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Colonel Leslie R. Groves was a career officer in the Army Corps of Engineers, fresh from over-seeing hundreds of military construction projects, including the Pentagon, when he was given the job in September 1942 of building the atomic bomb. In this full-scale biography, Norris places Groves at the centre of the amazing Manhattan Project story. Offering new information and vital insights into how the bomb got built and how the decision to use it was made, this is a completely new perspective on the military colossus behind the U.S.'s first nuclear bombs.

Physicst Philip Quine is pulled into the byzantine world of a nuclear weapons lab as it struggles to maintain its mission and its funding in the post-Cold War world.

This volume is a collection of the 2014 papers from the Nuclear Scholars Initiative.