The Rockets' three-blasting Oak Ridge not only put the US senior management in a profound military crisis, but also into a heavy political crisis.

On the one hand, what caused them a huge shock was their backwardness in military strength: Germany's ballistic rockets can already raid thousands of kilometers, and the cruise rockets have achieved no-loading capacity, with a range of up to 500 kilometers, and their landing points are very accurate; on the other hand, the incompetence of the intelligence and anti-espionage system: more than 30 German spies entered the country from Mexico and went deep into the heart of the United States without being noticed. What's so ironic and loophole? What's worse is that the Manhattan Project is known as the most secret engineering project in the United States, and it is said that "qingren" has only 20 people, but even so, it is still as transparent in front of Germany. When everyone thinks of this spy lurking at the top, everyone feels chill.

When attending the meeting of the Joint Conference, everyone's eyes that looked at each other changed: Who knows whether these soldiers and other politicians with the rank of generals and lieutenant generals and prominent positions were the German eyeliners?

Since Dewey was hospitalized again, Dewey did not designate the head of the Joint Association. Originally, Dewey asked Ingram to take this position for Suyi, but because of the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Fleet was defeated one after another, and it required effective personnel to rebuild the navy. Ingram was finally sent out by him. No one spoke for more than half an hour at the beginning of the meeting.

It’s not that everyone has no idea, but that everyone doesn’t know how to speak in this situation. If someone is accidentally treated as a spy, then the rest of his life will be over.

At the storm of wind and rain, Dulles had to stand up and stabilize the morale of the military, the vice president is still a decoration now. However, Dulles, the Secretary of State, is very eye-catching, and he is caught in the inside and out, and can speak in front of the soldiers.

He said with a hoarse throat: "Now, the country is facing a life-and-death situation. I think the following things should be done well:

First, we must find ways to capture the infiltration of German spies and pry out their intelligence sources and activities from their mouths;

Second, evaluate the damage level of Oak Ridge as soon as possible, rescue those who can be rescued, and relocate and rebuild them as soon as possible if they cannot be rescued;

Third, everyone must unite and trust. I personally believe that you will not be German spies here. You are already at the peak of a politician and a soldier in your career. I can't see any special benefits to the Germans when they work hard;

Fourth, we must increase investment in advanced weapons and accelerate the development progress. We are much behind in the field of cutting-edge weapons. If this continues, we Americans will die without a place to die!"

The last sentence made people particularly moved. Just as everyone was about to start a discussion, the phone rings rang one after another.

The first call was from Oppenheimer, who asked to take a team of scientists to the site to check the losses in Oak Ridge. Dulles politely rejected this request. He believed that the situation is unclear and experts should not be on the scene for the time being but should be concealed on the spot. The losses were sent by the Air Force to take photos and identify them;

The second call was from Carmen. He hoped to send some technicians to work with rescue troops to find the wreckage and fragments of the German rocket in order to study the relevant details. This request was accepted by the Joint Conference and said that he could set off in the afternoon;

The third call was from Hoover, who asked for special authorization to view the relevant information of these big names: including their phone records, letters and parcel records, family members' contact with the outside world, suspicious bank account transactions, etc. This undoubtedly involves damaging ground on the tiger's head, but everyone understands that this is inevitable.

Dulles pondered for a long time and said in front of the members of the Association: "You can check from President Dewey first, the second one can check me, and then the others can wait a little."

Marshall and Admiral King, who attended the meeting, looked at each other, and their political sensitivity immediately realized that Dulles was waiting for them to take the initiative to express his opinion, and quickly stood up and said, "We are in contact with each other earlier, so we will start from us."

With Marshall and General King taking the lead, the leaders of the Joint Conference, regardless of whether they wish or not, they all expressed their opinion to Hoover on the phone: Check it out, let us check it out.

Since the current ones are to be investigated, the previous ones cannot be spared: former President Truman, Secretary of State Hull, Minister of Army Stinson, Presidential Chief of Staff Li Hai, etc. are all listed here.

Only when Hoover mentioned Roosevelt's name, everyone hesitated for a moment: In theory, Roosevelt must have to investigate, but Roosevelt has passed away now and cannot obtain his consent. Finally, Dulles gritted his teeth and made up his mind and said, "Check it out, I will take responsibility for any problems."

After the statement was completed, everyone was sweating profusely and felt that they were almost breathless.

