Chapter six hundred and eighty-ninth more dazzling light than the sun
April is supposed to be a sunny April, but for this place where the weather seems to be the same all year round, it is no different. It is as hot as a steamer during the day and as cold as an ice cellar at night, with the same dripping water.
As precious as oil. This is Lop Nur, a place known as the restricted area of life. It is also the place where Su Tong believes that life can bloom again in China.
On this originally barren wasteland, there are countless densely packed tents and uneven buildings arranged from far to near. Countless soldiers wearing yellow desert anti-counterfeiting uniforms are constantly shuttling back and forth, including many wearing white coats.
A scholar-like person.
In an underground building buried more than ten meters underground, Zhang Zizhong was standing next to a middle-aged man about forty years old and wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses. His expression showed a hint of unnoticeable nervousness and nervousness.
Solemn.
The middle-aged man held his eyes on the bridge of his nose and said with a slightly excited tone: "Commander Zhang, just now the assembly room reported that the No. 1 bomb has been assembled and can be tested at any time. Our efforts have finally paid off.
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"Brother Bingqiong, this explosion test is related to our two years of hard work. It also places high hopes on the president. More importantly, it is related to the future of our country. We must not make any mistakes."
Zhang Zizhong was not as happy as the middle-aged man. Instead, he became a little worried on the side, "In the past two years, the country has invested as much as one billion gold yuan in coupons here alone. This is not a joke for us. Rugui
If anything goes wrong, we will be the sinners of the country."
Qian Bingqiong nodded: "I don't know what you are talking about, but you have to know that we are engaged in science and technology. There is no 100% success rate in science, but as long as there is such a possibility, it is worth our scientific research work.
We need to work hard, and we already have a complete theory and production steps. According to our calculations, the success rate of this explosion has reached more than 90%, which is already a pretty amazing success probability."
Zhang Zizhong said with some embarrassment: "Mr. Qian, you also know that I am a soldier and I don't know much about your high technology. Although I am the commander of this base in name, in fact I can only provide logistics for you."
There is nothing else I can do to help you with the security and protection work."
Qian Bingqiong said solemnly: "No, you have done a good job. For nearly seven hundred days and nights in the past two years, you have contributed a lot to us who are engaged in scientific research being able to devote ourselves to our work with such peace of mind. You can
It would have been impossible for us to do all this in just two years without your efforts."
Zhang Zizhong smiled, "Okay, let's not flatter each other here. Whether these two years of hard work have been in vain will be clear after tomorrow's test explosion. Now let's go to the equipment workshop together to see."
"Okay." Qian Bingqiong nodded happily and walked with Zhang Zizhong to another place underground.
There is a building complex more than 500 meters away from the ground bunker. This building complex is very large and covers an area of nearly 100,000 square meters. Two years ago, there were almost no tall trees in the entire base. There were low desert plants everywhere. On the road
There wasn't even time to lay the paving and oiling. The roadside was piled with construction materials, cranes, road rollers, and trucks drove by randomly. Everything was in a mess.
Today, two years later, this place has developed into a city with a population of more than 60,000. You will never find this city on the maps published by China. To the outside world, it is a place that does not exist. Here
This is the Lop Nur base. The entire city is isolated by barbed wire, patrol cars and patrol helicopters. For the residents living in the city, this base is their entire life.
Anyone who wants to enter this base must show a pass to the security forces on duty here. Only those holding a certificate jointly issued by the Ministry of National Defense and the Chinese Institute of Physics can enter, and all people who enter this base can only
There is only one principle in using your pseudonym, and that is "confidentiality". This is also the only principle in this city.
In a large workshop, Qian Xuesen, wearing a white coat, was having a heated discussion with a group of middle-aged technicians.
"No, calculations have proven that the first explosion method is too risky, and the explosion effect is extremely unstable. Obviously the second method is very good, why do you still want to use the first explosion method on the No. 2 bomb?
"What?" Qian Xuesen's voice was loud and urgent, and it could be seen that his mood was not very calm.
"But Professor Qian, since in theory both explosion methods can be successful, why don't we test them one by one? Even if the test is unsuccessful, we can accumulate valuable data." A younger technician retorted.
