Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. In 1942, the Manhattan Project needed to create a ...
Venona was a top-secret U.S. effort to gather and decrypt messages sent in the 1940s by agents of what ... as "Enormous," which stood for the Manhattan Project, America's atomic-bomb program.