Now it Can be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project (Quality Paperbacks Series) (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Now it Can be Told "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"
Full description- Publisher: Da Capo Press Inc
- Published: 22 March 1983
- Format: Hardback 496 pages
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- Categories: Nuclear Weapons | Military Engineering | General & World History | History Of The Americas | 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000
- ISBN 13: 9780306801891 ISBN 10: 0306801892
- Sales rank: 259,690
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Full description for Now it Can be Told
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 saw to it that nothing interfered with the accelerated research and swift assembly of the weapon. This is his story of the political, logistical, and personal problems of this enormous undertaking which involved foreign governments, sensitive issues of press censorship, the construction of huge plants at Hanford and Oak Ridge, and a race to build the bomb before the Nazis got wind of it. The role of groves in the Manhattan Project has always been controversial. In his new introduction the noted physicist Edward Teller, who was there at Los Alamos, candidly assesses the general's contributionsand Oppenheimer'swhile reflecting on the awesome legacy of their work.
