In addition to the rabbits, those paying attention to the situation on Aonan Island also include many other surrounding countries and forces.
For example, in the waters further outside Aonan Island, there are also many detection ships docked with national flags of different colors or flags of forces.
These detection ships are towed more than ten kilometers away from Aonan Island. This distance is firstly to avoid disputes, and secondly, it is to prevent the rabbits from generating radiation through the "nuclear materials" obtained from the fur bears.
That's right.
Until the moment Chen Pingsheng dropped the micro neutron bomb, they still thought it was a show staged by the rabbits.
But on the other hand.
Although they firmly did not believe that the rabbits had developed nuclear weapons, after the mechanical shock pickup detected the vibration signal generated by the explosion, these exploration ships quickly started collecting relevant parameters.
Their thoughts are similar to the later saying "You always have to have dreams, what if they come true", but the latter is more inspirational chicken soup, while the former has a more derogatory tone.
On a sea area 14 nautical miles away from Aonan Island.
Inside a certain ship flying the blue sky and white sun flag.
A yellow man was standing next to a little old white man, watching several operators busy with a relaxed expression.
After a while.
Perhaps because he felt that the atmosphere was a bit dull, the middle-aged man couldn't help coughing lightly and said to the little old white man:
"Mr. Brown, it is impossible for the Chinese to develop a systematic nuclear weapon. It would be a bit boring for us to stand here and wait."
"I think it's better to open a table on the deck and drink a glass of AC red and black champagne I brought back from Milan, Italy."
The little old white man named Brown shook his head when he heard this. The expression on his face was very rigid, and he spoke in authentic Chinese:
"Mr. Liu, although champagne is delicious, it is only a symbol of the celebration process - it is not a good thing to open champagne at will before seeing the dawn of victory."
"Besides, although the Chinese people on the mainland don't have our help, they still have very peculiar characteristics."
"Although the probability of their success this time is very low, compared to some of the incredible miracles before... In short, I still think it is better to see the results."
Brown originally seemed to want to say something to sigh, but thought that saying this would be a bit demoralizing, so he ended with a more euphemistic statement.
Mr. Liu next to him was somewhat noncommittal about this. He simply said yes and did not answer any more words.
When Brown saw this, he glanced at this person and looked at the small island in the distance again melodiously.
As the special adviser to the Asia-Pacific region across the sea, Brown is not only extremely capable, but also far beyond ordinary people in terms of knowledge and experience.
He began serving in the troops across the sea 25 years ago, participated in the Battle of Midway, and as the sixth commander commanded the Omaha Beach landing battle, one of the four major landing sites of the Normandy landings.
It can be said like this.
In the first forty-four years of his life, he experienced countless wars, large and small. Although the process was tragic and tragic, he always stood up to the end as a winner.
The old Chinese proverb "The brave prevails when we meet on a narrow road" is the best description of the first half of his life.
but.....
On that peninsula ten years ago, Brown and the country behind him, with the unparalleled appearance of the most powerful army on the surface after World War II, looked at the wolves and wanted to push thousands of miles, but unexpectedly they were defeated by a group of people who even wore military uniforms.
Patch's 'beggar soldiers' were knocked out of the clouds.
Brown's friend, the Air Force ace George Andrew Davis across the sea, spilled blood in the sky. After the "Lifeline" battle, Brown and his headquarters fled Seoul in embarrassment. In the Battle of Inhoe, Brown's 31st regiment, which participated in the Omaha Beach landing battle, was killed.
Total annihilation, Colonel McClain was injured and died after being captured. Brown only escaped by luck.
After the war.
It took Brown three full years of recovery before he returned. At that time, his spirit was no longer what it used to be. His only request was to be transferred to the Chinese treasure island to serve as a consultant on Asia-Pacific affairs.
This position seems to be very suitable for retirement. In fact, several of Brown's colleagues did come here with this mentality - they were either living and drinking in Baodao, or they went to Neon to have a silver party with the garrison.
For example, Brown knows an old bastard named Jones, and it is said that he now has eight illegitimate children in Neon...
But Brown is like an ascetic, and all he cares about is the continent across the sea.
When three U2s were shot down by China, all parties thought it was Mao Xiong who took action. Only Brown suggested that China might have the ability to shoot down reconnaissance aircraft.
For this reason, Brown was often shunned by his colleagues, but after Yang Shiju, the only surviving U2 pilot, returned to the island in exchange for Zhang Mingzhang, Li Zhengdao's mother, facts proved that Brown's speculation was correct.
