Now It Can Be Told

A first-person account of the Manhattan Project by the general who hired, and worked alongside, Robert Oppenheimer. General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name the Manhattan Project. As the ranking military officer in charge of marshaling men and material for what was to be the most ambitious, expensive engineering feat in history, it was General Groves who hired Oppenheimer (with knowledg