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Norwegian dramatisation of one of the most gripping episodes of the Second World War, recounting the Nazis' efforts to develop an atomic bomb and the Allies' desperate struggle to prevent it happening

Summary
This tense drama tells the story of the secret Nazi nuclear energy project and its need for heavy water produced at a factory in Rjukan, Norway. Norwegian/English/German/Danish with English subtitles.

Episode 2
Leif Tronstad is working with the War Ministry in London and helps draw up a plan to destroy the factory at Rjukan. Werner Heisenberg travels to Copenhagen to meet his Danish mentor, Prof Niels Bohr.