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Re:Joachim Roenneberg, who foiled Nazi nuclear plan, has died by whatshisface on Sunday October 21, 2018 @06:17PM (#18270678)
The Nazis could never have sustained the industrial efforts required to produce a nuclear weapon. Heavy water is (in comparison) easy to isolate, and can be bought and sold freely in the west today.

[0] http://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&pr... [1] https://www.isowater.com/purchase/ [2] https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/product/aldrich/151882?...

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Re:Joachim Roenneberg, who foiled Nazi nuclear plan, has died by person_of_color on Sunday October 21, 2018 @06:47PM (#18270806)
Hindsight is 20/20.
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Re:Joachim Roenneberg, who foiled Nazi nuclear plan, has died by ionised on Monday October 22, 2018 @04:28AM (#18273037)
Isn't that why they occupied Norway though, for heavy water?
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Re:Joachim Roenneberg, who foiled Nazi nuclear plan, has died by qubex on Monday October 22, 2018 @06:03AM (#18273403)
No. The Germans occupied Norway because most of their iron ore supplies (vital in wartime) came from deposits in northern Norway and because the long coastline was ideal for placing U-boot bases to harass shipping bringing in goods to the UK on a northern route. In some sense it was a “preventive occupation” because Britain and France were obviously eyeing some kind of interdiction.
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