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Chapter 206 Strategic Deterrence
But it was such a poor man's version of the atomic bomb that could exert miraculous effects on the battlefield. When Cheng Nuo held an internal meeting of the School of Chemistry to discuss its possibility, he still encountered opposition from many people.

Even in the humiliating background of the signing of the "Sino-Japanese Joint Defense Military Agreement", this is the case.

"No, I absolutely cannot agree to transfer our hard-earned chemical achievements from civilian use to military use, and it is still in the form of chemical weapons. It is really against social ethics. To a large extent, it is caring for human life Contempt!"

"Yes, I support Lao Li's point of view. Although the purpose of developing and using weapons is to destroy the enemy to the greatest extent and protect oneself to the greatest extent, the main combat method of chemical weapons is to disable or permanently disable them, or even Death in extreme cases is in fact a contempt for the dignity of human life!"

"What the two old brothers said is very reasonable. I won't repeat the words, but there is also one thing that you should consider carefully. From the perspective of chemical weapons research and development, repeated chemical experiments will inevitably cause The pollution of the surrounding environment and the death of species affect the ecological development of the local environment..."

Of course, there are those who oppose it and those who agree with it.

A comrade with a fiery temper stood up and scolded these opponents directly, spitting and spitting: "It's really a woman's opinion! Stick to the system you have done, and you will not be able to adapt to changes. If you don't follow the time, you are like this. You want to do a good job. Song Xianggong in name only!?"

"So what if you really want to be Song Xianggong, he is one of the five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period anyway, and it is not an exaggeration to call him a hero." Are you stronger than Song Xianggong?"

But as soon as he finished speaking, this person cast a guilty glance at Cheng Nuo who was seated in the chief seat: "Of course, except for the dean."

"Hmph, if you can't do it, it doesn't mean I can't do it!" The hot-tempered person raised his voice a bit, not to be outdone, and said: "The so-called war is more about how to minimize the damage to one's own interests, and maximize the damage to the enemy's benefit of all things."

After a pause, the hot-tempered person also focused his attention on Cheng Nuo, and said seriously: "I think that in the face of the general trend of national ruin and family destruction, blindly 'benevolence and righteousness' is meaningless, it will only put us in a passive position, and then people The land is lost!"

Seeing that both factions put the final decision on Cheng Nuo.

It was impossible for Cheng Nuo to remain silent. He took a sip of tea, pondered it in his mouth for a while, and then swallowed it. After looking around, he said slowly, "Is there anything else you want to add?"

Everyone in the audience looked at me and I looked at you, but none of them stood up and continued to speak.

"Well, listen to me first." Cheng Nuo smiled, stood up with his hands behind his back, and walked around the venue to speak: "

In fact, the history of our human wars has developed almost simultaneously with the history of civilization. In the long history of wars, for a long period of time, human beings have been using various biological and chemical means to assist and participate in wars.In terms of chemical means alone, our ancestors learned to use them as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

The poisonous smoke and flames produced by the burning of pyrotechnics such as sulfur were used to kill and injure the besiegers; during the Peloponnesian War, the Sgida people captured the city of Plataea with fire using firewood supported by sulfur and turpentine;
The defenders of the Eastern Roman Empire used an incendiary weapon called 'Greek fire' to resist the massive attacks of the Arabs, the Crusaders, and the Russians for thousands of years.

Examples of actively using "chemical weapons" in wars to kill the enemy and win victory can be found all over the world. We don't have to fall into the vicious circle of self-condemnation. "

If possible, Cheng Nuo not only wants to study chemical weapons, but also wants to study biological weapons in advance.

The use of biological methods to aid warfare has an even longer history, judging from the record of warfare that humans have.

According to modern research, the Hittite Kingdom, located on the Anatolian Peninsula more than 3000 years ago, used sheep infected with pox in many large-scale wars to make the opponents epidemic and defeated without fighting.

The army of the Mongol Empire is generally considered to be a master of the use of biological and chemical means in ancient warfare.

The Mongolian army that conquered most of the known world not only possessed the best light and heavy cavalry and engineering troops at that time, but also possessed the most systematic and comprehensive biochemical knowledge for warfare.

