Chapter 352 Pandora's Box
Ambassador Wei didn't know that the case file investigating Chen Qiang had been sealed by the FBI, and no one would come to the embassy to investigate Chen Qiang.
Ambassador Wei waited for many days but didn't see anyone coming, and he felt anxious. According to common sense, even if the FBI is inefficient, he should come to the embassy to investigate now. However, Ambassador Wei did not receive any news. Not to mention that he did not see the FBI's person coming in person, he did not even receive a letter from the FBI.
Ambassador Wei realized that there should be something wrong with the FBI. He really wanted to go to the FBI to inquire why the letter of reporting was so scattered. However, Ambassador Wei was not a fool. If he really asked, wouldn’t he tell everyone that the anonymous report was written by him?
The conspiracy against Chen Qiang failed, which made Ambassador Wei feel a little bad. However, what should be done still needs to be done, such as continuing to seek US aid.
Now that the war in Europe has ended, the United States does not need to support Europe as much as before. The weapons and materials used to support Europe have naturally become the target that Chongqing needs to strive for. Chongqing hopes that the United States can transport the remaining materials to China, and strive for the "dog surplus" that is not needed on the European battlefield has also become Ambassador Wei's current main task.
In fact, Ambassador Wei had already received news that after the war ended, his ambassador to the United States would have achieved his best. Ambassador Wei relied on his wife to be able to prosper. With Mrs. Wei's connections, Ambassador Wei will definitely be promoted after returning to China. As for how high he is, it also depends on his work results during his tenure as ambassador to the United States. At this time, Ambassador Wei must do his best to do every job at hand in order to be promoted. Before, Ambassador Wei was so keen to sell war bonds. In addition to being able to pluck his hair, he also wanted to make his political achievements better and he could be promoted all the way after returning to China.
On this day, Ambassador Wei visited several congressmen to seek more US aid, but he got nothing. He asked others for things in a blank voice, and his nature was similar to begging. It was obvious that the US congressmen were not generous and they were unwilling to give alms.
The visit to the MP did not gain anything, and Ambassador Wei went to the U.S. Material Distribution Committee, hoping to make some supplies from there.
The official in charge of receiving Ambassador Wei in the Material Distribution Committee happened to be the person who received the director of the FBI a few days ago.
"Amistantor Wei, the allocation of material quotas here has been completed as early as the beginning of the year. At present, our main task is to coordinate the allocation of materials according to the quotas formulated at the beginning of the year..." the official explained slowly.
"I understand, but I still want to ask if anyone has obtained a quota for supplies but has not used it? If so, can we distribute the supplies that others don't want to us?" Ambassador Wei asked.
The official smiled and then said, "Amistantor Wei, it's a special period. All the strategic materials we allocate here are in short supply. If they are thrown into the market, there is no shortage of supply. How could anyone give up this hard-earned quota?"
"That's a pity." Ambassador Wei sighed helplessly. It seemed that this time he came to the material distribution committee, he would return in vain again.
Officials of the Material Distribution Committee continued: "Those who can obtain material quotas from us are not ordinary businessmen. They either have a military background or are familiar with senior officials in Washington. So if Ambassador Wei needs these important strategic materials, he or she still has to go to the military or the congressmen."
"You still need to say this! If those members of Congress are willing to help me, I will use it here." Ambassador Wei said in his heart.
The official continued: "Of course, it would be even better if he could find the help of Mr. President."
"You are joking. Your country's President has a lot of things to do. How can I find him for such a thing?" Ambassador Wei said this, but in fact he couldn't get along with the Truman line.
"Ambassador Wei, I'm not joking. Mr. Chen from your country, just took away a lot of rubber quotas from me with the approval of the President." The official said.
"Mr. Chen? Which Mr. Chen?" Ambassador Wei asked subconsciously.
"It's the Olympic champion, the well-known athlete, Mr. Chen." The official replied.
"You mean Chen Qiang?" Ambassador Wei's expression became extremely shocked.
"Yes, it's him. I don't know a few Chinese people at all. He happened to be one of them." The official nodded.
"You mean, Chen Qiang got President Truman's approval? He got the rubber quota from you?" Ambassador Wei asked anxiously.
