730 Stalin Assault IX discovered nuclear fission

Summer purple lightning pierced the blue and black sky, flashing long and short behind the Sun Yat-sen Monument. In July 1937, the calm came in the midst of the suffocating heat and thunderstorms.

"It's raining so hard, it looks like Professor Meitner won't be coming, so I'd better go to the institute by myself." Wei Bojian said. A gust of cold air poured through the open window into the sweltering damp office, spilling heavy raindrops onto a blackboard with equations on the wall. Intensive showers began to fall on the streets.

"At this time, I don't know if I can get a taxi?" Zeng Huayan replied. He was transferred from the Engineer Headquarters to this U Engineering Committee to replace Natalie, and when the "Bo" Lanmei was pregnant with her second child, Luo Yaoguo gave him her part-time job in this committee.

"I'm afraid I don't have that good luck, it's time to get off work." Wei Bojian looked at his watch and said, "Alas, it's almost six o'clock." Guoliang, make a phone call to the Academia Sinica and talk to Professor Meitner, and then hang up one to the taxi company and ask them to send a car. ”

"Yes, sir."

Wei Bojian fastened his tie, put on a cotton jacket, and gathered away the papers on the desk. "I'll have to study the numbers a little bit more. It's a bit unbelievable, Guoliang, you say yes? ”

Zeng Huayan shrugged his shoulders, waved his hands and said, "I'm a civil engineer, and I've studied war for a few years, but I don't know anything about these things. ”

Wei Bojian smiled at him with a bit of superiority, "Actually, I don't understand as much as you do, why in this experiment of bombarding uranium with a stream of cluster particles, there is so much barium used for labeling—far more than at the beginning of the experiment?" What's going on here? ”

"Mistaken, right?" Zeng Huayan answered heartlessly while dialing the phone number of the taxi company.

"Mistaken? I thought so too! But Professor Meitner and Alto. Professor Hahn doesn't think so, maybe that's the gap between me and them, right? ”

After a while, Wei Bojian braved the rain and walked towards a taxi parked at the "gate" of the General Staff Building. A BMW-1935 limousine pulled out of nowhere and stopped in front of Professor Wei. A tall, plump and beautiful Caucasian "woman" got out of the car. "Professor Wei - Are you going to the Academia Sinica? Let's go together. ”

"Oh! It's Lesinskaya - the general! Congratulations, Your Excellency! Wei Bojian grinned and gave a military salute to Natalie.

"Sawahara, don't make fun of me, I'm a pure joke as a general. By the way, do you understand what the experiment of bombarding uranium with a stream of cluster particles is all about? ”

"I don't understand. Natalie, did you go to see Meitner for this too? ”

"Well, Fuwen was so excited to see this report this afternoon that I had to go see Professor Meitner right away." "He thinks it's a great discovery, and Professor Meitner should continue to work on it, don't give up," Natalie said. ”

Wei Bojian hesitated, "Does the marshal know physics very well?" ”

"Physics? You know, he's well-educated, but certainly not to the point where he can do scientific research. I don't know if he's ...... this time Uh, don't talk about it, he'll do whatever he wants me to do anyway. By the way, what do you think of this experiment? Is there a military use? ”

"Military use...... I don't know, I haven't even figured out the principle right now. ”

"When will this be figured out? If you figure it out, can you know it in the first place? By the way, Miss Wu is still working next to her, right? ”

"Of course, Miss Wu and Professor Meitner have a good conversation." Wei Bojian said with a smile: "It's all some academic issues, and the two of them can often talk about it late at night." ”

The two talked for a while, and they sat together in Natalie's limousine, slowly passing through the crowded Zhongshan Avenue during commuting time in the heavy rain. "Natalie, I heard that the Soviet Union is about to attack 'Bo'lan, 'Bo'lan will be fine, right?" When Wei Bojian spoke, his face showed a sense of worry.

"Oh, no problem, they can defeat the Soviets, in 1920 Poland defeated the Soviets!" When she said this, Natalie's face was full of pride, as if she couldn't remember which side she was at that time!

"That's great!" Wei Bojian grinned, "If Bolan can win, then the war won't last long." ”

"I'm afraid it won't be too short." Natalie said: "Don't underestimate the Bolsheviks, they are still very tenacious at times. Xiao Wang, turn on the radio and let's listen to the news. ”

Xiao Wang, Natalie's driver, turned on the radio, which was broadcasting the news of the Sino-Japanese (North Korean) border standoff. During this time, the armed forces that claimed to be the Korean People's Army suddenly became active, launched continuous attacks on the territory of Japan (the Korean Peninsula), and at one time occupied several small hills, set up some kind of revolutionary base area, and within a few days let the Japanese be driven to the Chinese side. However, the Chinese side refused to disarm the Korean People's Army...... The Japanese threatened to "clear the border".