Similarly, after China's announcement this time, some people thought that China was acting with the bear, and some people believed that China was ready to give up its international reputation to inspire the patriotism of the domestic people. However, Brown still proposed that China may indeed develop nuclear weapons.
guess.
For this reason, Brown also found his boss at the time, Eisenhower, who came forward to dispatch such a survey ship.
Of course.
If Brown knew that the person in the plane that just passed over his head was Chen Pingsheng, the hero of the Chinese Air Force who shot down his friend George Andrew Davis, his heart would probably be more complicated...
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"Mr Brown."
Just when Brown was lost in thought, a female official with a single ponytail next to him brought his attention back to reality:
"The sampling helicopter has successfully collected air dust samples and is expected to return to the deck within eight minutes."
Brown nodded after hearing this and asked again:
"Where's the radioactivity detection equipment?"
The lady officer glanced at the screen. With the emergence of integrated circuits these days, many devices across the sea can be displayed on electronic displays:
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "It has reached the T3 gear, and the decay gradient is between β7.1-8.6."
Brown thought for a while and gave a new order:
"Turn it to T4 and change the decay gradient to above 15."
The lady officer was suddenly startled. She looked like a clerk in her attire, but she was actually an accomplished nuclear physicist:
"Mr. Brown, is it necessary to turn it up so high?"
Nuclear testing seems very high-end, but its detection method is actually not complicated.
Generally speaking, surveillance parties can analyze whether a nuclear test has occurred by detecting seismic waves. Because there is no short-term release process of surface stress before a nuclear test, what is directly generated is the huge energy of the nuclear bomb explosion, so the front part of the corresponding waveform is usually extremely smooth.
Then there was a sudden surge, which was very different from earthquake waves.
However, this method can only crudely prove that a certain party has conducted a nuclear test. As for whether the nuclear test was successful, the specific method is usually in space...that is, the radioactive dust detection method.
Today's equipment that detects radioactive dust analyzes the optical neutron cross-section value, which is the threshold energy. For example, if water is irradiated with radioactivity, its threshold energy will generally be above 15 MeV.
At the same time, by detecting the decay gradient of radioactive dust, the corresponding type of nuclear weapons can also be analyzed - but this function is meaningless in most cases. After all, nuclear tests are basically atomic bombs... that is, in the form of fission, fusion occurs
The situation is rare.
Theoretically, the decay gradient of 8.6 should be enough to test the rabbits' experiments. Unexpectedly, Brown actually asked for a higher level.
To know.
The cost of this kind of testing is extremely high. When switching from T3 to T4, the cost difference is even more than ten times!
However, Brown still waved his hand after hearing this, gesturing for her to do so.
Seeing this, the lady officer had no choice but to shrug:
"OjbK,sir."
Then she fiddled with it a few times on the operating table. As the instructions were given, the accuracy of a piece of equipment in the cabin that had entered the operational readiness state was once again improved by an order of magnitude.
A few minutes later.
Da da da......
There was a sound of rotating wings outside the window, and a helicopter flew from a distance to the deck of the survey ship.
Brown's expression suddenly froze. This was the return of the sampling helicopter sent earlier.
As long as the collected air samples are analyzed, we can determine what China is doing.
Think of this.
Brown's facial muscles faintly twitched twice. Could this be his chance to crush the nightmare?
The concept of CHINA=miracle has stayed in his mind for too long...
Then very quickly.
Several experts in protective suits jogged to the deck and removed a small, closed iron box from the area near the tail of the helicopter.
After removing the iron box, they hurriedly entered the lower level of the deck, where there was a small testing laboratory - although their ship was a survey ship in terms of model, its actual length was close to 70 meters, and its full load displacement was 4,000 meters.
tons or more, it has the ability to detect radioactivity when a nuclear war breaks out, and is strictly a member of the rapid response system.
The reason why it hangs the logistics flag is mainly because Haidian wants to avoid some public opinion disputes. In fact, its control has always been in the hands of Haidang.
Mr. Liu, who was standing next to Brown before, was nominally the deputy captain, but the space that really belonged to him on this ship was only a four-square-meter bedroom cabin. Outside the cabin, he was a mascot similar to a champagne glass.
Then, under Brown's watchful eye, operators on the upper and lower floors cooperated with each other and began to detect dust samples.
