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The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses and Historians
by Cynthia C. Kelly
by Cynthia C. Kelly
The Manhattan Project wins in my mind as the "great project". The collection of minds involved is unparalleled and this book couldn't hope to include all of them. Few of the stories that I find so fascinated or glanced over mostly out of necessity as there's only so much to be covered in 500 pages. The secondary resources, like mini-biographies as a timeline, were quite useful.
What this book covers that others on the topic don't:
-Leslie Groves, in detail
-The process leading up to the Manhattan Project
-The stories of the workers that made the project possible.
-The current state of nuclear arms
What this book does not that others on the topic do:
-More detail on the brains like Hans Bethe, Richard Feynmann, Edward Teller, and Enrico Fermi
-An abundance of technical information
What this book covers that others on the topic don't:
-Leslie Groves, in detail
-The process leading up to the Manhattan Project
-The stories of the workers that made the project possible.
-The current state of nuclear arms
What this book does not that others on the topic do:
-More detail on the brains like Hans Bethe, Richard Feynmann, Edward Teller, and Enrico Fermi
-An abundance of technical information
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