xiv, 482 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm

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

Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-464) and index

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

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