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Books on the Manhattan Project?

Started by Alatriste, February 08, 2010, 08:48:47 AM

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Alatriste

What the title says: I could use some advice on books on the Manhattan Project, i.e. not on the atomic bombs themselves or on the scientists involved. I'm looking for a work focusing on how the project was organized and managed by Groves and Oppenheimer.

And by the way, how came a mere brigade general - just promoted, to make things worse - and a walking security risk were charged with managing such a hugely vital project and spending such an enormous budget, and given such a high degree of autonomy? 

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Viking

this is more of a book on the morality of the issue more than anything else, but I recommend

Toungs of Conscience, R.W. Reid, Panther Books, 1969.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

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The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

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Quote from: Alatriste on February 08, 2010, 08:48:47 AM
And by the way, how came a mere brigade general - just promoted, to make things worse - and a walking security risk were charged with managing such a hugely vital project and spending such an enormous budget, and given such a high degree of autonomy?

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"Now it can be told" by Colonel Groves?
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

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