The Heavy Water War: Stopping Hitler's Atomic Bomb

Presented by author/historian Timothy Boyce

The race for the atom bomb began in 1938 when German scientists took a commanding lead by splitting the uranium atom and releasing potentially explosive energy. Heavy water (D2O) was necessary to turn this discovery into a decisive weapon for Hitler. A fertilizer plant in Norway was already processing D2O and the Nazis ordered all available stocks and demanded increased production. Their invasion of Norway in April 1940 put the Nazis in a position to take a commanding lead in the production of an atom bomb.

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