North Baghdad, Harris.

A mysterious convoy, taking advantage of the darkness of the night, set off from Baghdad and came to Harris, this convoy looked very ordinary from the outside, like the private convoy of a wealthy family in Baghdad, no one noticed that when this convoy was moving, the surrounding roads were already protected by armed men in civilian clothes.

Because this base is very secretive, in order to avoid being discovered, every time I go there, it is done at night.

This is the first time in Zhang Feng's memory that he traveled with his father Saddam, and he sat in the same car with his father.

In the impression of later generations, Saddam Hussein, who was propagandized as a brutal ruler and a scholar, at this time, was more manifested as a loving father.

And now, he's in high spirits.

The convoy drove into Harris, and the armed personnel suddenly increased, all of them were well-equipped Republican Guards, guarding outside, the most loyal troops in Iraq, and even at the intersection, Zhang Feng even saw a T-72 tank.

Here, there is a huge base underground, which Iraq spent a year building on the original base.

The convoy went underground through a special entrance. The driver who drove just now had already been replaced by a person from the base, and most of the people brought in were left outside, and only Zhang Feng, Saddam, Adnan and several of Saddam's closest bodyguards entered the interior.

It's top secret! Zhang Feng knew that the reason why this place could exist was to be hidden, otherwise, no matter how tightly defended it was, it would be hit by bombs dropped from the sky.

Once inside, I saw that there were already people waiting there.

Zia-Jaafar had just received the news ten minutes earlier that His Excellency the President was coming to inspect the place, and then the motorcade arrived, and he hurried out of the workshop, still wearing a white coat.

"Greetings, Your Excellency." Zia saw President Saddam Hussein coming out of the car and said.

"It's hard work, I heard we're finally going to start work here, so let's take a look." Saddam said.

Then, Zhang Feng got out of the car, and in front of him was a middle-aged Arab man with a scruffy beard but good spirits, whose face was a little pale because he had not been exposed to the sun for a long time.

"This is Lord Qusay, right? Your last heroic act saved our whole plan, you are great! You are the pride of His Excellency the President. Zia said.

"He's our head here, Zia Jaafar." Adnan got out of the other car and walked over to Zhang Feng and said.

"Mr. Zia, you have worked hard. The future of Iraq will be stronger in your hands. Zhang Feng said.

"Allah willing, we are all working hard for the strength of our Iraq." Zia said: "We have prepared a report to His Excellency the President, and after a visit here, Hamza will give you a specific briefing." ”

These people are the elite of the Iraqi state! Zhang Feng then remembered that in later generations, Zia was the most famous figure, and he was known as the father of Iraq's nuclear bomb, which was like China's Deng Jiaxian.

"Do we still have the French here?" Zhang Feng asked.

"Originally, we had many French people at the Oshirak nuclear reactor, but the nuclear reactor was destroyed, and most of the French engineers had already returned home, leaving only a few people who were left behind by us with high salaries, and the condition was that they could not leave Iraq within ten years." Zia explained.

Sure enough, Zhang Feng thought.

"A lot of the equipment here is made by us." Zia said as he walked, and the first thing that came was a large row of identical devices one after the other.

When Zhang Feng saw it, he was completely stunned, these things, he knew, were called centrifuges!

If you want to produce nuclear weapons, a very important step is to enrich nuclear materials, nuclear reactors only need nuclear fuel with a concentration of 3 percent, but if you want to make nuclear materials that can be used in weapons, then the concentration must be at least 90 percent!

Enrichment of nuclear fuel is one of the most complex things, and so far only a few countries in the world have mastered this technology. Among several techniques, centrifugation is the most common, whereby gaseous uranium molecules are passed through a machine that spins at high speed (i.e., a centrifugal separator), and the different weights of the uranium isotopes cause their separation, with the heavier U-238 being thrown out of the centrifuge and the lighter U-235 remaining. It is concentrated repeatedly until the specified concentration is reached. (Kind of like a washing machine spin bucket).

"Zia, are all of our own equipment?" Zhang Feng couldn't believe it.

