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Two ambitious men. One historic mission.
With a blinding flash in the New Mexico desert in the summertime of 1945, the world was once changed endlessly. The bomb that ushered in the atomic age was once the product of one of history’s most implausible partnerships. The General and the Genius reveals how two unusual men pulled off the greatest scientific feat of the twentieth 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 once made overlord of the impossibly vast scientific enterprise referred to 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 rich Jewish immigrants, whose background was once riddled with communist associations—Groves’s opposite in nearly each 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 not possible new terrors. And on the heart of this most momentous work of World War II is the story of two unusual men—the general and the genius.
With a blinding flash in the New Mexico desert in the summertime of 1945, the world was once changed endlessly. The bomb that ushered in the atomic age was once the product of one of history’s most implausible partnerships. The General and the Genius reveals how two unusual men pulled off the greatest scientific feat of the twentieth 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 once made overlord of the impossibly vast scientific enterprise referred to 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 rich Jewish immigrants, whose background was once riddled with communist associations—Groves’s opposite in nearly each 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 not possible new terrors. And on the heart of this most momentous work of World War II is the story of two unusual men—the general and the genius.
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