Timeline for To what extent were the scientists involved in the Manhattan project aware of the goals?
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| Nov 17, 2019 at 3:27 | comment | added | Steve Sether | I'm not sure what you mean by "high level", but I suspect all the physicists knew. Richard Feynman was just another physicist at that point and clearly knew what they were doing. In addition, he writes in "Surely you're Joking Mr. Feynman" that initially his team of "computers" knew nothing of what they were doing. Later on he got special permission to fill them in. So clearly there was no hard and fast rule about who knew, and who didn't. | |
| Oct 13, 2017 at 3:37 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | @AreaMan: I read the books which I recommended and on my opinion they are good. | |
| Oct 13, 2017 at 3:22 | comment | added | Elle Najt | Hey, thanks for the answer and the recommendations! By the way, I think the existence of hundreds of books on a topic can sometimes make the information one is trying to find less accessible... | |
| Oct 12, 2017 at 11:34 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | I'll add 10 more votes for Richard Rhodes' book. He also wrote a followup, "Dark Sun," about development of the H-bomb. | |
| Oct 12, 2017 at 7:47 | comment | added | José Carlos Santos | I just want to add one more book, which I enjoyed a lot: The Making of the Atomic Bomb, by Richard Rhodes. | |
| Oct 11, 2017 at 22:26 | history | answered | Alexandre Eremenko | CC BY-SA 3.0 |