"Not exactly." Zia glanced at the president, who was also listening to him, and then said: "We have imported enough raw materials and components from France to produce 1,000 centrifuges. There are mainly special aluminum alloy pressed products for the manufacture of aluminum alloy vacuum chambers, ferrite magnets and other components on the stator of centrifuge engines, and special tools required for the installation of stator parts. ”

France is a friendly country, as long as you have money, you can buy anything, although it is impossible to buy finished centrifuges, but those loose parts, for various reasons, are finally transported here.

The most critical part of the centrifuge, the bearing that bears the huge speed, was also purchased from abroad.

So, to say that it is produced by itself, and it is just assembled, even then it infiltrates a lot of the efforts of the main person responsible for enriching uranium, another famous Iraqi nuclear physicist, Mahdi al-Obeidi, who has worked for several years at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States and has gained a lot of experience.

"The equipment is still being commissioned, but it will be ready for construction soon." Zia said.

"That is, after the start of construction, we will be able to build nuclear weapons?" Saddam Hussein was very interested in this.

"I'm sorry, but we estimate that it will take a year to produce enough raw materials for a nuclear weapon." Zia said.

Even if all these centrifuges were to be activated, it would take a long time to do so, which is harder than sifting gold out of river sand.

A year after hearing that it would take a year, although it was unexpected, President Saddam Hussein was still very happy, and the mastery of nuclear weapons meant that Iraq had a sharp weapon of the country!

I walked a long way before I came to the nuclear reactor that had been moved.

"This nuclear reactor, which has been successfully operated, not only provides all the energy for our base, but also produces the plutonium we need." Zia said.

The nuclear experts hired from France with high salaries are mainly responsible for the normal operation of this nuclear reactor.

It took two full hours to go around this huge base, but everyone's faces were filled with joy, because here, there is a strong backing of Iraq!

When it comes to the role of nuclear weapons, it is not the use of such weapons of mass destruction, and it is the sorrow of the whole earth to use them, but only with this kind of weapon, speaking in the whole world, will we have the confidence to stand up and stand up in the face of the nuclear deterrence of other countries. This kind of thing is used for deterrence!

Nuclear weapons are the sword of the country!

Zhang Feng is also very excited, because now he is an authentic Iraqi, for the sake of his own nation, this is a completely correct choice!

At the end of the tour, they went to a conference room at the base and listened to the report of Haidar Hamza, who was the head of the physics department of the research center of the Iraqi Ministry of Nuclear Energy since the seventies, and after President Saddam Hussein came to power, the nuclear program finally began to accelerate.

Hamza lifted the frame of his black glasses and said: "Our base has completed the commissioning of all the equipment, and the centrifuge has been successfully equipped, and we will produce enough nuclear materials for a nuclear weapon within a year." ”

Then, the lights dimmed, the projector turned on, and a model of a nuclear weapon appeared on the screen, and Hamza said: "Our neutrons bombard uranium-235 or plutonium-239 to make its nuclei crack to produce energy, and the main components are these two uranium blocks." …”

"Is that a year from now, when we can have our first nuclear weapon?" Saddam asked.

"I'm sorry that we have made nuclear material, we still need to do all the preparations, it will take at least a year to complete the whole project, and we don't have the necessary mainframe computers to do the simulation." Hamza said.

Mainframe computers? When Zhang Feng heard this, his C3I system, which had not yet been installed imported from France, also lacked a mainframe computer.

Large-scale computers belong to cutting-edge technology, and Western countries have strict regulations in this regard, so Zia did not introduce them with great effort.

"Perhaps, we can look at it from the Soviet Union." Adnan said.

USSR? Zhang Feng instinctively wanted to shake his head, in his impression, the electronic level of the Soviet Union was too poor.

It wasn't until he arrived in the Soviet Union that Zhang Feng realized that he had made a mistake this time, and the Soviet mainframe computer was not bad at all.

"Yes, we will solve this problem as soon as possible." Saddam said.

Hamza was very happy to hear the president's decision, and then said: "If we had a large-scale computer, we could complete all the deductions and simulations in about half a year, and our first nuclear weapon, with a yield of 20,000 tons, would be enough to destroy a large city." ”

A year and a half! Zhang Feng also had joy from the bottom of his heart, if there was such a weapon, then, the disasters suffered by the Iraqi people in the future would probably no longer exist, and he had completely rewritten history since he came here!

Iraq will definitely become a Middle Eastern power! Zhang Feng clenched his fists.

(To be continued)