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The general and the genius : Groves and Oppenheimer : the unlikely partnership that built the atom bomb /

Describes how Leslie Richard Groves of the Army Corps of Engineers enlisted the help of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer on a three-year collaboration that resulted in the United States beating the Nazis to the invention of the atomic bomb.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kunetka, James W., 1944- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Regnery History, [2015]
Subjects:
Atomic bomb > New Mexico > Los Alamos > History.
Manhattan Project (U.S.) > History.
Los Alamos National Laboratory > History > 20th century.
Groves, Leslie R., > 1896-1970.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, > 1904-1967.
Generals > United States > Biography.
Military engineers > United States > Biography.
Physicists > United States > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • July 16, 1945 : early morning
  • Revolutionary developments
  • General and physicist
  • The extraordinary partnership
  • A military necessity
  • Large-scale experiments
  • The Los Alamos primer
  • Fortunate choices
  • All possible priority
  • Splendid isolation
  • A necessary reorganization
  • Converging roads : 1945
  • Race to the finish
  • Men will see what we saw
  • Primary targets
  • The extraordinary working relationship
  • Retrospection : 2015.