Directed by Marshall Brickman | Starring: Cynthia Nixon, Richard Jenkins, Robert Sean Leonard, John Lithgow

Named after the World War II-era program, the plot revolves around a gifted high school student who decides to construct a nuclear bomb for a national science fair. The film's underlying theme involves the Cold War of the 1980s when government secrecy and mutually assured destruction were key political and military issues.

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