Chapter 1032 When the Sun Rises

The smooth, fast and comfortable Fokker 42 flew over the blue Mediterranean, passed the coastline of North Africa, and flew over the golden sand sea for about 2 hours before landing on the runway of a heavily guarded large airport near a small oasis in the Sahara Desert.

When the door of the plane opened, Hersman, who had already changed into a desert uniform, felt an unbearable heat wave rushing in. The Sahara Desert near the equator has plenty of sunlight, and the daytime temperature in June is usually around 35 degrees. For Hersman, who is accustomed to the cold climate, it feels like being in a furnace.

"Ludwig, I finally got you here!"

General Karl Haushofer, the head of the U Engineering Committee, who was also Chloe's early university teacher and Hersman's former boss, saw Hersman getting off the plane and hurriedly walked up to him.

"General," Hessmann shook hands with Haushofer and asked with a smile, "Are you ready?" He looked at the crowd that came to greet him again, but did not see Dr. Heisenberg, "Where is Dr. Heisenberg?"

"Final preparations are being made!" Haushofer replied with a smile, "Dr. Heisenberg is personally supervising the assembly of the device, and the test explosion will definitely be carried out as planned tomorrow morning."

The two Heisenberg devices were transported to the nuclear test base in the Oasis of Walgla in mid-May for various tests. However, there was no explosive in these two devices - that is, no weapons-grade plutonium-239 was placed.

Weapons-grade plutonium-239 is the most valuable strategic material in the hands of the German Wehrmacht. It is usually stored in a bunker in the Alps of Austria and guarded by a mountain division of the Wehrmacht.

In order to carry out today's test explosion, 40 kilograms of plutonium-239 with an abundance of 93% were loaded in four batches by Fokker 42 transport aircraft on May 28, 29, 30 and 31, and secretly delivered to the Oasis of Walgla.

According to theoretical calculations, this 40 kilograms of weapon-grade plutonium-239 is enough to make 4-6 atomic bombs with an equivalent of about 20,000 tons. However, the Heisenberg device is only a primary atomic bomb with limited technical level. It is impossible to load the critical value, otherwise it is very likely to fail to explode. Therefore, scientists from the U Engineering Committee adopted the method of adding more insurance factors, and 40 kilograms of weapon-grade plutonium-239 were added to the Heisenberg device used for test explosions. Today is the day to load 40 kilograms of weapon-grade plutonium-239 processed into a special shape into the Heisenberg device.

According to the charging standard of the Heisenberg device, Germany can have plutonium-239 for up to 3 atomic bombs in 1944 (including the Heisenberg device used for testing). According to the plan, by the end of 1945, the storage of weapon-grade plutonium-239 can be increased to 8 Heisenberg devices (including the test device). By 1946, because new, larger and more advanced production reactors were available, the storage of plutonium-239 would increase significantly, enough for Germany to produce about 30 atomic bombs. And by 1947... Germany's plutonium-239 would be able to assemble more than 60 atomic bombs!

In other words, by 1947 at the latest, Germany's atomic bombs would be enough to bomb an industrialized power with a land area of ​​hundreds of thousands of square kilometers into an agricultural country.

For safety reasons, the final assembly site of the Heisenberg device was not at the base of the Ouargla Oasis, but in a temporary assembly workshop near the Ouargla nuclear test site 20 kilometers away. When all the charges were put into the device, the Heisenberg device weighing 4 tons would be placed on a tens of meters high iron tower waiting to be detonated.

Around the iron tower, there is a town built according to real proportions and materials, as well as some trenches, bunkers and a small number of large weapons and equipment. These are all used to test the explosive power of the Heisenberg device.

Just when Hersman and others arrived by plane, several technical workers had already installed a giant bomb-like device that looked a bit fat under the supervision of Dr. Heisenberg and Dr. Hahn. This thing is the Heisenberg device, or the good thing called the atomic bomb.

Watching the Heisenberg device being hoisted onto the iron tower by a large crane, Dr. Heisenberg, the chief engineer of the U Engineering bomb project, exhaled lightly, turned his head and smiled at Dr. Hahn, the chief engineer of the U Engineering energy project.

"It's really big!" Heisenberg seemed a little uneasy, "I don't think they will really drop it on the Americans, right?"

"It should... not," Hahn was a little uncertain, "The Imperial Marshal promised that the atomic bomb is only used to deter the enemy and may be used in sparsely populated areas."

"I hope so," Heisenberg nodded, "It can be used to scare the Americans. I think those corrupt, decadent, and cowardly American Jewish capitalists are very timid. They will obediently hand over the money that originally belonged to the European people."

