556 Uranium program
Germany actually has an inherent advantage in developing nuclear weapons, and it is also German scientists who first put forward the theory of nuclear fission in 1938.
It has to be said that it is a pity that the Germans did not become the first country in the world to possess nuclear weapons, despite the advanced theoretical basis.
First of all, this matter is inseparable from the exclusion of other races in Germany and the persecution of many non-Germanic scientists.
You must know that the famous scientist Albert Einstein had to leave because of the persecution in Germany.
In fact, not just Einstein, but more than 2,000 engineers and scientific and technical experts left the country because of Germany's fierce racial policy.
It would be impossible to say that the departure of these people did not have the slightest effect on the advanced technology of Germany.
In addition to the fact that radical racism has forced a large number of scientists to flee, indigenous scientists have taken the wrong path, which is also an important reason.
German physicists, led by Heisenberg, stubbornly believed that nuclear weapons were not easy to develop, and that the difficulties were not proportional to the investment.
There are also various hiccidities, such as the graphite used to refine weapons-grade uranium raw materials that were destroyed by anti-war activists and mixed with impurities, resulting in refining failures.
Another example is Heisenberg's wrong calculation formula, which led to an error in Germany's estimation of the weight of nuclear weapons.
This series of stories, which may or may not have led to the eventual abandonment of the development of German nuclear weapons, has become a historical mystery.
The last aspect is the targeted destruction of Germany's nuclear weapons development infrastructure by the Allies, and the special attack by the British army on the heavy water plant in Norway is also a classic of special operations.
Under these circumstances, the German atomic bomb research ultimately failed. But Li Le's current situation is much better than the situation that Hitler faced.
He killed the British king of destruction, and the likelihood of sabotage of Norway's heavy water plant was greatly reduced.
At the same time, he deliberately checked all kinds of experimental materials to avoid the problem of experimental materials being destroyed.
Finally, according to the foresight of later generations, Li Le also pointed out the way forward for German scientists.
But we must not underestimate this road, with this road and without this road, the progress of nuclear weapons development is absolutely incomparable.
I have to praise that the United States is a country that has a lot of resilience when doing things, and their persistence can make many countries ashamed.
If the same thing were to be done in Germany, it might not be possible. When the Soviet Union later went on to develop nuclear weapons, it actually had a great advantage - the Soviet Union at least knew that a nuclear bomb was feasible and could be realized with the current level of technology.
Under relative conditions, the United States did not know whether nuclear weapons were feasible at that time, and the United States really crossed the river by feeling the stones, and there was no so-called beacon to guide the way.
Although the research on nuclear physics at that time was already relatively in-depth. The Soviet Union, Germany, and even Japan, had corresponding nuclear physics research.
However, even if we have a complete theory of nuclear weapons development and there are no successful cases, we still cannot definitely come to the answer that the atomic bomb will be successful.
Under such circumstances, the United States resolutely invested $2 billion and countless amounts of electricity to develop and produce the atomic bomb, which in itself requires great courage.
And in some cases, it is often this courage that has repelled the attempts of so many people and countries in certain areas and areas.
Therefore, it is meaningless not to blindly worship how many years the Soviet Union developed the atomic bomb compared to the United States, and how many years shorter our country developed the atomic bomb than the Soviet Union.
If it weren't for the atomic bomb developed by the United States, perhaps the Soviet Union and China would not have dared to take the step of developing an atomic bomb in ten years.
It can also be seen from here that Li Le, a traverser, can bring about a huge turning point for Germany's nuclear weapons development in the general direction of nuclear weapons development.
The guidance in the general direction has given Heisenberg and other German scientists the courage to take a step, and in terms of specific operations, the large projects carried out by the Führer are tens of millions of times stronger than other plans in the stocking state.
On the issue of the study of the atomic bomb, the United States has set up a special department to administer all nuclear programs.
Initially, it was a purely scientific uranium advisory board, and then the project entered the engineering development stage, forming the Manhattan Project, which was carried out in parallel with basic research.
The establishment of the Commission alone took the United States two years, but this time was not wasted, because once a procedural unity was formed and the concentration of power was ensured, any department in the United States that wanted to get involved in the nuclear project would have to obey the unified dispatch.
This is no joke, for example, if the Navy wants to participate in nuclear weapons research projects, it can contribute people and money, but it does not have any command and decision-making authority.
