Rise of Australia

Chapter 940 Time is up

Thanks to the kindness of the island government, most foreigners currently staying in the island country can leave the island country.

Of course, there are still some foreigners who have huge industries in the island country, and they are not willing to leave the island country because of the threat from Australasia.

The Australasian government will show no mercy to these people.

The only chance before was to persuade them through public opinion. Since we missed it, we will treat them as native people of the island country.

Just three days passed quickly, but the news of the use of new weapons in Australasia to bomb Hiroshima was still spreading at a very fast speed.

The islanders also launched a public opinion offensive as planned, using many media to publicize Australasia's brutal actions in Hiroshima and angrily accusing the Australasia government of having massacred at least 500,000 island residents.

Although this kind of public opinion offensive did have a certain effect at the beginning, in terms of public opinion, Australasia is not an island country that can resist it alone.

Arthur first used newspapers controlled by the Royal Consortium to publicize the inhumane human and biochemical experiments conducted by the island nation in the occupied areas, and produced substantial photographic evidence.

This immediately ruined the reputation of the island nation. Soon after, Australasia stated that the bombing of Hiroshima was only for military purposes, and attached several photos of the island nation's troops stationed around Hiroshima.

It can be clearly seen from the photos that the size of the garrison around Hiroshima should far exceed the number of Hiroshima citizens.

If you think about it carefully, it is reasonable for Australasia to bomb the enemy's military bases, and as for the accidental injuries to Hiroshima citizens, it is also inevitable.

After the war of public opinion ended, the islanders worked hard to restore order in Hiroshima while organizing troops to go to Kyushu and Shikoku.

This is also good news, because because Hiroshima was almost destroyed, the Australasian Air Force paid less attention to Hiroshima.

This finally gave the island government the opportunity to transport troops to Shikoku and Kyushu with confidence.

As the ruins of buildings outside Hiroshima were gradually cleared, the island nation's army was finally able to enter the city of Hiroshima and see with their own eyes how shocking the power of the Australasia bombing was.

The distance from the explosion point to the outskirts of Hiroshima is two kilometers at the closest point and six kilometers at the farthest point.

No matter whether you enter the city from the nearest or farthest point, all you can see is ruins.

All the buildings in Hiroshima city, whether they were made of reinforced concrete or wood, were reduced to ruins. The scene was horrific.

What surprised the island nation's army and site cleanup workers was that the outskirts of Hiroshima were still intact, with some surviving buildings and people still visible.

But the deeper we went into Hiroshima city, not only did we find no surviving buildings, we also found no surviving Hiroshima citizens.

What’s even scarier is that not only were no surviving Hiroshima citizens found, even their bodies were not found!

The island government immediately invited a team of experts to investigate, and finally came to an astonishing conclusion, that is, the temperature in the center of Hiroshima once broke out to over 5000 degrees Celsius, and the citizens were instantly melted and turned into gas by the high temperature of 5000 degrees Celsius.

Some traces remaining at the scene can also prove this, and these are the only traces left after the human body is vaporized.

Everyone at the scene swallowed their saliva, horrified by this horrific weapon from Australasia.

It could destroy a city, but it could also generate temperatures of over 5000 degrees Celsius and vaporize people. What kind of a terrifying weapon is this, and why does Australasia have it?
These islanders don’t know that although the atomic bomb explosion has passed, the impact it brought to Hiroshima is far from over.

On the second day after order was restored in Hiroshima, some people began to show signs of discomfort.

At first it was just dizziness and nausea, but after a while it turned into purple spots all over the body, hair loss, bleeding from the nose and gums, and even blood in the stool.

It would have been fine if it was an isolated case, but such symptoms quickly spread to all the island nations' troops and civilians who entered Hiroshima.

On just the third day, August 1937, 8, thousands of soldiers began to show such symptoms, their skin tissue quickly festered and their lives were in danger.

It was at this time that the islanders gradually realized that the weapons of Australasia not only caused damage due to the explosion, but also caused subsequent continuous damage that they could not imagine.

