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American History Tellers

Wondery

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, History, Education For Kids

4.7 • 18.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The discovery of uranium fission in Nazi Germany in 1938 terrified Allied nuclear scientists—especially since the Nazi atomic bomb project, the dreaded Uranium Club, had a two-year head start on the Manhattan Project.

So the Allies decided to strike back. They couldn’t prevent Germany from acquiring uranium, but they could disrupt access to another key ingredient in atomic research—heavy water. Only one company in the world produced heavy water at the time, an isolated plant in Norway, so the Allies decided to send in teams of elite commandos on a top-secret mission to destroy it.

These missions certainly didn’t go perfectly—some were in fact disasters. But to prevent Hitler from getting an atomic bomb, no price was too high to pay.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to American History Tellers add free on Amazon music.
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0:09.6	Imagine this November 1942.
0:21.0	You're flying late at night over Norway and you're frustrated.
0:24.4	Beyond frustrated.
0:26.0	You radio the commando team in the glider behind you.
0:28.8	The lighter one, what do we think about this weather?
0:30.8	It doesn't bother us, if it doesn't bother you.
0:33.8	The thing is, it does bother you.
0:36.0	It's sleeting out and you can feel the ice building up on the wings.
0:39.8	The plane's getting sluggish and heavy.
0:42.4	You see that red owl yet?
0:44.4	Nope, keeping our eyes peeled.
0:46.2	I'm gonna make one more pass and we're heading back.
0:49.4	Then you better kind of slew us right now.
0:51.4	We got some Nazis to take out.
0:53.6	You tried to laugh, but you're not in the mood.
0:56.1	You've spent hours circling the snowy plateau.
0:59.1	You're looking for the rendezvous point where you can safely land the glider you're
1:02.5	towing behind you and the team of commandos inside.
1:06.3	You're all British, but there are supposed to be four Norwegian troops waiting for you
1:10.4	in advance scouting team that'll mark where to land by flashing red beacons in an L-shape.
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