Chapter 47: London Summit

Sunny winter day, sunny and warm. At Siathrow International Airport, the most prosperous airport in the British capital, a Ju-52 with a black, white and red flag painted on the side of the fuselage landed steadily. Compared with the DC-3 (Douglas of the United States), Boeing-307, York-1 (York, UK) and other passenger aircraft around the tarmac, this three-engine configuration aircraft looks old and unusual, and the flight speed is also a little slower, but when visiting abroad as head of state, Lynn insists on flying the original "Aunt Juncker" purchased from Spain, and is proud of it. In fact, although most of the Junkers-52s were destroyed during the war, and the German production lines for BMW engines and spare parts and airframes no longer exist, there are still many Junkers-52s in service on domestic and international routes in Spain, France, Switzerland and even the United Kingdom, and their repair parts and imitation engines are mainly supplied by the Barcelona factory in Spain.

Although Britain and Germany fought each other in two world wars, especially in naval battles, the enmity between the two countries was far less profound than imagined. On the tarmac, the majestic royal guard of honour lined up the red carpet, the high-profile greeters waited at the bottom of the gangway, and hundreds of German staff in the UK, expatriates and hundreds of others waved flowers and small flags on the periphery. The moment he stepped out of the cabin door, Lynn really felt the great power mind of the British Empire. Crown Prince Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Prime Minister Anthony Elizabeth. Eden was greeted by the highest courtesy, and they certainly did not expect that the unbelievably young President of the GDR had been a soldier at the lowest level of the SS a few years ago - and had not left a blood debt on the British army.

The deliberately groomed beard makes Lynn look a little more mature than her actual age, and the 23-year-old Crown Prince Elizabeth is indeed youthful and beautiful, but it is a pity that she had married her distant cousin, Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, two years ago. Mountbatten's marriage also saved the outside world from many Filipino reveries. After a short but solemn welcome ceremony. The guests of honour left the airport in a Rolls-Royce, exchanging a number of topics in English on the way. Lynn, who had the rare opportunity to cruise London, couldn't stop looking out the car window, and the British capital at this time could barely see the traces of German bombers and missiles from the Second World War, and the haze caused by the previous nuclear bomb crisis had been diluted by time. The streets are a bustling and peaceful scene. However, Lynn noticed that American brands such as Ford, General Motors, and Willis accounted for the majority of street vehicles, and under the impact of countless American aid, Rover, Triumph, Austin, Jason and other well-known British car brands before the war were bound to be greatly affected. By extension, many areas of British life are full of American elements, and with the political cooperation of the American and British governments, the two English-speaking countries should be as close as they have been historically.

The international nuclear weapons summit essentially belongs to the category of military diplomacy, and as the British crown prince, Elizabeth did not say much, mainly by Prime Minister Eden talking to Lynn. It was the former economic and cultural center of the world. Britain's scientific research strength is quite strong, but the comprehensive strength of the countries weakened by the war has constrained them in the pace of self-research on nuclear weapons, and until 1949 it was still stranded outside the nuclear threshold, but this old empire is not inferior to any other country in the attention and vigilance of the world's nuclear weapons situation. At the height of the previous nuclear crisis, Britain mobilized millions of people living in large cities to evacuate to the countryside in order to prevent a nuclear attack on its homeland. In addition, it has acquired a strategic nuclear counterattack capability through cooperation with the US military -- once Britain is attacked by the Soviet Union's atomic bombs, the US forces deployed at bases in southern Norway will immediately hand over a number of atomic bombs to the British Air Force stationed at the same base, and British bombers will carry them to the Soviet Union to counterattack. In the wake of the nuclear crisis, the British government was rumored to have made a lot of determination in nuclear weapons research, prioritizing personnel, funding and resources, and the number of nuclear reactors multiplied. There has also been a significant expansion of uranium enrichment facilities, and it is only a matter of time before nuclear weapons are mastered, although British officials have been reluctant to admit this. …,

