Chapter 747: Earth-shattering nuclear explosion (II)

The prince, who had no intention of living, scoffed at the threats and persuasions of the American military and police, but looked at the few scientists in the room who had become his prisoners with interest and asked, "What kind of subject are you studying?" ”

Dr. Sroda and his assistants, though wisely not rushing over to fight the two-pronged prince, gritted their teeth and did not answer. However, relying on the knowledge he learned from Hu Weidong at the beginning, the prince quickly came up with the correct answer himself, "You are all wearing protective clothing, which shows that the research is related to radioactivity, and what can make the US government spend such a lot of money, except for nuclear weapons?" So are these two pieces of metal uranium-235 or plutonium-239? ”

Dr. Sroda's eyes widened in surprise when he heard this, and after a moment he suddenly screamed, "Don't put those two pieces of plutonium together! ”

"Sure enough, it's plutonium-239, and if it's uranium-235, your protection is too bloated." The prince understood, but his hands pressed the two pieces of plutonium-239 on the experimental table more tightly, and the beautiful blue light overflowing from the surface of the uranium block made Dr. Sroda and his assistants pounce on the prince like crazy, but how could these scientific research people beat the king of soldiers, the prince only flew up a few kicks and kicked them all down, but at this time, his hands that pressed the plutonium block tightly had been completely scorched by the high temperature generated by the nuclear reaction

"Uncle, this is one thing I have done for the motherland, and I hope that the future China will never be bullied by foreign countries again, and there will never be another like me", in the unfinished muttering to himself. The prince's thin body turned into a dazzling rain of light

In a matter of seconds, the lab turned into a ball of light far brighter than the sun, and after the glare faded slightly, a huge mushroom cloud rose into the sky of the town, indicating the nature of the explosion

The first nuclear explosion in human history turned this previously unknown town into a terrifying purgatory, and the heat of more than 10 million degrees near the explosion center turned all matter into plasma, and Dr. Sroda and others evaporated directly from the world without even feeling the pain, only the vitrified sand and stone stubbornly remained, silently telling the terrible disaster to future generations

And a little farther away, the temperature is not as terrifying as near the explosion. But it is also enough to instantly char the human body. The most painful are those who are further afield. Under the intense heat radiation, their bodies were all severely burned, and their eyes were left with only two holes, but they could not die immediately, and often had to cry out in pain for tens of seconds, or even minutes, before they could be relieved.

A shockwave, much faster than the speed of sound, swept across the town like a super tornado. Caused almost all of the town's ground buildings to be destroyed. Only a few underground facilities survived. But because the collapse of the superstructure blocked the gap, the U.S. government focused first on secrecy rather than rescue, delaying time, and the vast majority of them were eventually trapped inside

Even those on the brink of the explosion did not escape. The penetrating radiation from the centre of the nuclear explosion has caused significant damage to their health, and most of them will soon lose their precious lives

In addition, the radioactive contamination left over from the nuclear explosion caused a secondary disaster that could not be ignored, and in the following two decades, countless people who worked and participated in post-disaster rescue and reconstruction died early due to leukemia and other diseases

Thanks to the fact that the combination is done manually, the amount of two pieces of plutonium-239 is not carefully designed, so the "combustion" in the explosion is very insufficient, and the vast majority of plutonium-239 was blown up before it had time to participate in the nuclear reaction, so that the nuclear explosion that could have reached a yield of more than 10,000 tons only blew up more than 1,000 tons of yield, otherwise the lethality is much greater.

Even so, the United States suffered huge losses because of this accidental nuclear explosion, of which the direct economic losses alone amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars, and the number of people who died on the spot was as high as 3,000, and more than 2,000 people died one after another within a month, and less than 100 of the town's 6,000 "residents" survived to 10 years later, and the number of US officers and soldiers who participated in the rescue and were injured by radiation and died prematurely cannot be counted. But more than 700 outstanding scientists were killed as a result, and many of them were the top masters of Shijie, which was the most painful for Roosevelt

Speaking of which, thanks to the concept of health preservation of traditional Chinese medicine, which spread to the West in advance, insisting on eating black fungus every day made Roosevelt's cerebral blood vessels more elastic and less prone to rupture than in history, otherwise under such a big blow, he would have died of a cerebral hemorrhage attack in advance, in that case, the consequences would be even more unimaginable.

Regardless, the U.S. Manhattan jihua has suffered a major setback, with the loss of personnel, experimental equipment, nuclear fuel, and some materials already considerable, and after the explosion, the national laboratory will inevitably have to find a new location and have to put in place stricter security measures. The delay in the development of nuclear weapons by the United States, at least a year, will not only greatly increase the likelihood that China will preemptively build an atomic bomb, but also allow the strategic balance between the allies and the Axis powers to be maintained for a longer time

And this incident and the previous turmoil about Japanese Americans has aroused an unprecedented huge hatred between the United States and Japan, and there is no room for compromise between the two governments, so they can only continue to fight until a country can not hold on and completely admit defeat, which is undoubtedly extremely beneficial to China, which is sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, but the prince who caused all this has been completely annihilated in the long river of history because no one knows, Hu Weidong, Kato Kiyogen and a few other people vaguely guessed that it was him, but for the sake of their respective national interests, But they all chose silence

After this incident, there were doubts about whether the United States would be able to build an atomic bomb before Germany, and Roosevelt's previous hope of relying on it to quickly end the war was even more impossible, and the United States had to pin its hopes of victory entirely on conventional warfare.

Although the Americans now hate Japan the most, the loss of sea supremacy in the Pacific has made the United States lose the ability to counterattack Japan, and it can only wait until a large number of new aircraft carriers are launched in 44 years and form combat effectiveness.

Before that, the United States had to concentrate on the British to resist Germany, but out of fear of the German Army and the lessons of the previous North African battlefield, Roosevelt did not rush to open a second theater of war, but chose to continue the strategic bombing that had already shown its power to weaken German industry to pave the way for a counteroffensive, but Roosevelt soon found that things were not as smooth as he imagined (to be continued......