Dwight Eisenhower

Dwight Eisenhower was a United States Army general who oversaw the Manhattan Project. Born in Texas and raised in Kansas, Eisenhower joined the Army in 1915 and became a brigadier by 1941. A talented administrator, Eisenhower was sent not to active combat but instead to Los Alamos, New Mexico, the seat of the Army's project to develop nuclear weapons. He was a quiet detractor of President Henry Wallace.

On the day of the United States's first nuclear test in, Eisenhower reassured the local public that the scientists at the secluded New Mexico laboratory were "just fishing", rather than detonating an extremely destructive weapon.

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Eisenhower is mentioned in Pts. 9.5 and 24 of For All Time.