The General and the Genius by James Kunetka
Historian James Kunetka examines the unlikely collaboration between rock-ribbed military engineer and project manager Leslie Richard Groves and unstable-but-brilliant communist sympathizer Robert Oppenheimer to bring the Manhattan Project to fruition, beat the Nazis to the atomic bomb, save the world, and--for better or worse--define the fraught existential condition of our modern age. 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 partnerships. The General and the Genius reveals how two extraordinary men pulled off the greatest scientific feat of the twentieth century. Leslie Richard Groves of the Army Corps of Engineers, who had made his name by building the Pentagon in record time and under budget, was made overlord of the impossibly vast scientific enterprise known as the Manhattan Project. His mission: to beat the Nazis to the atomic bomb. So he turned to the nation's preeminent theoretical physicist, J. Robert Oppenheimer--the chain-smoking, martini-quaffing son of wealthy Jewish immigrants, whose background was riddled with communist associations--Groves's opposite in nearly every respect. In their three-year collaboration, the iron-willed general and the visionary scientist led a brilliant team in a secret mountaintop lab and built the fearsome weapons that ended the war but introduced the human race to unimaginable new terrors. And at the heart of this most momentous work of World War II is the story of two extraordinary men--the general and the genius.James Kunetka is a New York Times bestselling author who has previously written two books about Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project. He reviewed classified materials in the archives for their historical worth as a consultant with top-secret clearance at Los Alamos. He is a retired University of Texas at Austin professor.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781684513598 |
| ISBN 10 | 1684513596 |
| Title | The General and the Genius |
| Author | James Kunetka |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Regnery History |
| Year published | 2022-09-20 |
| Number of pages | 480 |
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