Racing for the Bomb: The True Story of General Leslie R. Groves, the Man behind the Birth of the Atomic Age

Author:   Robert S. Norris
Publisher:   Skyhorse Publishing
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9781629145310


Pages:   752
Publication Date:   06 November 2014
Format:   Paperback
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Racing for the Bomb: The True Story of General Leslie R. Groves, the Man behind the Birth of the Atomic Age


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In September 1942, Colonel Leslie R. Groves was given the job of building the atomic bomb. As a career officer in the Army Corps of Engineers, Groves had overseen hundreds of military construction projects, including the Pentagon. Until now, scientists have received the credit for the Manhattan Project's remarkable achievements. And yet, it was Les

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Author:   Robert S. Norris
Publisher:   Skyhorse Publishing
Imprint:   Skyhorse Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 4.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.914kg
ISBN:  

9781629145310


ISBN 10:   1629145319
Pages:   752
Publication Date:   06 November 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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Robert S. Norris has been a research associate for almost twenty years at the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington, DC, covering nuclear weapons issues. He has written extensively about the nuclear programs of the United States, the Soviet Union and Russia, Britain, France, and China as an author of the multivolume Nuclear Weapons Databook series and of numerous articles. He lives in Annapolis, Maryland.

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