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Summary of General Leslie R. Groves's Now It Can Be Told
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I was offered an extremely attractive assignment overseas in mid-September, 1942. I was to be placed in charge of the Army’s part of the atomic effort. I was skeptical, but it took me several weeks to realize how overoptimistic an outlook Styer had presented. #2 I was brought into the picture when research on the uses of atomic energy was already underway. The American-born scientists, in the main, did not have as much awareness of the danger of the situation as did their foreign-born colleagues. #3 The American and British attempt to achieve international censorship of information relating to atomic energy was largely successful, though they were hindered by the refusal of Joliot-Curie to participate. #4 In November 1941, Bush decided that the uranium project was growing to be of such importance that it should be outside of NDRC control. It was placed directly under the Office of Scientific Research and Development, of which NDRC was a part.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
The late Abraham Pais, author of the award winning biography of Albert Einstein, Subtle is the Lord, here offers an illuminating portrait of another of his eminent colleagues, J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the most charismatic and enigmatic figures of modern physics. Pais introduces us to a precocious youth who sped through Harvard in three years, made signal contributions to quantum mechanics while in his twenties, and was instrumental in the growth of American physics in the decade before the Second World War, almost single-handedly bringing it to a state of prominence. He paints a revealing portrait of Oppenheimer's life in Los Alamos, where in twenty remarkable, feverish months, and unde...
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The Regulars
In 1898 the American Regular Army was a small frontier constabulary engaged in skirmishes with Indians and protesting workers. Forty-three years later, in 1941, it was a large modern army ready to wage global war against the Germans and the Japanese. In this definitive social history of America's standing army, military historian Edward Coffman tells how that critical transformation was accomplished. Coffman has spent years immersed in the official records, personal papers, memoirs, and biographies of regular army men, including such famous leaders as George Marshall, George Patton, and Douglas MacArthur. He weaves their stories, and those of others he has interviewed, into the story of an a...
Clinical Immunodermatology
This book lays the foundation for understanding the mechanisms of inflammatory skin diseases. It presents relevant, concise, up4o-date information on the application of immunologic principles to clinical dermatologic practice. The book also includes the latest findings on the role of immunologic reactions and explains how therapeutic agents are used to affect the immune system. A Brandon Hill Title
