In the mid-1940's, thousands of people seemingly disappeared into the remote New Mexican desert. The site of the Los Alamos Ranch School became the backdrop for the development of a top-secret laboratory city. Here many of the world's greatest physicists would turn from seeking the origins of the universe to assisting in a 26-billion dollar* government project to develop a weapon more deadly than anything previously known. This is a story of heroic endeavor, sabotage, espionage, assassination, terrible destruction, and how war and fear can influence cutting-edge science. It may sound like science fiction, but this is the true story of the Manhattan Project and the development of the atomic bomb.
*This has been adjusted for inflation; the original cost of the project was 2 billion dollars.
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