groves

Robert Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves were a fascinating team, Oppenheimer being a physicist and Groves an Army general.

According to Wikipedia: On May 30, Stimson asked Groves to remove Kyoto from the target list, but Groves pointed to its military and industrial significance.[73] Stimson then approached President Harry S.

And Hollywood was nothing more than orange groves outside of Los Angeles before Lumiere invented the motion picture camera.

Both had flawed leaders - Tom Lehrer wrote a song about Werner von Braun, and Lesley Groves is a legendary...

Leslie Groves specifically felt that a nuclear exchange was inevitable, and that the US was in a position to win.

And, would you say that James Clapper's intellect was in the same ballpark as those of Leslie Groves and Robert Oppenheimer?

We do not have slaves, nor do we have a farm with olive groves and stuff all else.

Greek olive oil isn't like Iowa potatoes, but more like California citrus groves.

I live a mile from one of CA's largest monarch groves in Pismo Beach (also grew up here) [0].

The article just confirms to me the reasons that Groves chose Oppenheimer to lead the Manhattan project, Oppenheimer was able to see the bigger picture.

Bees are shipped in to the almond groves in California.

Today, only a few thousand exist in isolated groves.

That said he lost my sympathy at: "I am building a series of memorial groves for the greatest patriots of our generation: Timothy McVeigh, Andrew Stack, and Marvin Heemeyer."

Ummm if by "unused land" you mean open space preserves, parks, amazing redwood groves, etc...then yes, there is "unused land." Building out on those areas because there's currently demand over on that side of the Bay (because it's closer to Stanford and Sandhill road) would be a big time shame.

Groves and Oppenheimer) is very worthwhile for many HN readers.

The cultural capital Kyoto, which had been spared the firebombing inflicted upon militarily significant target cities like Tokyo in World War II, was von Neumann's first choice, a selection seconded by Manhattan Project leader General Leslie Groves.