Chapter 993: Who Did It (Extra 2)
This incident is definitely planned and premeditated, and it must have been arranged for a long time.
So far, the number of scientists killed has reached 56, almost all of whom are well-known figures in nuclear physics, and even with your toes you can think that the US nuclear program has suffered a heavy blow.
As for ordinary people, there are even more casualties, and now the number reported has exceeded 10,000 people, so to speak, this attack is even greater than the loss caused by Pearl Harbor, Pearl Harbor, just lost some old World War I era warships, but now, it is the top scientists in the United States, a large number of skilled workers have disappeared.
Roosevelt was furious, but now, his anger could not be vented.
The Manhattan Project suddenly expanded in size, leading to conflicting interests, such as the Army and the FBI, over its security.
And now, there is such a big mess, just so that they can shirk each other's responsibilities, Hoover and Marshall, both of whom have quarreled so much, scolded each other's old mother many times.
What's the use of that? Now, what to do?
"First of all, we don't have a clear investigation yet, what happened to the tragedy in Oak Ridge?" Secretary Hull's mind is still cool, and he has an even more dire state of affairs in mind.
Whether it is Germany or the island nation, if they do it directly against Oak Ridge, it will definitely be to drop bombs from the air, and this matter is enough to make people collapse just thinking about it.
The American bombers ran to the top of the island countries to drop bombs, and almost all of them died, and in this way, the United States rejoiced, because they could directly retaliate against the island countries!
And the pride in the hearts of the Americans also comes from their new continent, which is isolated from the old continent, so it is very difficult for both island countries and Germany to directly attack the United States.
Although last year, they slandered Germany for bombing New York, it was just a whim, and the range of the Junkers-290 bomber was not so far.
It is impossible for Germany, how can the island country have such technology?
If not bombers, then what is the situation that will allow a nuclear base to be razed to the ground?
It's really horrible!
It is acceptable to say that there was an accident inside the nuclear base that caused a chain reaction of explosions, but everyone knows that this is impossible.
Such an explosion can only be a nuclear explosion, where is it so easy to produce a nuclear explosion!
In later generations, terrorists can make dirty bombs and buy radioactive raw materials, but they will never be able to make atomic bombs, because in order to have a chain reaction, nuclear materials need to have a fairly high purity, even if it is a nuclear power plant, the enrichment of nuclear materials is only 50 percent, and nuclear weapons, it must be more than 99 percent.
The best way, of course, is to ask the person concerned to come and ask, but, what is even more terrifying is that there is no living mouth at the scene.
Hull's words calmed down Roosevelt, even if Roosevelt had no scientific knowledge, he knew that this was not an accident, not to mention that so many scientists who were not on the scene, including his scientific adviser Oppenheimer, were also assassinated at the same time, does it need to be said? Definitely a conspiracy!
Hull's words also made Marshall think of something: "This kind of tragic explosion at the scene, all the buildings were destroyed, this attack pattern is almost the same as the situation that happened to Exeter, England!" ”
As soon as Marshall said this, the people around him also reacted, yes, that is!
At that time, the British also wanted to resist the German invasion, and Exeter was the most resolute, wanting to use brutal street fighting to inflict heavy casualties on the Germans, and finally had to evacuate, but the result? The Germans destroyed the entire city, including the civilians!
Everyone remembers the scene vividly, and when they saw the photos, they were amazed by the brutality of the Germans and left a deep impression on this weapon.
This situation is very similar!
"Could it be that the Junkers-290 of the Germans can fly to our United States?" Roosevelt muttered, "How is this possible! ”
Junkers-290, they don't know, but this kind of aircraft was born from the Atlantic airliner, the United States has long studied this kind of passenger plane thoroughly, the range of this kind of aircraft, less than 8,000 kilometers, that is, back and forth between Europe and the Americas, can only meet the needs of one way, and it is absolutely impossible to go back and forth.
"It is said that the Germans are working on air refueling technology, and if there is air refueling, will they be able to meet the needs of going back and forth?" said the Minister of the Navy.
"Just do the math and know it's impossible." Roosevelt unceremoniously interrupted him.
Although Roosevelt did not understand military affairs, Roosevelt was at least an extremely intelligent person, and he could still make simple calculations.
If this kind of aircraft wants to refuel the Junkers-290, then how much fuel will it carry?
It added the fuel it brought with it to the Junkers-290, less is not enough, and if it is more, how can it fly back by itself? Will there be a funny scene of another tanker plane, trying to refuel this tanker?
Moreover, this kind of air refueling is also very dangerous, what if the meteorological conditions cannot be reached and the air refueling is not possible?
This thing is definitely chicken ribs, if this kind of air tanker refuels several fighters, this is about the same, refueling bombers, it is definitely chicken ribs.
Well, if this impossibility, then there is only another possibility, the Germans, already have terrible intercontinental bombers that can go from Europe, fly directly to the United States to bomb, and also return to Germany!
The moment this thought popped into Roosevelt's mind, his face changed, and he looked at Hull, who also nodded, and it seemed that he had also thought of this terrible situation.
"Intensify the development of our night fighters! The placement of a large number of air defense radars on our coastline must be a top priority and have the highest priority! Roosevelt shouted, "Arm our East Coast with all of it, and this cannot happen a second time!" ”
This time it was an air raid at night, it was just an accident, and the same thing must not happen again!
Just as Roosevelt finished roaring, his most trusted intelligence officer came over with the information he had just gotten: "The island nation has announced in a high-profile manner that their G5N deep mountain bomber has entered service with the army, and has just completed a combat mission. ”