The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer - The Unlikely Partnership that Built the Atom Bomb

Two ambitious men. One historic mission.

With a blinding flash in the New Mexico desert in the summer of 1945, the world was changed forever. The bomb that ushered in the atomic age was the product of one of history’s most improbable but produc tive partnerships. The General and the Genius reveals how two extraordinary men pulled off the greatest scientific feat of the twentieth century.

Leslie Groves of the Army Corps of Engineers, the duty-driven son of a Presbyterian chaplain, was promote...