Stealth Genesis

Stealth Genesis pulls aside the curtain and reveals the never-before-told “back story” of the award-winning series, Nanostealth.
Dr. Daniel Bickel, world-renown nanophysicist, and his devoted technicians, Rick and Tony, explore the tunnels of the old Manzano Weapons Storage Facility, braving the ongoing danger of discovery to locate a forgotten Cold War devolution site—a cavern carved deep within the mountain to be used as a presidential command center in the event of nuclear war.
Unknown to most, two such command center caverns had been carved out of the mountain’s rock. The second devolution site, situated far deeper than the first, was built as a secret fallback position should the President need it.
And apparently, the second site had been so secret, that knowledge of it had perished over time as those in the know died and carried their knowledge to the grave.
Dr. Bickel enters the cavern and establishes a hiding place for himself and his greatest achievement: a cloud of “smart” nanobots able to learn and able to adapt to new circumstances—a swarm trillions strong. He calls these sub-microscopic devices nanomites and predicts his devices will be able to, eventually, eradicate many diseases, correct some birth defects in utero, and rid the world of the pests that destroy crops. Within the safety of the mountain, Bickel studies and teaches the nanomites, intent on preparing them for their triumphant public reveal.
He will succeed, however, only if he can evade a black ops branch of military intelligence bent on “appropriating” the nanomites. Ambition-driven Air Force Brigadier General Imogene Cushing spearheads the hunt for Bickel and the nanomites. In a twist that defies chance, Cushing is the same woman with whom Bickel shared his first and only love—the same woman who subsequently absconds with a paper outlining his vision of the nanomites and irrevocably doomed their relationship.