IMGXYZ172IMGZYXThe event featured Robert S. Norris' book Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, The Manhattan Project's Indispensable Man
Racing for the Bomb reveals in-depth for the first time General Leslie Groves's crucial role in developing the atomic bomb and in the planning, timing, and targeting of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions. The procedures and practices Groves developed have had a lasting influence on today's national security policies and institutions.
Robert S. Norris has been a research associate for almost twenty years at the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington, D.C., covering nuclear weapons issues. As an author of the multi-volume Nuclear Weapons Databook series, and of numerous articles, he has written extensively about global nuclear weapon programs.
Praise for Racing for the Bomb:
"The Manhattan Project was a large industrial enterprise, not a small laboratory venture, and the brilliant engineer who commanded it has never had his due. In Norris's lively, richly detailed biography, General Leslie R. Groves finally emerges as the historic, tough, larger-than-life leader who made the atomic bomb happen and gave shape to the atomic age."- Richard Rhodes, author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"I had always thought of General Leslie Groves as a fringe character in the story of the atomic bomb- a military martinet widely ridiculed by the nuclear physicists. Norris has rewritten the history of the most important event of World War II and in so doing has given us the best account yet of the military colossus that built America's first nuclear bombs. In Norris' account the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were just another mission to be accomplished. It was as simple as that."
- Seymour M. Hersh, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
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