Now It Can Be Told

Informationen zum Autor General Leslie R. Groves Klappentext '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. Zusammenfassung "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"

About the author

Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. (1896-1970) was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project, a top secret research project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II.

Product details

• Authors: General Leslie R. Groves, Leslie Groves, Leslie R. Groves, Groves Leslie
• Assisted by: Edward Teller (Illustration)
• Publisher: Dacapo
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.1983
• EAN: 9780306801891
• ISBN: 978-0-306-80189-1
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 218 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Quality Paperbacks Series; Quality Paperbacks Series
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; HISTORY / Military / Weapons, HISTORY / Military / Nuclear Warfare, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General