Munitions Empire-Chapter 1000 - : 922 one fuze

Chapter 1000: 922 one fuze

So many military generals, including Tagg, Redman, and Marshal Luff, arrived at Dragon Island at this time, not only to observe this rocket launch but also to witness another spectacular experiment on Dragon Island.

After confirming that the rocket had successfully delivered the satellite into the appropriate orbit and the launch was successfully completed, the second secret experiment of the Great Tang Empire was brought onto the schedule.

The next afternoon, Tang Mo and the two Imperial Concubines arrived at the weapons testing site on Dragon Island: here, the Great Tang Empire had even tested the detonation of aerial bombs weighing over 10 tons.

Before this experiment was brought to the testing site and started, few in the military knew what this experiment was about or what its purpose was.

However, Tang Mo knew that this device was actually a nuclear weapon detonation test—in plain terms, it was to experiment and see if the atomic bomb detonation device could achieve the intensity required to detonate an atomic bomb.

Speaking of its principle, it actually isn’t much different from a detonator: it’s about testing the reliability of two types of detonation under experimental conditions.

As is well-known, there are two detonation methods for atomic bombs: one is gun-type detonation and the other is implosion-type detonation, and these two methods also initially determined the external characteristics of the atomic bombs.

Generally, the body of a gun-type detonated bomb is elongated, with nuclear material at both sides of the body, forcibly pushed together by the detonation device to begin fusion and ultimately complete a nuclear explosion.

Two hemispherical fissile materials are rapidly compressed into a flattened sphere shape under the impact of explosives, reaching a supercritical state. A neutron source releases a large number of neutrons enabling a rapid chain reaction, and within an extremely short time, releases a huge amount of energy, and this is the incredibly destructive atomic bomb explosion.

The other type, implosion-type, is more spherical in shape. The nuclear material is not just two pieces like gun-type atomic bombs, but many pieces, symmetrically distributed around a neutron source at the center of a sphere, resembling a football stitched together from leather pieces. Around each piece of nuclear material is a neutron reflecting layer, further outside are high-explosive and propagation explosives, and detonators.

All detonators are connected to the detonation controller, which, at the preset detonation time, issues detonation commands, and all detonators simultaneously detonate the propagation explosives, causing all blocks of explosives to detonate inward at once. Each block of nuclear material, under the blast of explosives, is compressed and moves at a great speed toward the neutron source at the center of the sphere.

The nuclear material rapidly converges towards the center of the sphere upon collision, and the high pressure at the center causes the material to reach a high supercritical state. At the same time, the neutron source at the center emits a large number of neutrons, the chain reaction starts, expanding outward. Under the pincer attack of internal and external forces, the volume of nuclear material reaches its minimum density and highest, the chain reaction proceeds violently, releasing a massive amount of energy in less than a few microseconds.

From a technical standpoint, the implosion method is more advanced and its destructive power far exceeds that of gun-type atomic bombs. Therefore, the Great Tang Empire directly skipped the gun-type detonation and adopted the more advanced implosion method.

During the explosion process of both types of atomic bombs, there is a step where different nuclear materials are squeezed together. This process, of course, cannot be done by hand but by the pressure generated by the explosion.

Therefore, the atomic bomb detonation test is a data gathering and testing exercise, combining the test data to manufacture reliable nuclear bomb detonators, enabling the atomic bomb to be successfully detonated in actual combat is the purpose of this experiment.

This welding and controlled blasting is similar, needing to converge explosive energy inward, minimizing the explosive energy from dispersing outward and destroying the shell of the atomic bomb.

This form of explosion is known as a converging explosion, which is also the detonation method for an implosion-type atomic bomb. Since the atomic bomb is a weapon, the weapon’s needs include reducing size and weight for deployment, and the explosion force occurs inside the body of the bomb. If not controlled well, it will not only fail to bring the nuclear material to a supercritical state and trigger a chain reaction, but could also destroy the bomb body, hence annihilating the nuclear weapon.

Therefore, it is necessary to find explosives that are small in volume, powerful, easy to control, and safe. After finding the type of explosive, further efforts must be put in other areas: since the purpose of the explosion and its conditions are very high, it is necessary to rigorously test the layout, amount, position, and packaging of the explosive, especially for implosion-type atomic bombs, whose principles are the most complex and must undergo multiple experiments to find the best solution.

Although Tang Mo has completed blueprints in his mind, he has not yet seen a real atomic bomb: even before his transmigration, there were few arms dealers worldwide capable of dealing in nuclear weapons.

These people had either been eliminated or only dared to live incognito in fear in certain lawless countries. Every breath they took was immensely valuable, a cruel cost of their attempts to change the world order.

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Tang Mo is not one of these people; he is actually one of those arms dealers who lives quite comfortably: he only provides weapons within a certain safe range, which allows him to live safely within the tolerance of many powerful forces.

