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That is a few of the upcoming live programs on cspan2s book tv. The between 1942 and 46, general Leslie Groves and the Manhattan Project, Nuclear Weapon tests in japan. Working closely with groves was j Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicists often called the father of the atomic bomb. Up next, several scholars discuss the importance of growth and oppenheimer in the race to create an atomic bomb. They are joined by oppenheimers grandson, and general growths granddaughter. They share their memories of their grandparents. This hourlong program was hosted by the atomic heritage foundation. [...

This was also from the atomic heritage foundation. Its an hour. I promised on time delivery and it is now time. We are delighted youre having such a good time. Heres another really interesting session. It is a session again, to look at the leadership of groves and oppenheimer, who were very different people but both in their own way well, ill let you decide which was indispensable. First we have as a repeat performer, robert norris, the biographer of the definitive biographer of general groves. Then we have the coauthors of the definitive biographer of oppenheimer that came out and won a pull ...

Persons and they lived in a trailer and worked in shifts so they could sleep in shifts, could all fit into the trailer. But she never talked about it without just exuding enthusiasm. Shell be missed. Another person that is focused in the book is katie strickland. She came from auburn, alabama, with her husband to work at the k25 only to discover that the armys segregation policies for bid her from living with her husband. So she had to bribe the military police with homemade biscuits in order to have a rendezvous with him. The book is full of great stories. Kind of like the stories weve been h...

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...