In this respect, the Third Reich was the opposite, and everyone saved the time of arguing with each other, but each department did its own thing.
The Ministry of Ordnance, the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, various universities, and even certain ministerial units have their own nuclear research institutes.
Although the starting point is relatively high, and the scientific research force of research and development is also abundant, the resources are not enough, and now they are more scattered.
What is even more frustrating is that the research directions of various departments are also inconsistent: senior naval officials such as Raeder and Dönitz have always wanted to use nuclear power generation for submarines and warships.
On the contrary, in 1942, the United States basically stopped the research on nuclear power generation projects and concentrated on nuclear weapons.
Now with the addition of the Führer, the already highly authoritarian institutions of the Third Reich have burst out with more power than imagined.
The various departments ended their research, and with the words of the Great Führer, they joined a large research institute to contribute to Germany's nuclear weapons program.
This large-scale plan is Germany's "uranium plan". It planned to build the world's first nuclear weapon for Germany in 1944.
"We have completed the evaluation of centrifuges and purification equipment in Japan...... There are some parts of the technology that can be used, and the relevant departments have already begun to put it into practice. "When Heisenberg faced the Führer alone, he talked a lot.
He genuinely admired the Führer in front of him, because he believed in Heisenberg's quantum physics and was very firm in his support for the nuclear research of German physicists.
Just as the helmsman at the helm of Farben believes that a head of state who understands chemical technology is worthy of support, physicists such as Heisenberg also believe that it is a very happy thing to have a head of state who understands physics.
This is like a monk discovering that the emperor of his country believes in Buddhism, which is an indescribable kind of heart-to-heart pity.
As for why the Führer believed that the atomic bomb could be made, and that it was technically permissible, Heisenberg felt that this was not the point at all.
As a physicist, what he has to do is to lead a large group of scientists to complete the great progress of mankind into the era of nuclear physics.
Of course, whether to enter the era of nuclear energy or enter the era of nuclear weapons is not something that he, a scientist, can control.
"Supervise every link, if something goes wrong, don't blindly draw conclusions, investigate step by step from the root, and don't take anything for granted!" Li Leqian said instructively.
Historically, Germany has never developed an atomic bomb, and Li Le only has an unstable way to understand historical materials.
He really didn't know if it was because of the sabotage of the British special services, or because of Heisenberg's negligence, which caused the lag in German nuclear physics research uh.
So he could only ask Heisenberg to help him develop the atomic bomb, while trying his best to supervise every link.
Of course, Li Le secretly arranged another research team to review Germany's nuclear weapons research step by step. When he encounters any problem, he has to ask it personally.
It's not that Li Le understands nuclear physics, but the theoretical knowledge about nuclear weapons he learned is almost the same as the content of a few textbooks about high school physics to cope with the college entrance examination.
However, knowing the general direction of development, he can judge from a macro perspective whether Heisenberg is deliberately delaying or really doing things wholeheartedly.
In addition, he can also judge whether his country's nuclear weapons research has been interrupted by the enemy or interfered with by undesirable factors based on the progress.
"I understand, my Führer...... The construction of the power plant has been approved, but the speed of refining uranium raw materials cannot be increased in a short period of time. Heisenberg was a little sorry when he mentioned this.
Germany itself is a country that lacks electricity, and the newly built power plant, Speer will first use it to produce weapons and equipment urgently needed at the front line, and then part of it will be allocated to consolidate people's livelihood.
Electricity is indispensable for the development of society, and if Germany wants to become the world's first, it must increase its total power generation.
In this environment, the energy consumed by nuclear weapons will not be too much. Li Le was also helpless about this, because he could not suspend the war against the Soviet Union after all.
"Hurry up, we're really running out of time." Li Le had no choice but to let Heisenberg complete the scheduled plan as quickly as possible.
Li Le planned to purify a few kilograms of uranium-235 raw materials enough to produce nuclear weapons in 1943, and then use another year to make a real atomic bomb.
He estimated that the United States would develop an atomic bomb that could be used in combat around 1945, and that Germany would have to have its own atomic bomb before then.
"Yes, my Führer!" Heisenberg hurriedly nodded and said - he now has more than 500 million gold marks in his hands for research and development, which is much more than building a battleship. So he could not refuse, and there was no reason for him to refuse the Führer's request......