How close did Nazi Germany come to building the world’s first workable nuclear weapon? With this month’s opening of the film Oppenheimer, a biopic about American theoretical physicist Robert ...

At the start of World War II, Nazi Germany had a long lead in building atomic weapons. It was German scientists who discovered nuclear fission and its energy potential. The United States only began ...

In late February 1943, nine commandos set out of daring raid against the Germans in the Norwegian wilderness. Their mission, to destroy a plant producing heavy water, would fulfill one of the Allies' ...

A team of elite Norwegian commandos infiltrated the heavily guarded Vemork plant to destroy Germany’s stockpile of heavy ...