Chapter 397: Atomic Bomb Development (Part I)

When the arms dealers and R&D agencies arrived in the conference room of the Empire State Building, Rommel did not rush to a meeting, but asked them to work together on the project. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

For example, surface-to-air missiles or air-to-air missiles must cooperate with radar research and development institutions, because only radar can guide missiles to attack, and air-to-air missiles must also cooperate with airborne radar manufacturers.

Because some weapon systems are very complex, not all the research and development tasks can be completed by one department, so the division of labor and cooperation, which is not only efficient, but also saves research and development time, and thus saves research and development costs.

The Führer Rommel revised the weapons and equipment that needed to be developed into a book, and then asked these manufacturers or institutions that received research and development projects to find those manufacturers or institutions that had not received research and development projects to unite.

Because they are a professional R&D team, only they know what partners they need to find, and they don't need Rommel, the head of state, to forcibly arrange, it will only backfire, and Rommel only needs to be responsible for giving money.

The first day of the meeting was not held at all, and those who got the R&D project and those who did not get the R&D project were united with each other in the conference room, and this process took a whole day.

After they have joined forces in the second and submitted the R&D budget, Speer, the German Minister of Equipment and Logistics, will immediately organize people to demonstrate and calculate.

The Germans are notoriously rigorous, everything goes according to the procedure, and Führer Rommel cannot easily break this rule, even if he is the Führer, all the R&D expenses are paid by him.

If you want to say whether Rommel is rich or not, Rommel has a lot of assets in France, and the dowry brought by his wife is simply rich.

Rommel's only decision was the development of the atomic bomb, which was the foundation of Germany's invincible position, even if the United States entered the war and Germany was defeated in the Soviet Union, as long as Germany had the atomic bomb before the United States, then Germany could keep its territory and withdraw from the war in a dignified way.

When the United States knew that Germany had an atomic bomb, the United States would never dare to send troops to attack or bomb the German mainland, otherwise, Germany would also invite him to taste the atomic bomb, and it would be a big deal for everyone to go to hell together.

Rommel personally met with the head of the German atomic bomb development, Werner? Heisenberg, Heisenberg was a German physicist, the founder of quantum mechanics, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932, and a very remarkable figure.

When World War II began, many German scientists, including Albert Einstein, were determined not to compromise with Hitler.

However, an equally brilliant physicist remained, and was entrusted with the task of leading the technical work on the development of the atomic bomb.

However, Hitler invested very little in the research and development of the atomic bomb, and Heisenberg could only receive 10 million Deutschmarks a year for research and development.

This amount of money simply could not allow Heisenberg to recruit more people to help calculate the massive amount of data, and even the purity of the graphite plate used in the experiment was not up to standard, which made Heisenberg's experimental data full of errors, and Germany's atomic bomb development seriously lagged behind due to lack of funds.

As the "father of the hydrogen bomb" Edward? According to Teller, according to Germany's level of science and technology, an atomic bomb could be built in 1942.

Because as early as 1938, German physicists had successfully carried out experiments on the fission of the element uranium nuclei. Why did the Germans not produce the atomic bomb until the end of World War II?

On September 26, 1939, the famous scientist Heisenberg attended the Second Conference on Nuclear Research in Berlin and pointed out two possible ways to harness the energy of nuclear fission:

One is to use pure uranium-235 to make a super bomb; The second is to use a moderator to slow down second-generation neutrons, thus creating a "uranium burner" as an energy source to provide huge amounts of energy.

Hartek from the University of Hamburg also arrived, pointing out the importance of layering uranium and moderator, and two months later, Fermi and Szilard came up with the same idea.

Heisenberg believed that both graphite and heavy water could theoretically be used as moderators, but Hartke, a physicist who had worked with Rutherford in Cavendish and Rutherford, thought it would be better to use heavy water as a moderator.

However, after Heisenberg's many experiments, pure graphite cannot be used as an atomic reducer, only heavy water is the best reducer, but heavy water is not produced in Germany at all.

Actually, this was the main reason for the defeat of the Germans:

Because heavy water production is extremely difficult and expensive, the electrolysis plant in Norway, the world's largest heavy water production plant before the war, could only supply 10 kilograms of heavy water per month, which was not available in Germany itself.

In the second half of 1942, Hitler's lightning tactics, which had been used since the start of the war, failed. In order to reverse the unfavorable situation, Nazi Germany intensified its efforts to develop the atomic bomb and accelerated the pace of developing the atomic bomb.

After being occupied and taken over by the Germans, the Verimck factory in the southern plains of Norway became an important place for the Germans to produce heavy water, or tritium oxide, which is an indispensable raw material for atomic nuclear explosions.

British intelligence soon stole the Germans' secrets of increasing heavy water production and developed a-for-tat battle plan codenamed "Novice", which sought to destroy the vital facilities of the Vermonk factory in one fell swoop by airdropping paratroopers.

However, due to the bad weather during the implementation and the lack of experience of the paratroopers, the plane was either destroyed or captured alive, and the plan ended in a miscarriage, and the news reached London, and the British government was very disappointed and at the same time very anxious.

After much deliberation, a new plan of sabotage was hatched, and on June 26, 1942, six Norwegian special forces were airdropped onto the plain where the Vermonk factory was located.

Under the cover of night, they threw out the ropes, climbed the cliff as light as swallows, and made contact with the underground organization, quietly approaching their target.

The operatives bypassed the heavily guarded sentry posts, entered the factory through tunnels where cables were laid, found a location, placed explosives, and then lit fires and made an emergency evacuation.

Everything was clean and silent, and with a loud bang, the plan was completed, and the good news came, and everyone was relieved.

However, unexpectedly, in less than half a year, there was a resurgence of heavy water production in Nazi Germany.

To this end, the Allies took the opportunity to carry out a severe air force attack on it, dropping more than 100 tons of explosives and forcing its production to be paralyzed.

After that, Hitler decided to transfer the equipment and important raw materials to Germany. British intelligence was informed that a new course of action had been developed to send Norwegian spies Knut and Skinaland to break the Nazis' wishful thinking.

40 minutes later, the bomb exploded, and in an instant, 39 barrels of important raw materials sank to the bottom of the lake more than 300 meters deep. Hitler's dream of an atomic bomb was thus shattered......

How could Rommel let the tragedy of history repeat itself, the atomic bomb was the last resort of Rommel, the traverser, and there was no room for error.

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Flowers have a reblooming day, and no one is young.

Gray hair urges old age, and that takes more than a hundred years. (To be continued.) )