I'm looking for well written and in depth books on many people from WWII, the Cold War, and I suppose the Manhattan Project as well. Books written about the Manhattan Project, its aftermath on the people involved and especially the spying scandals (Fuchs, Hall, Greenglass, Rosenburgs) are great too.
People like Curtis LeMay, Leslie Groves, Robert McNamara (to a lesser extent), and J. Robert Oppenheimer fascinate me. LeMay and Groves are the two I'm really wanting to know about right now, but pretty much anyone high in the chain of command of the US military in that era would be good too. If you know of any others like them that you think would be interesting to learn about please mention them as well.
I'm not against any books written by someone with a clear political bias, so long as they remain factual with the presentation of their material. Thanks!
Eric Schlosser's Command and Control is extremely readable and goes into several of these figures. He does a pretty great job with LeMay among others. The book is not really centered on biographies, but is a great read if you're interested in Cold War nuclear history.
Richard Rhodes' books on nuclear weapons (Making of the Atomic Bomb, Dark Sun, Arsenals of Folly) generally take a biographical approach to talking about the history (you can see them as a series of linked biographies). The Making of the Atomic Bomb is a great place to learn about the major figures; Dark Sun is good for the spies and the Soviet counterparts to the American figures.
There are individual biographies of all of those mentioned that can be hunted out, for very in-depth study. Robert Norris' Racing for the Bomb is the definitive biography of Groves. There are many Oppenheimer biographies; Bird and Sherwin's American Prometheus is one of the best all-around ones, but there are many other good ones as well (Charles Thorpe's Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect is a more analytical approach to Oppenheimer's character and actions, less in the mold of hero worship as many accounts).
Of the spies, Albright and Kunstel's Bombshell is a great biography of Ted Hall. I am also partial to Hornblum's The Invisible Harry Gold as a real counterpoint to the standard spy stories.