article_snippet: Six Norwegian soldiers destroyed Hitler's nuclear dream in February 1943 at the Norsk Hydro plant near the town of Rjukan, Norway .
article_snippet: The team successfully destroyed a heavy water production facility at the Norsk Hydoelectric plant in Telemark, a region of southern Norway, in 1943.
article_snippet: The heavy water or deuterium oxide which the Norsk plant produced, was essential to the German scientists working on an atomic bomb project and the allies were desperate to destroy an atomic bomb project.
article_snippet: an atomic bomb project was no soft target.
article_snippet: Perched on an icy ravine, surrounded by machine gun-toting guards and floodlights the Norsk plant was virtually impregnable.
article_snippet: In what was known as Operation Gunnerside, the raiders broke into the Norsk plant and set charges, the explosion of which caused 1000lbs of heavy water to wash away.