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Henry. Agad. With great heaviness, Wallace pressed his left hand to a Bible, then raised his right hand and said in a tone as if reading a eulogy: "I solemnly swear that I will faithfully perform my office as President of the United States, and that I will do my utmost to observe, preserve and defend the Constitution of the United States......"

This idealist, who was too radical and left-leaning in the eyes of the Democratic Party's New Deal, has finally become the president of the United States! Although his tenure was destined to be only a few months. But these months are more important than the four- or eight-year terms that many American presidents have.

Because the United States is now fighting a world war, and the tide of the war is unfavorable, and it is facing defeat and defeat - at least in the eyes of Wallace's predecessor, President Roosevelt, who until 1943 was recognized as one of America's greatest leaders, the United States was facing defeat and disaster!

When Wallace took the oath, the square in front of the Capitol and around Wallace was crowded with people and dignitaries who had come to watch the ceremony. Unlike in the past, when the inauguration ceremony was always full of smiles, now these Americans who came to witness history all looked solemn and frowned.

When Wallace was sworn in and officially became President of the United States of America, thunderous applause did not ring as expected, and everyone craned their necks and waited for President Wallace's inaugural speech, hoping to hear something useful from it.

The scene was a little awkward, Wallace took a breath, and began to give an unscripted inaugural speech (an unscripted speech is the basic skill of American politicians, and anyone who can get ahead can do it), he said: "For all of you who are here today, this moment is solemn and extremely exciting; However, in the history of our country, this situation has long been commonplace. According to the provisions of the U.S. Constitution, for more than a century, an orderly transfer of power in accordance with the will of the people has become the norm. But in the world, such a scene as it is today has become extremely rare, and one democracy after another is falling under the iron heel of Nazis and fascism. If we also cherish the freedom and democracy that we currently have, then we must be ready to fight and die. This is the price of freedom and democracy!

As President Jefferson, the drafter of our Declaration of Independence, said: "The tree of freedom must always be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants." It is the natural fertilizer of the Tree of Freedom! Now is the time for us to put that truth into practice! ”

After listening to President Wallace's inaugural speech, most of the people in the square furrowed their frowns - this is not a "capitulating president", but a president who will lead the United States to battle!

And the people around Wallace have different looks. Several Democrats, including presidential candidate Harry Truman and Democratic bigwig Barkley, all showed some joy.

Republicans and uniformed generals alike look worried. Because Wallace's speech showed that he had shifted his father, President Roosevelt's "peace line," to continue the war with Germany.

For the Republican Party, this means that President Roosevelt's legacy will have to be borne by Republican Dewey, if he can be elected president, himself!

For the generals, President Wallace is likely to give them a whole bunch of problems during his short term.

Warm applause rang out at this time, and all people, no matter what opinions they had about Wallace's speech, could only applaud their blessings to President Wallace and the United States.

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"Mr. President, do you need us to elaborate on the current situation?"

In the Oval Office of the White House, Wallace, who was already president, sat in the chair where Roosevelt once sat and the president's chief of staff, William Brown. Admiral Leahy and Army Chief of Staff Marshall, Chief of Naval Operations Ernest Brown. Kim Du sat across from him.

This is not the first time that the three most senior generals of the U.S. military have reported to Wallace on the situation, after Roosevelt spent a few days in a coma and recuperating from a time when Wallace was also acting president.

"William," Wallace took a breath and began to step into the role of president of the United States, and said to Admiral Leahy, "say something I don't know." ”

"Okay." William. Admiral Leahy nodded, handing Wallace a document that had been prepared long ago. "Mr. President, this is a summary report on the development of secret weapons in the United States, including important projects of the Army and Navy."

"Is there any progress on the atomic bomb project?" Wallace asked.

"Yes." William. Leahy said, "On the third page. Our atomic bomb project, codenamed Manhattan Project, has been working for two years to solve the bottleneck of uranium ore supply, and we have also conducted several reactor experiments, and we have achieved success. ”

Because Hersmann's intelligence agencies took control of the uranium mines in Belgium and Congo in advance, they bought them all and shipped them back to Europe. Therefore, the biggest difficulty encountered by the Manhattan Project in the United States is that there are not enough uranium mines to carry out experiments. This problem was not solved until a uranium mine in Canada (discovered before the war) was expanded and put into production.

