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Two ambitious men. One traditional mission. Having a blinding flash in the brand new Mexico desert in the summertime of 1945, the earth was changed forever. The bomb that ushered in the atomic age was the product of 1 of history's most improbable partnerships. The General and the Genius unveils how two astonishing men drawn off the best scientific feat of the 20th century. Leslie Richard Groves of the Army Corps of Technicians, who got made his name because they build the Pentagon in record time and under budget, was made overlord of the impossibly great scientific venture known as the Manhattan Project. His objective: to conquer the Nazis to the atomic bomb. So he turned to the nation's preeminent theoretical physicist, J. Robert Oppenheimer - the chain-smoking, martini-quaffing kid of wealthy Jewish immigrants, whose backdrop was riddled with communist organizations - Groves' reverse in almost every respect. In their three-year cooperation, the iron-willed standard and the visionary scientist led an excellent team in a hidden knowledge mountaintop lab and built the fearsome weaponry that finished the battle but released the human race to unimaginable new terrors. And at the heart of this most momentous work of World War II is the storyplot of two astonishing men - the general and the genius.
