what general groves recognized in him. eisenbach: for security purposes, this project needs to happen away from everything. so groves tells oppenheimer to just come up with a place where this would actually work. and it was oppenheimer who suggests the new mexico desert. so they go to scope out a site. it's called los alamos. carr: oppenheimer knew the area well. he had spent a lot of time here. charles oppenheimer: when he left new york as a young man and went to new mexico... ...that was a-- just a really important part of his life. going to new mexico and meeting cowboys and riding horses. he just loved it. he loved every part of it. bird: he once said that his ambition was to combine