SYNOPSIS

The race for the atomic bomb has been told many times. The story behind it has largely gone unnoticed: it is the story of those brilliant scientists without whom this bomb would never have come into being. The American J. Robert Oppenheimer is the most prominent of them, he is well known. But four other scientists have so far stood in his shadow. They were from Hungary, later fled fascism and went to the United States. There they dedicated their lives to the fight for freedom and entered into a Faustian pact: they wanted to prevent Hitler’s victory at all costs, for this they fought with the means of mathematics and physics – and created the most devastating weapon of all time. Science in the service of war – in the midst of a moral dilemma that is more relevant today than ever.