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    Title
    Now it Can be Told
    Subtitle
    The Story of the Manhattan Project
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Leslie R. Groves
    Physical properties
    Format: Hardback
    Number of pages: 496
    Width: 140 mm
    Height: 210 mm
    Thickness: 33 mm
    Weight: 551 g
    Audience
    General/trade
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9780306801891
    ISBN 10: 0306801892
    Classifications
    BISAC category code: TEC025000
    BISAC category code: HIS037000
    BIC geographical qualifier: 1KBB
    Dewey: 355.8251190973
    LC classification: QC773.A1G7
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: T5.4
    BIC subject category: JWMN
    BIC subject category: HBLW
    BISAC category code: HIS000000
    Dewey: 623.4511
    Edition
    New edition
    Edition statement
    New edition
    Illustrations note
    23ill.
    Publisher
    The Perseus Books Group
    Imprint name
    Da Capo Press Inc
    Publication date
    22 March 1983
    Publication City/Country
    Cambridge, MA/US
    Main description
    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 contributions—and Oppenheimer's—while reflecting on the awesome legacy of their work.
    Back cover copy
    'Groves's astuteness is most clearly demonstrated in that, in spite of every contraindication from the military security division whose value and function he supported and even overestimated, he selected Oppenheimer as scientific director ... Oppie knew in detail the research going on in every part of the laboratory, and was as excellent at analyzing human problems as the countless technical ones. He knew how to lead without seeming to do so.