"Yes, they should hand it over!" When Hahn said this, he always felt that he and Heisenberg were not scientists, but two highway robbers.

However, according to the caliber of Marshal Hersmann's speech at the secret nuclear base in Schwarz, Austria more than a month ago, the atomic bomb is a tool for Europe to seize world financial domination.

"It's so big, it weighs several tons, right?"

"The data says it's 4.5 tons! It can be dropped by the Me264 bomber..."

"4.5 tons? How much uranium is in it?"

"At least 1-2 tons, right?"

At the same time, two Japanese devils, Oshima Hiroshi and Yokoi Tadao, who followed Hessmann to the Walgla Oasis, were standing by a Heisenberg device displayed in the exhibition hall and whispering.

General Haushofer had already told them the size and weight of the device in Japanese and allowed them to observe it closely. However, there was really not much to see from the outside. It was just the shell of an oval-shaped, oversized bomb with a tail.

What was inside the shell could only be guessed. The two Japanese took it for granted that a 4.5-ton bomb should have at least 1 ton of explosives. And they didn't know there was plutonium, and thought they saw a uranium bomb.

Both Germany and the United States have discovered plutonium, but neither country has made it public. Japan's own research in this area is also limited. It has not discovered the existence of plutonium, and naturally does not know that there is a relatively low-cost plutonium production reactor. Therefore, it is concluded that the United States, Germany and other countries cannot develop nuclear fission bombs in wartime. Historically, the Oak Grove Nuclear Plant in the United States (refining uranium-235) consumed more than 20 billion kWh of electricity per year. Japan's annual power generation in 1943 was only 37.7 billion kWh, and Germany's power generation in 1943 was only over 100 billion kWh. It is obviously impossible to supply more than 20 billion kWh to an isotope refining plant.

Moreover, no one can guarantee that a nuclear fission bomb can really be extremely powerful. But now the impossible has become possible! The only thing left is to verify the power of this nuclear fission bomb.

If it is really as big as the legend (the result calculated by scientists on paper), then... the world's pattern will change dramatically from now on.

The time for the "Heisenberg Device" test was selected at 6 pm on June 1, 1944, which was the hottest time in the Sahara Desert.

The test site is in the Oasis of Walgla, about 20 kilometers away from the test site. Engineers affiliated with the U Engineering Committee built a small reinforced concrete stand with a sunshade at the edge of the oasis.

Next to the concrete stand is a control room closely guarded by guards, where Dr. Heisenberg will personally press the button of the atomic bomb detonator. The current signal will be transmitted to the Heisenberg device placed on the steel tower through a 20-kilometer-long wire.

At 5:50 p.m. on June 1, Dr. Heisenberg announced to the people who were waiting in the stands with bated breath to watch the explosion that the device would detonate in 10 minutes!

The atmosphere on the scene suddenly became extremely tense, and all the Germans, including Hersmann himself, felt like they were almost out of breath.

Hersmann put on anti-burn glasses, stood on the stands, facing the direction of the atomic bomb explosion in the distance, and silently counted numbers. Starting from 1, counting to 600, it should be the time for the "artificial sun" to rise. And every time he counted a number, his heartbeat quickened.

Because the day of the European Community Leaders' Meeting will be held soon, the success or failure of today's experiment is directly related to the future of the European Community and the world!

I don't know if it was because Hirschman counted too fast, when he counted to 600, the flash did not appear, and there was silence all around.

Hirschman's brows were twisted into a ball, and his head and face were covered with beads of sweat. Just as an ominous premonition surged from the bottom of his heart, the dim desert in the distance was suddenly illuminated by a dazzling light that was many times stronger than the midday sun. It was a golden, crimson, purple, gray and blue light, indescribable and magnificent...

Hirschman didn't hear any sound except his own heartbeat. Just when he wondered if he was deaf, a violent air wave rushed over, and almost immediately followed by a strong, long-lasting and terrible roar, as if foreshadowing that the end of the world had come!

Everyone in the stands was stunned by the scene before them. Except for Hirschman, no one had even seen the footage of the atomic bomb explosion. Although scientists had already calculated the possible power of the atomic bomb, ranging from several thousand tons to tens of thousands of tons. But when these pale, seemingly meaningless numbers really turned into a huge fireball that was brighter than the sun, the people who witnessed it all had their minds completely frozen. They were shocked.

In the open space under the stands, Fermi, who had already acquired German citizenship, suddenly reacted when the shock wave came. He suddenly threw out a handful of paper, which was blown far away. He immediately measured the distance with his footsteps (this was his method of measuring the explosion equivalent), then ran to the stands and announced loudly: "The intensity of this explosion is equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT explosives. We succeeded!"