The Heavy Water War: Stopping Hitler's Atomic Bomb
When the Nazis move to secure heavy water for their atomic bomb ambitions, Norwegian Allies race to sabotage the effort. The story tracks competing plans across multiple angles, focusing on the stakes of a crucial wartime resource and the struggle to stop it.
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Season 1
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Episode 1
During the second world war, Nobel price winner Werner Heisenberg is the head of the nazis atomic project. Heisenberg needs heavy water for the reactor he is building, only produced by Norwegian Hydro at Vemork. The creator of the heavy water factory, scientist and resistance fighter Leif Tronstad, come to be sucpicious of the german purchase of heavy water and contacts English intelligence.
Jan 4, 2015 · 44m -
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The English mission fails and the allies now wants to bomb the heavy water plant. Leif Tronstad persuades them to submit a Norwegian special force group to blow up the factory. Tronstad collect saboteurs, name the group Gunnerside and start training.
Jan 11, 2015 · 45m -
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The Germans are hard at work rebuilding the heavy water factory after the sabotage. CEO Henriksen at Norwegian Hydro discovers that he is dangerously close to be labeled as a war collaborator and tries negotiate his way out. In England the Americans decide to bomb Rjukan and the factory at Vemork.
Jan 25, 2015 · 43m
