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It is in this light that I react in a mixed way to the display of photographs yesterday in Loker Commons and the Science Center. The one fault of what was, in general, a very eye-catching and effective display of black and white photographs was the lack of any...
But when he moved to the U.S. in 1944 to join the American A-bomb effort, his doubts deepened almost at once. When he heard U.S. General Leslie Groves, the Manhattan Project's supervisor, say that the real reason for continuing was to keep the Russians in line after the...
After witnessing the successful test of the first atomic bomb--a primordial burst of energy on the predawn New Mexico desert, a man-made fire bright enough to flicker in reflection off the moon--Brigadier General Thomas F. Farrell sought out his immediate superior, Major General Leslie R. Groves. Groves...
The atomic bomb held out the hope that neither action would be necessary. Truman confided to his diary, "It is certainly a good thing for the world that Hitler's crowd or Stalin's did not discover this atomic bomb. It seems to be the most terrible thing ever discovered...
Such a response had been anticipated by General Groves, who argued all along to the Manhattan Project's civilian overseers that at least two atomic bombs would be necessary to effect Japan's surrender: the first to demonstrate the awful destructive power of a nuclear weapon and the second to...