Chapter 252: 【Developing Our Own Atomic Bomb for the Republic】(4k)

And as he entered the stream.

A plot summary popped up on the page. Yu Feng and many friends in the stream read it and then understood a little.

At this time, the streamer Xu Jie in the stream was conducting the plot that had just begun.

After launching the 'Two Bombs, One Satellite' project.

The Republic invited Soviet experts to select a site as a future nuclear test base.

But the Soviet experts immediately selected Dunhuang.

Dunhuang not only had cultural relics left over from ancient times, but the selected site was also not too far from residential areas. If nuclear tests were conducted in the future.

Not only would it affect the surrounding people, but the Dunhuang relics that had existed for thousands of years would likely be destroyed in their hands.

This... wouldn't that make them sinners for all eternity?

So after discussion, the Republic decided to re-select the site.

After several months of searching.

They finally found a place with water sources at Lop Nur and designated the 100,000 square kilometers around the water source as the nuclear test area.

Yu Feng scrolled down and took a look at Xu Jie's past stream records.

Then he clicked on one; it was a march in the vast Gobi, dragging the progress bar backward, the scene flashed by quickly, but at the end.

They were still on the march.

Clicking on any one, they were basically all like this.

This made Yu Feng and the Blue Star friends in the stream gasp, and they successively browsed through some of the earlier stream replays.

Almost without exception.

They were all marching in the vast Gobi, looking for a place to conduct experiments.

Yu Feng looked at it.

This journey of searching lasted for nearly half a year.

In some scenes, there were even quite a few soldiers who had sacrificed themselves.

This also made the Blue Star netizens in the stream fall silent; the Republic during this period was truly too difficult.

If they had even one plane to assist in the search, it wouldn't have taken so much effort.

But the Republic was now in ruins, and simply didn't have that condition. You have to know that there were only a dozen or so planes at the 1949 founding ceremony, and the parade was only completed after they took turns flying over several times.

At this point in time, it was only 1959; where would they get so many planes to assist in the search?

They could only use the most primitive methods to search.

Fortunately, after several months, they finally found it.

But watching the scenes of those months flash by, they were almost all endless Gobi desert, boring, quite boring, and even Blue Star players frowned directly.

Because if they were thrown into that kind of environment, they would probably go crazy after a few days.

There was nothing.

Only endless yellow sand, and aimless searching and marching.

This was absolutely a task that challenged human will.

Yu Feng continued to browse, and as time went on, after finding the water source, the scenes in the video began to gradually develop, similar to other streams.

It was just that unlike other streams where the buildings already had a prototype.

This side had only just begun not long ago.

The soldiers lived in simple tents, and the construction materials hadn't all been brought over; currently, they were only building the foundation, which was being constantly compacted.

Watching the video after Xu Jie's, a group of people pulling ropes to hammer the foundation with the most primitive methods.

Yu Feng couldn't help but say:

"No way?"

"The Republic's nuclear weapons were developed under these conditions?"

Many Blue Star netizens in the stream who hadn't seen it were also extremely shocked.

In fact.

It was no wonder they were shocked.

It was just that when the American Federation was manufacturing atomic bombs during World War II, quite a few Blue Star players had streamed it, and even participated in it.

What were the conditions of the American Federation at that time?

They gathered the world's top scientists, well-known scholars, and had huge funds as well as various equipment specially manufactured for researching atomic bombs.

And what about the Republic?

So far, there was only a site selection.

And then...

Houses and laboratories that hadn't been built yet.

Watching the sky full of yellow sand and the desert Gobi in the scene, the Blue Star netizens were numb.

Doesn't this mean they had nothing?

And it wasn't just funds and equipment; even the Soviet experts had already left. If you wanted someone to give you pointers, there was nowhere to find anyone.

They could only develop the atomic bomb themselves.

And...

In the current situation, the Republic didn't have computers either.

There was a barrage reminder that in other streams, where the timeline was a bit faster and they had already started calculating, the Republic's scholars were using calculators and abacuses.

This...

Some Blue Star netizens went to find photon supercomputers to calculate.

The result given was.

