Chad Irby wrote:
In article ,
John Mullen wrote:
Steve Hix wrote:
In article om,
Dan Shackelford wrote:
Not to mention that the German nuclear program was crippled severely by
the lack of heavy water, thanks to sabotage efforts of Thor Heyerdahl
(later famous for his Kon-Tiki raft showing the Egyptians could have
sailed to the Americas)
Heyerdahl was in involved in stopping the production of heavy water at
Vemork?
I just finished reading about the German atom bomb effort, which
includes a lot about heavy water issues, and several Norwegians enter
the narrative, but Heyerdahl isn't one of them.
I think he was joking. Humour is so hard to convey in this medium, isn't it?
Heyerdahl's chief radio operator (Knut Haugland) *was* part of the team
that parachuted into the German heavy water plant and blew it up.
http://www.arrl.org/news/features/2003/03/05/1/?nc=1
Interesting! Thank you.
John
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