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02406aam a2200421 i 4500 001 1ADEF0E07AD911EEB3B4743A5DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231104011203 008 221013t20222015dcuabcf b 001 0ceng 020 $a 1684513596 020 $a 9781684513598 035 $a (OCoLC)1347354986 040 $a SINLB $b eng $e rda $c SINLB $d OCLCF $d T7L $d BDX $d SILO 050 4 $a D 082 04 $a 355.825119 $2 23 100 1 $a Kunetka, James W., $d 1944- $e author. 245 14 $a The general and the genius : $b Groves and Oppenheimer : the unlikely partnership that built the atom bomb / $c James Kunetka. 246 30 $a Groves and Oppenheimer : the unlikely partnership that built the atom bomb 246 30 $a Unlikely partnership that built the atom bomb 264 1 $a Washington, DC : $b Regnery History, $c 2022 300 $a xiv, 482 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations, maps, portraits ; $c 23 cm 500 $a "World War II collection"--Cover. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-464) and index. 505 0 $a July 16, 1945 : early morning -- Revolutionary developments -- General and physicist -- The extraordinary partnership -- A military necessity -- Large-scale experiments -- The Los Alamos primer -- Fortunate choices -- All possible priority -- Splendid isolation -- A necessary reorganization -- Converging roads : 1945 -- Race to the finish -- Men will see what we saw -- Primary targets -- The extraordinary working relationship -- Retrospection : 2015. 520 $a 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. 610 20 $a Manhattan Project (U.S.) $x History. 610 20 $a Los Alamos National Laboratory $x History $y 20th century. 600 10 $a Groves, Leslie R., $d 1896-1970. 600 10 $a Oppenheimer, J. Robert, $d 1904-1967. 650 0 $a Atomic bomb $z Los Alamos $z Los Alamos $x History. 650 0 $a Generals $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Military engineers $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Physicists $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Biographies. 941 $a 1 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20231104011819.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1ADEF0E07AD911EEB3B4743A5DECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search