Where the real spirit of of an ideal republic’ prevailed.

According to James Tuck, a British physicist, Los Alamos, where alchemists' gathered, was ‘the most exclusive club in the world’, a place where the ‘spirit' of Athens, of Plato, of an ideal republic’ prevailed. It could be said that here in a tunnel under the Mexican desert the apogee of Enlightenment thinking(idealism or secularised theological thinking) prevailed.