General Kenneth Nichols’s Interview – Part 1
General Kenneth David Nichols was a US Army Engineer who served as Manhattan District Engineer in the Manhattan Project, overseeing the uranium and plutonium production at Oak Ridge and Hanford. He worked underneath and alongside General Groves, and collaborated with a number of well-known scientists. He discusses what it was like to work with scientists like Eugene Wigner, Leo Szilard, Arthur Compton, and others, and explains some of the project’s conflicts among scientists. He discusses the complex administration of the Manhattan Project, and why he get along better with scientists than General Leslie Groves did. Nichols was also in charge of ore procurement.
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