Download Racing for the Bomb: The True Story of General Leslie R. Groves, the Man Behind the Birth of the Atomic Age AudioBook Free
In Sept 1942, Colonel Leslie R. Groves was given the job of creating the atomic bomb. Like a career official in the Military Corps of Engineers, Groves experienced overseen hundreds of military construction jobs, including the Pentagon. Until now, scientists have received the credit for the Manhattan Project's remarkable achievements. And yet, it was Leslie R. Groves who made things happen. It was Groves who drove manufacturers, construction crews, experts, industrialists, and military services and civilian officers to create the money, the materials, and the plans to solve thousands of problems and build the bomb in mere two years. It was his procedure, and in Sporting for the Bomb, he emerges as a take-charge, can-do number who succeeds in the face of formidable odds. Exposed for the first time in Sporting for the Bomb, Groves played an essential and decisive role in the look, timing, and targeting of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions. Norris offers new insights into the intricate and controversial questions encompassing your choice to drop the bomb in Japan and Groves's activities during World Warfare II, which experienced a enduring imprint on the nuclear age and the Chilly War that implemented. Groves's extensive effect on key organizations of postwar America has been overlooked for too long. In this full-scale biography, which includes archival materials and family words and documents and features several recently unpublished photographs, Norris places Groves at the guts of the amazing Manhattan Project story.
