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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Kunetka, James W., 1944- author.     Subjects     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 -- United States -- Biography.     Military engineers -- United States -- Biography.     Physicists -- United States -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Kunetka, James W., 1944- author.       by title:      The general and the ...         MARC Display

The general and the genius : Groves and Oppenheimer : the unlikely partnership that built the atom bomb / James Kunetka. by Kunetka, James W., 1944- author. Washington, DC : Regnery History, c2015. Subjects 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 -- United States -- Biography.   Military engineers -- United States -- Biography.   Physicists -- United States -- Biography. ISBN:  9781621573388 : 1621573389 Description:  xiv, 482 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm 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. Requests:  0 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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 355.82511 Ku Checked out 06/14/2024 Add Copy to MyList

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