General Leslie R. Groves
General Groves, commander of the Army Corps of Engineers' Manhattan Project,
looking at a map of Japan in his Washington, D.C. office, July 18, 1945.
This photo was part of the press release announcement that atomic bombs
had been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, thus ending World War II.
Photo by Ed Westcott
DOE-2039
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