Troika 383
When the German side took the initiative to propose to Stalin to jointly develop the atomic bomb, Stalin's face looked much better.
Lin Han continued to lobby in front of Stalin: "I know that for historical reasons, the comrades in the Soviet Union and Germany are now very worried about each other's war crisis. But with this thing, everyone also has the ability to destroy each other, and in that case, it will be safer for each other. To paraphrase our time, it was the nuclear bomb that made the world peaceful! ”
Germany's offer to build a nuclear bomb with the Soviet Union was entirely due to Linhan.
Hannah was supposed to use the nuclear bomb as the last trump card against the Soviet Union, but Lin Han's several questions convinced.
The first question is: how many nuclear bombs will Germany be able to build in three years, with its current industrial strength.
After asking the experts, Hannah gave the answer that it was one.
Lin Han and Hannah both tried to rely on their microscopic manipulation ability to extract the U235 needed to make an atomic bomb from uranium ore at the cost of consuming the power of faith.
And with industrial and technological capabilities to make an atomic bomb, even if it uses a plutonium bomb that consumes less electricity, the need for electricity is too much, and the consumption of copper is even more staggering. If this is done, German armaments will be severely affected for years to come.
The lethality of a Hiroshima-sized atomic bomb to a city is equivalent to a thousand-plane bombing. For the power of an army, even if you die, you can destroy the strength of a division. Deterrence is there, but it's more on the launch rack than punching out.
The second question asked by Lin Han was, is it possible that Germany is secretly developing the atomic bomb, and it will be completely secret and not let the outside world know?
The answer is no.
Building a nuclear bomb is a huge system project. Taking the Americans as an example, a full 100,000 people were mobilized and countless departments were involved, and this kind of thing is simply impossible to keep secret.
Germany is no different from the closed Soviet Union and China, once Germany starts to build an atomic bomb, the United States and the Soviet Union will know about it, and then it will only trigger a nuclear weapons research war between the three countries. Although it is said that Einstein has stayed in Germany because of the relationship between the time-travelers. But in the development of the atomic bomb by the United States, he only played a role in strengthening President Roosevelt's confidence. Even if both Roosevelt and Oppenheimer were dead, the United States would have lost a lot of nuclear experts because of the German assassination. But as long as the Americans want to build it, they can still find enough nuclear physicists to build an atomic bomb.
As for the Soviet Union, even with the interference of the Soviet-German war in history, the Soviet Union was also secretly conducting nuclear research, but the war caused them to stop the pace in this regard. But now in the case of Soviet-German peace, Germany entered into atomic development and manufacturing. The USSR will definitely get the news, and then it will follow closely behind.
In this way, competition will form between the Soviet Union and Germany, and the consequences of the competition will deepen the already strict distrust of each other.
The third question asked by Linhan was whether Germany was ready to fight a life-and-death war with the Soviet Union in five or ten years.
Hannah's mother and daughter's answer was: no.
The two of them now admit that as long as the Soviet-German war broke out, regardless of the outcome of the Third Reich, the final outcome of the Third Reich would be the end. Even if Germany defeated the USSR crushingly. Britain and the United States will never let go of the opportunity to stab in the back at this time.
Then the fourth question asked by Lin Han: since this is the case, then Germany was a year or two ahead of the Soviet Union. What's the point of building an atomic bomb even three or four years earlier? What's the use of putting it there just as an ornament if you don't rush to throw it away? As a result, conventional armaments are affected and a lot of resources are wasted.
Since the USSR joined the nuclear club was inevitable. So why not join forces with the Soviet Union and develop a nuclear bomb together. On the one hand, it can increase mutual trust between the two sides, second, it can greatly reduce the cost of development, and third, the Soviet Union can also provide a natural nuclear test site.
In the end, Hannah's mother and daughter were persuaded by Lin Han.
The reason why this topic was raised at the trilateral talks is that Germany is also ready to let China share nuclear technology.
According to Lin Han's theory. The two poles are more dangerous than the first pole, and the coexistence of the three poles is the most stable framework.
In the current socialist camp, there are only two Soviet and German hegemons in charge for the time being, and although China has infinite potential, it is still too weak to become the third pole for the time being.
China is strong, and the forcible seizure of more than a million square kilometers of land in the north and the forcible separation of Mongolia by the Soviet Union will be very tense. The threat posed by the Sino-German joint attack on the Soviet Union is far more than 100 times higher than the threat posed by the joint Japanese and German attacks on the Soviet Union in history.
You must know that Japan is only a maritime country with a population of 60 million, while China is a continental country with a population of 500 million.