"I really don't know why the Japanese and Koreans are involved in us?" Wei Bojian said: "On the one hand, we want to fight with the Soviet Union, but on the other hand, we have to ...... with Japan Alas, the assistant commander is really tough. ”

"The Japanese are just bluffing, could it be that they still want to use seventeen divisions against our more than two hundred divisions?"

"But the problem is that we still have to fight the Soviet Union." Wei Bojian sighed and said: "Japan saw this opportunity to attack, if they stabbed us in the back when we went to war with the Soviet Union......

"What happened to the Japanese scientists on the committee?" Natalie changed the subject. At present, many people are worried that Japan will turn back at a critical moment, but no one who really understands the military power gap between China and Japan will have such an idea. The main thing is that the air forces of both sides are not of the same level, and the Chinese air force (including naval aviation) is ten times larger than the Japanese army and naval aviation, and the quality is much higher.

"You said Yoshio Nishina, right?" Wei Bojian slowly loaded his pipe. "They work very hard and are very conscientious, but they don't see anything wrong."

"Or maybe they haven't found out where it's worth risking their lives?"

Professor Wei Bojian spat out a blue cigarette in his mouth and said, "Even I don't know what information is in our U Engineering Committee that is worth stealing?" Isotopes of uranium are separated? If you see the bill, the emperor of Japan will definitely faint...... It's almost 800 million already spent! I just got more than 30 kilograms of uranium-235 with a purity of 90, but no one knows what that thing is for! If this is really a constitutional state, we will definitely go to jail for "squandering" state property. ”

Natalie lowered her head and looked at Wei Bojian with a frown. The question gave her a headache and there was no way to explain it because she didn't know what was going on. And she was almost certain that even Luo Yaoguo could not know about the military use of uranium-235, because all the classified documents that Luo Yaoguo could see would pass through her eyes first. So far, there is not a single document that says that such a thing could be used to make weapons! And even if it can be used in the military, it is certainly not worth the price - "spending" hundreds of millions to make a few bombs? How many people can be killed in the explosion! Hopefully, this time Meitner's findings will make the whole thing seem less ridiculous......

"Oh! Oh, my God! It must be like this! It must be...... Miss Wu, hurry! Bring me the chalk, I thought ......"

As soon as Natalie and Wei Bojian approached the Meitner laboratory of the Academia Sinica, they heard this scientific "female" weirdo screaming there.

“…… The atom must have tore itself apart! It must be like this. Wu, I can feel the beating of the nucleus almost from my imagination, and I can hear the sizzling sound of the atom tearing! I think the correct answer is that when the free protons bombard and "shoot" the uranium, the increase of protons makes the uranium nucleus very unstable, and thus splits! Barium and krypton were generated...... It's supposed to be like this, I'm going to do an experiment again, and I'm going to do it tonight...... Wu, you go and ask Professor Frisch to come to me. ”

"Professor Meitner, have you made any new discoveries?" Natalie and Weber-Weber pushed the door and walked into the messy lab, only to see Professor Meitner writing a long list of equations on a large blackboard like crazy, and her assistant Chien-shiung Wu was scrambling to give Meitner's nephew Otto. Robert. Frisch calls - this is the scene when humanity enters the "door" threshold of the nuclear age!

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The windows of the new five-storey office building of the Sino-German University of Technology offer a panoramic view of the campus. Looking at this university, which represents the highest academic level of science and engineering in China and is already well-known in the world, Luo Yaoguo is really emotional. He has watched this university grow step by step, and for him, this university, like the National Defense Force, is the hope of China's future! It's summer vacation, there are almost no students on campus, several tall school buildings are empty, and only a few labs are flickering with lights, and although the Jewish scientists who preside over these labs have been summoned to this conference room, their Chinese disciples are still continuing their research in the labs.

Today's meeting is probably the most important meeting of the U Engineering Committee since its establishment. Now it's finally time to unravel the mystery! Although Professor Meitner did not appear, a string of equations and calculation results on the small blackboard hanging on the wall on one side of the conference room still made all the scientists present break out in a cold sweat! If this equation and calculation are correct, then what they have been doing all these years is to create the most evil and terrifying weapon in the history of mankind!! And what makes them even more chilling is that they started making nuclear fission bombs before this nuclear fission process was discovered!

