Now it can be told : the story of the Manhattan Project

Groves, Leslie R., 1896-1970.

Book 1983

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 ranking military officer in charge of marshaling men and material for what was to be the most ambitious and expensive engineering feat in history, it was General Groves who hired Oppenheimer (with knowledge of his left-wing past), planned facilities that would extract t...

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Bombe atomique

Etats-Unis. Bombe atomique

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ISBN:

9780306801891
0306801892

Description:

xviii, 464 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Harper, 1962
Includes index

Contents:

pt. 1. The beginnings of the Med
First steps
The uranium ore supply
The plutonium project
Los Alamos, I
Hanford, I
Hanford, II
Oak Ridge
Negotiations with the British
Security arrangements and press censorship
Los Alamos, II
The combined development trust
Military intelligence, Alsos I, Italy
A serious military problem
Military intelligence, Alsos II, France
The problem of the French scientists
Military intelligence, Alsos III, Germany
part 2. Training the air unit
Choosing the target
Tinian
Alamogordo
Opertaional plans
Hiroshima
The Germans hear the news
Nagasaki
part 3. The Med and Congress
The destruction of the Japanese cyclotrons
Transition period
The AEC
Postwar developments
A final word

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2133848

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