The Rise of the Third Reich

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

When the plane door opened, Hersman, who had already put on his desert military uniform, felt an unbearable heat wave coming in. The Sahara Desert, which is close to the equator, has a lot of sunlight. The daytime temperature in June is usually around 35 degrees. For Hersman, who is used to cold climates, it feels like being in a furnace.

"Ludwig, I've finally waited for you!"

Army General Karl Haushofer, the head of the U Engineering Committee, Chloe's early university teacher and Hessmann's former boss, saw Hessman getting off the plane and hurriedly walked up to greet him.

"General," Hessmann shook hands with Haushofer and asked with a smile, "Are you ready?" He looked at the crowd who came to greet him again, but did not find Dr. Heisenberg, "Haisen Where's Dr. Fort?"

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

Two Heisenberg devices were transported to the nuclear test base in the Oargra Oasis as early as mid-May for various tests. However, these two devices did not contain any explosives—that is, they did not contain weapons-grade plutonium-239.

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

In order to carry out today's test explosion, 40 kilograms of plutonium-239 with an abundance of 93% was divided into four batches and loaded on a Fokker 42 transport aircraft on May 28, 29, 30 and 31, and secretly sent to Wargla oasis.

According to theoretical calculations, these 40 kilograms of weapons-grade plutonium-239 are enough to produce 4-6 atomic bombs with a yield of about 20,000 tons. However, the Heisenberg device is only a rudimentary atomic bomb with limited technical level. It is impossible to have a critical charge stuck, otherwise it is likely to fail to explode. Therefore, scientists from the U Engineering Committee adopted the method of adding an extra insurance factor and added 40 kilograms of weapons-grade plutonium-239 to the Heisenberg device used for the test explosion. Today is the day when 40 kilograms of weapons-grade plutonium-239 processed into special shapes will be loaded into the Heisenberg device.

According to the charging standards of the Heisenberg device, Germany could possess plutonium-239 loaded with up to three atomic bombs in 1944 (including the Heisenberg device used for testing). According to the plan, by the end of 1945, the storage capacity of weapons-grade plutonium-239 could be increased to 8 Heisenberg devices (including test explosion devices). By 1946, as new, larger and more advanced production reactors are put into use, the storage capacity of plutonium-239 will increase significantly, enough for Germany to produce about 30 atomic bombs. And by 1947... the plutonium-239 possessed by Germany will be able to assemble more than 60 atomic bombs!

In other words, by 1947 at the latest, Germany would have enough atomic bombs to turn an industrialized power with a land area of ​​several hundred thousand square kilometers into an agricultural country.

For safety reasons, the final assembly location of the Heisenberg device was not at the base of the Wargla Oasis, but at a temporary assembly workshop near the Wargla Nuclear Test Site 20 kilometers away. When all the charges are put into the device, the 4-ton Heisenberg device will be placed on a tower dozens of meters high and wait for detonation.

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

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

Seeing the Heisenberg device being hoisted onto the tower by a large crane, Dr. Heisenberg, the chief engineer of the U-engineering bomb project, let out a breath and turned to Dr. Hahn, the chief engineer of the U-engineering energy project, with a slight smile.

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

"Probably...no," Hahn was a little unsure. "The Imperial Marshal has promised that atomic bombs are only used to deter enemies and may be used in sparsely populated areas."

"I hope so," Heisenberg nodded, "just use it to scare the Americans. I think those American Jewish capitalists who are corrupt, decadent, and greedy for life and death are very cowardly. They will obediently take away what belongs to Europe. The people’s money was handed over.”

"Yes, I should hand it over!" When Hahn said this, he always felt that he and Heisenberg were not like scientists, but like two robbers who were robbing someone on the road.

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 was a tool used to seize world financial dominance for Europe.

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

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

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

"At least 1-2 tons, right?"

