As recounted in James Kunetka’s The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer ... man he appointed as military leader of the Manhattan Project, General Leslie Groves, grew weary of ...

Nichols, we learn of command restructuring in the Manhattan Project. Early in September 1942, Brigadier Gen. Wilhelm D. Styer ...

"Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot sphere with a grapefruit-sized Plutonium core, covered in cables — was born out of the Albert Einstein-inspired Manhattan Project, and was detonated ...