General Groves And Dr. Oppenheimer
by Bettmann
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General Groves And Dr. Oppenheimer
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Bettmann
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(Original Caption) 9/11/1945-Alamogordo, NM: Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves (r), Chief of Manhattan Engineering District in which first Atomic Bomb was developed, and Dr. J. R. Oppenheimer, Director of Los Alamos Atomic Bomb Project and Physicist at California Technological Institute, view the base of the steel tower on which first atomic bomb hung when tested near Alamogordo in July. The intense heat of the bomb melted the tower, and seared the surrounding sands into Jade green Glasslike cinders.
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