Chapter 680 of the text tears the atomic bomb by hand

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"I'm sorry, Mr. Lieutenant Colonel, I refuse to accept this mission!" After hesitating for a long time, Rogers finally chose to refuse, the memories left by those victims of depleted uranium bombs were really terrifying! His fear of nuclear radiation even exceeded the punishment of military discipline!

"It's thirteen o'clock forty-five. Lieutenant Colonel Dundee looked at his watch, "I'll be waiting for you here until sixteen forty-five! If you haven't packed up your things and come to this office to report by this time, then I'll order the gendarmes to arrest you at once! and accept the severe punishment of a court-martial! Now, get out of here!"

"Yes, sir!" the two of them saluted and walked silently to the door of the office, and Captain Rogers couldn't help but look back at Lieutenant Colonel Dundee as he walked out of the door, "Sir, I'll wait for the gendarmes to arrive in the dormitory!"

Lieutenant Colonel Dundee sat back in his chair in frustration, he had anticipated all kinds of difficulties since he received this order, but he did not expect that he would encounter much more resistance than he expected!

"Steven, are you crazy? A court-martialed will strip you of your rank and throw you in jail! Can you bear to see the father he considers a hero turn into a criminal?" Coming out of Building Three, Jamila Williams looked at her old friend in surprise.

"Jamila, you haven't been to Iraq, you don't know the horror of nuclear radiation!" Rogers shook his head, "I'd rather Luke see his father become a coward or even a criminal than his father become a terrible monster! Nuclear radiation will cause all the hair on your body to fall out, and your skin will grow rotten sores and disgusting pus! And this lesion is hereditary, Jamila, you don't have children yet, do you? Do you want your children to be like this?"

"Oh my God!" Williams swallowed, "The Pentagon will prepare us with equipment to protect against nuclear radiation, won't it?

"Mind you, you're going to be working underwater!" Jamila, how much strength do you think you'll have to put on another layer of radiation protection after putting on a bulky diving suit? Not to mention that you also need to carry heavy professional equipment to cut the hull of the submarine! That's not an easy job!" Submarines need to withstand huge pressure, and the requirements for the shell material are very high, but they are not so easy to cut!"Think about it, such a long time of work, even if there is only a tiny dose of radiation, the accumulation is very terrible! ”

"It's not unheard of in history!" Rogers, who also wanted to save his friend, continued, "In the winter of 1945, Slotin, a physicist in the Los Alamos National Chamber, dived six feet underwater to repair the underwater nuclear reactor while it was still working. In a short period of time, he received a radiation dose of at least 100 roentgenium, and afterwards he suffered symptoms such as vomiting and hair loss. You're going to have to work underwater longer than he does, and the radiation you're exposed to is a lethal danger! And there's no telling when the nuclear material in the reactor will change!"

This Slotin has made a name for himself in history for his many deaths, and repairing the reactor without shutting down this time was just one of the trivial things!

In May 1946, under the watchful eyes of seven colleagues, Slotin carried out a preliminary implementation of a nuclear fission reaction. The real yàn requires two beryllium hemispheres to surround a plutonium nucleus. It is worth mentioning that this plutonium nucleus has already been killed by Slotin's colleague Harry Dalgarion due to a radiation reaction in the previous reality.

Slotin grabbed a 9-inch diameter beryllium hemisphere, stuck the hole in the top of the ball with his thumb, and padd it with a screwdriver with his right hand, keeping the two hemispheres in no contact with each other. The use of a screwdriver is strictly against the rules, and he should use a spacer to keep it separated.

Then, tragedy struck. The screwdriver slipped to the ground as if it had been written out in a script. The upper and lower beryllium hemispheres immediately merged, producing an "instantaneous critical" reaction and a shock wave of nuclear fission. At that time, all the scientists present observed that from the gap in the beryllium hemisphere, there was a frightening, blue light formed by the ionization of the air. Waves of scorching heat hit them. At this time, a sour taste came from Slotin's mouth, and his left hand felt a strong burning sensation, which was extremely painful.

We know that the minimum mass of fissile material required to maintain a chain reaction is called the critical mass. The first original "fat man" used plutonium to create a hollow spherical shape below the subcritical level. When detonated, the surrounding plutonium is used to squeeze it to reach a critical mass, increasing the instantaneous criticality. Now Slotin is in the same situation, if he doesn't act immediately, the beryllium hemisphere will be reduced to a small nuclear bomb, and he and all his colleagues will be reduced to powder in an instant.

At the last moment, Slotin instinctively jerked his left hand upward, pulled the beryllium upper hemisphere up, and threw it to the ground. He exposed himself to lethal doses of neutron and γ radiation. According to subsequent calculations, the radiation dose to Slotin was equivalent to the radiation he received at a distance of 1,463 metres from the centre at the time of the original eruption.

Slotin died nine days later from absorbing an excess of nuclear radiation, and three of the seven survivors died years later of possible radiation-related illnesses.

Rogers told Williams the story in a solemn tone, making him truly feel the terrible power of nuclear radiation! Finally, he concluded, "Therefore, I would rather go to court-martialed than go to Norfolk Naval Base! Even if I am imprisoned for life, I can at least continue to live, and if I go to Norfolk, there is almost no chance of survival! I am not afraid of death, but I absolutely cannot endure the torture of perennial illness! If you die in a short time like Slotin, it's fine, but if you die like the three remaining scientists, you will be tortured by radiation for a long time!

Three hours later, Lieutenant Colonel Dundee did not see Rogers and Williams in his office, he sighed and silently dialed the military police!

Rogers and Williams didn't put up any resistance, and let the gendarmes take them away! At least that would be a good way to get away from that hell in Norfolk, wouldn't it? )