At the same time, two Japanese Japanese soldiers, Hiroshi Oshima and Tadao Yokoi, who had followed Hirschmann to the Oasis of Vargla, were standing at a Heisenberg device displayed in the exhibition hall and whispering.

General Haushofer had informed them in Japanese of the size and weight of the device, and had allowed them to take a closer look. However, you can't really see much from the outside, just the shell of an oval-shaped oversized bomb with a tail fin.

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 a ton of explosive charge. And they didn't know there was plutonium, so they thought they saw a uranium bomb.

Both Germany and the United States discovered plutonium, but neither country made it public. Japan's own research in this area is also limited, and it has not discovered the existence of plutonium. Naturally, it does not know that there is a relatively low-cost plutonium production reactor. Therefore, we can conclude that countries such as the United States and the United States cannot develop nuclear fission bombs during wartime. Historically, the U.S. Oak Forest Nuclear Plant (which refines uranium-235) consumes more than 20 billion kilowatt hours of electricity every year. Japan in 1943 The annual power generation was only 37.7 billion kilowatt-hours, and Germany's power generation in 1943 was only just over 100 billion kilowatt-hours. It was obviously impossible to spend more than 20 billion kilowatt-hours to supply an isotope refining plant.

Moreover, no one can guarantee that nuclear fission bombs will be truly infinitely powerful. But now the impossible has become possible! All that's left is to verify the power of this nuclear fission bomb.

If it is really as big as the legend (the results calculated by scientists through paper calculations), 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 location for observing the test is at the Oargra Oasis, about 20 kilometers away from the test site. Engineers affiliated with the U Engineering Committee built a small reinforced concrete stand with an awning on the edge of the oasis.

Next to the concrete grandstand is a tightly guarded control room, where Dr. Heisenberg will personally press the button of the atomic bomb detonator. The current signal will be conducted through 20 kilometers of wires to the Heisenberg device placed on a steel tower.

At 5:50 pm on June 1, Dr. Heisenberg announced to the people who were holding their breath in the stands waiting to see the explosion that the device would detonate in 10 minutes!

The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became extremely tense, and all the Germans, including Hersmann himself, felt like they could hardly breathe.

Hessmann put on anti-burn glasses, stood in the stands, facing the direction where the atomic bomb was about to explode in the distance, and counted the numbers silently. Starting from 1 and counting to 600, it should be when the "artificial sun" rises. And every time he counted a number, his heart beat faster.

Because the European Community leaders' meeting will soon be held, the success or failure of today's test is directly related to the future of the European Community and the world!

I don’t know if it was because Hessmann counted too fast. When he counted to 600, the flash did not appear and there was silence around him.

Hersman's brows were knitted together, and there were beads of sweat all over his head and face. Just when an ominous premonition emerged from the bottom of my heart, the dim desert in the distance was suddenly illuminated by a dazzling light many times stronger than the noon sun. It was golden, crimson, purple, and gray. And the blue light is indescribable and magnificent...

Hessmann didn't hear a sound, except for his own heartbeat. Just when he wondered if he was deaf, a violent wave of air rushed over, followed almost immediately by a strong, long-lasting and terrifying roar, which seemed to foretell. The end of the world has come!

Everyone in the stands was stunned by the scene in front of them. Everyone except Hessman had never seen the expansion pack of the atomic bomb explosion. Although scientists have long calculated the possible power of the atomic bomb, ranging from a few thousand tons to tens of thousands of tons. But when these pale, seemingly meaningless numbers really turned into a huge fireball that was more dazzling than the sun, the thoughts of those who witnessed it with their own eyes were completely frozen. In addition to being shocked, they were still shocked. .

In the open space under the stands, Fermi, who had become a German citizen, suddenly reacted when the shock wave came. He suddenly threw out a handful of pieces of paper, which were blown far away. He immediately used his steps to He measured the distance (this was the method he used to calculate the yield of an explosion), then rushed to the stands and announced loudly: "The intensity of this explosion is equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT. We succeeded!"