Groves takes command of the Manhattan Project
1942 · Event
Brigadier General Leslie Groves is put in charge; within weeks he picks Oppenheimer, despite his left-wing past, to run the bomb laboratory.
On these timelines: The Manhattan Project, Master, World War II, USA
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