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Or, Norway simply could have gotten onboard with the Allies in the beginning and saved themselves a lot of trouble. There wasn't enough funding in the world that would have gotten Norway ready for a full German invasion. Norway had something the Germans wanted (heavy water) and the Germans were going to take it, regardless of what Norway did. A strong military is a deterrent, but if you have something the enemy wants, he's going to try to take it. Even if Norway had improved its military, it wouldnt have had a chance against the German army. Norway was simply a more important military target than Switzerland. If the Germans had actually put enough research time into their own atom bomb, taking Norway could have been their key to winning the war. Only after they had done some research did they realize that they couldn't complete a nuclear program by the end of the war.