It is now 1942, five years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and after five years of hard work, the Chinese side, with the help of Germany, has established a rudimentary industrial system. In terms of industrial strength, China is better today than it was in 1955. Historically, in 1955, New China fought the Korean War for three years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and its military expenditure was extremely large, which affected national construction.
In this plane, although New China also fought a world war, the war only lasted for one year, and after the war, it obtained a large area of land in northern Vietnam and northern Burma, and its national strength rose instead of falling.
At the same time, out of the need to contain the Soviet Union, the German side was extremely enthusiastic in helping China carry out industrialization, and it was not as "stingy" as the Soviet Union in history.
In 1942, New China was already able to start producing its own tractors, and the German side even sold the production line of the obsolete No. 3 tank to China, and sold the No. 4 tank, that is, the 30-ton Leopard tank design, to China. At present, China is not able to produce Leopard tanks for the time being due to its thin foundation, but at most in two years, it will be possible to solve the problem of localization of the 30-ton No. 4 Leopard tank (Note: Historically, China began to produce its own Type 59 tanks in 1959, and here in the book, the time for China to produce 30-ton Leopards is set in the seventh year after the founding of the People's Republic of China, which should be very reasonable).
At the current pace of development of the new China, after 1944, China, the third level of socialism, would grow to the point where Stalin felt very threatened.
At that time, the tripolar trend of the tripartite tripartite of China, the Soviet Union and Germany will be formally formed. At that time, even if Stalin went crazy and wanted to fight Germany, he would have to think about the Chinese threat that the Soviet Union would face on the Eastern Front.
So far, relations between China and Germany have been very friendly. The German side has developed a large number of personnel, equipment, and technology for New China, and a large number of international students study in Germany every year. Most of the 200,000 exiled German Communists, along with their families, were placed in China, which became an important source of skilled workers in China.
The intimacy between China and Germany had long been feared by Stalin.
Stalin wanted to win over China, but in order to win over China, he had to open up China in an all-round way like Germany, but when he thought of the more than one million square kilometers of land that was ceded by Mongolia and Tsarist Russia, Stalin had a headache.
In order to deepen Sino-Soviet ties, the Soviet Union has also opened up its students to China in the past few years, but in terms of sending students to the Soviet Union and helping China industrialize, the Soviets are not as free as Germany can do without any trouble.
In terms of wooing China, the Soviet Union had an inherent disadvantage.
Although there were many pro-Soviet figures in the new Chinese regime, after being intervened by Lin Han, a traverser, the pro-German forces on the CCP's side were equally strong, and with the passage of time, they continued to increase -- because a large number of international students went to Germany to study in Germany every year, and after these people returned, they basically became pro-Germans. However, the German side does not have so many "psychological shadows" on China as the Soviet Union, and the interests of the two sides are identical and complementary in many places.
Helping China industrialize can help Germany eliminate backward industries and carry out industrial upgrading, and at the same time further deepen Sino-German relations and earn huge profits.
Arming China and allowing China to nuclearize will only be the countries surrounding China, and it will only be Stalin. The threat from the east made the Soviet Union even more afraid to start a war.
At the time of the Beidaihe talks in 1942, in the red camp, the pattern of the Sino-Soviet-German troika had taken shape.
In early September, when the Philippine campaign ended, the talks between the three families also came to an end.
On the Japanese issue, the three reached a preliminary intention and decided to secretly join hands to support Japan in accordance with Lin Han's plan, squeeze out the money in the pockets of the Japanese through the military trade, intensify the contradictions in Japan through the war, and lay the groundwork for the future export of the red revolution to Japan.
With regard to the atomic bomb, Stalin also expressed his willingness to cooperate with Germany, but he had to return home to discuss specific matters with experts at home. Judging from the results of the Beidaihe talks, the prospects for the Soviet-German joint development of nuclear weapons are very good. In this process, China, which can only act as a spectator for the time being, also got a piece of the pie, and the German side "warmly" invited China to join, and with Chairman Li Runshi's eloquent strategy, of course, he also understood the significance of the nuclear bomb to New China, so he naturally joined ecstatically.
Although the Soviet Union and Germany began to jointly develop nuclear weapons, the Germans did not mention to Stalin the other trump card of the nuclear era, missiles.
During the Beidaihe Conference, the greedy Stalin also asked Germany to open aero engine technology to the Soviet Union, but he asked for high-altitude supercharged engine technology. Adolf didn't hide anything at this point, because she and Lin Han knew that the era of jet engines was coming soon, and piston engines would soon become obsolete. Adolf would have liked to see the Soviet "point wrong" tech tree focus too much on the development of piston aircraft. He agreed to Stalin's request, only to ask the Soviets for a large price in terms of technology sales. (To be continued......)
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