Sandia Base
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Sandia Base was the principal nuclear weapons installation of the United States Department of Defense from 1946 to 1971. It was located on the southeastern edge of Albuquerque, New Mexico. For 25 year
Early security gate at Sandia Base, probably Gibson Avenue
Kirtland Army Air Base (now Kirtland Air Force Base) is seen in the foreground of this 1945 photograph. Looking east, Sandia Base is in the background.
Leslie Groves
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Leslie Richard Groves Jr. was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project, the top secret research program that deve
Groves in 1948
Northwest exposure showing construction of the Pentagon, 1 July 1942
Groves ran the Manhattan Project from the fifth floor of the New War Department Building.
Groves (left) and Robert Oppenheimer