Chapter 335 The most important thing to talk about
As for the question raised by Mr. Wu Dayou that politics cannot interfere with academic freedom and research work, Yang Zhen did not answer him much. He just told him that in research and teaching, there will never be a matter of laymen leading experts. But the establishment of a party committee in the school is
The needs of the current situation.
We are in wartime, and freedom must have a limit after all. Especially for young students, political and ideological work must be at the forefront. Because the current base area really cannot withstand any troubles. If students have any needs, they can bring them to the party committee.
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The students are all young and impulsive. Some students have more radical ideas and have no social experience, so they can easily be taken advantage of by people with malicious intentions. The current situation is complex, and all forces are expanding into the base area. The enemies and puppets are also desperately trying to recover.
Based on the local secret service organization.
Under this situation, students' ideological work is very important. However, Yang Zhen assured them that the party committee established in the school is only responsible for the political and ideological work of teachers and students and will not interfere with their teaching and research. It will never happen
The situation of being an expert and leading an outsider.
Although Yang Zhen's answer made Mr. Wu Dayou very dissatisfied, since Yang Zhen had guaranteed that the party committee established in the school would not interfere with their teaching and research, he did not raise any objections. After all, they were doctrinal,
He is not a professor of political science. He raised these things because he was worried that those who were ignorant would criticize teaching and research.
Although Yang Zhen's guarantee did not satisfy him too much, it was still reasonable. They had already promised not to interfere with experts, which was very commendable. In this case, let's take it as it comes. Anyway,
Judging from this guy's attitude today, he will never let him go.
After several gentlemen agreed to stay in the Northeast, Yang Zhen got straight to the point and spoke out his thoughts without reservation. There were only four topics in his conversation with the gentlemen today. One was about the principles and future of nuclear weapons.
Development. The second is radar reverse imitation, and its future development.
The third point is the electronic industry, mainly the complete improvement and application of transistors. The fourth point is the four aspects of optical instruments and equipment that are urgently needed for the Anti-Japanese War. Among these four ideas, the development and planning of nuclear weapons.
This is the top priority, and it is what Yang Zhen will focus on today.
The development of nuclear weapons was still a secret at this time, and it was a completely new thing. Britain and the United States, which had already begun to develop nuclear weapons at this time, kept strictly confidential the number of attempts that were interrupted by wars. Not to mention the Chinese.
Very few of their own countrymen know about it.
But this is only now, and in later generations, its principles and production methods can be easily found on the Internet. What cannot be solved is the method of extracting and purifying nuclear raw materials, especially the development and development of special equipment required for processing and refining.
Create problems.
Because these things that seem to be broken at the first glance contain the highest technological content. Although they are broken at the first glance, the window paper in the middle is the most difficult to pierce. There is no certain scientific and technological foundation and industrial foundation.
, if you want to pierce the last layer of window paper, it will be difficult to reach the sky.
In later generations, the centrifuges and high-speed accelerators necessary for the production of nuclear weapons are also strictly controlled in the world. Nuclear materials, including nuclear materials, must be reported to some international organizations. The export of these two types of equipment must also go through international organizations and
Rigorous scrutiny.
But as long as these problems are solved, the source of nuclear raw materials, that is, uranium ore, and the so-called "advanced" ideas proposed by Yang Zhen, it can be said that it is not difficult to build an atomic bomb. As for the equipment, it is easier to solve now than in later generations.
There are many. This is because many people do not know what to do with these equipments. Although they cannot make them themselves, it is very convenient to purchase them from outside.
Because at this time, although all countries were keeping a high degree of confidentiality in their research and development, the import and export control of uranium enrichment equipment was still very loose. Basically, it can be said that if you have money, you can buy it. Because even the most advanced nuclear technology in later generations
The Americans had just started research and development at this time.
There is almost no control over these equipment that are still necessary for physics teaching in ordinary universities. High-speed cyclotrons and vacuum high-speed centrifuges are just used for ordinary scientific research and teaching before their true uses are realized.
It's just an instrument. As long as it is proposed for import, strict approval is generally not required, and it can basically be purchased.
Of course, unless like Germany, Japan and Italy now, the United States imposes a strict embargo on all its supplies. Not even a pencil is exported, let alone these two relatively high-end equipment. And for the Anti-Japanese War
As for the current semi-ally of the United States, the Americans are quite generous and have not restricted their exports.
The Americans really began to control these things after the Manhattan Project was fully launched and they discovered that these two devices could refine uranium 235 that met the requirements of nuclear weapons. However, they can still be exported, and the Americans have not finally tightened their grip.
Thirty units of cyclotrons have been purchased from the United States in the name of teaching and scientific research.
As for high-speed vacuum centrifuges that can be used to enrich uranium, the Pearson family, which did not understand the true value of these gadgets, used teaching and scientific research as an excuse to import thousands of them from the University of Virginia, which developed this equipment.
.Under the strong request of the Anti-League, all these equipment have now arrived.