Rumors are true and false, false and true. Lynn's advantage lies in his ability to infer based on the history of the original time and space: the British are not far from their first atomic bomb, and driven by the dignity of a great power, the possibility of them giving up halfway is very small, but this time the United States proposed to convene an international nuclear weapons summit, and Britain was the first to express its support and actively provide the venue, and its true intention is worth speculating; The uncharacteristically active support of the Soviet Union is also worth speculating. According to the original history, they tested the first atomic bomb in October 1949. The East-West war between 1946 and 1948 clearly constrained the Soviet government's energy, especially the large-scale bombing of the Allies that had a great impact on the Soviet Union's industrial and scientific infrastructure, coupled with the relationship of regime change, it is not surprising that their nuclear weapons research progress lagged behind, but with the help of the Free Empire and the use of an American-made atomic bomb, the Soviet nuclear team may be only a few steps away from success.

Such a meeting of calculations and intrigue was destined to be wonderful, and the heads of state of the initiators, the host countries and the 47 countries invited to the conference arrived in London, and Lancaster Palace became the focus of the world's attention. Except for most of the "soy sauce countries" with limited strength, weak science and technology, and a distance of 108,000 miles from the nuclear threshold, it is the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom that will really determine the outcome of the conference (France and China will have to wait more than ten years for the atomic bomb to possess it). At the beginning of the meeting, U.S. President Thomas Murphy Dewey showed the heads of state in New York a picture of the aftermath of the nuclear bombing, and on the big screen, the former international capital has become a deserted cement cemetery, with many buildings still standing, the charred exterior, the broken walls give people a shocking visual impact, and the various scenes in the ruins of the city are silently telling the horror of nuclear weapons.

In their mourning, the leaders unanimously turned their attention to the "culprit" who caused the destruction of New York -- the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, who had come to the meeting on behalf of the Soviet Union. Mikhailovich. Shvernik. In the Soviet Union, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, that is, Stalin and his successor Nikita Khrushchev, Shvernik and his predecessor Mikhail Khrushchev, really held power. Ivanovich. Kalinin was only the nominal head of state. In the face of silent onslaught, the 61-year-old Shivernik responded with the sophistication of his life experience: with a grim face, he called on all present to stand and observe a moment of silence for the victims of the events in New York. After that, he vowed that the Soviet Union had no knowledge of the nuclear explosion in New York, let alone the ability to use atomic bombs to attack American cities, but was innocently blamed by the real black hands. The resulting East-West war directly led to the death of more than 3 million Soviet soldiers and civilians, and Western countries also paid a heavy price for this. In recent years, the Soviet Union has been searching for evidence in an effort to clear his name, and Shvernik went on to show the heads of state who attended the meeting photographs, videos and audio recordings. Screens show nuclear weapons factories built in snow-capped mountains, guards in German uniforms, clandestine Norwegian uranium mines, and enriched uranium seized from raids on freighters at sea, as well as audio recordings that prove that the remnants of the Third Reich entrenched in Northern Europe possess the ability to build nuclear weapons.

When these materials are played. Shvernik did not interject, but the effect of "silence is better than sound at this time" was very obvious, and the heads of state who had previously looked at each other were extremely surprised, and even the president of the United States was silent. As an important participant in the incident, Lynn knows more about the inside story than anyone present, but his position is not the so-called morality, but the law of nature that the winner is king. There were no representatives of the Free Empire present here. If the Soviets were left to play on the issue, the conference was likely to produce an outcome that was extremely unfavorable to the Free Reich, and thus had a negative impact on the living conditions of the GDR. However, like the person who gets the killer card in a board game, jumping out to defend his companion is counterproductive. It was also not advisable to change the subject hastily, and Lynn calmly observed the situation and improvised according to the Soviets' back-up moves. …,

After reversing the initiative, Shvernik listed the Soviet Union's proposals: sign the Convention on the Comprehensive Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, strictly control existing nuclear facilities and proven uranium mines, and prevent nuclear weapons from causing serious damage to human society again. In order to prove that the Soviet Union had no intention of developing nuclear weapons, they were willing to admit international monitors to the Soviet Union after the signing of the convention and give them the privilege to inspect any facility at will; For countries that have not signed the Convention but possess nuclear weapons. Signatories to the Convention are to take joint military measures to compel them to renounce their nuclear weapons and to submit to the permanent supervision of monitors in the countries of the Convention.

