On the morning of October 14, 1944, outside the U.S. Capitol.

Henry Agard Wallace pressed his left hand on a Bible with an extremely heavy heart, then raised his right hand and said in a tone that seemed to be reading a eulogy: "I swear solemnly that I will faithfully carry out the presidency of the United States, and do my best to abide by, uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States..."

This idealist, who seems too radical and left-leaning to the backbone of the Democratic New Deal, has finally become the president of the United States! Although his term of office is destined to be only a few short months, these few months are more important than the four- or eight-year term that many US presidents have.

Because the United States is now fighting a world war, and the situation is not good, facing failure, at least in the view of Wallace's predecessor, President Roosevelt, who was recognized as one of the greatest leaders of the United States until 1943, seemed to the United States face failure and disaster!

When Wallace took the oath, the square in front of the Capitol and around Wallace were crowded with people and bigwigs coming to watch the ceremony. Compared with the presidential inauguration ceremony in the past, the people who watched the ceremony always had smiles. Now these Americans who came to witness history all looked solemn and frowned.

When Wallace took the oath and officially became the President of the United States of America, thunderous applause did not sound as expected. Everyone stretched their necks and waited for President Wallace's inauguration speech, hoping to hear some useful content from it.

The scene was a bit awkward, and Wallace took a breath and began to give a speech without writing (the speech without writing is the basic skill of American politicians, and those who can stand out can do this). He said: "For those who are here today, it is solemn and extremely exciting at this moment; however, in the history of our country, this situation has long been commonplace. According to the provisions of the US Constitution, for more than a century, the orderly transfer of power according to the will of the people has become a common practice. However, in the world, such scenes have become extremely rare today, and one democratic country after another is falling under the iron hoof of Nazi and fascism. If we still cherish the freedom and democracy we currently have, then we must be prepared for battle and sacrifice. This is the price of freedom and democracy!

As President Jefferson, the drafter of our Declaration of Independence, said: The Tree of Freedom must always be irrigated with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is the natural fertilizer of the Tree of Freedom! Now is the time for us to practice this truth!”

After listening to President Wallace's inauguration speech, most of the people in the square frowns spread out. This was not a "surrendered president", but a president who could lead the United States to fight!

But the people around Wallace had different expressions. Several Democrats, including presidential candidate Truman and Democratic boss Barkley, all showed some joy.

Republicans and generals in military uniforms all seemed worried because Wallace's speech showed that he turned his father, President Roosevelt's "summoning route" to continuing to fight against Germany.

For the Republican Party, this means that the blame left by President Roosevelt can only be taken by Republican Dewey if he can be elected president!

For the generals, President Wallace will likely give them a lot of puzzles during his short term.

The warm applause rang out at this moment. No matter what opinions everyone had about Wallace's speech, they could only use applause to express their blessings to President Wallace and the United States.

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"Mr. President, do you need us to give a detailed introduction to the current situation?"

In the Oval Office of the White House, Wallace, who was already president, sat in the chair Roosevelt once sat, with Presidential Chief of Staff General William Leach, Army Chief of Staff Marshall, and Naval Operations Secretary Ernest King sitting opposite him.

This is not the first time that the three most senior generals of the US team have reported the battle to Wallace. Roosevelt had been in a coma and recuperated for a few days before, when Wallace also served as president.

"William," Wallace took a breath and began to enter the role of the President of the United States, saying to Admiral Leach, "Say something I don't know."

"Okay." Admiral William Leach nodded and handed Wallace a document that had been prepared long ago. "Mr. President, this is a summary report on the development of secret weapons in the United States, including important projects of the Army and the Navy."

"Is there any progress on the atomic bomb project?" Wallace asked.

"There are." William Lexi said, "on the third page. Our atomic bomb project is codenamed Manhattan Project, and after two years of hard work, we have solved the bottleneck of uranium ore supply, conducted several reactor experiments, and achieved success."

