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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 american history. they trained in saab toch and found out about german atomic energy programs. they found...
>> reporter: that little red thing? >> the little red thing in the middle and that's 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 isn't? >> 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, it's the control room. and right now, this team is getting ready for a laser experiment later on tonight, from this room they use 2,000 computers and 60,000 control points. >> this is the purple...