Joachim Ronneberg: Norwegian who thwarted Nazi nuclear plan dies
22 October 2018 BBC Europe
Joachim Ronneberg, the Norwegian resistance fighter who sabotaged Nazi Germany's nuclear weapons ambitions during World War Two, has died aged 99.
In 1943, he led a top-secret raid on a heavily-guarded plant in Norway's southern region of Telemark.
The operation was immortalised in the 1965 Hollywood film Heroes of Telemark, starring Kirk Douglas.
Ronneberg later worked as a radio journalist and helped raise awareness of the dangers of war among the young.
He told the BBC in 2013 that he only realised the importance of the mission after atomic bombs were dropped on Japan's Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
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Not forgotten, RIP
