ocr: Allied intelligence revealed that the Germans were indeed trying to develop their own bomb using heavy-water factories captured, in Norway and uranium mines seized in Czechoslovakia. Japarsand Russia, too, were interested in atomic weaponry. In the US, scientists and engineers worked furiously against the clock ofwar and the perception thatt the Germans were Closer to their own superweapon than America. The project had gathered some ofthe most brilliact nuclear scientists in the world. Many were émigrés from Nazi and Fascist tyrancy. For months they toiled t design a workable bomb, to obtain a ...
