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Set this up . Let them decide or let you decide. Well let the audience decide. Listen closely now. The decision is which man was the indispensable man of the Manhattan Project . Take it away. I guess ill start. Thats part of the title of my book actually. Ill just speak about two aspects of general groves. As you may or may not know, he grew up in the army. His father was an army chaplain. He was determined to go to west point and he graduated fourth in his class. At the time the automatic choice of anyone who was at the head of their classes at west point joined the corps of engineers. He gra...

This was set up originally in 1943 as clinton laboratories. Dn have the name oakridge at the time. And the purpose of clinton laboratories was to learn how to produce plutonium which was a radioactive element that could split and release vast amounts of energy just like some uranium can. But they didnt know much about plutonium. It was an artificial element. It had to be created by man. They knew nothing about the characteristics of plutonium. Building started in february of 1943. This facility, the graphite reactor as we know it today, was starting in spring of 1943, completed by november of ...

I think that groves through his obsession with secrecy and not letting any information out really was one of the architects of not only the Manhattan Project architecture of secrecy, but what came afterwards and were still living with today. Were talking about compartmentalization, which was the bedrock way that he organized things. You only needed to know what you needed to know and nothing else. So that kept everyone limited to a certain spot. And i characterized it as a kind of pyramid. It was down at the bottom people hardly knew what they were working on at all. Maybe they were just turni...

Set this up . Let them decide or let you decide. Well let the audience decide. Listen closely now. The decision is which man was the indispensable man of the Manhattan Project . Take it away. I guess ill start. Thats part of the title of my book actually. Ill just speak about two aspects of general groves. As you may or may not know, he grew up in the army. His father was an army chaplain. He was determined to go to west point and he graduated fourth in his class. At the time the automatic choice of anyone who was at the head of their classes at west point joined the corps of engineers. He gra...

This was set up originally in 1943 as clinton laboratories. Dn have the name oakridge at the time. And the purpose of clinton laboratories was to learn how to produce plutonium which was a radioactive element that could split and release vast amounts of energy just like some uranium can. But they didnt know much about plutonium. It was an artificial element. It had to be created by man. They knew nothing about the characteristics of plutonium. Building started in february of 1943. This facility, the graphite reactor as we know it today, was starting in spring of 1943, completed by november of ...