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The General and the Genius
- Groves and Oppenheimer - The Unlikely Partnership That Built the Atom Bomb
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Two ambitious men. One historic mission. With a blinding flash in the New Mexico desert in the summer of 1945, the world was changed forever. The bomb that ushered in the atomic age was the product of one of history's most improbable partnerships. The General and the Genius reveals how two extraordinary men pulled off the greatest scientific feat of the 20th century. Leslie Richard Groves of the Army Corps of Engineers, who had made his name by building the Pentagon in record time and under budget, was made overlord of the impossibly vast scientific enterprise known as the Manhattan Project. His mission: to beat the Nazis to the atomic bomb. So he turned to the nation's preeminent theoretical physicist, J. Robert Oppenheimer - the chain-smoking, martini-quaffing son of wealthy Jewish immigrants, whose background was riddled with communist associations - Groves' opposite in nearly every respect. In their three-year collaboration, the iron-willed general and the visionary scientist led a brilliant team in a secret mountaintop lab and built the fearsome weapons that ended the war but introduced the human race to unimaginable new terrors. And at the heart of this most momentous work of World War II is the story of two extraordinary men - the general and the genius.
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- Wharris
- 2023-10-26
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This book is an excellent complement to American Promethius. I enjoyed listening to this book to educate myself on the difficult world political situation to bring an end to WWII.
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-08-22
Two Incredible Minds
This book is an excellent look into the relationship that created a secret city in New Mexico and the Atomic Bombs that ended WW2. For those that liked like movie Oppenheimer this is a must read. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
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- krisj
- 2021-10-17
The making of atomic history
One always has to have mixed feelings about the atom bomb. True it ended the war in 1945. But also true that many human lives were vaporized in an instant. Oppie’s quote of “I am death” is exactly the mixed feelings we must have as human beings.
As a book, it is a wonderful listen. Factual history and blending the good of science at a breakneck pace to rid the world of war (one evil) with another (the bomb).
Well worth a listen. I really liked everything about the masterful description of events.
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