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March 19, 2020

By the numbers: veterans at Los Alamos

A breakdown of the diversity of the veterans working at the Lab.

Army General Leslie Groves (left) directed the Manhattan Project; physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was the scientific director of the project. “Groves and Oppenheimer got on so well because each saw in the other the skills and intelligence necessary to fulfill their common goal, the successful use of the bomb in World War II,” wrote historian Robert Norris in his book "Racing for the Bomb."Los Alamos National Laboratory
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