According to the proposal put forward by the Soviet Union, once the Comprehensive Convention on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is signed, the Free Empire will be the target of the latter article, and the international community will then eliminate the nuclear threat of the Free Empire by military means. And whether the free empire renounces nuclear weapons or chooses to resist by force, it will fall into a very passive situation. Next. The heads of state spoke one by one, and their attitudes, for the most part, changed one hundred and eighty degrees, not only positively responding to the initiative of the USSR, but also proposing sanctions against the Free Reich unless they could give a reasonable explanation for the above evidence. For them, the evidence of acknowledging the Soviet Union is also an admission that a wrong war was waged back then, and although the heads of state at that time were all others, this was after all related to the image and prestige of the country......

While everyone was waiting for the United States and Britain to express their position, Lynn stood up: "Ladies and gentlemen, please insert a sentence below: the first to discover the fission phenomenon of uranium nuclei was a German scientist, and the first to conduct research on nuclear weapons was also a German scientist, and at present, the most active in the field of nuclear physics are still German scientists, as a representative of Germany, I have a supplement ......that is not yet very mature."

After everyone had focused their attention, Lynn paused for a moment and then said, "In our normal understanding, there are three central elements in the production of nuclear weapons: technology, equipment, and raw materials. The latter two factors are well managed by the Szvernik proposal, which, if implemented according to the standards envisaged, should be very effective in deterring the development of nuclear weapons, and I would like to say technology. The basic principles of nuclear weapons are very simple and can be found in papers and journals ten years ago, but going from theory to practice is a rather complex process, and all work can only be carried out under the guidance of high-level technical experts and sophisticated data. If we can bring together the best nuclear weapons experts in the world, on the one hand, we will cut off any technical support for private research on nuclear weapons, and on the other hand, their gathering will also be very conducive to the inspection of nuclear facilities. ”

Lynn's exposition was so simple that the heads of state apparently understood, and they were thinking separately, and few of them exchanged words. Lynn doesn't care about the leaders of the "soy sauce country", he cares about the giants who really determine the world's nuclear situation.

The President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Great Britain were not in a hurry to make a statement, and the President of the Soviet Union frowned and remained silent. Schumann spoke: "Mr. Horst's suggestion is indeed very meaningful, but after the catastrophe of the war, many well-known physicists have moved incognito for security reasons, and the scientists who have risen to the top ranks in recent years may be protected by the information of their own governments, how can these thorny problems be solved, and has Mr. President taken into account?" ”

"There are considerations, but the countermeasures are not very mature." Lynn replied with a pretentious gesture, "We can first identify the top scientists in the field of nuclear physics, and find the majority of them from the lists of professors in physical research institutions or universities in various countries, and believe that they are more or less involved in the research of nuclear weapons in various countries, and as long as they are placed in the international technical institutions under the Comprehensive Convention for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, so that they can truly understand the great significance of the prohibition of nuclear weapons to mankind, they will certainly be willing to provide some information that they know." At that time, the degree of research on nuclear weapons in a certain country will no longer be a secret that everyone guesses. ”

As she said this, Lynn glanced at the giants quietly. The secret of the Americans lies in how many nuclear weapons they possess and the research of new nuclear weapons beyond the atomic bomb, the secret of the British lies in their near-successful nuclear weapons program, and the secret of the Soviet Union lies in this, and these secrets are directly related to their national security and international status. As long as there are boundaries between countries, a total ban on nuclear weapons is almost an impossible goal, and a summit of countries aimed at a comprehensive convention for the prohibition of nuclear weapons is destined to be a political tool that can be used to weaken opponents, to fight dissidents, and simply to protect themselves.