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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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?
Not fiscal auditing (they kept very clean books) — but overall auditing as to whether it was worth the money. Several Congressmen and the Office of War Mobilization all wanted to look into where all the Manhattan money was going. Here is Byrne's OWM letter from March '45.pic.twitter.com/SLPPWGtbts
