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Chapter 166 Chain Reaction (Third update, please subscribe)

Is this a sense of security?
  When Ada felt a long-lost sense of security because of a sandwich and a glass of milk, the same feeling emerged in Li Yian's heart in the warehouse at the port of Antwerp, Belgium.

A few hours ago, Li Yian and his men arrived at the warehouse where uranium is stored. This warehouse is located near the port of Twerp and is used by the task force to store seized ordnance materials.

Although this warehouse was idle most of the time due to cooperation issues from the British side, it was always guarded, so as soon as the uranium was delivered ashore, it was pulled into this warehouse.

The reason why it was not transported to France by car or train was to avoid being noticed by the outside world, so Li Yian came here from Reims.

After entering the warehouse, a mountain of gray iron barrels appeared in front of us.

Are they all here?
  For a moment, the rotating pointer of the Geiger counter made Li Yian want to turn around and run away. After all, this was radiation.

However, this is not necessary at all. The iron barrel containing uranium is a special iron barrel, and the inner layer is wrapped with a layer of radiation-proof lead. Radiation levels are within acceptable limits.

1100 tons of uranium!

Stored in these thousands of iron barrels!

In order to obtain this batch of 1100 tons of uranium, Li Yian and Berlin planned for half a month, and even sent an action team to the sea off the Netherlands to assist.

What for?
  For the dream of atoms!
  With this batch of uranium, the dream of Borneo’s nuclear weapons is not far away!
  Staring at the iron barrel filled with uranium, Li Yian raised the corners of his mouth nearly seventy degrees and muttered to himself.

"I don't know if that guy Heisenberg really made a mistake in his calculations."

Why this batch of uranium was used to make depleted uranium bullet armor cores was because Heisenberg, the head of the German atomic bomb program, made a low-level mistake when calculating the critical mass required for an atomic bomb, which led him to estimate that several tons of uranium would be needed to trigger a chain. formula reaction, but in fact only a few dozen kilograms are enough. His miscalculation caused the German atomic bomb plan to be shelved.

Heisenberg himself also made a statement after World War II. The content is roughly that he can foresee the devastating disaster that the atomic bomb will bring to mankind, and is unwilling to open this "Pandora's Box".

Whether it is sincere or false, no one knows.

But one thing that is certain is that Germany's uranium has no use, and even became a pile of waste that no one cared about because of the failure to manufacture depleted uranium bombs. This is why Berlin was able to transport uranium from Cologne to Amsterdam.

"Okay, what you failed to create during World War II, we will definitely create in the future, maybe with the help of your experts."

After putting these iron barrels into the space, and before putting the last iron barrel with the eagle emblem of Sandoku into the space, Li Yian raised the corners of his mouth and couldn't help but imitate Sandoku, stretched out his right arm and said.

"Long live the Hydra!"

Yes, I have to thank Hydra!
  No, we should be grateful for the gifts of the Third Reich, including Hydra. That is also the legacy of the Third Reich. What does it have to do with Borneo!

When leaving the warehouse, Li Yian's face was filled with a faint smile.

Hydra's first operation ended perfectly like this!

In the next few decades, Hydra will surely cause various disturbances around the world.

What kind of disturbance will they cause in this world?

Li Yian couldn't help but be full of expectations for that future. After all, he knew very well how colorful the post-war world was. In those turbulent decades, Hydra was destined to not stop.

By then, Hydra will be the other side of Borneo, two sides of the same coin!
  ……

"Disappeared!"

London, listening to the report of his subordinates, William Joseph Casey, the head of the London Intelligence Station of the Office of Strategic Services, said directly.

"Nothing in this world disappears for no reason. The Germans must have moved that batch of uranium. Maybe, they restarted the reactor plan..."

The reactor Casey mentioned was Germany's plan to use uranium nuclear reactions to generate electricity. However, because the heavy water plant in Norway was destroyed by the Allied forces, Germany never had enough heavy water for further tests.

"This is very possible, and I feel it is necessary to report to Washington. Although we do not know how important the uranium is, Washington has always kept our attention on them. Now that the uranium is missing, Washington needs to know all this."

The subordinate's report made Casey nodded and said.

"Yes, report to Washington!"

