GAG493: Nuclear fission and heavy water sabotage - stories from history

For a long time, researchers did not believe that atomic nuclei could be split – until Otto Hahn was able to prove uranium using neutrons and barium in Berlin in December 1938. This heralded a new era – not only for physics –: the atomic age. We then talk about the discovery of nuclear fission and the race of nuclear research during the Second World War. And above all about the efforts of the Allies, who wanted to prevent heavy water (deuterium)…