According to the Republic's current conditions, using calculators and abacuses.

A single person would need about 2200 years, and a team of 500 would need about 4-5 years, and there couldn't be any mistakes.

And manual calculation of each step might have an error of 0.1% to 1%, requiring multiple cross-verifications, which might extend the time by 50%.

What was even more fatal was that complex problems like fluid mechanics were difficult to break down.

Combined with experiments, the time might need to increase by more than two years.

The American Federation's Manhattan Project used early computers and 100,000+ personnel, and it took 3 years to complete.

And the current Republic.

Neither had early computers, nor 100,000+ personnel on this vast Gobi beach.

Although watching the Polar Star CG before, it felt like the Republic was cheating.

But really walking to this part of the plot.

Only then did they discover...

What they considered cheating was countless flesh and blood bodies on this vast Gobi beach, racing against time with their lives.

But could this really build an atomic bomb?

To be honest.

Even seeing the Republic start from scratch to manufacture an atomic bomb with their own eyes, they still couldn't believe that the people of the Republic could build an atomic bomb in such an environment and under such conditions.

They truly couldn't believe that an atomic bomb could really be built here until they saw the atomic bomb explode with their own eyes.

And these Blue Star netizens had such thoughts.

Let alone other countries and federations within 'Earth'.

Yu Feng finished browsing Xu Jie's previous videos and then returned to Xu Jie's stream.

At this moment.

Xu Jie in the stream was sitting on his backpack, his whole person full of energy, sitting straight, as if infected by the Republic in this game.

Ahead.

The Republic's general looked at them, his eyes like torches, his voice like thunder:

"The war in the country is over!"

"The war abroad is also over!"

"We didn't get to dress up in red and green, hold a celebration meeting! We didn't get to go home to visit our parents, with one order!"

"You!"

"Followed the Party! Ran to this vast Gobi beach!"

"To this day, the people at home don't know where we are!"

"Don't know!"

"Whether we are dead or alive!"

The general pointed fiercely at the top of his head, as if an invisible nuclear bomb was hanging there:

"Just because! On the battlefield! American imperialism used a little gadget! Hanging over our heads! Every now and then they want to perform surgery on us!"

"The Soviet experts also left!"

"Looking down on us!"

"Without this thing, our backs won't be straight!"

"No status! No peace!"

"Can't live a good life steadily!"

"We!"

"Just want to develop our own atomic bomb for the Republic on this vast Gobi beach!"

The voice fell.

The soldiers below waved their clenched fists one after another; they were all veterans who had retreated from the Peninsula battlefield, naturally clear about the American Federation's arrogance on the Peninsula battlefield, and their voices contained an unprecedented firmness:

"Develop the atomic bomb! Straighten our backs!"

"Develop the atomic bomb! Straighten our backs!!!"

The impact and shock brought by the shouting of countless soldiers echoed in the minds of Yu Feng and the Blue Star netizens in the stream.

Let alone Xu Jie, who was in the middle of it, waving his arms and shouting like crazy.

Yu Feng and the Blue Star netizens in the stream watched this scene and felt a strange tremor.

With the end of the mobilization meeting.

Xu Jie's stream began the hot construction work again.

It was just different from what Yu Feng and the Blue Star netizens in the stream thought.

It was clearly this most primitive construction method, consuming countless manpower, but watching the scene of so many people working together in the plot, it made them want to join in instead.

Fortunately, this impulse subsided after a while.

Yu Feng watched for a while.

The stream was just purely building houses and still compacting the foundation; it would take some time before the plot progressed.

Yu Feng exited Xu Jie's stream.

Then he browsed the Republic region in the 1959 timeline and quickly found another stream on the Gobi beach, but in this stream.

The houses had already been built.

The streamer in this stream was also a soldier, who was patrolling.

And as he patrolled past room after room.

Yu Feng and the Blue Star friends in his stream also saw that in the houses built by the soldiers, the people working were scientific researchers calculating with abacuses.

The sound of abacuses clattered in the rooms.

When passing by a room, the streamer glanced inside.

And it was precisely this glance.

That made Yu Feng notice the dense formulas on the panel; Yu Feng subconsciously took a screenshot and then saved it in a folder.

