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Operation Gunnerside: The Norwegian attack on heavy water that deprived the Nazis of the atomic bomb

  • Written by Timothy J. Jorgensen, Director of the Health Physics and Radiation Protection Graduate Program and Associate Professor of Radiation Medicine, Georgetown University
Operation Gunnerside: The Norwegian attack on heavy water that deprived the Nazis of the atomic bombThe Nazi atomic effort relied on work done in this remote lab.grob831, CC BY

After handing them their suicide capsules, Norwegian Royal Army Colonel Leif Tronstad informed his soldiers, “I cannot tell you why this mission is so important, but if you succeed, it will live in Norway’s memory for a hundred years.”

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