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Birthday
Aug 17, 1896 (129 years old)
Death date
Jul 13, 1970
Leslie Groves
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1h 28m
Movie
2023
To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb
Explore how one man's relentless drive and invention of the...
52min
Movie
2015
Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb
On the 29th of August 1949, the USSR set off...
Biography
Lieutenant General 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.