Now It Can Be Told
Story of the Manhattan Project
$46.53
- Paperback
492 pages
- Release Date
22 March 1983
Summary
General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name “The Manhattan Project.”
As the ranking military officer in charge of marshalling men and material for what was to be the most ambitious, expensive engineering feat in history, it was General Groves who hired Oppenheimer (with knowledge of his left-wing past), planned facilities that would extract the necessary enriched uranium, and sa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780306801891 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0306801892 |
| Author: | Leslie M. Groves |
| Publisher: | The Perseus Books Group |
| Imprint: | Da Capo Press Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 492 |
| Release Date: | 22 March 1983 |
| Weight: | 456g |
| Dimensions: | 214mm x 138mm x 40mm |
| Series: | Quality Paperbacks Series |
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About The Author
Leslie M. Groves
Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. (1896-1970) was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project, a top secret research project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II.
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