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The Juice

German physicist Walter Bota was a brilliant man who would later win the Nobel Prize. But he had no idea that the lovely young woman he fell for on board the US Bound ship in 1939 was a Nazi spy. The Germans had sent her to keep tabs on him and after his return to Germany late that summer he joined the uranium club. He also knew that the Nazis would throw money at weapons research and scientists like him always needed more research funds. Perhaps he and the Nazis could find a way to work together on atomic weapons research - but things didn't go according to plan and the clock was ticking.

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