Because Hessman's intelligence agency controlled the uranium mines in the Congo in advance and bought them all and transported them back to Europe. Therefore, the biggest difficulty encountered in the Manhattan project in the United States was that there was not enough uranium mines to conduct experiments. This problem was not solved until a uranium mine in Canada (discovered before the war) was completed and put into production.

With enough metal uranium supply, the Manhattan engineering experts can finally conduct reactor experiments and test reactors. In theory, it is to pile enough metal uranium together and then use graphite or heavy water to reduce neutrons to prevent chain reaction from getting out of control.

However, the experimental reactor can only prove that chain reactions exist and are controllable, and provide relevant data on critical values. It cannot solve the problems of isotope refining or plutonium-239 production.

The refining of isotopes is currently seriously plaguing the Manhattan Project. Although American scientists have come up with two methods, such as electromagnetic separation method and gas separation method, the equipment for the more efficient gas separation method has not been designed yet. As for the production reactor of plutonium-239, the technicians of the Manhattan Project have not yet overcome the difficulties. Because there are fewer smart brains from Europe, the Manhattan Project always has to spend several times more time and investment than in history when overcoming the difficulties. Therefore, the progress has been greatly slowed down.

"How long will it take to succeed?" President Wallace found no timetable was given in the report.

"Don't know," William Lexi shook his head, "no one knows."

"So what method can we use to counter the German atomic bomb?"

"The current consideration is bacterial weapons," said William Lexi, who has reserved a large number of anthrax weapons and plague weapons, can carry out one-way air strikes with B-29."

“One-way air strike?”

Army Chief of Staff Marshall took over the question, "Mr. President, the one-way air strike is to fly back to the American continent after the B-29 completes the mission of launching bacterial weapons, and fail to fly back to the American continent and make a forced landing on the Atlantic Ocean. The pilot is responsible for picking up the pilot back to the United States by submarines."

This is to use the b-29 as a disposable weapon! Because without considering the return fuel, the b-29 can penetrate into the heart of France and even the Rhineland area of ​​Germany. It can also carry more than one ton of bacterial bombs! If all of the more than 500 b-29s equipped by the US Army Air Force are used for disposable bacterial bombs, it will definitely cause huge casualties to Europe.

Wallace has heard a lot about bacterial weapons and knows that the United States has many advantages over Germany in this regard. The United States' advantages mainly come from plague weapons. Because the Japanese put the plague they had studied for many years in the United States, the United States also obtained samples and reproduced the same bacteria in large quantities!

In addition, in the process of finding special drugs to treat plague, American scientists Waxman, Woodruff, Albert Saz and others also discovered that the streptomycin they are testing formally controlling various types of plague! After having the special drugs, the United States' mastery of plague weapons has actually surpassed Japan.

He nodded and asked again: "So what can we do to counter Germany's missiles?"

"We are developing an anti-ship radar guided gliding bomb ... and now it has entered its final trial phase," said the Navy's Minister of Operations.

Ernest King is talking about the 2-bat anti-ship radar guided gliding bomb. Although this weapon is not satisfactory, before the United States cannot overcome the problem of easy interference in wireless communications, the "out-of-the-head" design solution using active radar guidance is the only option.

And there is another advantage of doing this, that is, American bombers mounted with "bats" do not need to be dispatched during the day. They can rely on radar guidance to launch "bats" at night, and then rely on the "bats"'s own radar to search for targets and conduct attacks that happens without any concern!

Although the accuracy of this "no matter after launch" gliding guided bomb is worrying, and it is particularly disturbed and has insufficient power. However, the advantage of being able to attack at night still makes it highly valued by the US Navy.

"This is really great!" President Wallace nodded, "This weapon should be put into actual combat as soon as possible!"

He looked at the three Americans in front of him who seemed a little frowning and said, "Generals, now we have weapons that can counter Germany's atomic weapons and missiles, which means we have enough strength to fight against the Nazis. I think the war can be persisted because we have enough resources and productivity to fight against the enemy until we exhaust the enemy! This is my strategy. As long as I am still the president of the United States, I will not engage in any peace negotiations with the Germans. We must fight hard until we win!"

This will stop peace negotiations?
Chapter completed!