Because Yang Zhen knew that once the Americans' Manhattan Project was fully launched and they had a new understanding of the use of these equipment, it would be almost impossible to import these things. So he cleverly made a time difference and used
The Americans' Manhattan Project had just been launched at this time, and there was no opportunity to actually apply these equipment, so a large number of them were imported. And all of these equipment had arrived as early as May of this year.
At the same time, in order not to attract the attention and prying eyes of Jiangbei, or even take advantage of it, the real names of these equipment were not written on the delivery documents when importing, but they were imported in the name of metallurgical equipment accessories. When purchasing, they also
All are imported into parts that are mixed with other equipment.
Although those Soviets look clumsy, in fact their sense of smell is more sensitive than that of dogs. Once they discover these equipment that the Americans have banned from exporting, they will definitely find a way to get it. In terms of their character and people,
There is a high possibility of being intercepted halfway. In order to deceive the eyes of the Soviets, Yang Zhen took great pains.
All the equipment was disassembled into parts. After arriving at the base, personnel sent by the University of Virginia reassembled it. After all this painstaking effort, Yang Zhen not only deceived the Americans, but also gained a pair of wolf-like eyes.
, the Soviets with dog-like noses were also kept in the dark. When these goods arrived at the Anti-League base area, not a single thing was missing, and they were assembled in the shortest possible time.
Although the current Americans still don’t know what Yang Zhen did with the equipment that was just developed by the University of Virginia in one fell swoop, they still readily delivered the goods in front of the US dollar. They were even exported as ordinary scientific teaching instruments.
There is no need for any export approval procedures.
They spent a high price to develop these two devices, but found that they were of almost no use except for teaching and research. Now someone came to buy them. The overjoyed Americans even gave away nearly 10,000 meters of centrifuges for free.
Porous separator. This is almost impossible to imagine in the tightly controlled future generations, even in the second half of this year.
As for the six assembly personnel sent by the University of Virginia, because they were authentic university lecturers and participated in the development of these two pieces of equipment, Yang Zhen took a high salary of eight hundred dollars a month and other measures to stay directly.
He established his base in the Polytechnic University as a lecturer in physics and mechanical and electrical majors, as well as an English professor.
Yang Zhen left these six people because the Military Polytechnic University was in urgent need of professors and lecturers. But he also had other purposes for keeping these people. As for the purpose, it was simpler, just to get these two kinds of equipment.
The drawings and core technologies. He does not believe that these Americans who put their interests first are all honest and upright gods. They are eggs, and sooner or later there will be cracks.
Keeping these people in the base area, even for only a period of time, would make it easier for him to start. However, his efforts were not in vain. When those people assembled the equipment, at Yang Zhen's request, Xiong personally accompanied the assembly.
Da Zhen, with the help of two of the six assemblers who had received some mysterious benefits from the Anti-League, also copied the drawings of these two pieces of equipment that were definitely high-precision at the first time, and obtained them.
First-hand data.
And the two people each received ten thousand dollars, which in later generations would be considered a small sum that was not enough to attract people. But in this era, Americans who are still complacent about sky-high benefits do not know what their move will bring.
What consequences will come? It almost saved China more than half the cost and two-thirds of the time in developing nuclear weapons. The Americans, who were still clamoring for a nuclear attack on China a few years later, almost lost their tongues in regret.
Bite it off.
What the University of Virginia spent millions of dollars and several years of hard work to develop. Needless to say, a few years later, even after the Manhattan Project is fully launched in a few months, it is absolutely impossible to buy it even after spending billions of dollars.
The technology they acquired was easily sold by them for 20,000 US dollars.
Of course, the Anti-League, in fact, it should be said that Yang Zhen will not talk about the various methods used to obtain these things here. But these equipments have undoubtedly allowed the Chinese to save a lot of already stretched funds and a lot of money.
time and speed up the process.
Although according to the current economic strength, industrial base, and scientific and technological capabilities of the base area, it is simply unable to bear the cost of developing nuclear weapons. Especially when it comes to the refining and purification of nuclear fuel, the huge power consumption and the purification of highly enriched uranium.
, cannot be solved in a short time, and require long-term and arduous research. But Yang Zhen only hopes to lay a good foundation through today's conversation.
Anyway, this matter is not a matter of urgency. Now we can conduct preliminary research. As for other aspects, including uranium enrichment technology, the establishment and commissioning of nuclear material purification plants can be done slowly. Yang Zhen believes that he has the ability to provide
With their "advanced" development methods and "advanced" development ideas, as well as the unknowing help of the surprisingly generous Americans, the Chinese did not need to pay the high price of the Americans to manufacture their own nuclear weapons.
At least there is no need to experiment one by one with various purification methods like the Americans do. There is no need to do what the Americans do, first making uranium bombs that are not very reliable, and then going on to make more reliable plutonium bombs. You can just go ahead and get started.
A plutonium bomb that consumes less raw materials, makes the purification process easier, and is more efficient.