Episode 28 - A Few Pounds of Uranium

In This Episode of History Date Night

France gets a new Prime Minister as Daladier falls and the sharp-tongued Paul Reynaud takes power vowing a more aggressive war. In Birmingham, two refugee physicists calculate that an atomic bomb could be built from a few pounds of uranium, not the tons everyone assumed, and secretly change the course of the war. Himmler orders a concentration camp built near a Polish town called Oświęcim. Stalin's secret police fan out across Ukraine and Belarus while Soviet troops move into the Finnish naval base handed over in the peace treaty. In Lahore, a resolution is adopted that will eventually give rise to Pakistan. And as the new French PM proposes bombing Soviet oil fields, a plan London quietly shelves, the Allies revive their scheme to mine Norwegian waters, on a timeline that's about to collide with Germany's own invasion plans.

A dense, pivotal ten days: the bomb, the camp, the killings, and the countdown to Norway.