Thomas F. Farrell

Major General Thomas Francis Farrell (3 December 1891 – 11 April 1967) was the Deputy Commanding General and Chief of Field Operations of the Manhattan Project, acting as executive officer to Major General Leslie R. Groves Jr.

Quotes

The faith of those who had been responsible for the initiation and the carrying-on of this Herculean project had been justified. I personally thought of Blondin crossing Niagara Falls on his tightrope, only to me this tightrope had lasted for almost three years.
- First hand account of the Trinity test (July 16, 1945); quoted in General Leslie R. Groves's memorandum for the Secretary of War (July 18, 1945); see Herbert Feis, "The Secret That Traveled to Potsdam", Foreign Affairs (January 1960)