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Man who halted Nazi nuclear plan dies at 99
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 raised 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.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/man-who-halted-nazi-nuclear-plan-dies-at-99/ar-BBOIDtU?li=BBnb7Kz
