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In February 1941 four US officers were landed from a British warship at Sheerness, bundled into vehicles and driven to Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, a large redbrick house amid wartime huts. They were greeted at midnight by the head of Bletchley with sherry, whisky being in short supply. They carried with them a secret device called

Submarine. >> we broke the japanese code. >> the purple machine was magic intelligence that was our code name for it. when eisenhower was planning d-day i had pretty comfortable knowledge of what the german defensives are going to look like where the defenses were going to be. we knew our deception plan was working well. >> the covert force hientd our spy operation was the oss the original cia. >> the office of services was founded by wild bill donovan one of the most decorated soldiers in ameri...

>> reporter: that little red thing? >> the little red thing in the middle and thats where the isotopes get ready to be blown to bits. >> reporter: so how does this little tiny target explain how a nuclear weapon is functioning or isnt? >> because we can model different parts of the physical processes that go on inside a nuclear weapon, without testing. >> reporter: this is the heart of the operation, its the control room. and right now, this team is getting ready for a laser experiment later on ...