What was the Top Policy Group in the Manhattan Project?

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Vannevar Bush with Differential Analyzer, c. 1935 — Vannevar Bush The first modern analog computer, the Differential Analyzer could solve certain classes of differential equations.

The "Top Policy Group" was a high-level committee established to oversee the Manhattan Project alongside the scientific leadership of Vannevar Bush and the Office of Scientific Research and Development.1

The group was composed of the following members:
* Vannevar Bush
* James B. Conant
* President Franklin D. Roosevelt
* Vice President Henry A. Wallace
* Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson
* U.S. Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall1

This group provided the necessary high-level government and military oversight for the massive scientific and industrial undertaking required to develop the atomic bomb.1