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

Author
Kunetka, James W., 1944- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Washington, DC : Regnery History, [2015]
  • ©2015
Description
xiv, 482 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

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    Summary note
    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 U.S. beating the Nazis to the invention of the atomic bomb.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-464) and index.
    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.
    Other title(s)
    • Groves and Oppenheimer : the unlikely partnership that built the atom bomb
    • Unlikely partnership that built the atom bomb
    ISBN
    • 9781621573388 ((hardback))
    • 1621573389 ((hardback))
    LCCN
    2015004467
    OCLC
    891618851
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