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

• 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.

• 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. 

Ämnesord

Nuclear physicists  (LCSH)

Atomic bomb  -- New Mexico -- Los Alamos -- History. (LCSH)

Generals  -- United States -- Biography. (LCSH)

Military engineers  -- United States -- Biography. (LCSH)

Physicists  -- United States -- Biography. (LCSH)

Atomic bomb.  (fast)

Generals.  (fast)

Military engineers.  (fast)

Physicists.  (fast)

Manhattan-Projekt.  (gnd)

United States.  (fast)

New Mexico  -- Los Alamos. (fast)

1900-1999  (fast)

Genre

Biography.  (fast)

History.  (fast)

Personnamn

Groves, Leslie R., 1896-1970.

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.

Groves, Leslie R., 1896-1970.

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.

Groves, Leslie R., 1896-1970.

Institutionsnamn

Manhattan Project (U.S.) -- History.

Los Alamos National Laboratory -- History -- 20th century.

Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Manhattan Project (U.S.)

Klassifikation

QC773.A1 (LCC)

355.8/25119092273 (DDC)

Sf.07 (kssb/8 (machine generated))