The official nodded again: "Yes, the President's autograph, I have seen it with my own eyes, there is no mistake."
Ambassador Wei was stunned on the spot.
"Chen Qiang actually got the approval of President Truman? When did he hook up with President Truman? I haven't said a few words to him since Truman succeeded as president. Why did Chen Qiang get the rubber quota from him?"
At this time, Ambassador Wei was full of black question marks. The next second, he suddenly thought of his anonymous report letter, but the FBI was indifferent. Perhaps it was because Chen Qiang and Truman that the FBI suppressed the matter.
Ambassador Wei's expression suddenly became bitter. He knew that in the next days, he would not only not be able to deal with Chen Qiang, but also need to treat Chen Qiang as a Bodhisattva, because Chen Qiang had a friendship with US President Truman. As long as Truman was still the US president, he would not be able to deal with Chen Qiang.
Ambassador Wei sighed and said to himself: "In the past, you had a good relationship with Roosevelt, so I had to offer you well! Now that Roosevelt is dead, you have a good relationship with Truman, so I still have to offer you well! Didn't it mean that the tea is cold when people leave? Why is your cup of tea still so hot?"
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On July 16, at 4 a.m., before dawn, it was raining lightly in a deserted place in Socorro, New Mexico.
In a bunker, Major de Silva walked to a general and spoke, "General Ente, it's about four o'clock soon. According to the scheduled plan, you can now conduct the experiment."
General Ent looked at an elderly man in a white coat beside him: "Professor, can you start?"
"No, it's still raining outside. The radiation after the explosion may increase due to rain, and may even flow to other places with the rain. We must control the radiation range to avoid radiation in other places." The old professor said.
"But according to the original plan, we will detonate at four o'clock. This plan has been reported to the White House and has been approved by the President. Perhaps the President is waiting for our good news!" General Ent said.
"Mr. President is not in the United States now. He is in Potsdam. Maybe he has not adapted to the jet lag and is sleeping!" The old coach paused and continued: "If the experiment was not in our United States, but in other countries, I don't mind the expansion of the radiation range. Anyway, it is not our own land that pollutes. But we are now conducting such dangerous experiments on the land of the United States, and I must be responsible for the United States. If we cannot control the radiation range, maybe our current location is not safe. I don't think you would like to lose decades of lifespan, right?"
Of course, General Ente wanted to live a few more years. Considering the dangers that the old professor mentioned, he could only nodded: "Okay, then let's wait for the rain to stop!"
At 4:45, a new weather forecast came and the rain would end in half an hour.
At five o'clock, General Ente finally issued an order: "Countdown to twenty minutes!"
A captain led a team of people to conduct the final clearance, and in the sky, two B29 bombers were already in place.
Thirty miles north of the north, an American transport plane was flying at an altitude of 10,000 feet. At this time, they suddenly received an order not to continue flying south.
The rain had stopped, and time passed by minute by minute, and finally reached 5:30.
A violent sound sounded, and at this moment, the surrounding mountains were illuminated, and the nearby areas became as hot as an oven. In the observation point, through the goggle protection device, you can see that the light changed from purple to green and finally white. Immediately afterwards, the shock wave came with the roar, and it took more than 40 seconds to reach the observation point.
The earth began to shake, and even 100 miles away, the white light gradually dissipated, and a huge cheongsam-shaped mushroom cloud soared into the sky, reaching a height of 7.5 miles.
"It's so beautiful! This is at least 5,000 tons of TNT bombs!" The speaker was Dr. John von Neumann, one of the participants in the Manhattan Project.
However, Dr. John von Neumann is probably less. This atomic bomb is equivalent to the equivalent of a 22,000 tons of tnt bomb.
A moment later, cheers rang out from the underground bunker.
"The explosion succeeded, we succeeded!"
"That's great. The research over the years has finally been done!"
"Notify Washington quickly and inform the White House!"
"Mr. President is in Potsdam, Germany, and must inform him of this good news as soon as possible."
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At this time, President Truman was attending the upcoming Potsdam Conference in Potsdam, near Berlin, Germany.
The meeting will be held on July 17. For this meeting, Truman specially gave instructions to complete the Manhattan plan experiment on July 16. Once the experiment is successful, the United States will have greater bargaining chips at the Potsdam Conference.