Soon, a report about the unaccounted whereabouts of 1100 tons of uranium in Germany was sent to Washington via secret cable. Finally, this seemingly inconspicuous piece of information was quickly sent to Leslie Richard Groves. Before the case, the head of the "Manhattan Project" cursed the moment he saw the intelligence.

"Damn Nazis, they must be making great progress!"

So Groves immediately picked up the phone and called Oppenheimer. Half an hour later, as soon as Oppenheimer entered the office, Groves asked.

"Robert, is there any progress in our plan? I mean actual progress." "Since Wu joined, we have made some breakthroughs on key issues and are currently further improving the theoretical design. I have reason to believe that by the latest We can conduct a trial before April next year..."

As soon as Oppenheimer finished speaking, Groves said loudly.

"Damn it, New York would have been destroyed by the German atomic bomb by that time!"

"What?"

The general's words made Oppenheimer confused.

"The German atomic bomb? According to the intelligence we have previously obtained, they seem to have given up research on atomic bombs and switched to research on atomic reactors that can generate electricity. General, is this a mistake?"

General Graves raised the information in his hand and said.

"Intelligence lies, but materials do not. The whereabouts of the German uranium are unknown. They disappeared in Cologne. A total of 1100 tons. Those uraniums are high-grade New Kolobwe uranium ore. Why did they disappear for no reason? Robert. "

The general's rhetorical question made Oppenheimer slightly open his eyes and murmured:

"How is this possible? How could they possibly surpass us? It doesn't seem reasonable, General. I think, I think..."

Graves said before he could finish.

"Okay, Robert, you have to speed up the research and development work. I want to rush to Washington immediately and remedy this matter as soon as possible. Damn the Germans, they must be ahead of us..."

A few hours later, Graves flew to Washington and went directly into the President's Oval Office. After reporting to the President that the Germans might have invented the atomic bomb first, Graves said.

"Mr. President, I think it's time to implement a remediation plan."

Roosevelt, who was sitting in a wheelchair, was silent for a moment and then said.

"Yes, I think so too. At the same time, I must tell Ike to immediately attack Germany without hesitation. After all, we can't afford to delay, by the way..."

Looking up at Graves, Roosevelt asked.

"General, are the Germans capable of sending an atomic bomb to the United States?"

"Mr. President, who knows?"

General Graves said.

"In the past few days, the Germans have been bombarding London with their V2 missiles. Maybe they have something more powerful, or even a bigger missile, that can fly directly from Germany to the United States. So, We must eliminate this threat before they destroy us with atomic bombs."

The reason why I say this is because during the war, the Germans were always able to come up with many secret weapons that were eye-catching.

Since we can create v1 missiles and v2 missiles, it is only natural to create big ones that can launch farther.

If there was a big guy who could launch an atomic bomb into the United States, it would be all over. No matter what, this possibility must be completely eliminated.

"Okay, General, I agree with your judgment!"

Roosevelt nodded and said.

"Execute the plan! We must completely eliminate the threat!"

Soon, the OSS received a direct order from the White House, ordering them to implement a threat elimination plan-as early as a few years ago, they had planned a plan to assassinate German physicist Werner Heisenberg in order to Stop him from building atomic bombs for the Nazis, after all he is the most important leader of Germany's atomic weapons program.

Although the assassination operation may bring unimaginable losses to the scientific community, in the face of the threat, the United States still chose a simple and crude method-to directly eliminate the threat!
  So the British intelligence agency immediately sent a raid team to infiltrate Germany to carry out the assassination mission. At the same time, Eisenhower in Verdun also ordered the US military to strengthen the offensive to break through the Siegfried Line as soon as possible, telling him directly in the telegram that no matter the cost. Therefore, under the direct supervision of the White House, the Allied forces on the Western Front had to really fight for their lives.

A few days later, Werner Heisenberg was attacked by British agents on his way home from the laboratory and was shot several times and died.

At the same time, many physicists were also attacked, all of whom were physicists who might be involved in Germany's atomic bomb development program. In order to eliminate threats, physical removal is undoubtedly the simplest and most effective way.

What was the German response to such an attack?

In Germany, which was in turmoil, not many senior officials cared about the lives of those physicists. However, the assassination of Werner Heisenberg and more than a dozen scientists shocked the entire German scientific community, making them realize the true cruelty of war, and also created some fear of the allies.

The development of history is often so weird. A seemingly insignificant thing may have various impacts...

(End of this chapter)