In the U.S. intelligence service, an old man in a suit was anxiously explaining what they had in their hands to President Roosevelt, who had come to listen to the estimated report on the progress of German weapons research.

His assistant, a young officer, was playing slides showing some text-only records, some blurry photographs, and some signed government documents, some with the German eagle emblem.

"Intelligence shows that the Germans began to develop atomic weapons as early as 1927, and in the ensuing war, after they occupied Norway, they set up a heavy water refinery there," he said. ”

Another assistant flipped through the notebook and added: "Some special departments in Germany used to embezzle public funds to fund many scientists who we didn't know what they were called at the time. Albert Einstein, who was very famous at the time, was once a close friend of the current German Führer Arcardor Rudolf. ”

"This is the German City of Science that our spies filmed, not far from Berlin, but the security level is quite high. Some experts deduce that there are at least 5 floors underground, making it a sprawling complex. The Germans worked on all sorts of weapons and strange things here, and we have reason to believe that they were conducting atomic experiments here. "As if afraid that Roosevelt felt that the Germans had not invested enough in the development of weapons, they proved with various photographs that the Germans had a huge weapons research institute.

Another added some of their actions, proving with their failures that secret weapons experiments were indeed being carried out in several heavily fortified German locations: "We tried to raid one of their hidden laboratories in Munich, which was on top of a separate hill. It's a pity that the operation failed, and 19 of our hidden commandos were killed. But the defenses there are tighter than the Munich city hall building, and it must have something to do with German superweapons!"

"It has been reported that the Germans are working on an ultra-high-altitude ultra-long-range bomber at an altitude of 13,000 meters, with an all-metal fuselage, and is equipped with six large aircraft engines, which is enough to reach New York and other areas of our country! The intelligence department speculates that the Germans want to use this high-altitude bomber to carry a secret weapon to raid the east coast of our country. When the slides flipped to a photograph that was so blurry that it was impossible to see anything at all, the director of the intelligence bureau himself spoke up and explained that it was almost indistinguishable from a haphazard photograph.

"Gentlemen, what you have given me is either speculation, or photographs and documents that cannot be used as evidence at all. Roosevelt frowned and listened to these people for a long time, and finally questioned: "What am I going to use to argue with Congress? To say that the Germans may have a weapon to threaten us? Will they believe me?"

The head of the intelligence department could not help it, because very few of the spies they had deployed in Germany could enter the high-level German agencies, and the two organs of the SS and the Army Intelligence Bureau were impenetrable, and they killed most of the high-level spies deployed by Britain and the United States in Germany.

So he could only grit his teeth, hold a bunch of marginal information that could not be put on the table, and desperately advocate that the Germans are researching superweapons: "In the process of surveillance, some intelligence officers found that the Germans had transported a batch of containers from a unit with an iron cross logo painted with a golden gear in the center of a secret base. The containers were painted with strange symbols, and a triangular pattern was drawn in black on a bright yellow background. Our people have seen this symbol more than once, and most of them are suspected of having something to do with the German army's atomic weapons research. ”

Another assistant took out a list and began to read the names in front of Roosevelt: "The Hungarian physicists Szilard and Taylor, the German physicists Heisenberg, Einstein, and Otto Hahn, and even many of our physicists in the United States, have all been funded by the Germans, become German citizens, and have become the core talents of German weapons research." We don't even know the names of these people until now, who would have thought that the Germans would start investing in the talent pool in advance in 1927. ”

Just as Roosevelt was about to go into a frenzy, something that sounded a little like that finally appeared: "The Germans were equipping themselves with a new type of flying machine, and a swept wing aircraft was seen flying over a German aircraft test site codenamed XG-79." The sound of the engine was very loud, about the same as a shooting star of the British. ”

"The Luftwaffe is experimenting with a flying machine, very fast, yes, about the same as a long-nosed FW-190D fighter, and you can even hear a booming sound when you dive, it's definitely not an aircraft you've ever seen, absolutely not! This is a telegram from one of our spies, and that's what it was. "The content of the advanced German aircraft makes the US Army Aviation and the Naval Aviation very sensitive, and taking these things out will definitely get a large budget from Congress. Thinking of this, Roosevelt finally eased his emotions and controlled himself from the brink of an outburst.

