Chapter 1557： New Manhattan Project (2/2)
Hearing Roosevelt’s words, Groves said: “Our project is progressing slowly. After losing a large number of scientists, we regrouped a small number of experts. Up to now, even the nuclear reactor design has not been completed. ”
Groves was anxious.
He is the head of the Manhattan Project.
At first, for some reason, the Germans actually knew about the Oak Ridge base and carried out a terrible bombing, which almost wiped out all the American nuclear physics experts. Even if they were not in the Oak Ridge base, they were assassinated. .
The Manhattan Project suffered a terrible blow and almost stopped. However, Roosevelt, who was determined, decided to continue.
The Germans did not hesitate to send out long-range bombers to destroy their own base in Oak Ridge and assassinate the nuclear physicists. This shows that the Germans are scared. The kind of weapons that can destroy the entire city can be made.
So, driven by Roosevelt, Groves continued to preside over the Manhattan Project, the location was more secretive, and fewer people knew, and the local weather conditions determined that it was not suitable for air raids at all. It was foggy all year round.
However, it seems that progress is not fast.
”We can already be sure that the active German submarines appearing in the Arctic Ocean must be nuclear-powered. They have unlimited endurance and can stay in the ice for a long time. We can even guess that they don't have any. Going elsewhere ~~ is to directly cross the sea below the Arctic, from the German port directly to the Bering Sea.” Marshall also said: ”The Germans have overcome many technical difficulties. In this regard, we have already Far behind.”
The United States is behind, and the backward United States means that the Germans will be far behind. Once the Germans detonate a nuclear bomb, the United States has no choice but to surrender obediently.
Unlike cloud bombs, cloud bombs can blow up a city, but hundreds of them must be dropped at the same time. For this terrible nuclear bomb, you only need one bomber to throw one.
We are far behind, because the main nuclear physics scientists have all been killed.
The dark cloud appeared again on Roosevelt's brows, and he silently lit the smoking pot and smoked it. The meeting room was smoky again.
When the smoke pot went out, Roosevelt finally made up his mind: ”Since we can't do it by ourselves, it's better to invite more scientists.”
Hearing Roosevelt's words, the two people present were embarrassed. In order to reassemble the team, they even recruited the students who had heard the Fermi report once to make up the numbers. Where else would they go to find a nuclear physics scientist? From the Germans?
”From the Soviet Union.” Roosevelt said: ”I don't believe that there are no nuclear physics experts in the Soviet Union.”
Hearing what Roosevelt said, the two were even more shocked. What happened to the president? Is the brain short circuited?
The Manhattan Project is a project that requires extreme confidentiality. The less people know, the better. Now, should the Soviets participate?
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