Buy this book on-line GROUEFF,STEPHANE: : Manhattan Project:The untold story of the making of the Atomic BombLONDON.COLLINS,1967.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.Green background with 3-colour (orange, green and white) text illustrated upper wrap,b/w author portrait to rear wrap with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges and slightly sunned/faded spine/backstrip.Top edge very, very lightly dust-soiled and minimally spotted/
foxed,fore-edge cleaner with minimal sporadic spotting/foxing,contents bright,tight and clean.
Clean,mauve/blue speckled paper-covered bds with bright,stamped gilt letters to spine/
backstrip and b/w map (USA) eps.8vo,5-416pp includes half-title+title pages,author preface, illustrations list,16pp b/w contemporary photographs,53 chapters,biblio and an index.
Everybody knows that at 05.29 hours (Mountain Time) on 16th July 1945 the history of mankind was changed irrevocably in New Mexico by a bomb called Fat Man.Almost nobody has been able to know until now (then 1967) more than a very small part of the story that culminated in the explosion of that first nuclear bomb.Stephane Groueff is the first man ever to piece together into a single coherent narrative all the unbelievable complexity of the drama that mobilised the entire technology of the world's most powerful nation in the pursuit of a single, over-riding aim:to make a nuclear fission bomb before the Nazis.
This is the story,told with all the objectivity,the painstaking research,the tenacity and the excitement that can only come with years of experience in international journalism,of that race against time.Here are the tensions between the different departments of a great nation at war,within the Manhattan Project between the research scientists and the applied scientists,between Nobel Prize winners and hard-bitten engineers,between the army and the administration.Here are the great scientists - Bohr, Teller, Szilard, Femi - from Europe and their American colleagues,including the complex and potentially tragic Oppenheimer.
Here are the vast secret cities created across a continent almost overnight - Los Alamos,Oak Ridge,Hanford - and the laboratories improvised in sheds and university squash courts.And here, over all, is the man faced with the supreme and terrifying responsibility of masterminding the entire project,General Leslie Groves,who had been given only one clear brief:succeed.
Granted unique access to classified documents of the Atomic Energy Commission and other US Government agencies,Groueff has accomplished a brilliantly authoritative account of Operation Manhattan that may be imitated but is unlikely to be surpassed.See also rja98.
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