A factual reconstruction of the sabotage events which took place to prevent Hitler's Germany from getting the heavy water needed to make an atomic bomb during the Second World War.
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Frédéric Joliot-Curie Raoul Dautry Henki Kolstad Johannes Eckhoff Claus Wiese Øyvind Øyen Andreas Aabel Odd Rohde Rolf Sørlie Torstein Skinnarland Lew Kowarski H.H. Halban Allier Jens A. Poulsson Arne Kjelstrup Claus Helberg Knut Haukelid Hans Storhaug Fredrik Kayser Knut Lier-Hansen David Knudsen Thorleif Reiss Finn Bernhoft Einar Vaage Halvor Haugen Ola Hansen Harald Schwenzen Alf Nøkle Stevelin Urdahl Folkman Schaanning Hartvig Kiran
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