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Episode 535: The Manhattan Project Part III - Sometimes You Need a Daddy

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Heisenberg's Atomic Bomb Project

After the Battle of the Bulge, Heisenberg's military exemption was revoked. Almost everyone left alive in Germany following the battle were drafted into the people's militia. They were all expected to die for Hitler in a symbolic mass suicide. So he teamed up with his buddy Carl von Weiszacher to continue atomic research on his own and secure some heavy water. Then they biked the heavy water back to Heisenberg’s secret lab that was in a cave near the village of Hagerlock. There,. Heisenberg performed one last nuclear experiment, but it still fell short. Although this was the furthest the Nazi atomic bomb project ever got, never achieved a fully

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