Anti-War Game: Starting from Normandy Campaign-Chapter 580 - 278: [Create Our Republic’s Own Atomic Bomb]
As they entered the live broadcast room.
The current plot summary also popped up on the page, and Yu Feng and many viewers in the live room took a look, gaining some understanding.
At this moment, the host Xu Jie in the live room was starting the newly begun storyline.
After launching the ’Two Bombs and One Satellite’ project.
The Republic invited experts from the Soviet Union to choose a site as a future nuclear test base.
However, the Soviet experts immediately selected Dunhuang.
Dunhuang not only has cultural relics left from ancient times, but the chosen site is also not far from residential areas, and if nuclear tests were to be conducted there in the future.
It might not only affect the surrounding populace, but those thousand-year-old relics of Dunhuang would likely be destroyed in their hands.
This....wouldn’t that make them sinners for the ages.
So the Republic, after discussions, decided to select a new site.
After months of searching.
They finally found a water source near Lop Nur, marking an area of 100,000 square kilometers around the source as the nuclear test zone.
Yu Feng scrolled down and looked at Xu Jie’s past live broadcasts.
He then clicked on one, showing the march through the vast Gobi Desert, sliding the progress bar back quickly, but it was still en route at the end.
Randomly clicking on one, it’s pretty much the same.
This made Yu Feng and the Blue Star viewers in the live room gasp, and they continued to watch some earlier live replays.
Almost without exception.
They were all marching through the boundless Gobi, searching for a place to conduct experiments.
Yu Feng looked over.
This search journey lasted for almost half a year.
Some footage even showed quite a few sacrificed soldiers.
This left the Blue Star viewers in the live room silent, realizing how hard things were for the Republic during this era.
If only there were aircraft to aid in the search, it wouldn’t have been so exhausting.
But at this point, the Republic was just beginning to develop, having none of those resources. In 1949, at the founding parade, there were only a dozen or so planes, reused multiple times to complete the parade.
Now, it was only 1959, nowhere near enough planes to aid in the search.
They could only use the most primitive methods to search.
Fortunately, after several months, they finally found it.
But watching the footage from those months fly by, it was almost all an endless expanse of Gobi Desert, monotonous, extremely monotonous, and even Blue Star players watching frowned.
For if they were placed in such an environment, they would likely go crazy within a few days.
There was nothing.
Only endless yellow sand and aimless searching and marching.
This was definitely a task that challenged human willpower.
Yu Feng continued to browse, and as time went by, after finding the water source, the video footage began to gradually show construction, similar to other live broadcasts.
But unlike those others where buildings at least had some form.
This side had just barely begun.
The soldiers were living in simple tents, and all the construction materials hadn’t been brought over yet. They were only laying the foundations, continuously compacting them.
In the later videos of Xu Jie, a group of people could be seen pulling ropes and using the most primitive methods to hammer the foundations.
Yu Feng couldn’t help but say:
"No way?"
"Did the Republic develop nuclear weapons under such conditions?"
Many Blue Star viewers who hadn’t seen this were also extremely shocked.
Actually.
They weren’t to blame for their shock.
Because during World War II, when the United States developed atomic bombs, many Blue Star players broadcasted it and even participated.
What was the United States’ condition at that time?
It gathered the world’s top scientists, renowned scholars, with vast funding and specially made equipment for atomic bomb research.
And the Republic?
So far, they only had a selected site.
Then.....
There were no built houses or laboratories.
Watching the sandstorms and desert Gobi in the footage, Blue Star viewers were dismayed.
Isn’t this equivalent to having nothing?
Moreover, it’s not just about funding and equipment; even the Soviet Union experts had withdrawn, leaving them with no one to consult.
They had to develop the atomic bomb themselves.
Moreover....
In such conditions, the Republic didn’t even have computers.
Some comments suggested that in other live rooms, with a faster timeline, scholars of the Republic were using calculators and abacuses to perform calculations.
This....
Some Blue Star viewers sought out supercomputers to calculate.
The result was.
Based on the Republic’s current conditions with calculators and abacuses.
A single person would need about 2,200 years, a team of 500 would need about 4~5 years, and there could be no mistakes allowed.
With manual calculations, every step might have a 0.1%~1% error, requiring multiple validations, potentially extending the time by 50%.
More critically, complex problems like fluid dynamics were hard to solve.
Along with experiments, the time might need to extend by another two years.
The Manhattan Project used early computers and over 100,000 people and took 3 years to complete.
Currently, the Republic.
Had neither early computers nor over 100,000 people in this vast Gobi Desert.
Previously, while watching Polestar’s CG, it seemed like the Republic was cheating.
But reaching this part of the story.
They realized....
The "cheating" they thought was the result of countless flesh and blood bodies racing against time in the vast Gobi Desert.
