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Based Upon Previously Classified Wartime Files, The Complete Records Of The Manhattan Project, And Interviews With Dozens Of Wartime Participants, City Of Fire Presents The Complete And Definitive History Of Los Alamos, The Scientific Town Created Overnight By The U.s. Army To Build Prototype Atomic Bombs During World War Ii. With The Initial Test Explosion Of The Atomic Bomb In Northern New Mexico On July 16, 1945, The Atom Age--indeed, The Whole Modern Era--had Begun In Earnest. Now, In A Book Brimming With History, Science, Politics, And Extraordinary Human Achievement, Here Is The Dramatic Story Behind The Creation Of The Atomic Bomb. Led By The Brilliant And Charismatic Robert Oppenheimer, The Los Alamos Laboratory Drew To Its Ranks The Scientific Giants Of The Age: Neils Bohr, Enrico Fermi, Edward Teller, And Dozens More. Casting New Light On Oppenheimer's Pervasive Contributions To The Laboratory And On His Relationship With General Leslie R.^ Groves, The Director Of The Manhattan Project, This Book Reveals The Scientific Squabbles That Developed, As Well As The Unusual Degree Of Cooperation Oppenheimer Generated Among His Colleagues And Between The Scientific Community And

Author

Kunetka, James W., 1944- author

Publisher

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Published

1978

Language

EN

ISBN

9780131346352

Subjects

Engineering, Science, History