Beiyang reactionaries

Churchill walked into the meeting place with a sullen face and saw Duan Xun and Roosevelt talking quietly there, so he walked to his seat and sat down.Churchill was angry when he saw Duan Xun now, so he immediately said: "Chairman Duan, I think you should give me an explanation."

"I don't quite understand, Mr Prime Minister."

Duan Xun shrugged innocently.

Churchill was furious, and said directly: "Chairman Duan, I think we are sitting here and should be allies. But your country attacked our army, shouldn't you really give an explanation? Or your country is preparing to go to war with us ?”

"I really don't understand what the Prime Minister said. We have stated long ago that the Republic of Myanmar is the only legitimate Myanmar government recognized by our country, and Myanmar is still a member of the Chinese Federation. But your country insists on establishing a Burmese interim government. I don't know What is your country’s standpoint for the establishment of the Burmese interim government? Is it to establish a colonial government and Britain to continue to colonize Burma? And we have already informed your country that the Japanese army in Burma has been almost wiped out by us, and there is no need for your army to go north. Your country should focus on Malaysia instead of Myanmar. My attitude was very clear yesterday, and there will be no change. If the prime minister thinks that we are declaring war on your country, then you can think so. Your country wants In war, we, China, will accompany us."

Churchill was dumbfounded.

Looking at Duan Xun now, the first thing Churchill thought of was Hitler.

When Hitler was weak, every time he angered Britain and France, he told Britain and France to soften up.Later, Germany became stronger and stronger, and its attitude towards Britain and France became more and more tough.Britain and France took a step back, and Hitler took a step forward.

Eventually it led to World War II.

In Churchill's view, Duan Xun was like this.

In the past, when facing the UK, Duan Xun also had tough times.But basically even if you are tough, you will soon be subdued.Duan Xun handled the relationship with the UK very well, but now he doesn't care about the UK at all.

Of course, the situation now is different from that time.Duan Xun wanted to be Hitler, but he had no chance, after all, the Second World War was coming to an end.At this time, it is impossible for Duan Xun to provoke a world war.But if Duan Xun really has the same character as Hitler, then he really needs to think about it.

Roosevelt frowned slightly beside him.

He didn't expect Duan Xun to be so tough.There are many people who have met Duan Xun in the United States, such as the US Secretary of State Hull, and the President's special envoy Stilwell have met Duan Xun and had secret talks with Duan Xun.Their answer was that although Duan Xun was a soldier, he no longer looked like a soldier and was a very qualified political figure.

In the first two meetings, Duan Xun did not appear too aggressive.

Of course, neither the Tehran Conference nor the Almaty Conference touched on specific post-war issues.Now when it comes to the post-war order in Asia, Duan Xun's attitude has suddenly become tough.

The atmosphere became solemn, but Duan Xun smiled and said: "You two, we are wise people who don't speak dark words. Don't forget how you promised our country at the beginning. If you want to go back on your word now, our country will not agree. The core interests of the country are inviolable, and it seems that when I return home, I will mobilize the whole country to prepare for war. I want to mobilize 2000 million people, which should be able to deal with anything that provokes our core interests."

Duan Xun's joke made both Roosevelt and Churchill frown deeply.

The two of them really couldn't decide whether Duan Xun was trying to scare Britain and the United States, or if he really dared to fight.The two of them judged that Duan Xun was scaring people, or they hoped that Duan Xun was just scaring people.But the two of them are also not sure that Duan Xun is not a lunatic.

If Duan Xun was the same person as Hitler and dared to start a war, the consequences would be very serious.After all, China is a country with a population of more than one billion. It is not impossible to mobilize 2000 million people, not to mention 5000 million.

Duan Xun didn't seem to see the expressions of the two of them, and continued: "President Roosevelt, I heard that the United States is developing an atomic bomb. I don't know where it is now?"

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"President Roosevelt, I heard that your country is developing an atomic bomb. How is the progress?"

Duan Xun suddenly changed the subject and asked Roosevelt.

It is not a big secret that the United States developed the atomic bomb.Especially among these big countries, it is not a secret.Because the United States is not the only country that develops the atomic bomb in the world.

Since Lise Meitner's experimental report was published in the world, several industrial powers have begun to pay attention to this matter.Because among the experimental results published by Lise Meitner, Lise Meitner gave very detailed calculation data.Once it was announced, it caused a sensation in the world of nuclear physics, and many people saw something different from her paper.

Energy, huge energy.

Therefore, many countries have set up such departments to conduct research to see if there is a chance to develop a super bomb.It's just that the outbreak of World War II directly interrupted their research.After all, the development of the atomic bomb is not so easy.A large number of industrial sectors need to be mobilized, a large amount of electricity needs to be consumed, and the state must take the lead in investing large sums of money.However, it is difficult for those countries that are at war to concentrate on developing atomic bombs.

Therefore, countries such as the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France have successively interrupted their research and development work.They were beaten by Germany, and they had no strength to develop atomic bombs.Germany tried very hard, but it was useless.First of all, many nuclear physicists fled Germany because of the German Nazis.And many of the German scientists who stayed in Germany didn't work too hard. They didn't want Germany to develop an atomic bomb.And with a little success, it was blown up by the British and American coalition forces.

In fact, Japan has also tried.

It is a pity that Japan's own strength is seriously insufficient.Not only is the industrial strength insufficient, but there are also no talents in this area.So I just tried it briefly and didn't continue.

During the Second World War, the ability to develop an atomic bomb was only possible for industrial powers such as China and the United States that had not been harmed by the war.

