Chapter 807: Lightning Strikes the Shipyard

The miniaturization of the atomic bomb made it possible for Mustache's idea to be realized, and in order to ensure the success of the attack, German scientists modified the remaining three atomic bombs to submarine-launched heavy torpedoes. Due to the incredible explosive power of the atomic bomb and the huge size of the harbor target, even if it deviates by one kilometer, the effectiveness of the attack will not be greatly affected, so there is no need to worry too much about accuracy.

As long as the submarine does not attack, it is difficult for the enemy to detect it during the voyage, especially the highly concealed teardrop-shaped submarine, even though the Allied anti-submarine forces in the Atlantic have become more powerful than at any previous time, two of the three German submarines equipped with nuclear torpedoes still arrived safely on the east coast of the United States

Although the mustache is crazy, he did not order to attack the civilian targets of the United States, in his eyes the four major ship-building bases of the United States are the most valuable targets, because the mustache knows very well that the reason why the United States can push back in such an unfavorable situation is because of their incomparable ship-building capabilities, and the United States can build a total of 7 giant docks of more than 50,000 tons of capital ships, distributed in the four naval shipyards, if two of them can be destroyed, the advantage of the United States' ship-building capabilities will be greatly reduced, The Axis powers could turn the tide.

However, the location of the four major naval shipyards in the United States is disgusting, and if a submarine launches a torpedo at a long distance, a large area of shallow water along the way will allow the torpedo to reach the bottom and detonate early, so the submarine can only risk getting close to the target and then fire the torpedo, which is no different from suicide in a way. But the officers and men of the German submarine forces were already known for their bravery. There is still no problem in selecting three submarines from them to carry out the mission of a suicide attack.

The Brooklyn Naval Shipyard in New York was the first to be attacked, although the enemy had to fire a torpedo in a hurry because it had been spotted early on, and as a result, the torpedo hit a shallow river bottom and detonated early, thus greatly reducing the lethal effect. But even so, the huge explosion force of no less than 20,000 tons still caused great damage to this important shipbuilding base of the United States, and even the inland buildings on the shore were damaged to varying degrees by the shock wave generated by the nuclear explosion, of which more than 25 square kilometers of buildings were seriously damaged, and even 200 kilometers away, the streets of the town could be seen shattered glass fragments

Documents later declassified by the US government showed. In this nuclear explosion. More than 10,000 U.S. military and civilians died on the spot, and if you add in the number of people who died in the following month, it would be close to 30,000, and the direct economic loss was more than $1 billion. Indirect economic losses are even more difficult to estimate (the U.S. government spent more than $500 billion over the next half-century to address the legacies of the bombing).

Although the casualties and economic losses are staggering. But for the United States, which is still fighting a world war. These costs are still affordable, but the severe damage to the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York has had a greater impact on the United States, according to some of the Navy's technical experts. It would take another year for the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York to fully repair the shipyard at the earliest, and even if the workers were desperately working despite the radiation damage they might have suffered, a half-built Midway-class aircraft carrier in the dockyard would have to be completed five or six months later than scheduled, and another ship with even more serious damage would take seven or eight months

Almost at the same time as the attack on the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York, the Navy Yard in Philadelphia, USA, was also attacked by German nuclear torpedoes, and this time the German nuclear torpedo luckily avoided the search of the American army, and drove to a fairly close position to fire the torpedo, so the damage caused by this nuclear torpedo was much greater than the first one, but because of this, the German submarine that had not been evacuated in the future by the nuclear explosion was also killed

But the sacrifice of the dozens of submarine officers and men paid off a satisfactory result for the mustache, and the Philadelphia Navy Yard was almost devastated, and experts estimated that it would take two or three years to fully restore production capacity before the attack, which is close to the time it would take to rebuild a new shipbuilding base. Naturally, many of the ships under construction in the shipyard have also been seriously damaged, and a considerable number of ships, including the two Midway-class giant aircraft carriers, have lost their value of repair and rebuild and have been terminated, which is undoubtedly a big bad news for the US Navy.

Moreover, the total number of deaths in this nuclear explosion exceeded 100,000, which is again far from comparable to the losses in New York. Speaking of which, thanks to the special operation that the prince carried out at the beginning, the psychological endurance of the American people was tempered, otherwise they who have always been in a peaceful environment suddenly encountered such a catastrophe, God knows what they would be frightened to do, in fact, even if they have undergone a training, these two nuclear explosions still caused unprecedented panic in the United States

After the United States and Germany detonated the atomic bomb one after another, China did not have to and could no longer continue to postpone the test of the first atomic bomb for the sake of maintaining a low profile, after all, some important data must be obtained after the atomic bomb was exploded, and if the overall development progress of nuclear weapons lags greatly behind in order to keep a low profile, it is "picking up the sesame seeds and losing the watermelon." "That's it. Therefore, in early July 1947, China's first atomic bomb was finally exploded, and the Xinhua News Agency also reversed its previous argument of desperately belittling the role of the atomic bomb and spoke highly of the great significance of China's successful development of the atomic bomb for maintaining world peace

The news that China successfully exploded its first atomic bomb shocked all the world powers, and unconsciously, the "sick man of East Asia" who was bullied at the beginning has developed into a world power that no one dares to despise. Of course, the premise is that the government must have the ability to organize and mobilize, which the Qing government, the Beiyang government, and the Nationalist government did not have, but it is the Red Party that is leading China now

Although the annual economic growth rate of 4.9% and the industrial growth rate of 6.2% were still faster than those of the world powers in the war, because the growth rate of the previous years was too exaggerated, it seemed that the economy of 1946 was very problematic in comparison, and some hidden opposition forces in China took the opportunity to attack the party and the government for "not understanding the economy", and even wantonly spread the "theory of China's collapse" (to be continued......