Qian Xuesen shook his head: "No, this is such a waste of time. We must know that our time is very precious. Don't you know the current situation of our country? Why should we use complicated and troublesome methods if we don't use such effective methods?"
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"Hey, the quarrel is so fierce. What are you discussing? Can you let me listen?" Just as they were quarreling fiercely, Zhang Zizhong and Qian Bingqiong walked in.
"Commander Zhang, Mr. Qian, you are here too. We are arguing about whether we should test both explosion methods." It seems that Zhang Zizhong and Qian Bingqiong came over, Qian Xuesen and the young scientific and technical personnel were a little embarrassed.
The quarrel stopped.
It turns out that Qian Xuesen and the others are discussing what method to use to detonate the No. 2 bomb in case tomorrow's No. 1 bomb test fails. Now after argument and from the information given by Su Tong, it is concluded that there are two explosion methods, which are relatively simple.
The method is to directly squeeze one piece of fissile material into another piece. This speed must be very fast. According to the calculation results, the explosion speed must reach one ten thousandth of a second, otherwise most of the fissile material will be destroyed before it can react.
A small-scale explosion will occur, wasting the rest of the charge. Another method is to direct the explosion direction of ordinary explosives to a certain mass of fissile material. The fissile material will be squeezed into a very dense state. Due to the fission material
The critical mass of is approximately proportional to the reciprocal of its conspiracy square. The greater the density, the smaller the critical mass. In this way, the fissile material in the subcritical state will be compressed to the critical state, thus triggering a chain reaction.
Each of these two methods has its own advantages. The first method looks simple and is very convenient to operate, but its biggest disadvantage is that it may waste a lot of energy during the explosion and is difficult to control. This method requires
It is extremely mature experience and skills. Later generations of nuclear bombs used this detonation method to miniaturize them. The second explosion method looks more troublesome than the first method on the surface, but its advantage is that it is not easy to waste.
Energy, this is also the method commonly used by early atomic bombs. What Qian Xuesen and the scientific and technical personnel were arguing about were the advantages and disadvantages of these two methods.
"Well, I think there is no point in arguing about this now. You must know that the most important thing we have now is to gain time. How to complete this nuclear test with quality and quantity within the specified time is our most urgent problem now.
As for the pros and cons of the two methods you mentioned just now, I can’t comment on them since I’m an outsider. But what I want to say is that if you have different opinions, we can leave them to be discussed later. This matter is related to the life and death of our country. Everyone.
You must be cautious and cautious." Zhang Zizhong, as the top leader of the base, made the decision, and everyone stopped arguing.
Although Zhang Zizhong criticized these young scientific researchers, he admired them in his heart. They were all outstanding professors and college students drawn from various mathematics departments in universities across the country. When these professors and students entered
After getting here, they lost their freedom and completely disappeared from the world of their relatives and friends. For a common ideal, they lived in isolation and conducted all kinds of boring research and experiments day and night.
, even so, none of them complained, because they all knew that this was an experiment that was closely related to the life and death of the country. From the bottom of his heart, Zhang Zizhong was full of respect for these scientific researchers.
Accompanied by technicians, Zhang Zizhong and Qian Bingqiong came to the core of the base, which is the nuclear explosion laboratory. This laboratory mainly conducts research and manufacture of high-energy implosion systems. This is apart from the plant for refining uranium 233 and extracting heavy water.
Outside, it is one of the most important laboratories within the base. The design and manufacture of bullet cores is the focus and difficulty of all work, and detonating them is even more difficult among the difficulties.
While testing his strength, Zhang Zizhong observed that dozens of explosive lenses were stacked around the center of the exploding core cup. The entire ball cup was like a football, which ensured a larger surface area. The entire center of the ball was placed on a platinum mesh, and inside
Each half of the explosion system has thirty-two longitudinal irregular differential explosion lenses. Looking at this spherical cup-shaped object, Zhang Zizhong knew that he did not understand what they were studying, and all he did for them was logistics.
and security work, Zhang Zizhong once said, "As long as it is beneficial to the project and they want a ladder that can climb to the moon, I will try my best to help them get it."
