The general and the genius : Groves and Oppenheimer : the unlikely partnership that built the atom bomb
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Kunetka, James W., 1944-
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Washington, D.C. : Regnery History, [2015].
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xiv, 482 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
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Washington, D.C. : Regnery History, [2015].
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-464) and index.
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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.

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Atomic bomb -- New Mexico -- Los Alamos -- History.
Biographies.
Generals -- United States -- Biography.
Groves, Leslie R., -- 1896-1970.
Los Alamos National Laboratory -- History -- 20th century.
Manhattan Project (U.S.) -- History.
Military engineers -- United States -- Biography.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, -- 1904-1967.
Physicists -- United States -- Biography.