Chapter 14 Follow-up: National Responses
In the distance, steel ships rose and fell with the fluctuations of the waves, and occasionally the terrible howl of seeping people came into the ears, which made people shudder.
Nimitz made a cross on his chest, "Send them to the bottom of the sea!" β
Yamamoto sat weakly in front of the meter, blood spilling from his mouth and nose, which was a spontaneous hemorrhage caused by the depletion of platelets in his body that control bleeding.
With continued exposure to nuclear radiation, the number of red blood cells in his body began to decrease, and mild symptoms of anemia began to appear.
The exposed face turned red, and the fine blisters looked like a monster.
And the most deadly is the destruction of DNA in his body by nuclear radiation.
Finally, Yamamoto fainted after a burst of intense retching, and he closed his eyes before hearing the screech of a cannonball across the sky.
"It's over", with this weak and inaudible word, eternal darkness enveloped him.
'A shocking victory, an epic victory with fewer victories and more annihilation! βThe New York Times
The newspaper was smashed in the prime minister's face by an angry Heisei, "Rubbish! It's all rubbish! β
'Old decay is not the horse manure of the navy!' The prime minister knelt on his knees, wailing in his heart, but did not dare to show the slightest hint of complaint, lest he be pushed out by Emperor Heisei to appease the anger of the people.
The invincible main force of the navy was completely annihilated, and such a big loss could not be filled by a simple resignation, no matter who was selected as a scapegoat and pushed to the forefront, it was not only a life that was lost, but also a glory that could never be recovered, not to mention, 'The old man doesn't want to go to see Asumasu so early.' β
Thinking of this, the Prime Minister's body fell even lower.
The subsequent bad news came one after another, and the follow-up impact of the main force of the navy being completely annihilated continued to ferment, and the unscrupulous mixed formations of the US army attacked on all fronts, and the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and New Zealand Islands were in an emergency one after another.
The Bismarck, Solomon, Coral and Tasman seas are full of U.S. warships.
With the passage of time, the rest of the ships of the US Pacific Fleet also arrived one after another, further blockading the waters of Timor, Arafura, and the Great Australian Gulf, and other outlets, blocking the whole of Australia.
The defenders of the Shengyang Empire on the defense line of the archipelago in front were isolated.
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"The Rising Sun Empire is finished." Stalin received a boost from the intelligence from the United States, the main force of the Shengyang Empire's navy was lost, and the U.S. military, which held absolute sea supremacy, seized the strategic initiative in a flash.
"But this atomic bomb." Stalin looked at the information sent by the United States, and even though the description of the power of the atomic bomb was exaggerated, Stalin still recognized the threat of this super bomb.
At this time, the Soviet Union actually had its own nuclear laboratory, the second laboratory.
As in the case of Germany, Stalin also did not attach importance to the study of the atomic bomb before the US military used it in actual combat.
But as the mushroom cloud rose, Stalin began to order a resource tilt for this research.
It is a pity that the national strength of the Soviet Union at this time was not as strong as that of the United States, and the progress of the experiment has not been great.
It wasn't until several important pieces of information from the intelligence services prompted the experiment to open up.
The first news is: instead of uranium-235, an atomic bomb can be made from plutonium.
The second news: plutonium can be extracted directly from the natural uranium of the reactor.
The third piece of news is that not only heavy water, graphite can also be used as a neutron moderator.
Seeing the power of the atomic bomb at this time, Stalin had a thought in his mind: 'Can we use the power of the atomic bomb to defeat Germany?' β
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Just when Stalin fantasized about the Soviet capture of Berlin, Germany also received information about the heavy damage suffered by the Imperial Navy of Shengyang at about the same time.
While paying attention to the development of the follow-up war situation, the German army also focused on the super bomb that had already appeared twice.
"How's our superbomb?" After reading it, the mustachioed FΓΌhrer looked at his officials and asked, "How is it going now?" β
Since 1939, Germany has been working on military applications of atomic energy.
Germany occupies the world's largest uranium mine (Czechoslovakia), has the world's most powerful chemical industry, and has a large loss of intellectuals due to anti-Semitic policies, but still has a number of top scientists.
Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, the discoverers of the fission of atoms, were two German scientists who remained in Germany after the outbreak of the war.
Many German scientists, including Werner Karl Heisenberg, participated in Germany's atomic bomb program and became members of the 'Uranium Club', of which Werner Karl Heisenberg was the general director.
The problem is that in later work Heisenberg very incorrectly estimated the amount of engineering, and in order to maintain the chain reaction, there must be at least a minimum amount of uranium-235, a mass called a 'critical mass'.
Heisenberg later calculated that at least a few tons of uranium-235 would be needed to build an atomic bomb, and according to the Manhattan Project in the United States, only a few dozen kilograms were actually needed to support it.
Because of Heisenberg's authoritative conclusions, the German High Command, including the Mustachioed FΓΌhrer himself, had no hope for the atomic bomb program.
This happened until the U.S. military dropped its first atomic bomb in actual combat, and based on the information that came later, military experts deduced that the superbomb used a completely new substance, and some members of the 'uranium club' thought of the half-dead atomic bomb program.
Later, under the great attention of the Supreme Command, the German army organized scientists to recalculate, and then the "Norsk" plan was secretly launched.
However, the rebels, who had been operating in the German-ruled area, discovered the clues of the 'Olsk' plan.
"The heavy water we are refining at the Norsk Electric Plant in Norway has been destroyed many times by death squads of unknown origin, which has greatly affected the progress of related experiments." The official in charge of the 'Norsk' program was a little helpless when he talked about it.
There were too many uncleaned partisans in the vast German occupation area, and the Norsk Electric Plant was far away in Norway, and there were too many places to start along the way back.
Although Germany exchanged a large number of lost cultural relics for China's 'advanced technology', it invaded the British Isles in one fell swoop. However, the British fleet still retains considerable strength.
Sea transportation was too dangerous for Germany, which lacked sea supremacy.
"Land transport is not good, sea transport is not good, but what about air transport?" The Luftwaffe Field Marshal suddenly spoke, "The skies of Europe are firmly in our hands. β