But it was too late to react at this time. By the time such symptoms were discovered and taken seriously, more than 10 people had entered Hiroshima, and more than 30 people had come into contact with various building ruins and dumped materials from the center of Hiroshima.

The island government had never expected such an impact. They did not even have time to denounce Australasia's inhumanity in the newspapers. They could only quickly evacuate the troops stationed around Hiroshima, fearing that such an impact would spread to the entire army.

Currently, there is a rather thorny issue for the island government: should the survivors of the Hiroshima bombing and the soldiers who were subsequently affected be given medical treatment at great cost?
Judging from their current symptoms, it is clear that the current medical technology of the island country is unable to save their lives.

Rather than treating them, it would be more like keeping them on hold so that they can enjoy the torture process longer.

But the problem is that these soldiers with symptoms and the survivors of Hiroshima obviously don't think so. If the island government does not take any action to treat them, it will inevitably make these people feel discouraged, thus affecting more soldiers and the population.

But if we were to do useless work to treat these soldiers, it would be a completely unnecessary waste of the island government's already limited financial funds and material reserves.

This is also the time when the advantages of a military dictatorship can be reflected. For other countries, it is quite difficult to make a decision, but for the island government, there is only one choice, which is to give up treating them.

Of course, on the surface, the island government at least maintains a certain disguise.

The island government said it is currently looking for a solution to the symptom and promised to provide free medical treatment to the victims as soon as a solution is found.

To a certain extent, the island government is not wrong. After all, it is impossible for them to find a way to treat them, so there is naturally no need to spend a huge price to treat them.

Even for the island government, they are unwilling to provide a simple medical environment. If it weren't for the fear of causing a mutiny in the army, who would care about the lives of just a few hundred thousand soldiers?
After finishing all this, the island government finally had time to cause trouble for Australasia.

But Arthur doesn't care about these small protests and public pressure.

To put it bluntly, no matter how much sympathizes with the island countries, it is impossible for them to go against Australasia for the island countries.

If there really is such a stupid guy, Arthur wouldn't mind sending the Royal Security Intelligence Service out to make some contribution to the world.

As for the island government’s diplomatic protests, what a joke! Since they are in a state of war, why would Arthur care about the opinions of the island government?
Even for Arthur, the island government's protest was a good thing.

At least it proves that the island country’s government still wants to continue fighting, otherwise the gift that Australasia has worked so hard to prepare for the island country will not be delivered.

On the Australasia side, the attack on Kyushu and Hokkaido was still going on. What Arthur did not expect was that after the bombing of Hiroshima, the island nation's army had deployed most of its divisions on Honshu, with the intention of relying on Honshu to fight Australasia to the death.

But this is also good news. At present, the small island of Honshu has gathered at least three million troops, of which nearly two million are near Tokyo.

If a few atomic bombs were dropped, the scene would be exciting to imagine.

More importantly, because the island government has mobilized a large number of troops, Hokkaido’s military strength is currently extremely short.

Australasia's attack on Hokkaido has also become very smooth. The Kuril Islands controlled by the island country have been occupied by Australasia, and most of South Sakhalin Island has also been occupied. The border with Russia is about to be seen.

If there were a map, it would be clear that Australasia's attacks on the island countries came from all directions.

Except for the northern coast which is backed by the island sea, the Australasian army can be seen in almost all directions of the island nation.

Although the specific current situation of the island nation’s economy is unclear, at least in terms of fisheries, animal husbandry and shipping, the island nation has now reached its historical lowest point.

Australasia will not be polite to the fishermen from the island countries. As long as the Australasia navy sees the fishermen and civilian ships from the island countries during patrols, it will open fire directly.

With the main naval forces of the island nation lost, the Australasian Navy is invincible in the Pacific Ocean.

Amid the turmoil on all sides, the three-day deadline that Australasia warned foreigners to evacuate the island country soon arrived.

Countries and people all over the world, as well as the media, are curious about whether Australasia has any extra powerful weapons and how the islanders will respond.

