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Tang Hua jumped out of the car, "Hunton is going to explode the day after tomorrow, so I should not bother you to come out to meet him. In fact, the truck team in Wuwu is moving slowly, and it won't arrive until tomorrow."
"Hun Dun went to the tower. These two days are the last round of testing," Qian Sanqiang said. "Commander Zhang Yunyu is directing and coordinating the testing team. We can just work step by step."
Nie Shuai: "After all, a nuclear test has already been carried out, so I am not a novice. The first time is the second time."
Tang Hua: "The first time is raw and the second time is familiar...Nie Shuai, shouldn't the chemical defense troops sampled on the ground be rotated once a nuclear explosion?"
"Hey, except for the chemical defense soldiers, they rotate, and the pilots of the sampling aircraft also rotate," Nie Shuai said, "but the detection and nuclear explosion operators are not rotated."
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January 1:24 a.m. local time.
The Chinese are about to enter the countdown to the first weapon test using nuclear fusion energy.
Just like a Qiongqi test explosion, all the final tests and preparations are ready, and Zhang Yunyu sits in front of the main console.
There are many more people in the main control station.In addition to the group of Qiongqi explosion testers, Tang Hua, Deng Jiaxian, Yu Min, Wu Ziliang, Zhou Guangzhao, and Peng Hengwu also joined.The newcomers were as nervous as Qian Sanqiang and the others 10 days ago. Except for Tang Hua who was still leisurely, everyone was looking at their watches frequently.
Nie Shuai was still standing by the red dedicated telephone.
In fact, Tang Hua suppressed the excitement in his heart... The nuclear test, or the ground tower nuclear test, is rare.
"Enter K3!"
"5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, detonate!"
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Now that the sound and the shock wave have not yet come, what people can feel is a flash of bright light.
The sun in the sky was originally hanging in the south of the center, but suddenly, it seemed that the position of the sun had suddenly moved to the northwest horizon.This is not the sun teleporting, but the flash of the enhanced atomic bomb in the northwest direction, which greatly exceeds the brightness of the real sun.For a second or two, the sun in the sky looks like the moon, but the light from the nuclear explosion looks like the sun.
After the strong flash was over, Tang Hua could use his sunglasses to look at the direction of the nuclear explosion.
On the Gobi Desert in the distance, half a huge bright orange fireball is churning.This is not a purely circular fireball. Compared with its diameter, the 100-meter-high tower supporting the nuclear bomb is too insignificant. Therefore, the bottom of this fireball is still licking the ground. It will take a while for the fireball to completely Lift off the ground.
"How is it?" Tang Hua asked Qian Sanqiang, "How does it compare to Qiongqi?"
"The diameter of the fireball is more than twice that of Qiongqi."
Tang Hua: "It seems that its equivalent is not fake."
Qian Sanqiang nodded in agreement, but kept his eyes on his watch, silently counting the time, waiting for the shock wave to reach the main control station.It didn't take long, just one or two minutes, there was a very loud rolling thunder in the air, and the main control station trembled for a while. At this moment, dust suddenly flew out of the originally clean window.
The pile of shredded paper that Qian Sanqiang piled up on the small table outside the main control station was blown up by the shock wave, and then fell to the ground one after another.
"10 tons! It should be more than 10 tons!"
Allen Dulles looked out from the fourth floor of the CIA headquarters, and the square Lincoln Memorial was not far away, with white pillars and exterior walls reflecting sunlight.
The right to use the U-2 reconnaissance plane is in the hands of the CIA. On January 1, the results of the U-15’s detection and sampling over Xinjiang were airlifted back to the United States, and they were first placed at the CIA headquarters. Nuclear experts from the U.S. Air Force and the Department of Energy have now gathered in the headquarters laboratory to analyze and judge the parameters of the Chinese atomic bomb. .
"According to the data analysis of the seismic observation station, the explosion equivalent is between 2.3 and 2.5 tons of TNT, which is basically in line with the description of the atomic bomb announced by China. Although the sampling time of the reconnaissance plane was a bit late, the residue is still enough to make a judgment. an imploding uranium bomb."
Dulles: "France's first atomic bomb was a plutonium bomb, while China's was a uranium bomb. What do they explain?"
"Both uranium and plutonium are fissile elements that can be used to make atomic bombs. For now, plutonium is superior to uranium. Its critical mass is smaller and it is more suitable as a nuclear trigger for hydrogen bombs," said Robert Amos, a nuclear expert at Los Amos Laboratory. "However, if the first atomic bomb that goes off is a uranium bomb, then the country's nuclear industry is better planned and better equipped," Christie said.
