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General and the Genius

লেখক / Author: James Kunetka

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Two ambitious men. One historic mission. With a blinding flash in the New Mexico desert in the summer of 1945, the world was changed forever. The bomb that ushered in the atomic age was the product of one of history’s most improbable but produc tive partnerships. The General and the Genius reveals how two extraordinary men pulled off the greatest scientific feat of the twentieth century. Leslie Groves of the Army Corps of Engineers, the duty-driven son of a Presbyterian chaplain, was promoted to brigadier general in 1942 and made overlord of the Manhattan Project. His mission: to beat the Nazis to the atomic bomb. Groves turned to the nation’s preeminent theoretical physicist, a man who was his opposite in nearly every respect—J. Robert Oppenheimer, the martini-quaffing son of wealthy…

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Pages: 480

Language: en

ISBN-13: 9781621573852

ISBN-10: 1621573850