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Leslie Groves, American general and engineer, head of the Manhattan Project (born 1896)
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Leslie Groves
American military officer (1896–1970)
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.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Manhattan Project
World War II Allied nuclear weapons program
The Manhattan Project was a research and development program undertaken during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States in collaboration with the United Kingdom and Canada.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)