"why is that?"
"The way to obtain weapons-grade plutonium is to initially purify uranium to obtain low-enriched uranium of about 4%, build a test reactor, burn 4% uranium rods to produce plutonium, and then extract plutonium from the fuel rods. If you want to make uranium bomb, then it is only necessary to separate isotopes of uranium to increase the content of uranium-235 from 0.7% to more than 90%.”
Christie paused, "However, to obtain uranium 90 with a concentration of more than 235% requires a large-scale isotope separation plant with well-equipped facilities. This requires preparations for this three to four years ago."
"This is China's advantage," said a CIA intelligence officer. "In 1956, they obtained a gas diffusion plant from the Soviet Union. It is said that the Soviet Union sold it to China because the output was too small. However, although it has a small output, it has 1350 series gas diffusion machines are enough to produce 95% weapon-grade uranium.”
"We analyzed the French 'blue desert rat' last week, and it seems to be in this room," Christie said. For the atomic bomb, the gas diffusion plant they built produced low-enriched uranium, aiming at the technical route of building a plutonium production reactor and making a plutonium bomb.”
Dulles: "What about the other aspects of this Chinese atomic bomb?"
"Other information, they used about 18 to 20 kilograms of uranium to obtain an equivalent of 2.4 tons of TNT; the 'Blue Desert Rat' used 80 to 100 kilograms of plutonium to obtain an equivalent of 6.5 tons. The utilization of materials is much higher than the French, and much higher than our first atomic bombs."
"An atomic bomb that uses fissile material efficiently is more suitable as a nuclear trigger for a hydrogen bomb," added Harold Lewis of the Department of Energy.
Christie: "Hehe...theoretically so. However, I don't think the Chinese will be able to develop a hydrogen bomb within three to five years. They also need to miniaturize the atomic bomb to solve the problem of matching nuclear warheads with ballistic missiles. Think again The development of hydrogen bombs is difficult, and China may stay at the stage of various atomic bombs and enhanced atomic bombs for a long period of time.”
Dulles: "I also want to know a key piece of information, can China's atomic bomb be dropped?"
Christie: ...
Intelligence Officer: ...
The two looked at each other, neither of them willing to speak first.Finally, Christie replied in rather vague words:
"We can only use indirect methods to infer that China's implosion-style uranium bombs, the object before the explosion-that is, the soft metal ball containing the uranium block, its diameter is about 60 cm. The total diameter of the explosives applied is 70 to 80 centimeters. This size can be made into the shape of an aerial bomb and dropped."
"After all, our first implosion atomic bomb had a core diameter of 85 centimeters," the intelligence official added.
Dulles: "That is to say, this type of atomic bomb can theoretically be dropped."
With this information, it was almost enough for Dulles to report to Eisenhower.
……
Dulles was about to stand up and leave when the door was pushed open.
Charles Cabell, Air Force Lieutenant General and Deputy Director of the CIA. "I'm here about the situation of China's nuclear test..."
"Oh, the Chinese nuclear test data obtained by your U-2 is being discussed here."
Kabell looked at the experts sitting in the conference room in surprise, and said to Dulles: "It was not the Chinese nuclear test on January 1, it was four hours ago. China exploded their second atomic bomb, Dulles Mr. S."
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Jakarta, January 1.
The Chinese Navy’s ballistic missile test team and visiting fleet left Port Klang, retreated from the Strait of Malacca to the South China Sea, held three days of military exercises in the waters of Nanwei Island, and then went south again, arriving in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, on January 1.
Indonesia is now under the rule of Indonesia's founding president Sukarno.
Sukarno is called the father of the nation by the Indonesians. After World War II, he unified the messy residents of such a large archipelago into one country, which shows that Sukarno's political reputation is very high.
However, the Sukarno government is not doing well in the economy, the government is inefficient, and all industries are in a state of stocking. It is just that the climate in the tropical area is good, and everyone can't go hungry, so they can barely make do.
Chapter 4, Shelling?What shelling?
The Chinese fleet sailed into Port Klang and was warmly welcomed by the locals—in addition to Indonesian Chinese and overseas Chinese, there were also Indonesian locals. A large group of people warmly welcomed the Chinese warships and Soviet support ships at the pier.
"What Sukarno emphasized is that all ethnic groups and religious groups in Indonesia are united under one unified country, peacefully co-existing and seeking common development," Zhang Xuesi said. Unified into one country, not divided into several pieces."