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Title: The Winter Fortress
Post by: thedoc on 01/06/2016 15:35:43

How the Nazis were stopped from obtaining "heavy water", an ingredient key in making an atomic bomb.

Read the article (http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/articles/article/the-winter-fortress/) then tell us what you think...

Title: Re: The Winter Fortress
Post by: alancalverd on 01/06/2016 17:15:20

The story gets more and more interesting as it develops. Definitely worth reading, even if the style is a bit clunky.

I had the honor of meeting some of the sabotage group many years ago - what an adventure! Also an interesting aside that a possibly deliberate miscalculation by Werner Heisenberg led to the Nazis discounting graphite as a neutron moderator, thus giving the Allies a couple of years' head start in developing the A-bomb.