In this episode, we explore inside the manhattan project’s secret cities. In 1943, the US government essentially borrowed about 14 ,000 tons of solid silver from the treasury. They built a hidden city larger than most state capitals, and they employed tens of thousands of people who were completely in the dark about what they were actually doing. Right, which is just wild to think about today. Exactly. I mean, we usually think of a multi -billion dollar industrial empire as something that takes, you know, decades of slow growth to build. But this was an operation the size of the entire American automobile industry, constructed from scratch almost overnight. and somehow it remained the absolute best -kept secret of the Second World War. It really is a logistical reality that kind of defies conventional understanding. We are talking about taking a pur ...