Therefore, in order to accurately experiment with data and truly master the manufacturing principles of atomic bombs, the Great Tang Empire prepared this detonation test. Experiment personnel monitor various parameters generated by the explosion of the explosive groups during the experiment to understand the details of the implementation of the plan.

The detonation test internally did not load nuclear fuel, inside and outside were all sensors, mainly to master whether the explosion conditions met the requirements.

In fact, up to now, the Great Tang Empire has not yet refined a sufficient amount of weapons-grade nuclear material, so the atomic bomb is still theoretically a weapon.

However, Galsa, the brilliant apprentice of Tang Mo responsible for calculating the data of this weapon, knows its ultimate power: theoretically, it really could end the world!

With this weapon, the Great Tang Empire already stands on undefeated ground, no country has the capability to covet the power of the Great Tang Empire, any attempt to surpass the efforts of the Great Tang Empire is a blasphemy against divine authority.

Tagg, Redman, and Luff, the three marshals, of course, knew about the existence of this weapon; in fact, this superweapon wasn’t something one person could create alone—there were over a thousand technical staff on Dragon Island working on this very project.

However, neither the military bigwigs nor the lower-level technical personnel knew the full picture of the weapon.

No one knew what it actually was; even the high-ranking military officers only vaguely knew that there was a mysterious weapon under development, codenamed “Project 596.”

They had no idea how grandiose this plan was, or what the results of this project would represent.

The technicians also had no clue what they were creating; creators of some core components were just surprised to find that they were using gold and silver in place of brass and steel to manufacture certain parts.

The expensiveness of this weapon was beyond imagination, as a considerable portion of the Great Tang Empire’s exaggerated total electricity generation was diverted to this project.

It’s no joke, the electricity supplied to this project could double the electricity usage of another country if redirected there.

Tagg, Redman, and Luff had also seen the plan and knew another mysterious name for it: “Miss Qiu.”

Because of this name, it even once aroused the vigilance of the three imperial concubines, who saw snippets about Miss Qiu in some confidential documents.

Yue’er thought Miss Qiu was related to the mountains because His Majesty The Emperor even had battle-hardened special troops escort a group of experts across thousands of miles of the Great Tang Empire in search for something.

Alice believed Miss Qiu also had something to do with business, as she noticed a large sum of money whose whereabouts she couldn’t trace; the untraceable accounts signified that woman’s importance.

Yulin thought Miss Qiu was extremely important to Tang Mo; she couldn’t find any trace of security arrangements or relevant documents in the Ministry of Internal Affairs—if not for her detective skills, this woman might forever remain a mystery.

Tang Mo sat in a distant safety zone, looking at the “insignificant” tall tower, his heart filled with anticipation for power.

Only a country that possesses this thing will dominate the world; only the genuine acquisition of this power could make everyone heed one’s voice.

After ten years of waiting and hoping, he had finally advanced the Great Tang Empire’s technology to a level comparable to that of World War II.

Now with all conditions ripe, and having found in this world those few elements representing danger and mystery he sought,

all he needed to do was to wait, calmly wait for a world-shaking explosion, for the Great Tang Empire to draw a definitive line with other countries.

Yes, once Tang Mo controlled the power of nuclear weapons, there would be only one superpower in the world, and he would be its ruler!

“Detonate!” After everything was ready, under the watch of the military chiefs and His Majesty The Emperor of the Great Tang, a earth-shaking explosion began on that distant tower.

The dust raised at the site obscured the sun, and a rolling mushroom cloud surged into the sky. The ground itself trembled slightly; this explosion was far more powerful than the special aerial bombs of the Great Tang Empire.

“How was it?” Tang Mo, excited, turned around to boast to his trusted subordinates and the two imperial concubines.

“Your Majesty! This bomb indeed has extraordinary power, however… it clearly… doesn’t impress as much”, because the main explosion was compressive inside, the spectacle from such an explosion didn’t shake hearts as much as a giant aerial bomb would. Thus, a few generals expressed their views very cautiously.

Obviously, everyone didn’t want to embarrass His Majesty The Emperor, so they had to choose some more impartial adjectives to describe what they had just seen, which indeed didn’t match their expectations.

According to their thoughts, such a bomb didn’t require personal attention from His Majesty The Emperor, and even the marshals didn’t need to be there to watch… it was probably just an experimental level for division-level officers to enjoy.

“What, are you joking?” Tang Mo knew it was time to give these marshals a basic notion: “That just now… was merely a detonator.”

He extended his fingers, showing the size with his thumb and index finger approximately two centimeters apart: “About this big of a detonator!”

Then he spread his arms, making a hugging gesture: “It detonated a bomb approximately the size of the entire test site!”