Now It Can Be Told, by Leslie R. Groves
This book is on lockdown.
You will have to find a copy in a used bookstore, local library, or sign into archive.org to read this one.
It tells the story of how the federal gov't lied to the 'murican people about what they were up to.
They took all the silver out of the treasury vaults and used it to make magnets for the bomb making factory.
The world's strongest magnets were needed to separate out the plutonium and uranium for the first 'atomic' bomb.
Meanwhile all the silver certificates became fiat currency.