Jehovah—”Excellent in Power”

The Italian navigator has landed in the new world." So went the coded message communicating that Italian- American physicist Enrico Fermi had, on that second day of December, 1942, set off the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, in a squash court of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago. This important discovery quickly led to the assembling of a half a million people and two billion dollars in resources in New Mexico, known as the Manhattan Project. The goal of this project was to...