Under the leadership of Captain Ivan, Yang Jing and his group walked up to the mound at the edge of the pit. Because the pit was blasted out, its shape was very round and the mound at the edge of the pit was not short.
Originally, this pit should have been dry, but with the continuous infiltration of groundwater, this pit became a lake like it is now. However, the water in this lake is a dark green color, which looks a bit creepy.
"At the Potsdam Conference, US President Truman threatened Stalin with an atomic bomb. After the Potsdam Conference, the Americans dropped two mushroom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. The power of this weapon made the Soviet Union at the time extremely anxious, so it stepped up its nuclear weapons research and development process. The Soviet Council of People's Commissars established the First Special Committee, which was responsible for the development of nuclear weapons, and Beria served as the chairman of the First Special Committee. Stalin stipulated that the mushroom bomb explosion and actual combat must be completed within five years. Kurchatov, an academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, became the chief person in charge of the mushroom bomb plan code-named "First Lightning."
Standing on the edge of the pit, Captain Ivan began to tell about things he knew that few outsiders knew.
"But how difficult is it to develop mushroom bombs? The United States began developing mushroom bombs at the end of 1938. At that time, German scientists Hahn and Strahmann used neutrons to bombard uranium to cause fission. It took seven years for British, French, American and German scientists who fled to the United States to complete the Manhattan Project. The United States mobilized 500,000 people and spent 2.3 billion US dollars. At that time, this was an astronomical figure that was unattainable. As US President Truman said, 'The cost of developing an atomic bomb is enough to buy the entire universe...'"
Yang Jing smiled and nodded. Chris and the others also knew this piece of history. The world's first mushroom bomb was developed in their country, so they felt proud to listen to this.
Captain Ivan turned around, looked at Yang Jing and the others and said, "But do you know how long it took us Soviets to develop mushroom bombs and successfully test-explode the first one?"
Ivan did not wait for Yang Jing and the others to answer, but stretched out his hand and said, "Five years! It took us Soviets only five years to successfully test the first mushroom bomb. And our cost was much less than that of the Americans."
As soon as these words came out, the smiles on Chris's and the others' faces disappeared. Because this was the truth, and the Soviets not only took five years to develop the mushroom bomb, but also were the first to develop the more powerful hydrogen bomb, and they also had the most nuclear warheads in the world. The Red Terror had always been a lingering cloud over the Western world before the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
Bruce couldn't help but retort: "That's because your spies are too powerful, and there are some traitors in the United States. If those people didn't exist, the Soviets wouldn't have developed their mushroom bombs so quickly."
Bruce's words not only did not make Captain Ivan, who was in his sixties, angry, but he nodded with a smile, acknowledging Clark's accusation.
"Bruce, everyone knows about this, but no matter what method we Soviets used to obtain the technology for developing mushroom bombs, in our minds, those who contributed to this are all heroes of us Soviets."
After a pause, Ivan continued, "In fact, when we Soviets were developing mushroom bombs, a Soviet agent who defected to the United States once mentioned this to the Americans and gave a lot of clues, but unfortunately, your US government didn't care about it. At the end of 1945, Igor Guzenko, a translator at the Soviet Embassy in Canada, defected and gave the Canadian government clues about several nuclear spies hidden in the West by the Soviet Union, but Guzenko's confession did not receive special attention at the time. It was not until the Soviet Union's nuclear test was successful that Britain and the United States began to re-investigate based on Guzenko's confession."
"At that time, German-born British engineer Klaus Fuchs was considered an important figure in providing nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union. Fuchs spent his childhood in Germany and later entered the UK as a refugee. After obtaining a doctorate in physics, Fuchs had the opportunity to enter the Los Alamos Laboratory and get involved in the US nuclear development project. During the interrogation, Fuchs believed that he was not selling state secrets, but was acting out of a moral obligation of human society."
"Also, due to the Fox case, a large number of left-wing intellectuals in the United States were investigated at the time, among which the Rosenbergs were the most famous. On July 17, 1950, the husband Julius Rosenberg was arrested, and on August 11, the wife Ethel was arrested. During the interrogation, the couple denied that they had provided intelligence to the Soviet Union. All walks of life paid close attention to the case, and even Einstein and others called on the court to conduct a fair trial. But in the end, the couple was sentenced to death and executed on June 19, 1952. After the Soviet archives were made public, it was found that the husband was indeed a Soviet spy, and the wife knew nothing about it."
"No matter what, these people are immortal contributors to the Soviet Union. Without them, the world would be very different. For us Soviets, they are heroes!"
Captain Ivan was born when the Soviet Union was at its most powerful, so even though the Soviet Union has collapsed for almost 30 years, Captain Ivan is still proud of being a Soviet citizen.
Yang Jing had no interest in such disputes. It was all history and there was no point in arguing about it now.
However, Yang Jing really had a question he wanted to ask, so he interrupted the childish argument between the two.
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