Now It Can Be Told: The Story Of The Manhattan Project (Quality Paperbacks Series)
by General Leslie R. Groves
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Author: General Leslie R. GrovesEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1983-03-21
ISBN: 0306801892
Number of pages: 496
Publisher: Da Capo Press
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Book Review: Boring and Disappointing
Summary: 2 Stars
I found that the hoopla for this book was overrated. Groves' book was not at all what I expected. I was expecting to read about the personal and daily battles of the scientists (Teller, Oppenheimer and others) at Los Alamos and how they discovered, designed and built the bombs. This was not the case at all.Groves describes in great detail, in Part I, how the government created the labs at Hanford, Oak Ridge, and Los Alamos. He discusses, at length, the political, social and economic ramifications of the project. He pontificates about the search for uranium in India and Belgian Congo and how he had to deal with the political forces (Britain and Belgium) when searching for the uranium. He describes the political issues of the labor unions and how the government avoided any labor issues at the three lab facilities. Groves does not go into great detail about the daily lives of the scientists at Los Alamos.
With Part II, I expected to read and learn more about inside details regarding the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Again, I was disappointed. Very little was actually mentioned about Col. Paul Tibbets and the others who made up the air crews for these two raids. Mostly, Groves describes the detail around crafting responses to these raids for the rest of the world and how to word their news releases.
Part III dealt with the creation of the Atomic Energy Commission in post WWII.
I found the book to be boring. The book, Day of Trinity, was much better. Groves' book is more suited for manager-type people of large corportions who might enjoy the behind-the-scenes look at management.
Summary of Now It Can Be Told: The Story Of The Manhattan Project (Quality Paperbacks Series)
General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name "The Manhattan Project." As the ranking military officer in charge of marshalling men and material for what was to be the most ambitious, expensive engineering feat in history, it was General Groves who hired Oppenheimer (with knowledge of his left-wing past), planned facilities that would extract the necessary enriched uranium, and saw to it that nothing interfered with the accelerated research and swift assembly of the weapon.This is his story of the political, logistical, and personal problems of this enormous undertaking which involved foreign governments, sensitive issues of press censorship, the construction of huge plants at Hanford and Oak Ridge, and a race to build the bomb before the Nazis got wind of it. The role of groves in the Manhattan Project has always been controversial. In his new introduction the noted physicist Edward Teller, who was there at Los Alamos, candidly assesses the general's contributions-and Oppenheimer's-while reflecting on the awesome legacy of their work.
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