The Manhattan Project: The US Army and the Atomic Bomb
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (828 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00FQS3YF4 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 588 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Mike Stallo said Great book! A classic. Great book! A classic! I wish that they hadn't spelled Manhattan wrong in the title for it. Not on the book itself but in the amazon heading for it.. "Excellent History" according to James T. McCann. If you want a lot of administrative ad well as how and what this book is excellent
Narrative version of the US Army official history. It's got everything from racial tensions in the allocation of project housing, to the negotiations for contract for building that plant out of solid silver.A must read book. In some places it reads like something out of a science fiction novel - as when the US government runs out of copper, no problem, we will build the Plutionium processing plant out of 15,000 tons of solid silver.Jaw dropping. Most of the book is about managing the work force, building towns and roads, power plants, vast construction sites, and all the related of activities of what was, at that time, the largest industrial project of the 20th century.It's essentially a book about project management. . . Only 3 or 4 chapters are about the actual bomb itself