Chapter 166 Chain Reaction (Third update, please subscribe)
Is this a sense of security?
When Ada felt a long-lost sense of security because of a sandwich and a glass of milk, the same feeling emerged in Li Yian's heart in the warehouse at the port of Antwerp, Belgium.
A few hours ago, Li Yian and his men arrived at the warehouse where uranium is stored. This warehouse is located near the port of Twerp and is used by the task force to store seized ordnance materials.
Although this warehouse was idle most of the time due to cooperation issues with the British, it was always guarded, so as soon as the uranium was delivered ashore, it was pulled into this warehouse.
The reason why it was not transported to France by car or train was to avoid being noticed by the outside world, so Li Yian came here from Reims.
After entering the warehouse, a mountain of gray iron barrels appeared before our eyes.
Are they all here?
For a moment, the rotating pointer of the Geiger counter made Li Yian want to turn around and run away. After all, this was radiation.
However, this is not necessary at all. The iron barrel containing uranium is a special iron barrel, and the inner layer is wrapped with a layer of radiation-proof lead. Radiation levels are within acceptable limits.
1,100 tons of uranium!
It is stored in these thousands of iron barrels!
In order to obtain this batch of 1,100 tons of uranium, Li Yian and Berlin planned for half a month, and even dispatched an action team to the sea off the Netherlands to assist.
For what?
For the dream of atoms!
With this batch of uranium, the dream of Borneo’s nuclear weapons is not far away!
Staring at the iron barrel filled with uranium, Li Yian raised the corners of his mouth nearly seventy degrees and muttered to himself.
“I don’t know if that guy Heisenberg really made a miscalculation.”
Why this batch of uranium was used to make depleted uranium bullet armor cores was because the person in charge of the German atomic bomb program When Heisenberg calculated the critical mass required for an atomic bomb, he made a simple mistake, which led him to estimate that several tons of uranium were needed to trigger a chain reaction. In fact, only tens of kilograms were needed. His wrong calculation, This led to the stranding of Germany's atomic bomb program.
Heisenberg himself also issued a statement after World War II. The content is roughly that he can foresee the devastating disaster that the atomic bomb will bring to mankind, and is unwilling to open this "Pandora's Box".
Whether it's true or not, no one knows.
But one thing that is certain is that Germany’s uranium is no longer useful. It has even become a pile of waste because of the failure to manufacture depleted uranium bombs. This is why Berlin can transport uranium from Cologne to Amsterdam. .
"Okay, what you failed to create during World War II, we will definitely make it in the future, maybe with the help of your experts."
In After putting these iron barrels into the space, and before putting the last iron barrel with the eagle emblem of Sandoku into the space, Li Yian raised the corners of his mouth and couldn't help but imitate Sandoku, stretched out his right arm and said.
“Long live Hydra!”
Yes, I have to thank Hydra!
No, we should be grateful for the gifts of the Third Reich, including Hydra. That is also the legacy of the Third Reich. What does it have to do with Borneo!
When leaving the warehouse, Li Yian's face was filled with a faint smile.
Hydra’s first operation ended perfectly like this!
In the next few decades, Hydra will surely cause various disturbances around the world.
What kind of disturbance will they cause in this world?
Li Yi'an couldn't help but be full of expectations for that future. After all, he knew very well how colorful the post-war world was. In those turbulent decades, Hydra was destined to never stop. .
By then, Hydra will be the other side of Borneo, two sides of the same coin!
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“Disappeared!”
London, listening to the report of his subordinates, William Joseph Casey, the head of the London Intelligence Station of the Office of Strategic Services, said directly.
"Nothing in this world disappears for no reason. The Germans must have moved that batch of uranium. Maybe, they restarted the reactor plan..."
What Casey said The reactor is Germany's plan to use uranium nuclear reactions to generate electricity. However, because the heavy water plant in Norway was destroyed by the Allies, Germany has not had enough heavy water for further tests.
“This is very possible. I feel it is necessary to report to Washington. Although we do not know how important the uranium is, Washington has always asked us to pay attention to them. Now that the uranium is missing, Washington needs to know. All this."
The subordinate's report made Casey nodded and said.
"Yes, report it to Washington!"
