Chapter 723: The Era of Nuclear Peace (Medium)
March 12, 2786 (1945).
"Are you saying that the United States now has four atomic bombs available?" asked Wen Desi, looking at the documents in his hand.
Huo Jinsi said: "Yes, Mr. Wen, this is the result of our comprehensive consideration based on the situation of the US nuclear industry and the intelligence of other channels......
Since the deterioration of relations between China and the United States, the Zenith consortium has gradually been alienated from the upper class of the United States, which is not to say that the United States knows their bottom line, but this is a natural reaction, because their relationship with China is too close, and this relationship has forced other consortiums and governments to have more attention. Of course, this kind of sign is impossible to be too obvious, and they will definitely not be able to hide the projects in which the Zenith Consortium participates, but they will hide some top-secret information that the Zenith Star does not participate in, intentionally or unintentionally.
For example, in the Manhattan Project, the Zenith Consortium is also a participant, but it is not a core participant, so they are not clear about the specific number of atomic bombs. This requires analysis by domestic experts.
"What about other countries?"
"From the analysis of various signs, Germany should already have one, but there is no test explosion. The USSR and France were about the same, still accumulating nuclear materials, and Japan is now far behind. But they're all holding on, and the U.S. nuclear weapons information we've provided is very helpful to them......," Huo said.
"Mr. Wen, these countries should know that we have nuclear weapons......
"Hahaha......" Wen Deji smiled proudly: "It's good to know, if you know, you will know what attitude to use to face us." ”
If the great powers don't even know that China has nuclear weapons, they would be stupid. Whether it is the uranium mining for more than 30 years, the frequent earthquakes in the desert in the northwest in the twenties and thirties, and the construction of nuclear power plants in China, it shows that China is far ahead of them in terms of nuclear industry.
"Mr. Wen, in fact, we can stop them...... Huo Jinsi said.
Of course, if they all become the kind of failed states that can't even feed their own people, they won't be able to develop nuclear weapons. But what is the use of such failed states to us? They don't even have ...... value to become a market."
Wen Desi showed a hint of sarcasm and said with a smile: "Human wisdom cannot be erased, and when society develops to a certain extent, all kinds of weapons of mass destruction will appear. This is human nature, and it cannot be stopped. There's no need to stop it. The kind of person who doesn't want to take any risk is a typical loser mentality. We just need to keep the risk within what we can accept. ”
"Nuclear weapons, for us, are just a disease of scabies, far from being a big problem, but the value of their existence far outweighs the risk we take. So it has to exist! Its existence is of great significance. All we need is balance and guidance. Nuclear weapons are a kind of limiter, so they can save a lot of effort, lest if there is any problem, we China must take action, which is not good! They need to learn self-control, and nuclear weapons can strengthen their control, we are not nannies......" Wen Deji smiled.
In later generations, there are some people who are not very sober-minded and think that the world will live long without nuclear weapons. In fact, on the contrary, it is precisely with the possession of nuclear weapons in later generations that the world can truly embark on the path of peaceful development. As for restricting others from doing this kind of thing, the big hooligans have used it, but what is the result? Therefore, Wen Desi will not do that kind of useless work, and there is no need for that. Nuclear weapons are really useful when they are on the launch pad. There will be so many nuclear weapons in later generations, but how many people will actually die under nuclear weapons? Not as many people will die as many as chemical weapons, let alone conventional weapons.
The correct understanding of nuclear weapons is neither mythical nor dwarfing. It is just a weapon, and when human beings have developed to a certain extent, it will inevitably appear. You don't need to be like a great enemy, and you don't need to avoid a snake and scorpion.
Of course, Wen Deji doesn't care about them now, but he doesn't completely ignore them. What he has to do now is balance. The United States, the strongest, will not be fun if it is too far ahead in nuclear weapons. If a few more are smashed, Germany and Japan will definitely be frightened.
But this is not allowed! Don't be cowardly! Keep going!
He wouldn't agree with them doing this, so he had to give them a mouthful of milk.
