Sabotage on the Frozen Precipice: The Mission That Stopped Hitler's Atomic Bomb

You are now listening to World War 2 Stories. I'm your host Steve Matthews. Today, I'll take you into the heart of one of the most consequential covert operations of the entire war - a mission so audacious and against such impossible odds that it reads like fiction. Yet every word of this story is true.February 1943. While battles rage across Europe and the Pacific, a small group of Norwegian commandos are about to embark on a mission that might determine whether Hitler acquires the most devastating weapon ever conceived: the atomic bomb.Their target: the Vemork heavy water plant, nestled in a nearly impenetrable mountain fortress in Nazi-occupied Norway. Their odds of success: virtually none. Their margin for error: absolutely zero. This is Operation Gunnerside - the remarkable sabotage mission that may have changed the course of history itself.