At a time when the World War II still looked indecisive, a dramatic battle was being fought at a distance between the United States and Germany to see who could first construct the atomic bomb and gain a decisive advantage over the enemy. In America, the secret research was known as the Manhattan Project and one of its key players was the astrophysicist Robert Oppenheimer. Under immense time pressure, he and a team of other scientists were trying to build an invention that had the potential to destroy the world, but without its timely completion, the same world could not be saved...