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CLOAK & DAGGER

The Race to Stop a Nazi Atomic Bomb

<p>In 1942 the Nazis had the physicists and the uranium to build an atomic bomb, but they needed “heavy water.” Occupied Norway had the one plant—the castle fortress of Vermork—that makes it. And so began an espionage race like few in history—with the survival of whole countries hanging in the balance.</p>

Neal Bascomb

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