At the end of the meeting, Dulles saw that Clark and Turner seemed to have something to say, but had some concerns, so he signaled them to say, "The United States has reached this point, what else can't be said?"

Turner spoke hesitantly: "In the short term, the battle can no longer be fought. Fighting again is nothing more than just increasing losses and aggravating the hardship of the people. Can you consider peace?"

Clark's words were more direct: "In view of the current situation, I suggest tilting military expenditure towards rockets, jets, and atomic bomb projects. The reason why the Germans were so full of energy to blow up the Manhattan project shows that they have realized the importance and key points of this project, and their progress should be lagging behind us, so they have to delay and delay our time. We cannot be fooled, let alone discouraged."

According to Clark, it is to stop some of the long-term naval warships, such as those that were only in service in 1948, to stop the construction of some flashy super-heavy tanks or other weapons of the Army, and to use the savings to the Manhattan Project. Specifically, the recovery and investment of rocket projects should be squeezed out at least $5 billion in funds to support development.

Nimitz and MacArthur were both in pain, but they also knew that the situation was urgent, the Manhattan project was not originally a normal budget. If it was exposed to broad daylight, it would not only trigger a rebound between the government and the opposition, but also cause trouble for the previous allocation use. In the end, the two had to agree to reduce their armaments.

Nimitz, on behalf of the Navy, cut off the construction costs of 2 Montana-class, 4 Essex-class and a batch of supporting warships; McArthur, on behalf of the Army, cut off all super-heavy tank production and development plans of more than 60 tons, and cut off the production of flashy weapons; the Air Force also stated that it would cut off all piston fighter models except p51\p47, and streamline the production system of attack aircraft and heavy bombers.

However, after making so many concessions, the three companies in the land, sea and air made requests: they must find ways to keep the backbone of Hawaii, those intermediate and above officers, pilots, and technical officers must be redeemed as much as possible, and the number of people may be calculated in tens of thousands of units.

Dewey was not there, and the soldiers were waiting for Dulles to make a decision. Finally, he gritted his teeth and made up his mind: "About peace talks, I will find a way to have another round of contact; regarding internal military expenditure adjustments and personnel redemption, the government will support it."

But he finally left a tail: "I will wait until I report to the president tomorrow before I can finally finalize it."

Late at night, the meeting ended in a tragic fog.

After dawn, the Air Force quickly sent planes to investigate Oak Ridge, but what the pilots couldn't believe was that the Oak Ridge, which he had known in the past, had completely changed. The violent explosions were everywhere. Not only did the factory facilities become a mess, but also some of them hit the mountain ridge and caused landslides and buried many parts. It gave him the feeling that there was a severe directional earthquake in Oak Ridge, although he knew it was not.

"According to the results shown in the photos, Oak Ridge has basically no room for rescue." MacArthur sighed and said word by word, "Even if it can be saved, it will not be able to save the scholars for a while. The Oak Ridge area is no longer suitable for human survival in the short term."

"Why?"

"Horrible atomic radiation!" someone sighed, "Scholars believe it will cause fatal harm to the human body."

What they didn't know was that the harm had been formed. Although the expert group led by Oppenheimer and Fermi had reminded the rescue team in a very serious tone that they must replace people every 3 hours. No one should be exposed to radiation for more than 5 hours.

But starting last night, firefighters and officers and soldiers had been desperate for the middle of the night. After a brief rest for a few hours, they felt that there was no physical problem, so they left the expert's opinions behind. After the ban was issued again, thousands of people had been exposed for more than 6 hours, and the largest group had even exceeded 8 hours. This group of people gradually died in the next few weeks. Those who were lucky enough to have not died were also infected with a strange disease that was hard to tell.

In fact, I was not very clear about the power of atomic radiation at that time. Experts generally believed that although atomic radiation was strong, as long as it was exposed for a short time, it would not cause significant harm. But one attitude was clear. There must be problems with long-term exposure. We must wear protective clothing, and even scientific researchers could not use one of the lead protective clothing, let alone send it to ordinary officers and soldiers.

And I also noticed a terrible phenomenon: the location and containers that store the finished nuclear element products have been destroyed in the explosion, and the continuous leakage of substances is even if these equipment in Oak Ridge can be used in other places, and the radioactive particles and dust on it are enough to cause great trouble.

By March 30, no matter what everyone thought, the Manhattan Project came to a painful conclusion: the control area of ​​the Oak Ridge core area must be completely blocked, and the warning area must be strictly controlled, and this place has completely become a dead place!

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