At the close of World War II, in Princeton, N.J.’s Institute for Advanced Study, an extension of the Manhattan project was busy building a bomb that would be a thousand times more powerful than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagaski, Japan.
With a contract from the U.S. military and under the direction of J. Robert Oppenheimer, John von Neumann, a Hungarian American mathematician, and a team of mathematicians,...