This one is very simple, if a group of people fights, and only one person has a guy in his hand, then the others will definitely feel bottomless. But if everybody has a guy, then it's different. For example, among the current powers, which one does not have chemical weapons of more than tens of thousands of tons in their hands, but who do you think is cowardly? No, because everyone has them, and they are afraid of Mao!
But until now, no one has used chemical weapons. Why is that? It's very simple, I'm afraid of being equalized, because they were all used well during the First World War, so now everyone has to think about the consequences. You see, how restrained it is. So it's the same with nuclear weapons, now let them cool off, and when they find out that this thing is not fun, then they will know what attitude to use to deal with war.
So now is the time to strengthen Germany and Japan. In fact, given Japan's conditions and relations with China, they should have produced the atomic bomb before the United States, you know, Japan has a nuclear power plant exported by China, or an advanced gas-cooled fast reactor. Of course, such reactors cannot be used to make raw materials for nuclear weapons. However, Japan is absolutely no stranger to nuclear physics, but they have distorted the technology tree in several key processes. Well, there are also reasons for moving in previous years.
So this time the Germans ran ahead, in fact, Germany's attainments in nuclear physics are higher than those of the United States, and they are only inferior to China, and their research on nuclear weapons began in 1936, but the mustache didn't believe in this kind of thing, and just threw away a few dollars. In 1938, the mustache stumbled upon the discovery that China and some unknown forces were desperately searching the world for uranium mines, and he suddenly felt that something was wrong. So he ordered the intelligence services to investigate, and he also got an answer similar to Ghana's.
China is engaged in nuclear weapons! At least it is engaged in research in this area!
Reacting, the mustache first stopped the export of uranium ore from all the Allied countries and banned the sale to countries other than the Allied countries. And then the project department invested heavily, and that amount was simply unprecedented! So the progress of the atomic bomb in Germany began to accelerate.
On June 9, 1945, early warning satellites used to monitor Europe detected a German atomic bomb test on an island in the Norwegian Arctic Ocean. A stealth reconnaissance plane, equipped with an atmospheric collector, took off from Turkey and secretly flew to the location, collecting air on the way for analysis and confirming that it was a uranium bomb.
The nuclear club has a third member.
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On June 12, 1945, disaster finally struck. A squadron of B-20s took off from Lomé, Togo, and dropped the first combat atomic bomb in the history of mankind on Maradi, North Africa, under the cover of 300 new F-66 jets. At this time, this is really a place where the two sides of virtue fight very crazy. In order to break through, the United States used this place as a testing ground, and this class atomic bomb killed 20,000 German troops on the spot.
On June 24, as the assembled 200,000 German troops were preparing to pounce on the U.S. forces, the U.S. dropped a second atomic bomb on the border between Niger and Burkina Faso, killing more than 30,000 people. Germany immediately collapsed, and it was not until Niamey, 200 kilometers away, that it was able to hold its ground.
There is a justification for the use of atomic bombs by the United States in southern North Africa. Originally on the list of expected bombings, there was also Gibraltar, as well as cities in mainland Germany. However, these places are thousands of kilometers away from the US Air Force base, and these places are heavily guarded, and the United States has not tried it before, and it has been bombed so many times, and the result is all tears, even if a large number of fighter planes are sent to escort the escort, there is not necessarily a chance to break through the German jet interception, and if the carrier plane is shot down and the atomic bomb falls into the hands of Erdezi, it will be bad.
Of course, the penetration performance of missiles is better, but the current atomic bomb of the United States is still too large, weighing 4 tons, and cannot be stuffed into the missile at all, and can only be carried by heavy bombers.
Therefore, the United States chose to attack southern North Africa. It is less than four or five hundred kilometers from Lomé to Niger, and is completely under the combat radius of the newest American jet, the F-100. Well, it's the F-100, and this year the United States unified the numbers of the aircraft of the three armed forces in advance, and all fighters use the F prefix, the bombers use the B prefix, and the attack aircraft use the A prefix. This F-100 fighter is their latest product, the first supersonic fighter, the performance is good, but the legs are short, the combat radius is less than 600 km, and the drop fuel tank is less than 900 km.