“…… The most optimistic estimate at the moment is that the bomb can be made, or at least theoretically. If you go all out, maybe two years, maybe ten years, or even longer. This is unknown. But only if we do our best, we must not allow other countries to take the lead in this regard! Not in the United States, and neither in Germany! Of course, we are fortunate to be one step ahead in this regard, and we have built an isotope separation plant capable of refining more than a dozen kilograms of uranium-235 with an abundance of more than 90 per year. And we also have a large amount of uranium ore, uranium dioxide, and even 38 kilograms of uranium-235 with an abundance of 90. We also have the advantage of having some amazing minds working for us, including Mr. Meitner, Mr. Szilard, Mr. Oppenheimer, Mr. Capicha, Mr. Frisch...... We are really lucky with that. But, Auxiliary, I really can't promise you that such a bomb will be made! Actually, I don't even know where to start, everything is unknown, and what I have to do now is something that no one has done before. ”

Wei Bojian frowned and talked eloquently, as a Chinese scientist, he must be the most excited of all the scientists here, of course, there will not be too much guilt in making powerful killing weapons for his motherland! And he also believes that this world war, which has not yet broken out, may well end up being a race to make such uranium bombs! Compared to the creation of such bombs, everything that is going on now, millions of troops, tens of thousands of tanks and planes, all kinds of warships, and all kinds of plans drawn up by the world's most professional staff officers, "elites", are all meaningless! But his mind is certainly not the best here, compared to these Jewish genius scientists sitting here, he Wei Bojian can only be said to be an ordinary scientific researcher, even with the greatest determination and the highest positive "sex", there is no certainty that he can create such a weapon of mass destruction for the country!

Luo Yaoguo frowned there and didn't speak, but the new Minister of Armaments, Ma Junwu, listened a little incomprehensibly, looked at Wei Bojian and asked, "What kind of 'sexual' weapon are we talking about here?" How powerful is its explosion? Could it have been made before the end of the war against the USSR? "He, the deputy minister who has been in charge of the work of the Ministry of Armaments since the time of Luo Yiqun, has complained about this U project for more than a day or two! This is simply a money-burning machine, and the already modest funds have been taken up by this inexplicable project, resulting in many urgently needed projects being postponed!

Wei Bojian glanced at Luo Yaoguo, although this U project is nominally subordinate to the Ministry of Armaments, but in fact it is directly responsible to Luo Yaoguo, but this time the Minister of Armaments appeared here, could it be that in the future, the U Project will be under the jurisdiction of this stingy Minister of Armaments? Luo Yaoguo nodded at him slightly, meaning that he had something to say, and there was nothing to hide. Wei Bojian thought for a moment and said cautiously: "Minister Ma, for the uranium bomb, I can only say that it is an unknown. The combined forces may be too great, that is, the bomb will have to split itself before it can really work. Theoretically, a bomb could wipe out the city of Wuhan, or a larger area. But now everything is unknown. I don't know if I can make such a bomb, and I don't know how much time it will take, but I'm afraid it won't be until the end of the war against the Soviet Union...... I only pay, if the equation on this blackboard is not wrong, then we must make this bomb, if our enemies take the lead, maybe it will be the demise of Chinese civilization! ”

Ma Junwu was so frightened by Wei Bojian's words that he breathed a sigh of relief, a bomb can sweep away the three towns of Wuhan! Is there really such a perverted weapon? If that's the case, it looks like it's going to have to be made. The road that China is taking at the moment is, according to the Chinese G and other anti-war figures, a point of no return! That is, you can only win, not lose...... He glanced at Luo Yaoguo, and saw that his face was gloomy and unresponsive, and he knew that the other party had already made up his mind to make this bomb! As for funding...... Anyway, now that it has been transferred to the wartime system, the base camp has been established, and the entire country's economy will serve the war, and one billion and eight billion can always be squeezed out.

"We will be the first to make this kind of bomb, so Chinese civilization will not be destroyed, and it will always exist." Luo Yaoguo turned his head to look at Ma Junwu, "Mr. Junwu, this project has always been under my direct control in the past, so now I will transfer it to the Ministry of Armaments." This project is the highest level of priority supply, in addition to being a special level of secrecy from now on. As he spoke, he glanced coldly at the scientist seated. I know that some of you here are still working for foreign politicians, and in the past, this U project was an academic research...... I just opened my eyes and closed my eyes. But from now on, Project U is already a top-secret secret weapon program! So the management will also become very strict, and if anyone is not suitable they can choose to leave. But if you are willing to stay, then I can guarantee you the most generous reward, and you can leave China with a large fortune after the successful development of the uranium bomb in the whole U project...... Go anywhere you want! ”

"Your Excellency, what if someone is not willing to make uranium bombs for you, but does not want to leave China?

It was Lizzie who said this. Professor Meitner, president of the Sun Yat-sen Academy of Sciences in China, is also a scientist who discovered the phenomenon of nuclear fission. As in history, this somewhat stubborn pacifist refused to participate in the development of nuclear weapons.

Luo Yaoguo smiled slightly: "Professor, I can understand the feelings of those scientists, they don't want their wisdom to become a tool to make murder weapons...... However, the nuclear fission process you revealed does not have to be used militarily, and there are many peaceful ways to use it, such as using the energy generated by nuclear fission to generate electricity, to provide mankind with an inexhaustible source of energy. Professor, would you like to lead a research institute in this area? I guarantee that this institute will also receive the same level of supply as the U Engineering Committee. ”

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