The WORST episodes of The Heavy Water War: Stopping Hitler's Atomic Bomb
Every episode of The Heavy Water War: Stopping Hitler's Atomic Bomb ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The Heavy Water War: Stopping Hitler's Atomic Bomb!
The story behind Hitler's plan of Germany getting the atomic bomb during WW2, and the heavy water sabotages in Rjukan, Norway, seen from four angles, the German side, the allied, the saboteurs and the company side.
#1 - Episode 1
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/4/2015
During the second world war, Nobel price winner Werner Heisenberg is the head of the Nazis atomic bomb project. Heisenberg needs heavy water for the reactor he is building, only produced by Norsk Hydro at Vemork. The creator of the heavy water factory, scientist and resistance fighter Leif Tronstad, becomes sucpicious of the German purchase of heavy water and contacts British intelligence.
#2 - Episode 2
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/4/2015
Leif Tronstad assembles a sabotage group named Grouse. The aim is to assist the British commandos to blow up the water plant at Vemork. In Germany, Werner Heisenberg continues his work on the atomic reactor. Grouse is dropped over Hardangervidda and prepare a landing for the Englishmen.
#3 - Episode 5
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/25/2015
The Germans are hard at work rebuilding the heavy water factory after the sabotage. CEO Henriksen at Norwegian Hydro discovers that he is dangerously close to be labeled as a war collaborator and tries negotiate his way out. In England the Americans decide to bomb Rjukan and the factory at Vemork.
#4 - Episode 3
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/11/2015
The English mission fails and the allies now wants to bomb the heavy water plant. Leif Tronstad persuades them to submit a Norwegian special force group to blow up the factory. Tronstad collect saboteurs, name the group Gunnerside and start training.
#5 - Episode 4
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/18/2015
Gunnerside lands on Hardangervidda and joins grouse. The twentyseventh of February, 1943, the 9 saboteurs skies down the mountain in the direction of Vemork to blow up the heavy water plant.
#6 - Episode 6
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/1/2015
The Germans decide to move the heavy water factory to Germany and the allies once again decide to sabotage the German plan. Leif Tronstad arrives back in Norway to conduct operation "Sunshine".