On Tuesday, July 18, the new TV series “Eureka” will debut on the SciFi Channel. This series explores the idea that a top-secret community in the Pacific Northwest is home to government scientific experts and strange anomalies in the physics of the town.The premise of the story is that during the research and development of the atomic bomb during World War II, a highly classified scientific community was created. The town of Eureka was developed as a center for leading minds of the time to conduct secret studies of various kinds.Over the years, unusual anomalies in the environment around Eureka become apparent. Normal laws of physics are changed. Reality is altered. Or, is it that a different reality is discovered?The series promises to be a learning experience for the general public about topics in the field of physics, as well as an entertaining interpretation of covert government projects.Characters in this special town are often elite geniuses who also face the same everyday problems as the rest of us. The sometimes quirky characters in Eureka promise to keep viewers smiling as the secrets of this unusual community are examined.The idea of a secret community of scientists working on physics and atomic bombs is, of course, based in fact. Los Alamos, New Mexico, was home to such a program during World War II. Elite scientists were brought together for the top-secret Manhattan Project in remote Los Alamos. They lived there and worked around the clock in the race to create these new and terrifying weapons before the Nazis did.
The program was under the direction of the Army Corps of Engineers and commanded by General Leslie R. Groves. J. Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist, directed research at Los Alamos research. He also helped recruit engineers and scientists from many American universities for the project.Some of the brightest minds of the time, and some might say a few eccentric minds as well, were secretly living at Los Alamos. This community became an unusual little town of sorts, involved in discovering the secrets of Nature to save the world from Nazi domination.How these weapons ended up being used – dropped on the civilian populations, including women and children, of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Japan – was a controversial decision that still resonates today.
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