Chapter 921: 922 a fuse
Chapter 921 922 A fuse
So many military generals, including Marshal Tiger and Redman Loew, all arrived at Dragon Island at this time. In addition to visiting this rocket launch, they also wanted to visit another spectacular experiment on Dragon Island. .
After confirming that the rocket had put the satellite into a suitable orbit and that the entire launch was successfully completed, the Datang Empire's second secret experiment was put on the agenda.
In the afternoon of the next day, Tang Mo and the two imperial concubines arrived at the weapons testing site on Long Island: here, the Tang Empire even tested the detonation of aerial bombs of more than 10 tons.
Before this experiment was sent to the experimental site to start, few people in the military knew what the experiment was and what its purpose was.
But Tang Mo knew that this thing was actually a detonation test of a nuclear weapon—to put it more bluntly, it was an experiment to see if the detonating device of an atomic bomb could reach the strength to fire an atomic bomb.
Speaking of its principle, it is actually no different from a fuze: it is to find a way to test the reliability of the two detonation forms under experimental conditions.
It is well known that there are two detonation methods for atomic bombs, one is gun detonation, and the other is implosion detonation. The two detonation forms are different, which also determined the appearance characteristics of the atomic bomb in the early stage.
Generally, the projectile for gun-type detonation is slender. The nuclear charges are on both sides of the projectile. They are forcibly pushed together by the detonating device, fuse to start the nuclear reaction, and finally explode to complete the nuclear explosion.
The two hemispherical fissile materials are rapidly compressed into an oblate spherical shape under the bombardment of explosives, reaching a supercritical state. The neutron source releases a large number of neutrons, causing the chain reaction to proceed rapidly and releasing a huge amount of energy in a very short period of time. This is an atomic bomb explosion with huge destructive power.
The other kind of implosion shape is closer to a sphere. The nuclear charge does not have only two pieces like the gun-type atomic bomb, but many pieces. They are symmetrically distributed on the spherical surface with the neutron source as the center, much like a leather block. Spliced football. A neutron reflecting layer is installed on the outside of each piece of nuclear charge, and then there are high-explosive velocity explosives, boosters and detonators.
All detonators are connected to the detonation controller. When the detonation controller issues the detonation command according to the scheduled detonation time, all detonators will detonate the booster at the same time, and all the explosive blocks will detonate inward at the same time. Each nuclear charge is placed on the inside of the explosive. Under detonation, it is compressed and moves toward the neutron source in the center of the sphere at a very high speed.
The nuclear charges collide with each other as they approach the center of the sphere at high speed, and the high pressure generated causes the nuclear charges to reach high supercriticality at the center of the sphere. At the same time, the neutron source at the center of the sphere emits a large number of neutrons, and a chain reaction begins, expanding outward. Under the attack of internal and external forces, the nuclear charge volume reaches the minimum density and the highest density, and the chain reaction proceeds fiercely, releasing huge energy in less than a few microseconds.
From a technical point of view, the implosion type is more advanced, and its killing power is far greater than that of the gun-type atomic bomb. Therefore, the Tang Empire directly skipped the gun-type detonation and directly chose the more advanced implosion method.
In the explosion process of both kinds of atomic bombs, there is a link, which is to squeeze different nuclear materials together. Of course, this process cannot be pushed by hand, but must be completed by the thrust pressure generated by the explosion.
Therefore, the atomic bomb detonation test is a data collection and test. The purpose of this experiment is to combine the test data to create a reliable nuclear bomb fuse so that the atomic bomb can be detonated smoothly in actual combat.
This welding is very similar to directional blasting. It needs to aggregate the explosion energy internally and minimize the explosion energy from spreading outward to destroy the outer shell of the atomic bomb.
This form of explosion is a cohesive explosion, which is the detonation method of an implosion atomic bomb. Since the atomic bomb is a weapon, the weapon needs to be reduced in size and weight to facilitate delivery, and the explosive force explodes in the bomb body. Once the control is not good, not only will the nuclear charge not reach supercriticality and a chain reaction will occur, but it will destroy the projectile to destroy nuclear weapons.
So it is necessary to find explosives that are small, powerful, easy to control and safe. After finding the model of the explosive, we have to work **** other aspects: Since the purpose and conditions of the explosion are very high, the layout, quantity, location, packaging materials and other parameters of the explosive must be strictly tested, especially for implosion atomic bombs. The principle is the most complex, and it takes many trials to find the optimal solution.
Although Tang Mo had a blueprint of the finished product in his mind, he still had never seen a real atomic bomb: even before he traveled through time, there were only a few arms dealers in the world who could resell nuclear weapons.
These people have either been killed, or they only dare to live in anonymity and with great prestige in some countries where no one cares. Every breath they take is extremely precious, and this is the cruel price they pay for trying to change the world.
