This Academy will focus on the science and history surrounding the making and the employment of nuclear weapons in general, and the first atomic bomb in particular. Some argue that this was the greatest single scientific advance of the last century; others argue that the development of nuclear weapons was not so much a cure as a deadly poison. You will investigate this momentous event from scientific, historical, and philosophical perspectives. The whirlwind of scientific achievement surrounding the wartime development of the atomic bomb and subsequent arms race to build the hydrogen bomb was unparalleled in human history, with some of the greatest scientific minds (Teller, Einstein, Oppenheimer, Heisenberg, Bohr, Teller, and Fermi) engaged in breathtakingly complex analysis in physics, mathematics, and chemistry to race to the answer for successful deployment. This Academy will equip students with the knowledge and skills to understand the challenges posed by nuclear weapons today.