When the Mongol army besieged a well-fortified city, they used catapults to throw dead animals infected with pox into the city, causing the plague to spread in the city and the will to collapse.

For example, when the Mongolian army besieged the Caspian port of Kaffa, they threw the corpses of the plague-dead into the city of Kaffa, forcing the defenders to abandon the city and flee.

During the battle, the Mongols will also launch a large number of rockets mixed with croton, sulfur, and gunpowder into the enemy's army. With the help of various chemical effects such as explosion, combustion, and poisonous smoke of these chemicals, the enemy's camp will be shaken and collapsed. .

Citing these examples, the original opposition immediately wavered, but there were still some diehards who insisted on their own views: "Dean, I admit that you are right, and these established facts cannot be refuted, but what I want to say is , the examples you gave are outdated."

"Oh? Tell me." Cheng Nuo stopped, folded his arms across his chest, and smiled.

"There is the "Brussels Declaration" far away, which contains provisions prohibiting the use of poison or poisoned weapons; the recent Hague Peace Conference issued a declaration prohibiting the use of projectiles for the sole purpose of spreading asphyxiating or poisonous gases. At this time, we are studying Chemical weapons are against the international order," the diehards responded.

Cheng Nuo shook his head, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: "Let me ask you, all the treaties have been signed, but in the current European war, which major Western powers have not used it?"

"This... this..." The diehards squeaked and didn't reply for a long time.

"Let me ask you again, if Japan suddenly invaded our country and used chemical weapons against our brothers and sisters, would these so-called paper agreements be effective, or our 'influence of benevolence and justice'?" Cheng Nuo continued to ask, speaking at a faster pace. .

"I don't know..." The diehards have softened.

"Finally, I would like to ask you again, do you think that with our current national strength, if the northern Maozi or the Japanese devils invaded us, we have neither long guns nor cannons, what can we use to resist, can we just rely on our poor military quality? How many lives would it take for a little respite?"

"I... I thought it was too simple." The die-hards were ashamed and surrendered.

Cheng Nuo waved his hand and signaled the other party not to be so polite: "We are all comrades of our own. It is normal for internal discussions and disputes to arise. It is good to bring them up and resolve them. I am afraid that everything will be held in our hearts and will eventually affect our society. work progress."

At this time, someone in the crowd suddenly whispered: "But chemical weapons are a new field, can we do it?"

Cheng Nuo's ears are relatively sensitive, so he quickly picked up the words, and immediately turned his head to find the source of the sound. Unfortunately, this person shrank his head very quickly, and he didn't find who said it after several weeks of patrolling.

Cheng Nuo smiled helplessly: "This question is well put forward. How to successfully produce chemical weapons is probably not a small technical problem before we came to Sichuan, but now that we have publicized the technology of synthetic ammonia, the problem will not be solved." It's not a problem anymore."

Those with quick minds instantly understood the twists and turns: "Dean, are you referring to Haber?"

Cheng Nuo nodded with a smile: "Yes, this is the German chemist. Although he has explored a quite feasible way for the development of synthetic ammonia through scientific research efforts, Haber got involved in the war and created a synthetic ammonia before the technology matured. Lots of chemical weapons.

As the scientific leader of Germany's poison gas warfare, he even went to the front line and directed the German army to secretly place thousands of chlorine gas tanks.As a result, tens of thousands of British and French allied forces were poisoned, nearly a thousand people died, and the battle was fruitful.Among them, he used a lot of the technology he accumulated during the ammonia synthesis period. If he can do it, we have reasons and it is possible to do it. "

As the man who built the world's first synthetic ammonia plant, Haber also achieved a lot in chemical warfare.Later, Germany relied on the mustard gas developed by him, which severely damaged the British and French allied forces.

Then the guy got scared, and quickly resigned from all his posts in the army, and fled to the countryside to hide for half a year.

It's a pity that during World War II, because of his Jewish identity, he was severely punished by the mustache, and finally had to leave his hometown and die in Switzerland.

Reminiscent of the recent accumulation of the School of Chemistry, coupled with the continuous addition of fresh blood, the possibility of developing chemical weapons is getting bigger and bigger, and everyone's eyes are getting brighter and brighter.

"I think it's okay. We can try to study it. Even if we don't get results, it can be regarded as finding a way out for the chemical technologies we have accumulated."

