As recounted in James Kunetka’s The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer — The Unlikely Partnership that Built the Atom Bomb, opposites attracted under these emergency conditions.

He wasn’t yet 40 years old. But Lieutenant Colonel Leslie Groves chose Oppenheimer as the Manhattan Project’s director in 1942 partly because he showed a burning sense of imperative.

Blunt stars as Oppenheimer's wife Kitty; Damon portrays Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves, who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project; Downey Jr. plays Lewis Strauss ...

He has also worked with Damon before. The actor took on a supporting role as Lieutenant General Leslie Groves in Oppenheimer and appeared in Nolan’s 2014 film Interstellar as Dr Mann ...

Overseeing the project was US Brig. Gen. Leslie Groves and American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. You might recognize Oppenheimer's name from Christopher Nolan's 2023 blockbuster movie.

The Oscar winner plays the director of Oppenheimer’s Manhattan Project, Gen. Leslie Groves. "Sometimes you find yourself just swimming in his eyes," he says. Blunt, 40, who plays Oppenheimer’s ...

Cillian Murphy’s performance in Oppenheimer was spectacularly distracting ... Matt Damon, who played General Leslie Groves in Christopher Nolan’s magnum opus, alluded that Murphy’s piercing ...

Rodgers and Hammerstein. The Wright Brothers. Oppenheimer and Groves. Laurel and Hardy. The list could go on. One new addition will be Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Advertisement The two make an ...

The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer offers insights into social studies topics including World War II, the Manhattan Project, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the end of the war ...

The complicated relationship between physicist Leo Szilard, scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and General Leslie Groves. Assigned to oversee the project, Groves chooses Oppenheimer to build the ...