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Now It Can Be Told: The Story Of The Manhattan Project
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Now It Can Be Told: The Story Of The Manhattan Project Paperback - 1983

by Groves, Leslie R

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  • Title Now It Can Be Told: The Story Of The Manhattan Project
  • Author Groves, Leslie R
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 496
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Da Capo Press, USA
  • Date 1983-03-22
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ING9780306801891
  • ISBN 9780306801891 / 0306801892
  • Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.3 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
  • Library of Congress subjects Atomic bomb - United States - History, Manhattan Project (U.S.) - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 82023649
  • Dewey Decimal Code 623.451

From the rear cover

'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.

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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.

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