Tang Mo is not this kind of person. He is actually the kind of arms dealer who lives a relatively comfortable life: he only provides weapons within a certain safe range, which allows him to live safely within the tolerance of many forces that he cannot afford to offend. .
So, in order to obtain accurate experimental data and truly understand the manufacturing principles of atomic bombs, the Tang Empire prepared this detonation test. Experimenters monitor various parameters generated when the explosive group explodes during the experiment to understand the details of the implementation of the plan.
There is no nuclear fuel loaded inside the detonation test. There are sensors inside and outside. The main purpose is to know whether the explosion situation meets the requirements.
In fact, the Tang Empire has not yet refined a sufficient amount of weapons-grade nuclear charges, so the atomic bomb is still a theoretical weapon.
However, Tang Mo’s genius apprentice Garza, who was responsible for calculating the data of this weapon, knew the ultimate power of this weapon: in theory, it can really end the world!
With this weapon, the Tang Empire is already invincible. No country has the ability to covet the power of the Tang Empire. Any attempt to surpass the Tang Empire is a blasphemy against the divine right.
Of course the three marshals Tiger, Redman and Loew knew about the existence of this weapon. In fact, this super weapon cannot be made by one person. There are thousands of technicians on Dragon Island alone. Work around this thing.
It’s just that neither the military bosses nor the low-level technicians know the full picture of this weapon. No one knows what this thing is. Even high-level military generals only vaguely know that a mysterious weapon code-named 596 is being developed.
They have no idea how grand this plan is, nor what the results of this plan will mean.
The technicians also had no idea what they were producing. The manufacturers of some core components were just surprised to find that they were using gold and silver instead of brass and steel to make certain parts.
This weapon is more expensive than people imagine, because a large part of the Tang Empire's extremely exaggerated power generation capacity was diverted to this project.
It’s no joke, if this electricity is transmitted to some other country, almost the entire country’s electricity can be used twice.
Tiger, Redman and Loew have also seen this plan. They only know another mysterious name of this plan: "Miss Qiu".
Because of this name, it even aroused the vigilance of the three royal concubines. They saw a few words about Miss Qiu in some mysterious documents.
Le'er felt that Miss Qiu was related to the mountains, because His Majesty the Emperor even asked a group of experienced special forces to protect a group of experts and traveled thousands of miles across the Tang Empire in order to find something.
Alice thought that Miss Qiu was related to business, because she discovered that a large amount of money was missing from her account. The fact that even she couldn't find the accounts showed how important that woman was.
You Lin thinks that this Miss Qiu is very important to Tang Mo. No matter whether it is security or related documents, there are no clues in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. If it weren't for her as a great detective, this woman might always remain a mystery.
Tang Mo sat in the safe area in the distance, looking at the "tiny" tower, filled with expectations for power.
Only the country that holds this thing is the overlord of the world. Only when it truly possesses this power can it make everyone listen to its voice.
After ten years of waiting and ten years of expectation, he finally advanced the technology of the Tang Empire to the level around World War II.
Now that all the conditions are ripe, he has also found the mysterious elements that represent danger that he wants in this world.
All he had to do was wait, wait with peace of mind, wait for that loud noise, and wait for the Tang Empire to completely draw a clear line with other countries.
Yes, after Tang Mo controls the power of nuclear weapons, there will be only one superpower in the world, and he will become the master of this superpower!
"Detonate!" After preparations were made, under the gaze of the military bosses and His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, an earth-shaking explosion began on the high tower in the distance.
The dust rising from the school grounds covered the sky and the sun, and a rolling mushroom cloud shot straight into the sky. The ground trembled. This explosion was even more powerful than the Tang Empire's special aerial bombs.
"How is it?" Tang Mo turned around excitedly and showed off to his confidants and the two imperial concubines.
"Your Majesty! This kind of bomb is indeed extremely powerful, but... it is obviously... not that impressive." Because the main explosion is to squeeze the inside, this kind of explosion is far less shocking than the giant aerial bomb in terms of momentum. People's hearts. Therefore, several generals expressed their opinions very carefully.
Obviously, everyone did not want to embarrass His Majesty the Emperor, so they could only choose some more pertinent adjectives to describe the scene they just saw, which did not match their expectations at all.
According to their thinking, such a bomb does not require His Majesty the Emperor's personal intervention at all, and even a few marshals do not need to come to watch... This is probably only an experimental level for military commander-level officials to watch.
"I said, are you kidding?" Tang Mo knew it was time to give these marshals a basic concept: "The one just now... is just a fuse."
He stretched out his fingers and used his thumb and index finger to pinch out a fuse that was only about two centimeters in length: "About this big fuse!"
Then he stretched out his hands and made a hug gesture: "What it detonated was probably a bomb as big as the entire test site!"
(End of this chapter)