Editors note: Excellent! I like it. Okay, it seems, according to Rapaire, that the Manhattan Project (as named by FDR) officially started in very early 1942 but that it had been going on unofficially in various ways since 1938. What the heck, this is a Chongo Chimp story, right? It's an alternate reality. So Chongo's 1940 Chicago/USA is very much like ours was at the time...but it's a bit different in some respects (a lot more talking apes around, for instance...oh, and monkeys too! Don't forget the monkeys or they'll get really upset.).

I don't see why we can't move the old Manhattan Project ahead by about a year...to Dec/40, shortly before Christmas. Sound okay, Rapaire?

This means our Luftwaffe pilot has escaped from Canada after getting shot down in the Battle of Britain and moved overseas by his British captors, and the USA and Germany are not at war yet...but there is vigorous espionage going on without a doubt, so Mr Brehme and 'Otto' and the rest of the German operatives must operate very undercover, to say the least.

- LH