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Author Kunetka, James W., 1944- author.

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

Publication Info. Washington, DC : Regnery History, [2015]
©2015
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1654217~S1
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  355.825119 KUN    DUE 05-06-24
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Description xiv, 482 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Bibliography 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.
Summary 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.
Subject Groves, Leslie R., 1896-1970.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.
Manhattan Project (U.S.) -- History.
Los Alamos National Laboratory -- History -- 20th century.
Atomic bomb -- New Mexico -- Los Alamos -- History.
Generals -- Biography.
Military engineers -- Biography.
Physicists -- Biography.
Genre NonFiction.
Historical.
Science.
Added Title Groves and Oppenheimer : the unlikely partnership that built the atom bomb.
ISBN 9781621573388 (hardback)
1621573389 (hardback)
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