Germany has surrendered and it is time to deal with Japan next. However, in this regard, the British and French obviously do not want to do their best. Britain just wants to regain its previous colonies in Asia. Moreover, Gandhi and Nehru have been fighting for independence in India, which also makes Britain unable to take care of themselves. France has just recovered and is now undergoing post-war reconstruction and is unable to send troops to Asia. It is estimated that the French colonies in Asia may not be able to maintain them.
Neither the British nor the French could count on them, so the only main forces to deal with the Japanese were China, the United States and the Soviet Union.
Even during the Potsdam Conference, the Soviet Union still did not formally declare war on Japan. The Soviet Union declared war on Japan because it wanted the United States to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Today, the Soviet Union plans to use the matter of sending troops to Japan to gain more benefits. The Potsdam Conference has become a battlefield for the United States and the Soviet Union.
The British and French became cheerleaders. The Soviets wanted benefits, and Chongqing was an Adou who could not help. This made the Americans feel that the team was difficult to lead! So the Potsdam meeting was the same as holding a meeting first, so that the Allies would first reach a consensus on fighting against Japan, so as not to help each other on the battlefield and drag each other down.
The atomic bomb is the biggest bargaining chip for Truman's negotiations with the Soviet Union. Once the atomic bomb test is successful, the United States will be able to prompt Japan to surrender without the help of the Soviet Union, and the atomic bomb also gives the United States a decisive strategic advantage.
Previously, the United States urgently hoped that the Soviet Union would fight against Japan earlier, because the Americans suffered the Japanese on the Pacific battlefield. The Americans knew very well that relying on the United States alone, if they wanted to completely defeat Japan, they would have to fill the lives of millions of American soldiers, so the United States hoped that the Soviet Union could share the pressure for the United States. The Soviet Union also saw this and talked with the Americans about the conditions for sending troops.
Now that the atomic bomb is available, the situation is different. Since the United States can force Japan to surrender alone, the Americans do not want the Soviet Union to fight against Japan, because once the Soviet Union intervenes, the United States cannot monopolize the Far East, and the interests of the Far East will be distributed to the Soviets.
After learning that the atomic bomb was successfully tested, Truman, who was in Potsdam, had a little straighter. He even felt that there was no need to talk to the Soviet Union now, and it would be better if the Soviet Union did not fight against Japan, so that the United States could monopolize the entire Far East.
The news that the United States successfully tested the atomic bomb was not announced to the public. Therefore, although the Soviet Union attended the Potsdam Conference at that time, it did not get the benefits they wanted. Therefore, the full name of the Potsdam Proclamation of the Potsdam Proclamation of Japan's Surrender, was "The Potsdam Proclamation of China, the United States, Britain and Japan to Promote Japan's Surrender", which was nothing in it. It is estimated that the Soviets were also puzzled during the meeting, why Truman's back was so straight that he had no intention of negotiating with the Soviet Union at all.
On August 6, the Americans dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. After the Soviet Union learned the news, they realized that even without the Soviet Union, the United States could force Japan to surrender. The Soviet Union was worried that the United States would occupy the Far East, so on August 8, hurriedly declared war on Japan. Then on August 9, the United States dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. On August 12, the Hiroshima atomic bomb had been blown for a week, and the United States officially announced the successful atomic bomb test explosion.
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If the atomic bomb test explosion is successful, no one will notice that the 7.5-mile-high mushroom cloud and the 100-mile earthquake around it cannot be hidden.
The US side has already prepared several different press releases and will be announced after the trial explosion is over.
In the newspaper that day, in an inconspicuous corner, a message appeared:
"The commander of the Alamogordo Army Base issued the following statement today that an explosion occurred in the Air Force ammunition depot in a remote location in Alamogordo, but no casualties were caused. The losses except the ammunition depot were minimal, and several nearby civilians have retreated urgently."
Chen Qiang looked at this short message and showed a complicated expression on his face. He knew that the explosion of the ammunition depot in New Mexico was not ordinary. The Americans had successfully developed the most terrifying killer in human history!
"Pandora's box finally opened!"
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Chapter completed!