With enough uranium metal in supply, Manhattan Project experts can finally conduct reactor experiments – experimental reactors are not complicated, they are theoretically enough uranium metal to be stacked together, and then neutron deceleration with graphite or heavy water to prevent the chain reaction from getting out of control.

However, the experimental reactor can only prove that the chain reaction exists and is controllable, and at the same time provide data on the critical value. It does not solve the problem of isotope refining or plutonium-239 production.

The extraction of isotopes is currently a serious problem for the Manhattan Project. Although American scientists have come up with two methods, such as electromagnetic separation and gas separation, the design of the equipment for the gas separation method with higher efficiency has not yet been completed. As for the plutonium-239 production reactor, Manhattan Engineering technicians have not yet overcome the difficulties - because there are many fewer brilliant brains from Europe, the Manhattan Project has always had to spend several times more time and investment in overcoming the difficulties than in history. As a result, progress has slowed down considerably.

"How long will it take to succeed?" President Wallace found that the report did not give a timetable.

"I don't know," said William. Leahy shook his head, "No one knows. ”

"So what are we going to do to counter the Germans' atomic bombs?"

"What is being considered at the moment is bacteriological weapons," said William. "We already have a large stockpile of anthrax weapons and plague weapons that can be used with B-29s for one-way air strikes," Raisi said. ”

"One-way air strikes?"

Army Chief of Staff Marshall took over the question, "Mr. President, a one-way air raid is to make a forced landing in the Atlantic Ocean after the B-29 has completed the task of dropping bacteriological weapons, and the pilot is taken back to the United States by the submarine. ”

This is the use of the B-29 as a disposable weapon! Because there is no need to think about the fuel on the return trip, the B-29 can penetrate deep into the heart of France and even the Rhine area of Germany. And it is also capable of carrying more than a ton of bacteriological bombs! With more than 500 B-29s equipped by the US Army Air Corps, if all of them are used for one-time bacteriological bomb drops, they can definitely cause huge casualties in Europe.

Wallace had heard a lot about bacteriological weapons and knew that the United States had a lot of advantages over Germany in this regard - the advantage of the United States came mainly from plague weapons, because the Japanese had put the plague they had studied for many years in the United States, and the United States also obtained samples and multiplied the same bacteria in large numbers!

In addition, in the process of finding a specific cure for the plague, American scientists Waxman, Woodruff and Albert Murphy were in search of a cure. Saz et al. also discovered that the streptomycin they were experimenting with was officially a special drug for the suppression of various types of plague! With the possession of the special medicine, the United States has actually surpassed Japan in mastering the weapons of the plague.

He nodded, and then asked, "So what can we do to counter the German missiles?" ”

"We are developing an anti-ship radar-guided gliding bomb," said the Chief of Naval Operations...... It has now entered the final trial phase. ”

Ernest. Kim is talking about the ASM-N-2 Bat anti-ship radar-guided gliding bomb. Although this weapon is not satisfactory, the only option is to use active radar guidance to "go too far ahead" until the United States is unable to overcome the problem of wireless communications being prone to interference.

Moreover, there is another advantage of doing this, that is, the US bombers carrying the "bats" do not have to be dispatched during the day at all, and can completely rely on radar guidance to drop the "bats" at night, and then rely on the "bats'" own radar to search for targets and carry out attacks -- that is, they do not care about what happens!

Although the accuracy of this "fire-and-forget" gliding guided bomb is worrying, it is also particularly disturbed and its power is insufficient. However, the advantage of being able to attack at night still makes it quite important to the US Navy.

"That's great!" President Wallace nodded, "This weapon should be put into combat as soon as possible!" ”

He looked at the three American soldiers in front of him who seemed to have some sad faces, and said: "Generals, now we have weapons that can counter German atomic weapons and missiles, which means that we have enough strength to fight the Nazis." I think the war can be protracted because we have enough resources and productivity to fight the enemy until we run out of them! That's my strategy, and as long as I'm president of the United States, I'm not going to have any peace talks with the Germans. We will fight hard until we achieve victory! ”

Is this the end of peace negotiations?

Three generals, you look at me, I look at you, all with a helpless face. Roosevelt is dead, and peace seems to be far away, but is the United States really capable of fighting?