Leslie Richard Groves


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Noun1.Leslie Richard Groves - United States general who served as military director of the atomic bomb project (1896-1970)
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Starting in 1943, General Leslie Richard Groves, a gruff, hard-charging officer of the Army Corps of Engineers, joined with the legendary physicist J.
The General and the Genius; Groves and Oppenheimer, the Unlikely Partnership That Built the Atom Bomb
General Leslie Richard Groves was the hard-bitten career soldier in overall charge of the project.
Horror of Hiroshima
Leslie Richard Groves, Jr., was born in Albany, New York, on 17 August 1896.
Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, The Manhattan Project's Indispensable Man. (Book Reviews)

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