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

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book historical account memoir non-fiction book

"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 → Leslie Richard Groves →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
describesEvent	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 →
describesPerson	Enrico Fermi → Ernest O. Lawrence → J. Robert Oppenheimer → James B. Conant → Niels Bohr →
focusesOnRoleOf	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 →
narrativePerspective	first-person account →
setting	New Mexico → Tennessee → United States → Washington state →
subject	Hanford Engineer Works → Los Alamos Laboratory → Manhattan Project → 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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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Leslie R. Groves Jr. →	wrote