Britain and France were feeling very complicated at this time.

On the one hand, Britain and France wanted Australasia to have more powerful weapons so that they could kill the manpower of Germany and other Allied countries as quickly as possible and end the war.

But on the other hand, Britain and France did not want Australasia to have more new weapons. The power of such weapons had been demonstrated in the island nation of Hiroshima. Such powerful weapons would terrify any country.

If Australasia was not so important to this war, Britain and France would probably not have this attitude at this time.

If Australasia really had a lot of new weapons, even if Britain and France could still persist in this war, they would definitely get together after the war to discuss how to restrict Australasia.

Even countries like Russia will get involved. In the game between countries, when the military strength becomes too strong, it will inevitably be targeted.

As for the question of bombing the island nation when the whole world is expecting it, there is only one answer in Australasia, that is, it must be bombed.

The question is how to bomb and when to bomb, which is the most important issue at the moment.

The next round of nuclear bombing will have only one main target, and that is the capital of the island nation, Tokyo, which has a population of more than three million.

Unlike the previous bombing of Hiroshima, the atomic bomb in Hiroshima was more like an experiment, specifically used to explore the problems and defects in the actual use of atomic bombs.

There are two problems at present. One is that the power of small atomic bombs is relatively small. The atomic bomb carefully made by Australasia failed to completely destroy the small city of Hiroshima.

Although the remaining buildings are far away from the center of the explosion, they have survived after all, which does not conform to Australasia's pursuit of a one-time solution.

Of course, one of the reasons why this problem occurred is that Australasia chose to conduct the air blast.

The atomic bomb exploded about 550 meters above Hiroshima, and a considerable part of the explosive power was wasted in the air, which is one of the reasons why the atomic bomb did not completely destroy Hiroshima.

If it was a ground explosion, the power of the explosion would most likely have completely destroyed the entire Hiroshima and created an explosion crater with a diameter of more than two kilometers in the center of Hiroshima.

However, the air burst also had one advantage, which was that a large amount of radioactive elements were blown into the sky and merged into the water vapor above Hiroshima.

Judging from the amount of radioactive material carried by the Australasian atomic bomb, Hiroshima would be uninhabitable for at least a hundred years.

Even with the explosion center as the origin, the land and air within a radius of 15 kilometers will be rich in radioactive elements.

Not to mention people living there, I'm afraid the surrounding land can't even be used to grow crops.

This is not like the two atomic bombs dropped by the United States on the island countries in history. Those two atomic bombs were relatively simple, and the utilization rate of nuclear materials was very low, which caused the radiation in Nagasaki and Hiroshima to decay to an acceptable level very quickly.

As for the actual level, we can see it from the cancer rates of the populations in Nagasaki and Hiroshima in later generations.

Well, it’s still very high.

In this world, after the baptism of the enhanced atomic bomb in Australasia, it would be fun to watch if Hiroshima were to be rebuilt in the future.

In order to ensure the power of the atomic bomb, more than half of the 20 new atomic bombs prepared for the island country will adopt the ground explosion method.

Use a missile to launch it near the target area and then detonate the atomic bomb directly.

This is still very safe, but the hit rate cannot be guaranteed.

But then again, the new 20 atomic bombs are all enhanced versions.

There were only 10 kilograms of plutonium in the Hiroshima atomic bomb, but in the new atomic bomb, the weight of plutonium was increased to a full 20 kilograms.

Judging from the utilization rate of plutonium in previous atomic bombs, the explosive power of these atomic bombs can reach an exaggerated TNT equivalent of more than 7 tons, which is equivalent to two and a half times the combined power of the two atomic bombs in US history.

Only five atomic bombs of this power would be needed to make Tokyo disappear in an instant.

If enough atomic bombs were not needed elsewhere, the number of atomic bombs dropped on Tokyo by Australasia would have been more than five.

But think about it, five missiles are enough. If they are distributed in the four corners and the center, it should be no problem to take down Tokyo.

(End of this chapter)