"There is definite intelligence that various branches of the Luftwaffe are systematically strengthening the air defense of the homeland, they are building a radar air defense network, setting up a complete anti-aircraft artillery defense line, and setting up a peripheral air defense fighter interception network in the occupied areas. This is an instruction from their native air defense command, which we got at great expense from a French air force commander. The intelligence chief pointed to the slide and said to Roosevelt.

Another intelligence officer hastened to take the opportunity to bring the topic back to superweapons: "According to the intelligence provided by the spies, the Germans have been researching superweapons for a long time, so they also believe that the enemy country is researching the same weapons, so according to the Führer's instructions, they are hurrying to build an absolute defense system over the entire Reich." ”

The little dry goods that the American spies managed to get were put on the finale report at this time. The intelligence chief put a Luftwaffe weapon model nomenclature document in front of Roosevelt, and said: "The German homeland air defense forces are being replaced with a new Ta-152 fighter, this kind of aircraft is the long-nosed FW-190D fighter that we claim in our general report, this kind of aircraft is in fact the ultimate modification of the FW-190 fighter, and the performance is very terrifying. It was this advanced fighter that was piloted by the German ace pilot 'Black Tulip', who gave the Soviets a headache on the Eastern Front. ”

After Roosevelt picked up the document and read it for a while, he continued: "The P-51 fighter we are designing and developing is not as good as the Ta-152 fighter already in service with the German army in terms of overall performance, and the gap between the two is not small, which will make it difficult for us to gain air supremacy over the German army on the frontal battlefield." On the contrary, it was easier for the Germans to gain air supremacy and use it to attack our ground forces. ”

"The development of the P-51 fighter must be accelerated......" Roosevelt muttered softly while reading the document: "The Navy must also hurry, there must be new fighters in service, otherwise the United States will lose the war......"

"Mr. President, the problem is even more serious on the part of the Soviet Union, the Germans bombed Stalingrad, and it is not impossible for these German bombers to attack Moscow according to the range. Speaking beside Roosevelt, the intelligence chief said: "The Soviet Union has asked us for 4,000 fighter planes and 30 new radars. Now, in that case, I think we'll have to think about it before replying to them. ”

Roosevelt was stunned for a moment, then held his chin and thought carefully. As the secret weapon of the United States, radar has already played a very huge role in the Pacific theater, and the US fleet has stabilized its position by relying on electronic superiority. The victory in the Pacific Theater also allowed him, the president, to keep his position, and the United States was thus freed from the fate of defeat and surrender.

Nowadays, it is really reluctant to give this advanced technology to the Soviet Union for nothing. However, the situation of the Soviet Union is really not good, and once Germany begins to bomb Moscow and Leningrad and Stalingrad on a large scale, no one knows how long the Soviet Union can hold out in this war.

Roosevelt really wanted to meet the German Führer now, who had officially held power in Germany since around 1925, but it turned out that from around 1923, the Führer had established his authority in the German military, and German weapons never seemed to have failed from that time to the present.

Rifles, semi-automatic rifles, assault rifles, machine guns, motorcycles, automobiles, armored vehicles, tanks, fighters, bombers, attack aircraft, destroyers, cruisers, aircraft carriers, ...... Every German weapon seems to be ahead of the curve and proves to the world that this path is absolutely correct.

"Is there really a prophet in this world?" Roosevelt gritted his teeth and narrowed his eyes and asked in a low voice, then he recovered his expression, motioned to his intelligence chief to lean over, and ordered: "You, go and do this yourself, bring in all the trustworthy supernatural masters from all over the United States, and try it from this aspect, and see if you can guess what this German primordial is!"

Speaking of which, even he felt that this order was a bit too child's play, but he still did not retract the order, because he felt that if he could not explain it scientifically, then he had to try it in another way.

"Also. "Since you gave a ridiculous order, you don't care about one more. Roosevelt thought about the mysterious German superweapon development program, and finally felt that he should make preparations in advance: "I will find a way to raise some funds and find a way to start our American superweapon development program...... The name of the plan, the first name...... Let's call it "The Manhattan Project". ”