The core principle of reflectivity detection is induced radiation, which is a phenomenon in which substances themselves produce radioactivity after being illuminated by rays.
Mentioned it a long time ago.
Whether it is heavy atomic nuclear fission or light atomic nuclear fusion, or many other nuclear reactions, a large number of neutrons will be released.
Neutrons can be divided into four types of neutrons according to their energy, namely slow neutrons, medium energy neutrons, fast neutrons and very fast neutrons.
When slow neutrons and thermal neutrons interact with matter, they are easily captured by atomic nuclei and produce nuclear reactions.
The products of nuclear reactions can be stable nuclides or radioactive nuclides, and also release gamma rays or other particles.
The way to detect induced radiation is to emit a beam of neutrons to these samples again, and then determine the type of test behavior based on the energy level icon.
But it is different from later generations.
The cutoff energy material used in this era is nickel, with a ray energy of 1.1325MeV, and cobalt-60 will be used in later generations.
Fifteen minutes later.
An energy level meter suddenly appeared on the screen in front of the lady officer.
Upon seeing this, Brown quickly leaned down and asked the lady officer:
"Dr. Angelica, what's the conclusion?"
Although Brown also has good attainments in the field related to nuclear weapons, he is still far behind professionals like Ms. Officer. At this juncture, he will definitely not be confident and show off.
The female officer simply said yes to indicate that she heard it. She read the results before Brown spoke:
"The Brewster angle is 51.4°, indicating that s-polarized light appears inside... Well, it should be said that it is a dusty medium that emits S-polarized light."
"DT density 0.7?...can it be so high?"
"MHD value 9.993...."
As the lady officer watched, her expression became serious involuntarily, and she straightened her back subconsciously. The index finger that was tapping on the table at the beginning also stopped.
When she saw the last two lines of results, she seemed to have seen something incredible. She stood up with a bang, and her head hit the chin of Mr. Liu who was standing behind her.
But the lady officer named Angelica didn’t feel any pain at all, and her eyes were still fixed on the screen:
"Ef exceeds 17.6 MeV, nt is 1.33X10^16 cm^-3 seconds... How is this possible... God, how is this possible?!"
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Brown on the side was stunned for a moment, and also subconsciously shouted:
"Lawson's criterion is over the limit?...How is this possible?"
Lawson's criterion is a relatively complex concept. Simply put, it is the deuterium-tritium reaction... which is also a condition for the light nuclear fusion reaction.
This concept is often used in the field of controllable nuclear fusion in later generations. For example, the ignition constant must be greater than 3*10^21KeV s/m3, etc.....
In other words.
If Lawson's criterion exceeds the limit, it means that a nuclear fusion reaction has occurred.
In other words...
The weapons the Chinese dropped this time were not nuclear fission atomic bombs, but nuclear fusion hydrogen bombs!
At the same time, the explosion scenario of nuclear fusion is not something that can be solved with some "nuclear fuel".
That is to say, what the Chinese people dropped this time was by no means a deceptive nuclear fuel, but a genuine... hydrogen bomb!
"wrong!"
While Brown was stunned, Angelica suddenly realized something:
"No, if the Chinese dropped a hydrogen bomb, how could it be so powerful?"
"Moreover, the decay gradient of radiation does not match the magnitude of the shock wave - the physical shock wave is too small, and the decay gradient is too large."
"No, no, this is definitely not a hydrogen bomb. Even a miniaturized hydrogen bomb is impossible!"
Hearing the word Hydrogen Bomb from Angelica's mouth, Mr. Liu, who was holding his chin and looking confused, just caught up with the rhythm of the two of them. He couldn't even care about the pain in his jaw and was stunned.
Looking at the two people in front of him:
"Mr. Brown, Ms. Angelica, do you think the Chinese dropped a hydrogen bomb?"
Faced with the 'Vice Captain''s question, Angelica and Brown didn't seem to hear it... No, it was as if there was no such person around them at all, and they were still looking at each other.
After a while.
Angelica thought of something again and quickly rushed to the screen:
"The mixed exposure dose is 1,200 rad...the lower mass limit is 7.42 mass, and the decay is 16.6% after four minutes...and the decay is 24.9% after seven minutes..." (Note: Rad was only changed in 1975.
Cheng Ge Rui)
A full two minutes passed.
Angelica slowly raised her head, stared at Brown with a somewhat blank gaze, and murmured:
"Mr. Brown, I understand."
"What the Chinese dropped was not a hydrogen bomb, but..."
