[HankReardon]

Hitler's scientists were working toward acquiring the an atomic bomb, they were trying to develop "?????? water" (somebody help me here) that was a step toward.

[Coop]

they were trying to develop "?????? water" (somebody help me here)

Hard water (H3O).

[Cooter]

From the Wikipedia entry on Heavy Water:

In 1934, Norsk Hydro built the first commercial heavy water plant with a capacity of 12 tonnes per year at Vemork. During World War II, the allies decided to destroy the plant and its heavy water in order to inhibit the German development of nuclear weapons. In late 1942, a raid by British paratroopers failed when the gliders crashed. All the raiders were killed in the crash or shot by the Germans. In February 1943, a group of 12 Norwegian infiltrators, trained in Britain and dropped by parachute into Norway, managed to disrupt production for two months by dynamiting the facilities. On November 16, 1943, the allied air forces dropped over 400 bombs on the site.

The allied air raid prompted the German government to move all available heavy water to Germany for safekeeping. However, on February 20, 1944, a Norwegian partisan was able to sink the ferry carrying the heavy water across Lake Tinnsjoe at the cost of 14 Norwegian civilians.

The story was used for a 1966 Hollywood movie, The Heroes of Telemark, starring Kirk Douglas.

[HankReardon]

Hitler's scientist were developing "heavy water", a step toward the atomic bomb.

[Kadric]

Heavy water. It is used to moderate a nuclear reaction the same way that the US scientists used carbon bricks in Chicago. The German scientists believed that it was the only way to control a reaction so once their source was lost the project was basicly stopped.

[Lurker]

They had several tons of 'heavy' water. That's water with an extra hydrogen atom I believe.

If Hitler hadn't been such a racist, refusing to believe in Einsteins "Jewish Mathematics" he may very well have developed 'the bomb' and the world would be a very different place today.

L

[Marysecretary]

The word "heavy water" comes to mind. Is that it?