For two years, the US military has been planning to counterattack the European continent. However, the Tang Empire has not opened the Ireland Island, which has prevented the US military from using the Ireland Island to attack Britain, and then used Britain as a springboard to counterattack Europe.

In the end, the US military chose to launch a counterattack against Europe in the Mediterranean, and its target did not aim at the German army, but aimed at the weakest Italian army.

The US military was actively preparing, with a large number of troops and supplies gathering in Egypt, while the Italian army opposite was frightened, but Mussolini was desperate to save face and said that the Italian army was enough to block the US attack.

Just as the US and Italian armies were about to start a war in the Mediterranean, the Tang Empire, far away in the Central Pacific, ushered in a new era. After more than two years of preparation, the Tang army finally obtained the coveted weapon of mass destruction - the atomic bomb.

This is the most primitive and primary weapon in the nuclear weapon family, and the simplest critical detonation of atomic bombs. However, for the Tang Empire, the preparation of high-concentration uranium raw materials is a major obstacle. Every gram of weapon-level enriched uranium requires a lot of money and time, and then it is made into an atomic bomb that can be dropped on the battlefield. This took the Tang army two years.

In the end, the Tang army got what they wanted and the first five atomic bombs were created.

On an uninhabited island in the South Pacific, the Tang army detonated the first atomic bomb as an experiment. The first impression left by this atomic bomb explosion was extremely strong flash. Within a radius of 50 kilometers, its brightness was equivalent to the sun at noon. Immediately afterwards, a huge fireball formed in the sky, shaped like a larger sun. But its color was constantly changing and colorful. There were gold, purple, violet, gray and blue, and lasted for more than ten seconds. This big fireball illuminated the entire island. The brightness and beauty presented to people can only be understood by intention, but cannot be expressed in words.

Then, the bright big fireball transformed itself into a mushroom cloud-shaped cloud body, gradually rising to the sky to a height of 3,050 meters in the air. The fireball went out on its own. Then, a huge cloud group formed in the sky, rushing towards the sky in an extremely surging manner. At this time, the height was 10,980 meters above the ground. At this time, the cloud group formed gathered terrible energy and was extremely powerful. Subsequently, the Tang army scientists in the distance also heard two additional explosions in the cloud group.

Zhang Meng and the core officials of the Empire witnessed the explosion power of the atomic bomb on Air Force One. The unmanned island sank in the explosion, and more than a dozen retired warships within a radius of ten kilometers were overturned and sunk. Monkeys and cattle and sheep on the outer warships died in radiation. The animals that survived by luck will be taken away by scientific researchers in full-body protective clothing for research, especially the situation of the monkeys will be the focus of the research.

Of course, if it were not for Zhang Meng's reminder, scientists and relevant personnel of the Tang Empire would never be able to prepare so thoughtful and comprehensively, and they would be able to grasp the details through more nuclear tests. However, Zhang Meng informed the various explosion shock waves, photothermal radiation, inducing radioactive radiation waves, electromagnetic pulses, high temperatures, residual radioactive elements and other hazards of the nuclear bomb in advance, allowing scientists to prepare relevant equipment for data collection, protection and in-depth research. One nuclear test is equivalent to completing the effect of a hundred nuclear tests, which not only accelerates the Tang Empire's cognition and research speed in nuclear weapons, but also saves huge nuclear test expenses.

The Tang army's first nuclear charge was three kilograms, but after scientists' calculations, the actual effect was only 1.3 kilograms, the explosion equivalent was less than 32,000 tons of TN-T explosives, and the effective killing radius did not exceed 20 kilometers. The Tang army reminded that it would be too wasteful to improve the explosion structure of the atomic bomb.

Two nuclear tests were conducted since then, which gave scientists a deeper research and understanding of the atomic bomb and obtained a more solid technical foundation and experimental data for the future nuclear weapons industry of the Tang Empire. The United States and Germany are also developing atomic bombs, but they are far inferior to the progress of the Tang Empire. They cannot obtain valuable experimental data and accurate understanding of new things in advance from Zhang Meng like the Tang Empire.

Not long after, the Tang army successfully created the first atomic bomb that could be used for actual combat, and Zhang Meng named it Naughty Child. The Tang army made the first atomic bomb code-name Naughty Child into an airdrop aviation nuclear bomb, using the Dabai Crane strategic bomber as a carrier, waiting for the opportunity to conduct actual combat experiments.

This weapon will change the world pattern. The Tang army accelerated the mining and purification of nuclear raw materials in Australia to weapon-level concentrations. After more in-depth research, scientists continued to improve the centrifuge and have a higher purity. At the same time, according to Zhang Meng's guidance, scientists quickly invested in more complex, precise and powerful thermal nuclear weapons research, and related nuclear reactors were accelerated.

Zhang Meng asked the nuclear engineering laboratory to speed up the development of nuclear reactors, mainly in several aspects. First, the Tang army needs to use nuclear reactors to generate electricity to solve the power consumption problem of the Tang Empire. Second, the Tang army's nuclear-powered submarines, nuclear-powered cruisers, and even nuclear-powered battleship projects require small nuclear reactors, especially the orbital kinetic cannons in the Tang army's future weapon plan consumes a lot of power, and only nuclear reactors can provide continuous power support. Third, nuclear weapons engineering requires that the weapon-grade plutonium elements in thermonuclear weapons need to be produced through nuclear reactions. This is the by-product of nuclear reactors, killing two birds with one stone.

In fact, Datang had successfully developed a nuclear reactor before developing nuclear weapons. Because the uranium concentration required for nuclear reactors is not high, only about 30% is enough, and the laboratory has already completed relevant tests and preparations.

But safety is a huge test. The Tang Dynasty scientists had to conduct repeated experiments to find various solid materials to prevent the outbreak of dangers, and ensure that the nuclear reactors used by the Tang Empire were absolutely safe.

This is also the issue that Zhang Meng is most concerned about. He is well aware of the horror of nuclear disasters. The Tang Empire cannot withstand such torture. Especially in Chang'an, Yanjing, Jinling and other cities are located on islands, and natural disasters must be taken into account, which brings more comprehensive problems to scientists. Therefore, it was not until nearly a year after the advent of the atomic bomb that the scientists of the Tang Empire finally designed a reasonable and safe nuclear reactor protection system.

With the construction of the first nuclear power plant of the Tang Empire, located on the east coast of Australia, the Tang Empire had to observe for a period of time before it could build a nuclear power plant on Daxing Island south of Chang'an. After all, Chang'an is the capital of the Tang Empire, and it is necessary to ensure absolute safety.

However, officials of the Tang Empire still put forward new suggestions. First, Tesla has made progress in the radio energy transmission system, which can light a 30-watt light bulb 500 meters away from the air. Cabinet officials hope to speed up the research on wireless power transmission, so that nuclear power plants can be built in Australia and directly transported across the sea to Chang'an, Yanjing and other places for use to ensure the safety of the capital.

The second proposal was to require the Tang Empire to move its capital, leave the original Tonga Island, and move to Sydney, and at the same time change Sydney to Chang'an. The original capital was used as the capital, and a capital was also established in Vladivostok, Far East, to strengthen the control of the Tang Empire over these areas.
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