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Who was the main scientist in charge of the testing procedure of the Manhattan project?
General Leslie Groves was the Military Head and Robert Oppenheimer was the Scientific Head.
What was Leslie Groves role in war world two?
General Leslie Groves was a US Army officer assigned to the Corps of Engineers. He is best remembered for running the Manhattan Project, which took nuclear physics from abstract theory through to the development of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. Just before being given command of what evolved into the Manhattan Project, General Groves had overseen the building of the Pentagon in Washington DC. This was the world's largest office building and under Grove's driving leadership the entire project was finished in one year.
Who headed the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos NM?
Leslie Groves was military commander, Robert Oppenheimer was scientific director.
Who developed the atomic bomb?
The US Army's Manhattan Project under the military leadership of General Leslie Groves and the scientific directorship of Robert Oppenheimer (the two men in the image above). The project spent two billion dollars, mostly on building factories and other atomic infrastructure, and employed more than 130,000 people at sites scattered across the US.It is a common misconception that Albert Einstein was part of the Manhattan Project. As a pacifist he refused to perform any war related work and the US Army security would never have granted him the necessary security clearances (they refused to grant Robert Oppenheimer these clearances and it took a direct order from General Groves to override this and get Oppenheimer cleared as Groves believed he was the only scientist that Groves could communicate with about the issues needed to make the project succeed).The only participation Einstein had was to sign a letter on August 2, 1939 previously written by Leo Szilard (who invented the atomic bomb in 1933 while in London, patent GB630726) addressed to president Franklin Roosevelt. After the letter was sent he knew nothing of whether the US was even studying it or not until he saw the August 6, 1945 newspaper headlines about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima that morning.
Who developed the first nuclear bomb?
U.S., in Manhattan Project, technical director J. Robert Oppenheimer, manager General Leslie R. Groves, and a cast of thousands (including my grandfather A.A.C., who as an ordinary construction worker with no clearance at all, at Hanford, Washington, observing some of their strange activities later repeatedly made the statement: "I can't understand how our government can be so wasteful in time of war, they repeatedly dug huge trenches, filled them with perfectly good usable jeeps, office equipment, and other things then buried them. What a waste!")
