In the midst of the tumultuous years of World War II, a covert initiative emerged from the desert of Los Alamos, New Mexico, promising both salvation and peril for humanity—the Manhattan Project.

Spearheaded by physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and a cadre of brilliant minds, this project sought to harness the destructive power of atomic energy, a race against time spurred by fears that Nazi Germany was also on the brink of achieving atomic weaponry.