(WORLD WAR II) GROVES LESLIE RICHARD Typed Letter Signed Les

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WHAT IS "THE GREATEST PROBLEM FACED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ATOMIC BOMB"? (WORLD WAR II.) GROVES, LESLIE RICHARD. Typed Letter Signed, "Leslie R Groves," to historian Edward M. Coffman, explaining that the greatest problem faced in developing the atomic bomb was the uncertainty about whether the method adopted for enriching uranium would be successful. 1 page, 4to, "Remington Rand" stationery; horizontal folds. Stamford, CT, 3 October 1955

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". . . The greatest problem faced in the development of the atomic bomb . . . .
". . . was the uncertainty, which lasted for about two years, as to whether we would be successful in our attempts to develop a suitable barrier for the gas diffusion process. . . . [T]he necessity . . . to drive ahead with the construction of the processing plant . . . . meant the expenditure of several hundreds of millions without any assurance that the basic barrier could be developed."
Leslie Richard Groves (1896-1970) was an Army Corps engineer who supervised construction of the Pentagon building and served as director of the Manhattan Project.