In order to support the United States in developing the atomic bomb, the United Kingdom and the United States signed many cooperation agreements.The United Kingdom and the United States are mainly worried that Germany will take the lead in developing such a super bomb, which will directly affect the course of the war.That's why they jointly developed the atomic bomb, and nuclear physicists from the UK were also sent to the United States to help the United States in the manufacture of the atomic bomb.

Therefore, this is not a secret among major powers. Everyone wants to develop an atomic bomb.

If the United States borders Germany, the first thing Germany must do is to kill the United States' atomic bomb research institute.The United States is far away in North America, so that its homeland can be guaranteed not to be threatened by war, and it also provides a good environment for them to develop atomic bombs.

Roosevelt was surprised.

Duan Xun is really nonsensical. Just now he made a strong statement that he would rather mobilize the army to fight than give up Asian interests.But he turned his head and asked himself the question of the atomic bomb.

Roosevelt didn't know how to respond.

Because atomic bombs are kept secret in the United States, even if the world's major powers know that the United States may be developing atomic bombs, there is no conclusive information.Everyone is just guessing at most, guessing that the United States should be developing an atomic bomb.But even if it is known that the United States has developed an atomic bomb, the progress of the United States' development work is considered a secret among secrets in the United States.At this time, Roosevelt didn't know how to answer. It was impossible to tell Duan Xun, an outsider, the research progress of the US atomic bomb.

Seeing Roosevelt hesitate, Duan Xun said: "President Roosevelt, do you know where the experiment on nuclear fission was done?"

"A fission experiment?"

Roosevelt was more confused about what Duan Xun wanted to say.Roosevelt really didn't know where the nuclear fission test was done.Roosevelt was not a nuclear physicist. If it weren't for World War II or the atomic bomb, Roosevelt would not even know what nuclear fission is.How is it possible to know where the experiment of nuclear fission was done.

Originally, the United States did not pay much attention to this. Even Roosevelt did not think about developing an atomic bomb. At that time, the entire United States did not have this idea.It was many European scientists who came to the United States, including Einstein, who wrote to Roosevelt, asking the United States to develop an atomic bomb.It is stated that if Germany develops the atomic bomb first, it will be a disaster for mankind, and no one can stop Hitler's aggression.That's why Roosevelt began to pay attention to the atomic bomb.

But Roosevelt only heard about this theory from scientists, and he didn't know how it came out.Those scientists simply explained the theory, and it was impossible to tell Roosevelt who discovered the theory, who did the experiment, and who did it in a certain laboratory.

Duan Xun said with a smile: "The nuclear fission experiment was completed in our country's atomic laboratory. Professor Lise Meitner, who completed this experiment and theoretically perfected this experiment, is the person in charge of our country's atomic laboratory. He is a professor of the Department of Physics of Tsinghua University in my country and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences."

Roosevelt and Churchill were surprised.

Because neither of them thought that the nuclear fission experiment was done in China.Professor Lise Meitner, who is very famous among nuclear physicists and has the best chance of winning the Nobel Prize, turned out to be the head of the China Atomic Laboratory.He is also a professor at a Chinese university and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.These titles directly prove Lise Meitner's status in Chinese physics circles.

Of course, what they were thinking about was not this, but what Duan Xun meant now.

"In 1936, Professor Lise Meitner had already discovered the phenomenon of nuclear fission in the laboratory, but the specific situation was not sure at that time, and Professor Meitner did not sort out specific theoretical results. So it has been It was not until 1939 that Professor Lise Meitner's results would be announced to the world. But in 1936, our country had already seen the huge energy contained in nuclear fission, so our country had already carried out nuclear fission at the end of 1936 development of the atomic bomb."

Roosevelt and Churchill were shocked.

It really is.

The power of the atomic bomb is still unknown to Britain and the United States.After all, the United States' atomic bomb is still under development, and it is impossible to judge its specific power without success.But according to the calculations of those nuclear physicists, the power of the atomic bomb is amazing.At least tens of thousands of tons of TNT equivalent power.

Such a super bomb, just think about how powerful it is.

That is not tens of tons or hundreds of tons, but the power of a [-]-ton equivalent TNT bomb.

The United States also counts on the successful development of the atomic bomb, and then relies on the atomic bomb to deter the world.Why did Roosevelt not speak much or express his position at the New Delhi meeting, and why he supported Britain not to discuss the post-war Asian issue for the time being, because he hoped to discuss it after the success of the atomic bomb.At that time, the United States will have more confidence.At present, the development of the atomic bomb in the United States is also in full swing, and great progress has been made.Even the scientists in charge of the U.S. atomic bomb program believe that the U.S. atomic bomb will be able to complete the final steps in about half a year.Originally, such news made Roosevelt very satisfied.

A super bomb that can destroy a city with one bomb will have a powerful deterrent effect on the whole world.Roosevelt did not believe that if China knew that the United States had a super bomb, they could still be so tough, and they would really not be afraid.

Not to mention China, all countries in the world will fear the United States if they know that the United States has such a super bomb.The status and influence of the United States in the world must be rising in a straight line.

That's why Roosevelt was willing to delay.

But what does Duan Xun mean now?China began to develop atomic bombs in 1936?The United States began to develop atomic bombs in 1940, but at that time it was a small matter, and the US government did not pay attention to it.

It was not until after 1941 that the US government began to formulate the "Manhattan Project".It was not until 1942 that large investment began, and a large number of scientific researchers participated in the development of atomic bombs.A full five or six years later than China.