Racing for the bomb : the true story of General Leslie R. Groves, the man behind the birth of the Atomic age / Robert S. Norris.

• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL, POLITICAL & MILITARY. In September 1942, Colonel Leslie R. Groves was given the job of building the atomic bomb. As a career officer in the Army Corps of Engineers, Groves had overseen hundreds of military construction projects, including the Pentagon. Until now, scientists have received the credit for the Manhattan Project's remarkable achievements. And yet, it was Leslie R. Groves who made things happen. It was Groves who drove manufacturers, construction crews, scientists, industrialists, and military and civilian officials to come up with the money, the materials, and the plans to solve thousands of problems and build the bomb in only two years. It was his operation, and in Racing for the Bomb he emerges as a take-charge, can-do figure who succeeds in the face of formidable odds. Revealed for the first time in Racing for the Bomb, Groves played a crucial and decisive role in the planning, timing, and targeting of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions. 

Ämnesord

Kärnvapen  (sao)

Militärer  (sao)

Atombombningen av Hiroshima 1945  (sao)

Atombombningen av Nagasaki 1945  (sao)

Atombomber  (sao)

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

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

Nuclear weapons  -- United States -- History. (LCSH)

Nuclear weapons  (lcsh)

Atomic bomb  (lcsh)

Förenta staterna  (sao)

United States.  (fast)

Genre

Biografier  (saogf)

Biography.  (fast)

History.  (fast)

Personnamn

Groves, Leslie R., 1896-1970.

Groves, Leslie R., 1896-1970.

Institutionsnamn

Manhattan Project (U.S.)

Manhattan Project (U.S.)

Klassifikation

355.8/25119/0973 (DDC)

B (DDC)

Sf.07 (kssb/8 (machine generated))