The outcome of the Second World War was decided not only on the battlefields, but also in secret laboratories and at weapons ranges - throughout the war, both the Nazis and the allies fought to create a Wunder-Waffe ("miracle weapon"), which guarantees a quick victory over any enemy. The two greatest scientists of the era, Albert Einstein and Nikola Tesla, took the most active part in these top-secret experiments. Already in the fall of 1939, Einstein proposed a plan to create an atomic bomb, and Tesla resumed work on his "rays of death." He came out of this correspondence "duel" as a winner - his killer rays, capable of "lighting the sky" and "melting a plane or car at a distance of 400 km," were first tested three years before the first nuclear tests. But why was this superweapon never adopted? Why are many of Nikola Tesla's discoveries still hidden in the archives of the American special services under the heading "Top Secret"? And how did the rivalry of brilliant scientists help the USSR? This sensational book...