In 1943 the Manhattan Project took over a boys' ranch school on a remote New Mexico mesa and built a secret laboratory, Project Y, under J. Robert Oppenheimer. Scientists and their families lived behind fences with a post office box for an address. The lab designed the first atomic bombs: the plutonium device tested at Trinity on 16 July 1945 and the weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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On a remote mesa, Oppenheimer gathers the best scientists of the age and their families in a town that officially does not exist.
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Frank Winter's overlooked team fights for its implosion idea against the favoured Thin Man group, while wives and children cope with a town that officially does not exist.
