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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

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 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  355.8 KUNETKA    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  355.8251 KUN    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  355.0217 KUNETKA    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  355.8251 KUN    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  355.825 KUN    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  539.7 KU    Check Shelf
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 Atomic bomb -- New Mexico -- Los Alamos -- History.
Manhattan Project (U.S.) -- History.
Los Alamos National Laboratory -- History -- 20th century.
Groves, Leslie R., 1896-1970.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.
Generals -- United States -- Biography.
Military engineers -- United States -- Biography.
Physicists -- United States -- Biography.
Added Title Groves and Oppenheimer : the unlikely partnership that built the atom bomb
Unlikely partnership that built the atom bomb
ISBN 9781621573388 (hardback)
1621573389 (hardback)
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