Easy Tycoon

Chapter 824 Skinny Pumpkin and Miss Qiu
Under the leadership of Captain Ivan, Yang Jing and his group walked up to the mound at the edge of the big pit. Because the big pit was blown out abruptly, its shape is very round, and the mound at the edge of the pit is not short. .

Originally, this big pit should be dry, but with the continuous infiltration of groundwater, this big pit has become a lake like what it is now.It's just that the water in this lake is that kind of dark dark green, which looks a bit creepy.

"At the Potsdam Conference that year, U.S. President Truman threatened Stalin with an atomic bomb. After the Potsdam Conference ended, the Americans dropped two mushroom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. The power of this weapon made people at that time The Soviet Union became extremely anxious and stepped up its nuclear weapons development process. The People's Committee of the Soviet Union established the First Special Committee to be responsible for the development of nuclear weapons, and Beria served as the chairman of the First Special Committee. Stalin stipulated that the mushroom bomb explosion should be completed within five years And actual combat. Kurchatov, an academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, became the chief person in charge of the mushroom bomb project code-named "First Lightning."

Standing on the edge of the crater, Captain Ivan began to tell what he knew that outsiders rarely knew.

"But how difficult is it to develop mushroom bombs? The United States began to develop mushroom bombs at the end of 1938. After the German scientists Hahn and Stramann bombarded uranium with neutrons to cause fission, the British, French, American and German scientists who fled to the United States spent seven years. It took time to complete the Manhattan Project. At that time, the United States mobilized 50 people and spent 23 billion U.S. dollars. At that time, this was an astronomical figure that was unattainable. The whole universe...'"

Yang Jing smiled and nodded. Chris and the others also knew this period of history. The world's first mushroom bomb was developed in their country, so they were honored to hear this period.

Captain Ivan turned around, looked at Yang Jing and the others and said, "But do you know how long it took us Soviets to develop mushroom bombs and successfully test the first mushroom bomb?"

Ivan didn't wait for Yang Jing and the others to answer, but stretched out a slap and said: "Five years! It took us only five years for the Soviets to successfully test the first mushroom bomb. And we spent far more far less than Americans."

As soon as these words came out, the smiles on Chris's faces just now disappeared.Because this is a fact, and the Soviets not only spent five years developing mushroom bombs, but also the first to develop a more terrifying hydrogen bomb, and they have the most nuclear warheads in the world. The red terror is in the Soviet Union The disintegration has always been a lingering cloud in the Western world.

Bruce couldn't help retorting: "That's because your spies are too powerful, and there are some traitors in the United States. If it weren't for those people, the Soviets would not have developed their mushroom bombs so quickly."

Bruce's words not only did not make Captain Ivan, who is in his 60s, angry, but he nodded with a smile, which was regarded as acknowledgment of Clark's identification.

"Bruce, everyone knows this kind of thing, but no matter what method we Soviets use to obtain the technology developed by mushroom bombs, in our minds, those who made contributions to this matter are our Soviets. hero."

After a pause, Ivan continued: "Actually, when we Soviets were developing mushroom bombs, some Soviet agents who defected to the United States once mentioned this matter to the Americans and gave a lot of clues, but unfortunately The thing is, your U.S. government didn’t care about this matter. At the end of 1945, Igor Guzenko, the interpreter of the Soviet embassy in Canada, betrayed and gave the Canadian government clues about multiple nuclear spies hidden by the Soviet Union in the West. At that time, Guzenko’s confession did not receive special attention. It was not until after the Soviet Union’s successful nuclear test that Britain and the United States began to re-investigate Guzenko’s confession.”

"Klaus Fox, a German-born British engineer at the time, was considered an important figure in providing nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union. Fox spent his childhood in Germany and entered the UK as a refugee. After obtaining a Ph.D. in physics, Fox had the opportunity to enter the The Los Alamos laboratory came into contact with the nuclear development project of the United States. During the interrogation, Fox believed that he was not betraying state secrets, but out of the morality of a human society."

"Also under the implication of the Fox case, a large number of left-wing intellectuals in the United States were censored at that time, among which the Rosenbergs were the most famous. On July 1950, 7, her husband Julius Rosenberg was arrested. On August 17, His wife Ethel was arrested. During the interrogation, both husband and wife denied that they had provided intelligence to the Soviet Union. People from all walks of life paid close attention to the case, and even Einstein and others called for the court to have a fair trial. But in the end the couple were sentenced He was sentenced to death and executed on June 8, 11. After the Soviet archives were released, the husband was indeed a Soviet spy, but the wife knew nothing about it.”

"In any case, these people are immortal heroes for the Soviet Union. Without them, the world would not be like this. For us Soviet people, they are heroes!"

