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Tim Koeth peered into the crumpled brown paper lunch bag inside was a surprisingly heavy black metal cube He recognized the mysterious object instantlyhe had one just like it sitting on his desk at home It was uranium metal taken from the nuclear reactor that Nazi scientists had triedand failedto build at the end of World War II This unexpected gift wrapped in a piece of paper inscribed with a few cryptic but crucial lines would launch Koeth a nuclear physicist and professor and his colleague Miriam Hiebert a cultural heritage scientist on an odyssey to trace the tale of these cubestwo of the original 664 on which the Third Reich had pinned their nuclear ambitions