Looking at the achievements of countless scientific researchers over the past two years, Zhang Zizhong murmured: "The research has finally yielded results, and the president will definitely be very happy."
Listening to Zhang Zizhong's excited tone on the phone, half of the big stone in Su Tong's heart finally fell to the ground. The other half will have to wait until the detonation tomorrow to truly fall. For this "Yuoyue Project", it has been supported by mature theories from later generations.
Under such circumstances, the Chinese government mobilized the whole country and mobilized tens of thousands of scientific researchers across the country. It took two years to achieve today's results. With this in mind, Su Tong was concerned about the terrorists who were often reported on the Internet in later generations.
I feel scornful that I have successfully built my own nuclear bomb using the manufacturing technology circulated on the Internet. Looking at the development history of nuclear weapons in various countries in the world, that country has not gathered elites from various industries across the country to conduct research under the unified command of the country.
It can only be successfully developed through experiments and experiments. After all, human energy is limited. Even if terrorists hijack a small group of scientists to develop nuclear weapons for them, without the support of a country's huge manpower and material resources, if you want to successfully develop it, you will be possessed by God.
No way. Even if it is to build an aircraft carrier, it took China more than half a century to launch the first aircraft carrier, and it was a second-hand product, let alone a nuclear weapon more complex than an aircraft carrier.
For example, mining uranium and refining the heavy water necessary for making atomic bombs. In order to mine enough uranium, Su Tong had to order thousands of death row prisoners to be mobilized to dig in Siberia and across the country. Most of these people are no longer alive.
Historically, because the Americans did not have enough copper, in order to build enough electromagnetic separation devices to separate enough uranium, they had to mobilize a total of 80,000 tons of silver for emergency response. This shows that the atomic bomb is not a group or organization.
You can afford it on a whim. This can be seen from the fact that in later generations, only China, the United States, Britain, France, Russia and other countries are considered real nuclear countries. As for the nuclear weapons of India, Pakistan and other countries, they are only small.
It's just a child's plaything.
At four o'clock in the morning on April 20, 1942, the core globe of the atomic bomb was installed. All components including the explosion prism, castings, neutron reflector, uranium core, ignition device and electronic accessories were already under the command of engineers.
It was transported to the test explosion site two hundred kilometers away from the base.
The chief engineer of the project, Qian Bingqiong, and the base commander, Zhang Zizhong, came to the site in person. The engineers at the test explosion site had already installed a tall iron tower more than 100 meters high, where the world's first atomic bomb was about to be placed. Around the iron tower
In the endless wilderness, with the iron tower as the center, various experimental objects are placed at different distances around. Cows, sheep, horses, donkeys, pigs, dogs, chickens, ducks, monkeys, orangutans, etc., they
Eating quietly in an iron cage.
In the reinforced concrete structures on the ground, the staff also installed various detection instruments and photography facilities in preparation for collecting various scientific data. There are also models of aircraft, cannons, tanks, large warships, etc. parked in the wilderness. All of this is in the past.
It was built with the hard work of the engineering troops in two years, but they didn't know that the ultimate purpose of everything they worked hard to build in two years was to destroy
In the underground bunker, Zhang Zizhong had never felt that the phone in his hand was so heavy. He breathed heavily and said softly to the phone: "President, the goods have arrived at the site and are ready."
"Then let's get started." A light but breathy voice also came from the phone.
"Yes" Zhang Zizhong put down the phone, turned to Qian Bingqiong beside him and said: "Start the installation."
"Start installing and lifting" Qian Bingqiong loudly ordered the staff around him.
Following the order, the tower was speechless. The huge mushroom cloud on the screen, the weapons and equipment that were destroyed and twisted into scrap metal, the aluminum skin of the aircraft in the close-up melted instantly, and the desert around the explosion was
The huge pressure stamped the terrain like a saucer, and the sand within a radius of hundreds of meters melted and formed a layer of emerald-green hard glassy objects like jade, etc. The sights all shocked their hearts.
Bai Chongxi asked with a dull look: "Jianming, do we need to fight now that we have this thing? Who can stand it if it continues to grow?"
Su Tong smiled mysteriously, "No, on the contrary, our real war has just begun."