Matt Damon played a major figure in the Manhattan Project named Leslie “Dick” Groves, who was then a Brigadier General and worked closely with J. Robert Oppenheimer beginning in September 1942.
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oppenheimer starring many of the best players. Joining Cillian Murphy as Oppenheimer is Robert Downey Jr. who plays Lewis Strauss, Emily Blunt as Kitty Oppenheimer, Florence Pugh as Jean Tatlock and Tom Conti as Albert Einstein, and that’s just a small part of the entire cast!
Another important actor in the movie is Matt Damon, who plays another important character in the Manhattan Project named Leslie “Dick” Groves.
Groves was a lieutenant general in the United States Army and worked closely with J. Robert Oppenheimer in building that deadly weapon and driving things forward through the military aspect of his operations.
His involvement was crucial in the manufacture of the so-called “Fat Man” and “Little Boy” bombs and their use against the Japanese at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, ending World War II.
Who is Lieutenant General Leslie Groves?
According to the National Museum of Science and History, Groves was born in 1896 in Albany, New York.
After graduating from West Point, he entered the Army Corps of Engineers in 1918, where he began a series of supervisory positions involving hundreds of thousands of people and billions of dollars in funds to build things like base camps, munitions factories, warehouses, air bases, sick houses, aircraft factory.
And the most massive effort he worked on was the Pentagon, which he completed in less than 18 months in 1942.
So when his boss was looking for someone to oversee the day-to-day running of the Manhattan Project, Groves was an easy choice with his stellar track record of building things on time and efficiently.
What was Leslie Groves’ role in the Manhattan Project?
Although the bomb would not be dropped until August 1945, the government had already taken steps to build it three years earlier, in the early stages of the Cold War. In September 1942, Groves was appointed to lead the Manhattan Project with the provisional rank of Brigadier General.
His involvement in the project was comprehensive and covered the scientific and technical aspects of the pump, as well as process development, construction; production; security and military intelligence of enemy activities (especially the Soviet Union and Japan). Atomic research was also carried out under Groves’ supervision at the University of Chicago and Columbia University in New York.
Perhaps most importantly, Groves was also responsible for determining how and when the pump would be installed once it was completed. It was a herculean task and Groves proved with his no-nonsense and often gruff approach that he was the right man for the job.
What kind of person was Lieutenant General Leslie Groves?
There’s a quote provided by the National Museum of Nuclear History and Science that says just about everything you need to know about Leslie “Dick” Groves.
There was an engineer in the Manhattan Engineer District named Kenneth D. Nichols, who was Groves’s colonel and he summed up Groves by saying, “First of all, General Groves is an SOB (son of a bitch or what we call an asshole).
“I’ve worked with him. He’s the most demanding. He’s the most critical. He was always the driver, never the enforcer. He’s rude and sarcastic. He ignored all normal organizational channels. He’s very smart.
You have the courage to make timely and difficult decisions. He is the most selfish man I know. He knew he was right and stuck to his decision.
He is full of energy and expects everyone to work as hard or even harder than him.
If I were to do my part on the atomic bomb project again and had the privilege of choosing my boss, I would choose General Groves.”
Groves and Oppenheimer are two very different people. Whereas Groves was a headstrong man, emphatically bordering on a narcissistic military man, J. Robert Oppenheimer was a more dynamic individual and thoughtful thinker who often struggled with the weight of the enormity of what they were doing with the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. . New Mexico.
An odd couple, Groves personally voted for Oppenheimer even amid rumors circulating at the time that the brilliant scientist had ties to the Communist Party.
He also bypassed the normal security clearance process for Oppenheimer to help him start developing bombs in a faster manner because he knew time was of the essence as the Soviet Union and Japan were also beginning to research a similar weapon.
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