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Youve come tonight to what i think is going to be a Wonderful Program that we are putting on in cooperation with the Norwegian Embassy. Because this is, the story were going to be hearing tonight is about a world war ii, very important and famous and dramatic as you will hear world war ii raid into norway conducted primarily by norwegians. It was an obvious thing to partner up with the Norwegian Embassy. So id just like to say a few words by way of introduction to our friends here from the Norwegian Embassy. Specifically, jon oyslebo whos minister counselor at the royal Norwegian Embassy. Hes been here serving in washington for about ten months on this particular tour. He served here previously a ....
[inaudible conversations] welcome, everybody, to the International Spy museum. I am mark stout, former historian of the museum, the current historian is out of town on a secret mission which he will hear about in the future, i am always delighted to come back to my old haunt and step in when necessary. I think it will be a Wonderful Program we are putting on in cooperation with the Norwegian Embassy because this story we are hearing tonight is about a world war ii famous and dramatic world war ii raid into norway conducted by norwegians. It was obvious to partner up with the Norwegian Embassy so i would like to say by way of introduction to our friends from the Norwegian Embassy, specifically, mi ....
Both knew after the first splitting of the the atom that the potential for atomic power or atomic weapon were was viable so they moved forward on programs. Hisenberg was part of that program, he had won nobel prize but he wasnt the key man of the atomic bomb. For years through the mid 30s he was telling his bosses, we should focus on atomic physics and the bosses came back to him and saying, stop with this quote, unquote atomic milarki and so he didnt move forward. He starts basic research, his hisenberg provides a lot of it. Hes part of a nazi part. He wants atomic bomb, one of the key things he needs and one of the reasons we are here tonight is heavy water and there was a single plant in all the world that produced it in any quantity, a place called vermok, located 100 miles west, set on the edge of ice bound preface, 3500 square miles called the vita, plateau of ice and rock and most often snow. Now, its very hard to make heavy water, they were doing it so you need cheap or free hy ....