"You must not have the heart to harm others, and you must not have the heart to guard against others. Even if we don't use it, we can feel at ease in our hands."

"That's right, we can still explore and see how to protect these chemical weapons, so as not to be caught off guard by the enemy in the future."

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After everyone finished discussing, Cheng Nuo added, "We don't have to use some things, but we must have them. We can call them 'strategic deterrence'."

"Strategic deterrence?" Somewhat puzzled.

"Showing off your muscles when necessary can make the enemy cautious. For example, in "Xijing Fu", "deter clever tigers, don't dare to change", or "Smart sincerity deters ten thousand chariots, China rules the roost" in Cao Zhi's "Seven Enlightenments" , so as to achieve the effect of 'surrender without fighting'." Cheng Nuo explained.

Cheng Nuo didn't specifically explain the meaning of "deterrence" here, but simply explained the concept for the purpose of developing chemical weapons.

After all, the paradox in the logic of deterrence lies in the fact that the efforts of the deterrent to increase its strength and try to maintain the status quo may just become the root cause of the deterred party changing the status quo and launching an attack.

The current World War I is that the deterrent party did not guarantee the status quo to the deterred party, which is an important reason for the outbreak of the First World War.

After the assassination in Sarajevo, Tsarist Russia issued a general mobilization order in order to fulfill its protection obligation to Serbia in an attempt to deter Germany.

But it turns out that Russia's general mobilization order had the opposite effect: if the previous Kaiser Wilhelm had hesitated to issue a general mobilization order, Russia's actions made him no longer hesitate.

Because the German General Staff clearly informed Kaiser William that since Russia had already mobilized the whole country, if Germany did not mobilize immediately, it would face an attack and be at a strategic disadvantage.

If it were Cheng Nuo, it might turn out that the devils are worried about the development of our country's industry and military technology. It is not impossible to directly launch a war of aggression against China without even making excuses for "missing soldiers".

No matter how good the poor man's original bomb is, it is still not as good as the real original bomb.

After much deliberation, Cheng Nuo decided to continue developing chemical weapons, but divided the team into three groups.

The first group followed the established chemical route and studied acid production technology on the basis of synthetic ammonia, so as to solve the problem of localization of sulfuric acid and hydrochloric acid in the future.

The second group followed the route of chemical weapons and began to make tentative contact with research in this area.

The final group began exploring other aspects of chemistry's role in warfare.

Whether it is a conventional war or a modern war, its weapons and equipment are inseparable from chemistry.Such as bullets, flares, signal flares, incendiary bombs, bombs, etc.The effective drugs of these conventional weapons are composed of chemical substances.

Such as common explosives: potassium nitrate, sulfur, charcoal.

Powerful explosives: trinitrobenzene, trinitrotoluene, ammonium picrate.

Expander: picric acid (trinitrophenol), aluminum azide, mercury fulminate, pentaerythritol, tetranitrate, etc.

All of the above are within Cheng Nuo's future planning.

Considering that chemical weapons are considered to be a weapon that people despise and have always been condemned by public opinion, Cheng Nuo did not dare to make a big fuss during the development period.

During World War II, except for Japan's use of chemical weapons on the Chinese battlefield, there is no public record of the use of chemical weapons on other battlefields.

Even Hitler, at the juncture of defeat, did not put chemical weapons on the battlefield.

Of course, this does not mean that Hitler did not want to use it, but considering that the other country is also a powerful industrial country, its ability to produce chemical weapons is not inferior to that of Germany.

Under the mutual deterrence of the two sides, no one dared to open this hole on a large scale on the frontal battlefield.

Of course, these things cannot be wasted, and basically all of them are used on the internal Jews.

However, under such a backdrop, it still seems that the little devil is not a thing.

If we had a certain reserve of chemical weapons in our country at that time, it is estimated that the little devils would not dare to act unscrupulously on our land.

Thinking of this, Cheng Nuo was full of energy and decided to lead the team to study chemical weapons again.

For the time being, we don't ask how advanced it is, we just need to research it out, and the little devil will be fierce, so we can have something to fight back.

If there is a chance, it would be a good sight to throw these good things over Tokyo.

(End of this chapter)