1942, Chicago Hidden under the stands of a football field, at the University of Chicago, was a pile of bricks. A heap of graphite, uranium oxide and metal, which couldn't even power a light bulb, was proof that both tragedy and triumph was coming. The Atomic Age was born December 2, 1942. Its fathers included scientists who spoke English with a strange accent, had superhuman minds, from an exotic land. One of them joked this was proof of aliens - that the Hungarian scientists involved we...