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

Author: Kunetka, James W., 1944-

Imprint:Washington, DC : Regnery Publishing, [2015]

Descriptionxiv, 482 pages: ill. ; 24 cm

Note: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.



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Author:
Kunetka, James W., 1944-
Title:
Groves and Oppenheimer : the unlikely partnership that built the atom bomb
Subject:
Groves, Leslie R., 1896-1970.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.
Subject:
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.