The Nigerien front line is closer, there are enough troops to escort the convoy, and the success rate is very high. Moreover, this place is also a battlefield that is currently stalemate, which is also greatly conducive to launching an attack after the atomic bombardment and opening up the situation. So the United States chose to attack here, and sure enough, it succeeded in one fell swoop, and soon recovered Niamey, southwest of Niger. German rule over Niger was broken in less than half a year.
The U.S. atomic bomb was dropped on North Africa, and the mustache was also deeply threatened. This time, the United States was able to drop the atomic bomb on Niger, but no one can say for sure the next time it will be dropped there. Fortunately, the German atomic bomb has also been tested, and two of them have been rushed out, so that with a little capital, it will not be empty-handed.
The atomic bomb is not a steamed bun, it is not so easy to make. In the history of the original time and space, from mid-1943 to 1949, the United States only made 125 of the three used up in six and a half years (5 uranium bombs and 120 plutonium bombs), an average of less than 20 in a year, and from 1943 to 1947, less than 15 in three and a half years, because the nuclear materials were too difficult to produce. To accumulate plutonium, it is necessary to build a lot of reactors, which have been specially adjusted, and it takes a long time to have a lot of uranium fuel.
The original plutonium reactor in the United States produced no more than 20 kilograms of plutonium per year, which was only enough for 4 bombs. Later, after several years of research and improvement, coupled with the accumulation of a lot of uranium fuel, the United States established several high-power plutonium reactors in 1947, so that it only produced 200 kilograms of plutonium per year, about 40 bombs.
Although the United States has greatly increased its investment from the beginning, and the United Kingdom has participated, the progress is faster than that of the original time and space. However, because many of the factories that were violently attacked by German and Japanese missile submarines some time ago were their nuclear industry facilities, the loss of equipment, raw materials, and scientific research personnel was quite serious, and it would take time for these related factories to be relocated and rebuilt.
It should be mentioned that in fact, Germany and Japan do not know very well that those places are the participating units of the Manhattan Project in the United States, and they only saw through reconnaissance and espionage that these places are heavily guarded, and they must be key enterprises. "Although I don't know what it is, since the Yankees attach importance to it, then I must destroy it!" With this in mind, German and Japanese missiles are patronizing these "key enterprises". You know, their high-altitude photos and precise coordinates are all provided by China, which is very accurate, and the missile's guidance system, such as high-precision gyroscopes, is also purchased from China.
The German-Japanese missile hit rate was quite high, so it inflicted great losses on the United States. Although there was no impact on the time, the output was greatly affected, and many separators and uranium ore warehouses were blown up. Moreover, even plutonium raw materials need to be produced by burning enriched uranium. In the past 30 years or so, China has bought too much uranium ore that can be easily mined, and now how many uranium mines can be obtained by other countries? How many atomic bombs can be built? The United States itself has no bottom.
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After the United States planted two mushrooms, the whole world was shocked, this Nima is a big killer!
"Damn, has the United States really lost it?" Although he had long known that the Yankees would definitely use it, Wen Desi still couldn't help but vomit.
"Mr. Wen, they still have 1 ready-made, and the remaining raw materials are estimated to be able to make 6-8 ......pieces," Huo Jinsi said.
Before Wen Desi could speak, Gu Xiaolu hurriedly ran in: "Mr. Wen, the latest information, Germany used poison gas bombs against the US-British coalition forces on the North African front......"
"Damn!" Wen Deji couldn't help but roll his eyes.
The mustache is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and he was furious after being planted with two mushrooms, and he only had two in his hand now, which was a little reluctant. But he has a lot of chemical weapons! 200,000 tons of VX, tower #collapse, and so on, so it doesn't matter enough? Since the Yankees have opened the precept of using large-scale killing weapons, don't blame the mustache for being rude.
As a result, the Germans threw several hundred tons of poison gas bombs into the Yankees' barracks and the front line, killing more than 70,000 officers and men of the wing, as well as more than 100,000 local blackmailers.