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Groom Lake Air Force Base was owned by the United States but located in Nicaragua, Central America. As the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union continued, Nicaragua’s Somoza government and the communist Sandinista rebels were in constant conflict.
This air base that was established in this volatile country had a surprising secret: it was home to a highly advanced genomics research facility.
And in the summer of 1986, the baby cried her first cry in the embryology laboratory. Alphonse Lofair, the lab director, realized that the last eighteen years of incredible hardship were finally over. His brothers and father thought he was pathetic, as he was the geek who had chosen biology over the family business of finance, but that ended today.
“How is the baby?” Alphonse asked Doctor Carlos, who came into his office from the embryology lab for a debriefing.
“She seems healthy.”
“What did Doctor Elsie name it?”
“Isaiah.”
“Haha!”
Alphonse burst into laughter.
“That’s very Jewish of her,” he said. “But she’s not wrong. That baby is a prophet who will save humanity, which has grown weary of the Cold War.”
The first genetically engineered human—a miracle child who...
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