Why dont we invite the people who knew four of the spies at los alamos and george coval who was mostly at dayton, i guess, but also at oak ridge. Robert s. Norris whose book is the definitive biography of general Leslie Groves and we have copies of it out there for you. Hell talk about how groves took the made basically an intelligence revolution in taking security measures to new heights. And yet how the project had these spice that were instrumental in giving kirchitof and the soviets the information they needed to advance their work on the atomic. Boomer . We bomb. We have a couple of eye witnesses who will tell you what it was like to work with these spies. Set the stage. Thank you cindy. Is this microphone on . Way in the back . Well, i could talk about all the things that cindy talked about. I think that groves through his obsession with secrecy and not letting any information out really was one of the architects of not only the Manhattan Project architecture of secrecy, but what
Mostly in dayton, i guess, but also in oak ridge. Oak ridge. Robert s. Norris whose book is the definitive biography of general Leslie Groves and we have copies of it out there for you. Hell talk about how groves took the made basically an intelligence revolution in taking security measures to new heights. And yet how the project had these spice that were instrumental in giving kirchitof and the soviets the information they needed to advance their work on the atomic. Boomer . We bomb. We have a couple of eye witnesses who will tell you what it was like to work with these spies. Set the stage. Thank you cindy. Is this microphone on . Way in the back . Well, i could talk about all the things that cindy talked about. I think that groves through his obsession with secrecy and not letting any information out really was one of the architects of not only the Manhattan Project architecture of secrecy, but what came afterwards and were still living with today. Were talking about compartmentaliz
Why dont we invite the people who knew four of the spies at los alamos and george coval who was mostly at dayton, i guess, but also at oak ridge. Robert s. Norris whose book is the definitive biography of general Leslie Groves and we have copies of it out there for you. Hell talk about how groves took the made basically an intelligence revolution in taking security measures to new heights. And yet how the project had these spice that were instrumental in giving kirchitof and the soviets the information they needed to advance their work on the atomic. Boomer . We bomb. We have a couple of eye witnesses who will tell you what it was like to work with these spies. Set the stage. Thank you cindy. Is this microphone on . Way in the back . Well, i could talk about all the things that cindy talked about. I think that groves through his obsession with secrecy and not letting any information out really was one of the architects of not only the Manhattan Project architecture of secrecy, but what
Youll find a kaleidoscope of voices which makes this a very rich tapestry. Each of us experience the same event in a different way, so each of these individuals experienced the Manhattan Project in their own, unique way. Cynthia kelly with the atomic heritage foundation. Thank you for joining us on American History tv. Cindy thank you very much. Something about your background, where youre born, education . Benjamin my parents who were russianjewish immigrants who came to america just before world war i and just after world war i. They met at night school, a very romantic setting. They lived in the lower east side. They were very poor. My father worked as a restaurant worker all of his life. I grew up mainly in the bronx and partly in Brighton Beach in brooklyn. One of the great things about new york is that it had city college. City college was a defining event in my life because he gave me a completely free education, the exact subject that i wanted, which is physics. That is basical
I think that groves through his obsession with secrecy and not letting any information out really was one of the architects of not only the Manhattan Project architecture of secrecy, but what came afterwards and were still living with today. Were talking about compartmentalization, which was the bedrock way that he organized things. You only needed to know what you needed to know and nothing else. So that kept everyone limited to a certain spot. And i characterized it as a kind of pyramid. It was down at the bottom people hardly knew what they were working on at all. Maybe they were just turning the dial or something at oak ridge, and as you went up the pyramid, fewer and fewer people knew more and more about the different aspects of the program. And at the very top was general groves who knew everything, and it was really basically the source of his power because he was able to orient things in such a fashion to keep it moving. So i could talk about all of that and i could talk about