Chapter 134: Lyon's "Nuclear Leveling" Plan
"Albert, it's normal for it to get uncontrollable." Leon quibbled, "You can only become controllable if you experience the uncontrollable, don't you?" ”
"Either way, 'Atom - Energie - Programm' must be stopped, Lyon, we can't ruin our home!" Einstein persuaded.
"Okay, I'll stop 'Atom - Energie - Programm'." Leon nodded and agreed, "Albert, what are you going to study after this project is stopped?" ”
"I intend to continue refining my theory of relativity, which I feel is flawed in some places." Einstein replied.
"Well, I'll continue to support you, Albert." Leon patted Einstein on the shoulder, "I will continue to fund you." ”
"Thanks, Leon, you're a nice guy, and I was worried that you'd actually use my research to make a bomb." Albert Einstein said gratefully.
"How so, humanity doesn't need bombs." Leon made a joke.
"Haha, yes, humans don't need bombs." Albert Einstein smiled, "Every time I talk to you, I get inspired, but I have to go back to the lab, and I'm not done yet." ”
"Then I'll send it to you." With that, Leon got up and sent Einstein out the door.
Watching Einstein's back disappear in front of the Führer's mansion, Ludwig, who had just accompanied him throughout the whole process, finally couldn't help but ask Leon: "My Führer, are we really going to stop 'Atom - Energie - Programm'?" ”
"Of course it won't stop, we've spent a lot of money on it." Leon said coldly, "It's just that Einstein's work is over, by the way, you help me call Werner Heisenberg and Otto Hahn." ”
"Understood, my Führer." After receiving the order, Ludwig turned around and drove out the door and drove towards the laboratory of the Ministry of Science and Technology.
A little more than an hour later, Werner Heisenberg and Otto Hahn were in front of Lyon.
"Long live the Führer!" As soon as the two came up, they saluted Leon with feverish expressions.
"There's no need to be polite between us." Leon smiled and waved his hand.
"My Führer, I wonder why you suddenly asked us to come here?" Hahn asked, looking puzzled.
"I'm calling you here to ask how Einstein and Heisenberg would be affected if they withdrew from 'Atom - Energie - Programm'?"
"They're quitting?!" The two exclaimed, "If they withdraw, it will be difficult for the whole project to progress." ”
"Can you do this project on your own?"
"It's going to be a little bit difficult to do it on its own, maybe the whole project won't be completed until about 1947 and put into practice, you know, it's a little bit difficult to get nuclear fission to be 'willing' to provide us with energy."
"What if I change the purpose of the plan and don't want a nuclear reactor?" "What if I'm going to turn it into a bomb?" Leon said. ”
"Oh God! Bomb?! The two exclaimed again, "That would be a catastrophe!" ”
"Yes, it would be a catastrophe." Leon said coldly, "But this will be a catastrophe for the enemy!" Are you willing to make it for the sake of the motherland, for the sake of me? ”
Originally, they were reluctant, but when it came to the motherland and the head of state they worshipped, it made the two entangled.
"Well, Führer, I promise, I will make it for you, for the Motherland!" After a long time, Otto was the first to agree.
"I agree, Führer!" Heisenberg agreed.
"Führer, if you want to turn it into a bomb, it will be much easier than the original plan." Otto, who agreed to Leon's request, also let go of the guilt in his heart, "If it had been led by Mr. Einstein and Mr. Heisenberg, I believe we would have succeeded in building it around 1942, but now without them, we might have got around 1944." ”
"1944 ......," Leon thought for a moment, "1944 was enough." ”
"Führer, we still need something, without which it will be difficult for us to complete future experiments." Heisenberg was a little embarrassed.
Leon frowned and asked, "What is needed?" ”
"We need a heavy water plant and a lot of uranium." Otto replied.
"Heavy water plants and uranium mines?" Leon pondered where these two things were now.
Belgium, Norway!
These two countries came to Lyon's mind at once.
"I'll get the uranium ore and heavy water plant for you." Leon smiled profoundly, "But we'll have to wait a year." ”
"It's okay to wait for a year, anyway, we're still in the theoretical stage." Heisenberg said indifferently, "In the practical stage, we have a lot of uranium ore and heavy water, and now we have enough of them for our experiments." ”
"By the way, my Führer." Otto asked, "Why did Mr. Einstein and Mr. Heisenberg suddenly withdraw from this project?" ”
"Because they love peace."
"Then will they leave Germany?" Otto asked, "They are all talents, and it would be a pity to leave the motherland." ”
"No, they won't leave us." Leon sneered, "Also, I'll announce the discontinuation of the 'Atom - Energie - Programm' project and disband the existing research group, so you need to form a new team, and you will be separated from the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the new project code name will be 'Kungunir'." ”
"Understood." The two nodded.
"Very good, then I won't bother the two of you to shine for the motherland." Leon joked.
"Haha, then we'll take our leave." The two stood up with a smile and left the Führer's mansion.
"Ludwig." Leon rubbed his forehead, there were so many things going on in the past few days that he felt a little tired.
"My Führer." Ludwig soon came to Lyon's side.
"Inform Reinhardt and ask him to send someone to keep our scientists under covert surveillance." "Einstein, in particular," Leon confessed. The specific list is here. With that, Leon pulled out a list from a drawer and handed it to Ludwig.
Ludwig took the list, and saw that it was densely packed with countless names: Laue, Potter, Geiger, Weizak, Bager, Dibner, Grach, Woz...... Even Heisenberg and Otto, who had just left, were among them.
"Führer, this, this is almost all our scientists in Germany, right?" Ludwig said with a long list.
"Yes." Leon nodded.
"Führer, why is that?" Ludwig was puzzled.
"Because the role of these people is worth fifty of our armored divisions." Leon said earnestly, "I would like to assure them that they must be under our strict protection and surveillance, and the loss of any one of them will increase our chances of losing in the future, especially as far as I know, many of them are thinking of leaving Germany and joining our enemies." ”
"I see." Ludwig understood what Leon meant.
"Let Reinhardt pay attention and don't let them find out, although I think with the ability of the Gestapo and the counter-reconnaissance ability of that group of scientists, the probability of being discovered is very low." Leon pouted, "Also, call Raeder, I heard he's returned from Spain." ”
"Okay." Ludwig nodded respectfully and walked on.
"War is about to break out." Leon looked at the "Navy Type 3** Warship Construction Plan" submitted by Raeder in the drawer, and said to himself: "I can't expand the navy anymore, I have to adjust resources to the air force and army, I need new tanks, new fighters, new torpedo planes, and strategic bombers!" ”