Leslie Groves
Birthday: 1896-08-17
Place of Birth: Albany, New York, USA
Biography: Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves Jr. was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project, a top secret research project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II.
Movies
The Day After Trinity
This essential, Academy Award–nominated documentary offers an urgent warning from history about the ...
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To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb
Explore how one man's relentless drive and invention of the atomic bomb changed the nature of war fo...
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The Decision to Drop the Bomb
J. Robert Oppenheimer and other key figures involved in the decision to drop the first atomic bomb d...
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Death in Focus
Death in all it's faces and stages. From the horrors of Buchenwald to the devastation of Hiroshima. ...
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A Compassionate Spy
Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los Alamos w...
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Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb
On the 29th of August 1949, the USSR set off their first atomic bomb, just four years after the Amer...
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