An edition of Now it can be told : the story of the Manhattan Project (1962)
Now it can be told
the story of the Manhattan project.
By Leslie R. Groves
Publish Date
1962
Publisher
Harper
Language
eng
Pages
464
Description:
TABLE OF CONTENTS: The beginnings of the med -- First steps -- The uranium ore supply -- The plutonium project -- Los Alamos : I -- Hanford : I -- Hanford : II -- Oak Ridge -- Negotiations with the British -- Security arrangements and press censorship -- Los Alamos : II -- The combined development trust -- Military intelligence : Alsos I — Italy -- A serious military problem -- Military intelligence: Alsos II — France -- The problem of the French scientists -- Military intelligence : Alsos III — Germany -- Training the air unit -- Choosing the target -- Tinian -- Alamogordo -- Operational plans -- Hiroshima -- The Germans hear the news -- Nagasaki -- The med and congress -- The destruction of the Japanese cyclotrons -- Transition period -- The AEC -- Postwar developments -- A final word -- Appendixes.