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Chapter 140 Metal Hydrogen

Weapons Research Center.

"Is this metallic hydrogen?"

In the weapon research center with white as the main color, Lu Chen looked at the diamond-like white crystals in the glass vessel and asked R-97.

R-97 is not only responsible for missile research, but also the main person in charge of new explosive research.

The metal hydrogen in front of him is his latest research result.

"Yes, this is metallic hydrogen."

When it comes to metal hydrogen, even a calm R-97 can't help getting a little excited.

The so-called metallic hydrogen is the process of turning hydrogen gas into a liquid or even a solid state under ultra-high pressure technical conditions.

After hydrogen becomes solid, its performance will undergo a miraculous change. Not only does it become a metal-like conductor in terms of physical properties, but it also contains huge energy.

"Boss, the small piece of metal hydrogen in front of you has a total of 11 grams, but the power of its explosion is equivalent to the energy released by the explosion of 0.55kg of TNT."

Hearing this, Lu Chen's expression suddenly changed.

This means that this crystal, which is smaller than a diamond ring, is several times more powerful than a grenade.

Thinking of this, he subconsciously took two steps back.

"It's so powerful, can it be used to replace conventional explosives?"

Lu Chen's eyes lit up and he said, "How about the manufacturing cost of metal hydrogen?"

“Pretty expensive!”

R-97 shook his head, "With our current industrial technology, it is almost impossible to prepare metal hydrogen and use it as a conventional explosive."

Again, the cost!

If the manufacturing cost of metal hydrogen is thousands or even tens of thousands of times that of conventional explosives, so what if its power is fifty times that of ordinary explosives?
Thinking of this, Lu Chen's face became slightly gloomy.

unfortunately
Seeing Lu Chen's disappointed face, R-97 smiled slightly: "Boss, don't worry, metal hydrogen can't be used as a conventional explosive, but it can be used as a nuclear weapon."

Hearing this, Lu Chen frowned: "Nuclear weapons?"

Hearing this, he was slightly displeased.

As we all know, the first generation of nuclear weapons is the atomic bomb, the main material is the weapon-grade uranium enriched to the extreme.

It is not that Lu Chen does not have uranium mines. In fact, the largest uranium mine in Kanya is in the hands of Lu Chen.

Lu Chen has also been looking for opportunities to develop an atomic bomb.

However, developing an atomic bomb is really not that easy.

The difficulty here does not refer to the difficulty in technology, but the difficulty in the international environment.

You should know that all the uranium mines that have been proven in the world are recorded in the United Nations.

The mining and use of every uranium mine will attract the attention of the world police, including this large uranium mine in Lu Chen's hands.

It is not so easy to secretly develop nuclear weapons.

In history, many countries secretly developed nuclear weapons, but without exception, they were all discovered by the world police, the United States.

Then
Why would the United States discover a country's development of nuclear weapons?

This has to talk about the power of the CIA.

As a well-known international intelligence organization, the CIA is mainly responsible for collecting and analyzing global political, economic, cultural, military, technological and other intelligence.

Among them, one of its most important tasks is to pay close attention to whether there is a country that is not afraid of death developing nuclear weapons.

Not only that.

In addition to the CIA, military satellites all over the sky can also detect nuclear radiation from weapons-grade uranium.

Not to mention that if you want to purify uranium, you need to use a lot of centrifuges. Take Huaguo as an example. In order to develop the first generation of nuclear weapons, a factory the size of a county town was used to purify weapon-grade uranium.

Under various factors, it is not difficult to get nuclear weapons out, but what is rare is how to get them out without being discovered by the outside world.

With the first generation of nuclear weapons, the development of the second generation of nuclear weapons will be a matter of course.

The second-generation nuclear weapon is the hydrogen bomb, and the principle of the hydrogen bomb is to use the energy of the atomic bomb explosion to ignite the fusion reaction of light atomic nuclei such as deuterium, which is an isotope of hydrogen, and release huge energy instantaneously.

Its reaction principle is roughly, fission-fusion-fission.

It is said that the hydrogen bomb is a clean nuclear weapon, but in fact it is completely nonsense, and the hydrogen bomb is also a dirty bomb.

With the development of nuclear weapons to the third generation of three-phase bombs, the power is even more terrifying. The third generation of nuclear weapons is a nuclear weapon that claims to be infinitely powerful.

Its reaction process is roughly nuclear fission-nuclear fusion A-nuclear fission A-nuclear fusion B-nuclear fission B
And so on, endlessly.

Of course, in principle, the power of this sausage-style nuclear weapon can be increased infinitely, but in practice it cannot be done.

why?
Because the structure is not stable.

At present in the world, there are only two configurations that can solve the problem of the projectile structure of the three-phase projectile.

These two configurations are TU configuration and Yu Min configuration.

But even with these two configurations, it is impossible to make the three-phase bomb string sausages undergo infinite fission and drastic changes.

Seeing Lu Chen's displeasure, R-97 continued to explain: "Except for the first generation of nuclear weapons, all subsequent hydrogen bombs and three-phase bombs are based on nuclear fission. The preconditions for fusion, but in fact, the preconditions for nuclear fusion are not nuclear fission, but ultra-high temperature and ultra-high pressure."

"You mean, let metal hydrogen be used as the fuse for nuclear fusion?"

Immediately, he frowned again, "However, although metallic hydrogen contains huge energy, in the final analysis, its energy level is only fifty times that of TNT. Can it cause the fusion reaction of heavy hydrogen?"

"Of course pure metallic hydrogen can't do it, but if we work hard on the structure of this new type of nuclear weapon, we can completely increase its internal pressure to a level sufficient for deuterium fusion."

R-97 vowed.

Nuclear weapons!
And the first thing he did was fusion weapons, Lu Chen didn't expect this day to come so soon.

He originally planned to see if he could sneak out the nuclear weapons under the cover of Ling and the ghost organization that had grown up.

If not, the only option is to build an underground project deep enough and large enough to conduct research on nuclear weapons underground.

However, the time and money required to dig out an underground project capable of developing nuclear weapons is not a small sum.

So Lu Chen has been hesitating whether to do this or not.

But as his power continues to expand, developing nuclear weapons is a must.

Without this thing, there is no way to protect his interests from the outside world.

No matter how powerful Lu Chen's conventional weapons are, if someone gives you a stud directly with a nuclear bomb, who do you turn to for reasoning?
Thinking of this, Lu Chen felt a rush of blood rushing to his chest.

If you ask him what is missing now, it is nuclear weapons!

The rocket technology of Huanyu Satellite Launch Center has proved that it has the ability to launch intercontinental missiles.

Coupled with nuclear weapons, he has intercontinental ballistic missile technology, one of the three major nuclear strike capabilities that only the five rogues have.

(End of this chapter)