The Manhattan Project town of Los Alamos now has America highest share of doctorate holders . Nearly 1 in 5 adults has a PhD and almost 70 % hold a bachelor degree

J. Robert Oppenheimer and Major General Leslie R. Groves inspect Ground Zero after the Trinity Test in New Mexico, July 1945 (left), Members of the Los Alamos National Laboratory team behind the design, assembly and testing of the Autonomous Ion Mass Spectrometer (AIMS) Sentry instrument (right). Hidden among the mesas of northern New Mexico lies a community unlike any other in the United States. Los Alamos, once a secret town built to support the Manhattan Project during World War II, is now recognised as America's most educated county by one remarkable measure: nearly one in five adults aged 25 and older holds a doctoral degree. Its academic profile goes…