Looking at the dense formulas, the Blue Star netizens in the stream were confused.

The full screen of question marks didn't understand what this was.

Yu Feng naturally didn't understand either, but with a photon supercomputer, Yu Feng threw the complete screenshot of the formula to the photon supercomputer.

Let it calculate the result to see how long it would take.

According to Yu Feng's thought, it would only take two or three seconds at most.

But after throwing it into the photon supercomputer for a few seconds.

The photon supercomputer refused to give a result because this was an atomic bomb explosion model; although it was very backward compared to Blue Star's technology, if it were made public.

It would easily lead to unnecessary trouble.

So it couldn't give a result.

Looking at the restriction warning given by the photon supercomputer, Yu Feng reacted.

Indeed.

This thing had enough lethality.

If the formula were published, what if some genius tried to build it by hand? After all, not all of those fanatics inciting war were fools.

So it was better to keep it public.

But since he knew that even the photon supercomputer took a few seconds, looking at the room in the scene again.

"Hiss—"

Yu Feng gasped.

They really were calculating with abacuses.

How many years would this take? How could it possibly be calculated?

The computing power of the photon supercomputer was already many times that of Earth, and it still needed a few seconds, while the Republic's plot only relied on manpower to pile it up with abacuses.

And these thousands of people couldn't make a single mistake.

If they made one mistake, they would have to tear it down and start over.

What kind of engineering volume and rigor was this?

It was just that Yu Feng couldn't imagine that scene.

This wasn't like a military parade or something.

Thousands of people walking in unison; even if they walked a step slower, it wouldn't matter, and with so many people, it wouldn't be noticeable at all.

This was mathematics, calculation.

If they made a mistake by one step, the calculation result would be a world apart.

People could do things far beyond biological limits under extreme conditions, but they absolutely couldn't do a complex math problem.

No matter which world it was in.

Mathematics was the most rigorous.

Sometimes one person's calculation could be wrong; for these thousands of people to guarantee no mistakes... it was simply absurd.

Yu Feng exited this stream.

He looked for another one.

The timeline in this stream was even later than the previous ones.

And in this stream, they also encountered the problem that Yu Feng and the Blue Star netizens in the stream were worried about before.

Calculation data.

Wrong!

In the stream.

The scientists in the classroom gathered together, repeatedly calculating the data on that piece of paper, until they stopped after a moment, and the scientist holding the paper had a solemn expression:

"It's the fifth time."

"It still doesn't match the data given by the Soviet experts."

Hearing this.

The scientific researchers in the room all had solemn expressions.

The calculation had already been carried out to this point, and suddenly the data didn't match; where exactly did the problem arise?

If they couldn't find it.

Then the previous efforts would all be in vain, and they would have to start calculating from the beginning.

For a time.

All the scientists in the room didn't know what to do.

It was just that this accident was too serious.

Seeing this situation.

Yu Feng and the Blue Star netizens in the stream couldn't help but feel anxious.

This...

It really happened.

And this was manual calculation; if they made a mistake by one step, they would have to tear it down and start over; who knew how much time it would take.

At this time.

A thin, dignified-looking scientist frowned and walked into the room.

Seeing the person coming.

The others all stood up, but the person coming didn't stand on ceremony, directly taking the paper recording the data given by the Soviet experts.

And those five identical draft papers of the calculation results.

Looking at the two sets of data.

The thin man stared at the draft paper in his hand for a few seconds, looked up, and said:

"What if they were wrong?"

The voice fell.

The scientists in the room were shocked, their eyes full of shock, looking at each other:

"This..."

Soviet experts... could they be wrong?

This was a question they had never thought about before.

Because the Soviet Union had long since built an atomic bomb, and these drawings and formulas were also left by them; how could they be wrong?

But looking at the man's gaze, and thinking of the five draft papers with identical calculation results.

Everyone's heart couldn't help but waver.

Mathematics was rigorous.

In this situation, either the Soviet experts were wrong, or they were wrong.

But they had already calculated it five times, and the results were identical.

Perhaps... ===== CHAPTER 253 =====