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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Including, notably, The senator Trumans committee on avoiding waste in the war-enterprise. Truman says in Plain Speaking that he was told to back off by FDR when he got near Manhattan.
Yes. But Truman was only one of several Congressmen who had been snooping around Manhattan work. There were several attempts to audit it, all shut down by personal intervention from Stimson.
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Didn’t Groves have special Independent government auditor (IGs) audit the project every month as payments were made on the various contracts? He certainly knew how to play the game so congressional testimony would be uncomfortable but he probably had bases well covered?
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Yes, but hiding a hypothetical failure from the president Truman would have been very hard. He'd want to know what he wasn't allowed to know back then.
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