Word: weser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crossed Fingers. There were some drawbacks to the fine weather. German floodwaters had put the Neckar, Weser and Ruhr canals out of business and closed the Rhine's Düsseldorf bridge. In Venice, the Adriatic had risen to cover St. Mark's Square and the Rialto. Torrential rains and melting snow in the mountains of France had sent Nancy, Epinal and Metz their worst floods in more than a century. In the Vosges 33 bridges were washed out. And with a month of winter still to come, there was always the chance of late frosts that might...
...hydroelectric power, and had excellent communication facilities. Later they imported French, Belgian and Russian laborers, and set them to work expanding the Krizek plants. Laboratories were built, buildings enlarged, new units erected. One of the new units was put underground, and was supersecret. It was known simply as "the Weser...
...Losing Race. In time the first secret of the Weser became apparent. Its parent plant was producing V-weapons. But it also manufactured cyclotrons for atomic experimentation. As the Allies bombed German laboratories, the Weser shipped new cyclotrons to secret destinations in the Reich where Hitler's scientists were running a losing race with history. At least three cyclotrons were shipped in the last year and a half...
...retreating Germans left the Weser grounds littered with the fuselages, fins and working parts of V-bombs. In iron safes were plans for Vergeltungswaffe-4, said to be a giant, radio-controlled rocket capable of being fired from Prague to the Americas. The Germans also left parts of cyclotrons and other equipment for research in nuclear physics...
...Weser's cyclotrons were what interested the Russians, Moscow was still in the experimental stage of atomic development. The U.S. had entered the production stage...