Leslie Groves, Richard G. Hewlett (1962), The New World, 1939–1946, place: University Park, publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, ISBN: 0-520-07186-7, OCLN: 637004643, ref: harv, retrieved: 26 March 2013, p. 655
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Five years ago, the idea of Atomic Power was only a dream. You have made that dream a reality. You have seized upon the most nebulous of ideas and translated them into actualities. You have built cities where none were known before. You have constructed industrial plants of a magnitude and to a precision heretofore deemed impossible. You built the weapon which ended the War and thereby saved countless American lives. With regard to peacetime applications, you have raised the curtain on vistas of a new world.

— Leslie Groves on Manhattan Project

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Five years ago, the idea of Atomic Power was only a dream. You have made that dream a reality. You have seized upon the most nebulous of ideas and translated them into actualities. You have built cities where none were known before. You have constructed industrial plants of a magnitude and to a precision heretofore deemed impossible. You built the weapon which ended the War and thereby saved countless American lives. With regard to peacetime applications, you have raised the curtain on vistas of a new world." in the context of "Leslie Groves, Richard G. Hewlett (1962), The New World, 1939–1946, place: University Park, publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, ISBN: 0-520-07186-7, OCLN: 637004643, ref: harv, retrieved: 26 March 2013, p. 655" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Leslie Groves

About Leslie Groves

Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves Jr. (August 17, 1896 – July 13, 1970) was a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officer, famous as the director of the Manhattan Project.