Soon, a report about the unaccounted whereabouts of Germany's 1,100 tons of uranium was sent to Washington via secret cable. In the end, this seemingly inconspicuous intelligence was soon revealed. Sent to the case of Leslie Richard Groves, the head of the "Manhattan Project" cursed the moment he saw the information.
“Damn Nazis, they must have made great progress!”
So Groves immediately picked up the phone and called Oppenheimer. Groves asked Oppenheimer as soon as he entered the office hours later.
"Robert, is there any progress in our plan? I mean actual progress." "Since Wu joined, we have made some breakthroughs on key issues and are currently further improving the theoretical design. I There is reason to believe that we can conduct a test by April next year at the latest..."
As soon as Oppenheimer finished speaking, Groves said loudly.
"Damn it, New York would have been destroyed by the German atomic bomb by that time!"
"What kind of thing?"
The general's words made Oppenheimer confused. road.
"The German atomic bomb? According to the information we have previously obtained, they seem to have given up on research on atomic bombs and switched to research on atomic reactors that can generate electricity. General, is this a mistake?"
Graves The general raised the information in his hand and said.
“Intelligence lies, but materials do not. The whereabouts of the German uranium are unknown and disappeared in Cologne. A full 1,100 tons of uranium were high-grade New Kolobwe uranium ore. Why did they miss it? Disappeared for no reason? Robert."
The general's question made Oppenheimer slightly open his eyes and murmured:
"How could they surpass us? That doesn't seem reasonable, General, I think, I think..."
Graves said before he could finish.
"Okay, Robert, you have to speed up the research and development work. I want to rush to Washington immediately and remedy this matter as soon as possible. Damn the Germans, they must be ahead of us..."< br>
A few hours later, Graves flew to Washington and went directly into the President's Oval Office. After reporting to the President that the Germans might have invented the atomic bomb first, Graves said.
"Mr. President, I think it is time to implement the remediation plan."
Sitting in a wheelchair, Roosevelt was silent for a moment, and then said.
"Yes, I think so too. At the same time, I must tell Ike to immediately attack Germany without hesitation. After all, we can't afford to delay, by the way..."
Looking up at Graves, Roosevelt asked.
"General, are the Germans capable of sending an atomic bomb to the United States?"
"Mr. President, who knows?"
General Graves said.
"In the past few days, the Germans have been bombarding London with their V2 missiles. Maybe they have something more powerful, or even a bigger missile, that can fly directly from Germany to the United States. So, We must completely eliminate this threat before they use atomic bombs to destroy us.”
The reason why I say this is because during the war, the Germans could always create a lot for people to see. Yiliang's secret weapon.
Since we can create v1 missiles and v2 missiles, it is natural to create big ones that can launch farther.
If there is a big guy who can launch an atomic bomb into the United States, it will be all over. No matter what, this possibility must be completely eliminated.
“Okay, General, I agree with your judgment!”
Roosevelt nodded and said.
"Execute the plan! We must completely eliminate the threat!"
Soon, the Strategic Intelligence Service received a direct order from the White House, ordering them to implement the threat elimination plan ——A few years ago, they had planned a plan to assassinate German physicist Werner Heisenberg to prevent him from building an atomic bomb for the Nazis. After all, he was the most important leader of Germany's atomic weapons program.
Although the assassination operation may bring unimaginable losses to the scientific community, in the face of the threat, the United States still chose a simple and crude method-to directly eliminate the threat!
So the British intelligence agency immediately sent a raid team to penetrate into Germany to carry out the assassination mission. At the same time, Eisenhower of Verdun also ordered the US military to strengthen the offensive in order to break through the Siegfried Line as soon as possible, directly in the telegram Tell him to do it no matter the cost. Therefore, under the direct supervision of the White House, the Allied forces on the Western Front had to really fight for their lives.
A few days later, Werner Heisenberg was attacked by British agents on his way home from the laboratory and was shot several times and died.
At the same time, many physicists were also attacked, all of whom may be involved in the German atomic bomb development program. In order to eliminate threats, physical removal is undoubtedly the simplest and most effective way.
What was the German response to such an attack?
In Germany, which is in turmoil, not many senior officials care about the lives of those physicists. However, the assassination of Werner Heisenberg and more than a dozen scientists shocked the entire German scientific community, making them realize the true cruelty of war, and also created some fear of the allies.
The development of history is often so weird. A seemingly insignificant thing is likely to have various impacts...
(End of this chapter)