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The general and the genius : Groves and Oppenheimer : the unlikely partnership that built the atom bomb / James Kunetka.
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Kunetka, James W., 1944-
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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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Lewis Library - Stacks
QC773.A1 K87 2015
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Atomic bomb
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New Mexico
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Los Alamos
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History
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Manhattan Project (U.S.)
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History
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Los Alamos National Laboratory
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History
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20th century
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Groves, Leslie R. 1896-1970
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Oppenheimer, J. Robert 1904-1967
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Generals
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United States
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Biography
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Military engineers
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United States
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Biography
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Physicists
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United States
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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.
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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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