Captain Ivan was born when the Soviet Union was the most powerful, so even though the Soviet Union has disintegrated for almost 30 years, Captain Ivan is still proud of being a Soviet.

Yang Jing has no interest in such disputes. This is already a history, and there is no point in arguing about it now.

But Yang Jing really wanted to ask a question, so he interrupted the child-like dispute between the two.

"Victor, I heard that the reason why the Soviet Union developed mushroom bombs so quickly was that many spies made great contributions, but more importantly, the Soviet government obtained a bomb that was not used in Japan at that time. Detonated mushroom bombs? Is this real?"

"That's right, it's true. This matter was classified at the time, but after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, many secrets were made public, including this secret."

After a pause, Captain Ivan continued: "In order to force Japan to surrender as soon as possible, after the Potsdam Conference, the Americans couldn't wait to use their only three mushroom bombs against Japan. On August 1945, 8, The U.S. Air Force dropped the 'Little Boy' on Hiroshima, and the mushroom bomb exploded 6 meters above the ground, completely destroying 600 houses within a [-]-kilometer radius."

"However, this mushroom bomb is not the first mushroom bomb made by the Americans. The first mushroom bomb made by the Americans is called 'Skinny Man', which is equivalent to the explosive equivalent of two thousand tons of ladders, but this mushroom bomb It has already been tested. 'Little Boy' is the second mushroom bomb that has been detonated."

"Actually, the United States had three bombing targets for Japan at that time, including Hiroshima, Kokura, and Nagasaki. For this reason, the United States prepared three mushroom bombs. The U.S. Air Force also prepared seven bombers to complete this important task. At that time The first target was Hiroshima, the second target was Kokura, and the third target was Nagasaki. However, due to weather reasons when bombing Kokura on August 1945, 8, the sky was overcast. The bomber made three round trips and finally gave up. The target turned around and flew to the second target Nagasaki. At that time, the sky over Nagasaki was also cloudy, and the fuel consumption of the bomber did not allow it to fly back with mushroom bombs. , The originally dense clouds and fog suddenly dispersed, and the bomber pilot decisively dropped two mushroom bombs."

"It's just that no one expected that only one of the two mushroom bombs dropped on Nagasaki exploded, that is, the mushroom bomb called 'Fat Man'. As for the other unexploded mushroom bomb, it was destroyed. The Japanese strictly guarded it, but because Japan, which was defeated at the time, was no longer capable of developing mushroom bombs, looking at the devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese national hatred for the United States arose leisurely. In order to allow the United States and the Soviet Union to start a protracted war In the arms race, the Japanese handed over this mushroom bomb to the Soviet Union without hesitation. At that time, after we got the real mushroom bomb, coupled with the scientific and technological information on the mushroom bomb we had already obtained, we successfully exploded the first mushroom bomb within five years. A mushroom bomb."

"Here is where the mushroom bomb named 'Pumpkin' exploded. At that time, the equivalent of this mushroom bomb was about 2.2 tons."

Yang Jing nodded slightly and said, "Thank you, Victor. I have heard that there were two mushroom bombs when the Nagasaki was bombed, but I have never been sure. Today I can finally be sure."

Captain Ivan also got excited about talking, and asked Yang Jing with a smile: "Then you know that the name of the first mushroom bomb developed by the Americans is 'Skinny Man', and the name of the first mushroom bomb developed by our Soviet Union is 'Pumpkin'. But do you know the name of the first mushroom bomb you developed in Huaxia?"

This question really caught Yang Jing.Yang Jingguang knew that after Huaxia and the Soviet Union turned against each other, Huaxia also fell into the same predicament as Stalin back then, that is, facing nuclear blackmail from the Soviets.

At that time, Grandpa Taizu ordered Huaxia people to develop their own nuclear weapons under such circumstances. Then, with the concerted efforts of the whole country, two bombs and one star were finally developed, and Huaxia has since then straightened itself. spine.

But Yang Jing really didn't know the name of the first mushroom bomb developed by Huaxia.

Seeing Yang Jing's bewildered expression, Captain Ivan smiled and said, "The first mushroom bomb you Huaxia developed at that time was named 'Miss Qiu'! Haha, do you think this name is very literary? "

"Miss Qiu?" Yang Jing was also stunned, looking at the first mushroom bombs developed by the Americans and the Soviets, one was called Slimman and the other was called Pumpkin, but why was Huaxia's first mushroom bomb called Miss Qiu? Woolen cloth?
Yang Jing scratched his head in embarrassment, but caught some flying dandruff.
PS: Bow down and thank you for the 200 tip from "Very Lazy Fish", and the 100 tip from "w Gentle Knife" and "The First Kiss I Gave Your Hand".

(End of this chapter)