Manhattan Project

The Manhattan Project was a top-secret project in the United States to build that country an atomic bomb. It involved some of the world's greatest physicists, including Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi.

Begun during World War II at the University of Chicago, the project was evacuated to Denver following the arrival of the Race's Conquest Fleet and their taking of Chicago. General Leslie Groves joined the physicists in Denver with a gift of radioactive uranium given to the US by Mordechai Anielewicz via a British submarine. Groves remained in Denver as the project's military commander for the duration, and planned the defense of Denver when the Race began to move on that city.

Jens Larssen attempted to betray the project to the Race but was prevented from doing so when he was killed by Rance Aurebach.

Assisted by Lizard POWs such as Ullhass and Ristin, the Manhattan Project completed its first atomic bomb in 1944. It produced several more very quickly, thus forcing Atvar to realize that he could not conquer the United States and invite that country, along with the equally nuclear capable Soviet Union and Germany, to a peace conference at Cairo.