Well, Harrogate Dramatic Society are set to reveal just how close they might have come.

The group's next production is Copenhagen by Michael Frayn, a moving and thought-provoking play based on a true event.

In 1941, Werner Heisenberg, one of the leading German atomic scientists of the day, made a mysterious visit to Niels Bohr, the head of the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen. Frayn's play examines the reasons behind the visit and how it could have changed the world as we know it. Why did Heisenberg risk both his career and his life to visit his old friend in, what was then, an occupied country? And could what they discussed have resulted in the Nazis getting the bomb before the Allies?

The play presents several intriguing possibilities. Which is the right one?

Copenhagen runs from Wednesday to Saturday, June 24 to 27 at 7.45pm with a 2pm matinee on the Saturday. Tickets are available at the box office on 01423 502 116.