Chapter 305 Little Girl
Calm returned to the plane. After the episode just now, the leaders of the United Kingdom and the United States have temporarily ended their exchanges. After all, political games are not just a few words from the leaders, but require cooperation from both sides. Think tanks make decisions together.
There was about an hour before arriving in Crimea. President Roosevelt had physical reasons, so the medical staff accompanying him had to check him again.
The entourage is taking this opportunity to make final preparations.
At this time, He Chi was placed at the very end of the cabin, with more than a dozen US Secret Service bodyguards' seats surrounding him, forming a vague encirclement.
What's interesting is that several people are obviously watching, but they don't dare to reveal it too much. Most of the bodyguards grab a newspaper and start playing with it. Occasionally, they glance back at the Oriental and then immediately turn away.
The sight of a dozen people reading the newspaper together was actually very funny, but He Chi had no intention of thinking about them.
[Acquired core information about the United States, 1/3 of the overall mission progress completed] [Contacted information fragments, fragments are incomplete, overall progress 41.22%] The system's voice reminded him.
He was sketching on a piece of paper with a sketch pen, "testing site...target...progress...possible performance...skinny...little girl"
Several unrelated words appeared On paper, He Chi had to give up in the end.
He only glanced at the piece of paper, leaving so little information that even using [Christine's sketch pen] could not completely restore it.
But thinking of Marshall's expression at that time, He Chi was 90% sure that the document mentioned the issue of the atomic bomb, but the specific progress could not be accurately confirmed.
And there was a word in it that interested He Chi even more.
"Little Girl"
In his memory, there were three recorded atomic bombs detonated during World War II, in order: "Skinny Man", "Fat Man" and "Little Boy"
Among them, the thin boy was a test bomb and was exploded in New Mexico. The fat boy and the little boy were awarded to Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively.
But what is a little girl? !
Brother and sister models for little boys? !
He recalled an unconfirmed piece of unconfirmed history when he was in school: It was speculated that there were originally three atomic bombs that bombed Japan, but only two of them exploded. In addition, there was an unexploded one that disappeared inexplicably. bomb.
The person who raised the doubt has his basis, and there is more than one.
First of all, let’s look at the names: Fat Man and Thin Man are obviously a pair of code names, and the little boy’s naming also clearly has the symbolic feel of a pair of names.
So the third missing one is probably the little girl.
Second, according to the memoirs of retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General Groves, there were originally four planned cities for the atomic bombing of Japan: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Kokura and Niigata.
Preparing four bombing points for two bombs seems a bit too much. Normally, three bombing points and one reserve bombing point are a reasonable configuration.
The third is not an inference, but a textual material.
The report "Air Defense Report on Nagasaki, Japan" states: "At 10:50 today, two B-29s headed north from the direction of Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture, and invaded the sky above Nagasaki City via the sky above Orange Bay in the western part of the Shimabara Peninsula. They dropped at 11:2 There are 2 new bombs with parachutes attached.”
This document was obtained by the Allies after World War II, and under the interpretation of interested people, it became evidence of the existence of a third atomic bomb. Of course, some people later explained this situation because the clouds were very thick that day and there were errors in the observations. The observers might even have made a mistake because they were nervous at the time. It was not that the US military actually dropped two bombs.
However, many people believe that there is indeed such a "little girl" or something else that fell in Japan and was acquired by an unknown third party.
Some people speculate that it is the Soviet Union, because according to the American Manhattan researcher who speculated on the progress of Soviet nuclear weapons, it was estimated that it would take at least 20 years for the other side to copy the Little Boy, but it actually only took the Soviets 8 years.
He Chi felt as if he had touched a piece of historical truth.
Just when he was about to further analyze the current situation, there were noisy sounds from the surroundings. It turned out that the plane had begun to slowly descend.
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The Air King lowered its altitude and was aiming for the runway to land.
Vyacheslav Molotov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, wore a dark military jacket and stood upright in the cold wind.
He straightened his clothes, checked the honor guard for the last time, then walked slowly to a high-end bridge car and knocked politely on the window.
“Comrade Beria, Roosevelt and Churchill are about to get off the plane, will you go with me?”
Is Molotov, the First Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee, so polite? reason.
Beria was personally responsible for the entire security work of the Yalta Conference. Stalin gave him great power in order to achieve "absolute security."
It is said that in order to complete the renovation of the palace used for the Yalta Conference as soon as possible, Beria not only recruited 1,500 trains of supplies, but also mobilized almost all nearby workers.
But the manpower gap was still tight, so he simply mobilized the Red Army's engineering troops, and finally even Romanian prisoners of war were sent to the construction site.
All residents within a radius of five kilometers were forcibly relocated. 74,000 residents underwent identity checks, and 825 of them were arrested on charges of being suspicious.
Beria made such a fuss that there was no response from Moscow. This shows that Stalin's trust in him has reached an unprecedented level at this time.
According to internal information, the country is about to establish an Action Bureau of the People's Committee of the Soviet Union, and Beria is the scheduled first chairman.
At the same time, Beria also serves as the vice chairman of the National Defense Commission and is directly leading the development of top-secret nuclear fission weapons.
With dual power in one body, no one wants to offend him at this time, even Marshal Zhukov has to stay away.
"Comrade Molotov, I won't go there. According to Comrade Stalin's wishes, we don't need to make the reception too grand." Beria said arrogantly, as if Roosevelt and Churchill It has no weight in his eyes.
He tightened his coat and leaned against the back of the car, staring outside like a wolf with his deep eyes.
Molotov looked at the people in the car and sighed helplessly. No matter what the relationship between the two parties was, it was very rude to ignore the head of another country in diplomacy.
But he had no choice but to lead the other attendants to the exit of the plane alone.
Beria still stayed in his car until his hand was held by Roosevelt, who got off the plane first.
While he was embarrassed, British Prime Minister Churchill and his entourage also began to get off the plane.
For some reason, Beria, who was still there before, suddenly got out of the car, stood up and looked here.
That expression seems...well, a little nervous?
(End of this chapter)