Somewhere beneath this wilderness, buried in concrete vaults built during Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” program, was a secret lab—the kind no map could find.

The GPS spun uselessly. Somewhere beneath this wilderness, buried in concrete vaults built during Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” program, was a secret lab—the kind no map could find. And if Erik’s hunch was right, it was more than secret. It was sacred. The production of the titanium nanomachines—engineered to split water into a perfect pattern of hydrogen and oxygen moles—was researched and developed under a secret payroll in a secluded lab deep within the mountainous forests of the Quehanna Wildlife Area.