Often wonder if the Manhattan Project failed and the atomic bomb not worked, would General Groves really have had to live on the hill, testifying to Congresses inquisition or would it have been covered up & classified away unknown forever?
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According to Rhodes: "He didn’t want to have to face congressional committee having spent $2 billion on a weapon that was not ready in time to use. He told one of his colleagues, 'We’ll all spend the rest of our lives in Leavenworth prison.'" https://www.manhattanprojectvoices.org/oral-histories/richard-rhodes-interview …
I mean, I know Groves believed that. I am just not sure it would have happened in reality. Groves certainly made many enemies, so it's possible he'd have been replaced. But it would have been easy for him to document that he was told to do this by FDR himself.
