How long does it take to read Now It Can Be Told : The Story of the Manhattan Project?
Leslie R. Groves
Now It Can Be Told : The Story of the Manhattan Project by Leslie R. Groves takes about 8 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 30 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1962. 464 pages, about 127,600 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 11 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 19 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
TABLE OF CONTENTS: The beginnings of the med -- First steps -- The uranium ore supply -- The plutonium project -- Los Alamos : I -- Hanford : I -- Hanford : II -- Oak Ridge -- Negotiations with the British -- Security arrangements and press censorship -- Los Alamos : II -- The combined development trust -- Military intelligence : Alsos I — Italy -- A serious military problem -- Military intelligence: Alsos II — France -- The problem of the French scientists -- Military intelligence : Alsos III — Germany -- Training the air unit -- Choosing the target -- Tinian -- Alamogordo -- Operational plans -- Hiroshima -- The Germans hear the news -- Nagasaki -- The med and congress -- The destruction of the Japanese cyclotrons -- Transition period -- The AEC -- Postwar developments -- A final word -- Appendixes.
Subjects: Atomic bomb, History, Manhattan Project (U.S.), United States, Manhattan Project (U.S.).
