It was the winter of 1941.
That year, the flames of World War II were burning. The world is bleeding, suffering, moaning, struggling.
The winter in that year was particularly cold. In December 1941, it was the season of dripping into ice. The streets of Washington, the capital of the United States, are covered with thick snow, and the icy road is very slippery. It’s almost Christmas, but I can’t see the atmosphere of Christmas at all, and people are in a hurry.
The night was very late. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the American atomic bomb, was walking alone on the empty street. He didn’t know where to go or what to do. He didn’t want to go home, despite his warm home, and his beloved wife was waiting for him.
He really did not know how to face President Roosevelt. In order to explain to President Roosevelt what an atomic bomb is, what is an atom, what is an atomic nucleus, and what is nuclear fission, he is really poor. This great president has zero knowledge of nuclear physics.
He could not make the president understand how an atomic bomb has such incredible lethality, how can an atomic bomb have the power of tens of thousands of tons of TNT explosives, how can an atomic bomb destroy a city, and how can it suddenly Kill hundreds of thousands of people. None of this is scientific fantasy, and war is not fantasy.
He could not make the president understand what is shock wave and what is light radiation, and why the explosion of the atomic bomb will bring nuclear pollution, and how long can nuclear pollution exist. He couldn’t make the president understand why the explosion of the atomic bomb could form a high temperature of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of degrees Celsius. That temperature had reached the temperature inside the sun that burned jade and destroyed everything.
The president’s inexplicable expression has shown that he is very troubled and exhausted. Not to mention the president, he also talked dryly and exhausted. He talked for four hours. The president apparently did not understand anything. It is impossible to want the president to make money for his Manhattan plan, and it is a huge sum of tens of billions of dollars. For the United States during the war in 1941, not much money was spent.
After several years of hard work, Robert Oppenheimer has everything, and world-class scientists including Einstein are under his command. He could have found everything in his pocket. After developing an atomic bomb that can be used in actual combat, all technical issues have been resolved and the laboratory phase is over.
It is still a long way from developing and manufacturing an atomic bomb that can be put into war to determine the course of war and even the outcome of war. He desperately needs huge amounts of tens of billions of dollars and at least 100,000 people’s input. All of this is impossible without the support of the president.
If he can’t get the money, he will lose a lot of money and fall to the last meter. All his hard work will be lost, and he will face the world with no face.
He has another chance, maybe this is the last chance. Tomorrow morning, he will have breakfast with the president. He must use the simplest and most understandable language, maybe only for 3 minutes, to let the president understand whyDevelop an atomic bomb to support his plan.
The sky is getting brighter, the Venus is extinguished in the sky, just at the moment of day and night, suddenly, an idea passed by his heart, maybe this is what people call inspiration, he burst into joy, Saved.
While having breakfast with President Roosevelt, Oppenheimer told him a story.
In December 1804, Napoleon was crowned Emperor of France. According to the history of Napoleon I, he created the first empire of France and smashed five anti-French alliances with his illustrious warfare. The Pyrenees extend to the Neman River and from the North Sea to the Adriatic Sea.
Napoleon, who is invincible, is invincible on the battlefield.
is such a genius and brave man who is rare in the history of world wars, but has repeatedly fought and lost at sea. The French navy was beaten by the British navy, and its armor was unloaded. The floating corpses were full of sea. Just when Napoleon almost lost his strength in the naval battle, he was at a loss, the god of luck came.
An engineer asked for advice. He suggested to Napoleon that the wooden warship be converted into a steel armored ship, and all the cloth sails were cut off and replaced with a steam turbine turbine engine.
This rare genius commander in the history of world war, smiled disapprovingly. His brain only thought that day, if the wooden board was changed to a steel plate, could the boat float on the water? After cutting the cloth sails, what’s the boat going forward? Does it depend on that big teapot? He thought, is he an engineer? Just a lunatic.
He ordered that the chattering lunatic be slapped out.