The hero who stopped the Nazis from building an atom bomb dies

Norway mourns the death of saboteur Joachim Ronneberg, who led a team of five who blew up a factory, deprived German Nazis of producing nuclear weapons.

The prime minister, Erna Solberg, said that Ronneberg, who died Sunday at the age of 99, was “one of the best resistance fighters whose courage contributed to what has been referred to as a successful sabotage of” in Norway.

Ronneberg, at that 23-year meal, was recruited by the Special Operations Executive, or SOE Britain's sabotage unit to destroy the factory in Telemark, south of Norway, in February 1943.

In 2014, in a documentary marking his 95th birthday, Ronneberg himself had said that the operation went “in a dream” referring to the fact that no single bullet had been fired. /Periscopi