Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project

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"Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project" is a firsthand historical account of the development of the atomic bomb during World War II, written by the U.S. Army general who directed the project.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
historical account
memoir
non-fiction book
author Leslie R. Groves Jr.
surface form: Leslie R. Groves

Leslie R. Groves Jr.
surface form: Leslie Richard Groves
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
describesEvent Trinity test device
surface form: Trinity nuclear test

construction of Hanford plutonium production reactors
construction of Los Alamos
construction of Oak Ridge uranium enrichment plants
describesOrganization Los Alamos Laboratory
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
University of California system
surface form: University of California
describesPerson Enrico Fermi
Ernest O. Lawrence
J. Robert Oppenheimer
James B. Conant
Niels Bohr
focusesOnRoleOf United States Army
surface form: U.S. Army

civilian scientists
military leadership
genre history
military history
scientific history
war history
hasForm prose
intendedAudience general readers
military historians
students of history
language English
mainProtagonist Leslie R. Groves Jr.
surface form: Leslie R. Groves
narrativePerspective first-person account
setting New Mexico
Tennessee
United States of America
surface form: United States

Washington State, United States
surface form: Washington state
subject Hanford Site, Washington
surface form: Hanford Engineer Works

Los Alamos Laboratory
Manhattan Project
Oak Ridge Reservation
surface form: Oak Ridge facilities

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
World War II
development of the atomic bomb
military management of scientific research
nuclear weapons
secrecy in wartime research
timePeriodCovered 1942–1945
World War II

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Leslie R. Groves Jr. wrote Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project