A teenage math and physics prodigy is summoned to a secret laboratoy in the Smithsonian in 1939 to help work on bombs for the coming war. Once there, he discovers that parts of the Smithsonian enable him to move through time, that the exhibits come to life after hours, and that he is doomed to die in combat if the US enters WWII. As he brainstorms with Robert Oppenheimer, he gets a glimpse of the coming war.
Working in secret to avert the war while working with the laboratory to help win it, he is helped along the way by a cast of characters from around the museum and US history including a pottery-obsessed President Lincoln, the bored and amorous wife of Grover Cleveland, soldiers and citizens from history, and the mysterious James Smithson himself, the founder of the museum.
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