approached Groves on behalf of the Chief of Staff of the Army, General George Marshall, and asked if the Manhattan Project could take over responsibility for coordination of foreign intelligence activities related to nuclear energy.

Groves created a small mission that was jointly staffed by the Office of Naval Intelligence ( ONI ), the Office of Scientific Research and Development ( OSRD ), the Manhattan Project, and Army Intelligence ( G-2 ), to investigate enemy scientific developments, including nuclear weapons research.

In December 1943, Groves sent Furman to Britain to discuss the establishment of a London Liaison Office for the Manhattan Project with the British government, and to confer over coordinating the intelligence effort.

David E. Lilienthal ( right ) met with General Leslie R. Groves ( left ), Director of the Manhattan Project, at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on October 1, 1946, to discuss the transfer of responsibility for atomic energy to the new United States Atomic Energy Commission | Atomic Energy Commission, which President Harry S. Truman nominated Lilienthal to chair.

Oppenheimer's Communist Party connections soon came to light, but Groves personally waived the security requirements and issued Oppenheimer a clearance on 20 July 1943.

Lieutenant-General Leslie Groves of Corps of Engineers tightened the security of the American atomic bomb programme that dried up the information flow to Britain.

Within six weeks, he resigned as a result of conflicts about security with General Leslie R. Groves, the project's military leader, who had objected when Condon's superior J. Robert Oppenheimer held a discussion with the director of the project's Metallurgical Lab at the University of Chicago.

Groves also offers a variety of activities for students to participate in, including instrumental music ( both band and orchestra ), forensics team, eco club, interact club, fashion club, Amnesty and Animal Rights club, Gay-Straight Alliance club, Japanese club, Spanish club, French club, debate team, theatre, quiz bowl, bowling club, photography club, and the National Honor Society.

Groves Student Congress ( GSC ) is responsible for planning school-wide activities and events such as Spirit Week, Field Day, Extreme Dodgeball, Operation Volleyball, Sadie Hawkins Dance, Wylie's Winter Week, and two blood drives.

In attendance were Captain Clarence Renshaw, one of Groves ' assistants ; Major Hugh J. Casey, the chief of the Construction Division's Design and Engineering Section ; and George Bergstrom, a former president of the American Institute of Architects.

But when Group Captain Leonard Cheshire and Professor William Penney went to Tinian, they were not allowed by Groves and / or LeMay to go on the Hiroshima flight, and only after protests went in the observation plane Big Stink on the Nagasaki flight.

Dorfl joined the Watch during the events of Feet of Clay, at which time he was set free by Captain Carrot, sustained considerable damage fighting the golem king, and was rebuilt to a considerable degree, granting him a voice ( which had been considered blasphemous for golems to possess, prior to Dorfl's argument with the Council of Churches, Temples, Sacred Groves and Big Ominous Rocks ).

Awaiting them would be an old Adriatic hand, Joseph Groves Boxhall, as Fourth Officer, and others who would be familiar colleagues, including the now ageing Edward John Smith, as Captain, and on the verge of retirement.

It featured Richard Paul Fink as Edward Teller, Gerald Finley as J. Robert Oppenheimer, Thomas Glenn as Robert Wilson, Kristine Jepson as Kitty Oppenheimer, Eric Owens as General Leslie Groves, James Maddalena as Jack Hubbard, Jay Hunter Morris as Captain James F. Nolan, Beth Clayton as the Oppenheimers ' Tewa maid Pasqualita, and Seth Durant as Peter Oppenheimer ( Robert Oppenheimer's son ).