Chapter 032: World Nuke Peace

Isabel Maru was indeed a genius; being able to invent a poison gas that rendered gas masks useless proved her talent in this field.

But after all her knowledge was erased by Wang Bo, even the genius Isabel Maru was nothing but an illiterate.

Even if she started studying hard after waking up, relearning everything,

how long would it take for her to reach her former level?

After all, this genius was no longer young.

Accumulating knowledge takes time, and an adult's learning ability simply cannot compare to a child's.

A child is like a blank slate, learning everything quickly.

But adults are different; their minds are too cluttered, and their brains are far less receptive than a child's.

Of course, there are occasional exceptions.

But even so, adults have one more thing than children: life.

Isabel Maru also had to live; she was an adult and couldn't bury herself in the temple of knowledge like a child without worrying about anything.

After the war ended, she had to support herself and achieve self-sufficiency before she could consider learning.

But the question was, what would she rely on to support herself without knowledge?

Would the German army keep an illiterate for free?

Wang Bo doubted it.

So in Wang Bo's view, Isabel Maru would likely be kicked out of the army after the war, ending up destitute. In such a situation, wanting to learn and regain her knowledge would undoubtedly be a long, arduous journey.

Maybe ten years, maybe twenty years, or even until she died of old age, she might never recover her current knowledge.

And Diana understood this well.

That was why she praised Wang Bo's actions.

An illiterate wanting to endanger the world was no easy feat. Since Isabel Maru had become an illiterate, Diana naturally wouldn't kill her.

She believed that life would bring this woman suffering.

Especially since Isabel Maru was not a beautiful woman.

Next, after destroying the poison gas Isabel Maru had produced, along with the formulas and devices for making it, they swaggered out of the base amid the panicked German soldiers.

The entire process was like strolling through an uninhabited place; no one detected their presence.

"So, we've saved the world, right?" Diana couldn't help saying to Wang Bo shortly after leaving the military camp.

"That's right." Wang Bo nodded. "I believe it won't be long before World War I ends, and the world will return to peace."

"But there will still be a World War II."

Mentioning this, Diana was unhappy and said somewhat helplessly, "Why can't humans understand themselves?"

Wang Bo glanced at her and said, "Do you want to stop World War II?"

"If possible," Diana said.

Although World War I was brutal, compared to World War II, it was nothing.

World War II spanned from Europe to Asia, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, involving 61 countries and regions and over 2 billion people, covering an area of 22 million square kilometers.

According to incomplete statistics, the war caused over 90 million military and civilian casualties and cost more than $5 trillion, making it the largest war in human history.

The death toll was nine times that of World War I.

If possible, Diana truly hoped World War II would not break out.

Although this war objectively promoted the development of science and technology, these advances were built on piles of bones; few would feel happy about it, especially those who were sacrificed.

If Diana didn't know, it would be one thing, but since she did, she always wanted to do something for the world.

But for the moment, Diana couldn't think of a good solution.

Wang Bo thought for a moment and said, "Diana, do you know why, after World War I ended, humans launched World War II in just over twenty years, but after World War II, for nearly a century, humans dared not start a third world war?"

Diana thought for a moment and said, "Although I'd like to say it's because humans realized the harm war brings, you wouldn't agree with my view, would you?"

"That's right." Wang Bo nodded. "In my view, the reason humans haven't started a third world war is entirely because of world nuke peace."

"World peace?" Diana looked bewildered.

"No, I said nuke peace, the nuke of nuclear bombs."

Wang Bo, seeing Diana's horrified expression, slowly said, "At 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945, the world's first atomic bomb was successfully detonated, marking the birth of the atomic bomb."

"On August 6, 1945, Little Boy was dropped from about 9.448 km above Hiroshima."

"On September 2, 1945, World War II ended."

"From these dates, you should be able to deduce the deterrent power of nuclear bombs."

"In the face of superweapons like nuclear bombs, no one dares to start a war lightly, because everyone knows that once a third world war breaks out, a nuclear war, humanity will be close to extinction."

"Therefore, as long as humans are rational, they simply won't start a third world war."

After hearing this, Diana understood. "You want to have nuclear bombs invented early, thereby ending World War II?"

Since Wang Bo could produce spaceships, neutron cannons, and positron cannons—such sci-fi weapons—there was no reason he couldn't produce nuclear bombs.

"That's right, it's the best method." Wang Bo said. "With the deterrent of nuclear weapons, no one would dare to start World War II casually, and your goal would be achieved."

Diana said, "I admit you're right, but you seem to have forgotten that Germany in World War II had a demon."

"Then kill him."

Wang Bo naturally knew who Diana meant by the demon, and his solution was simple.

Kill!

As the saying goes, without Butcher Zhang, would we have to eat pigs with hair?

This means no one is irreplaceable.

Yes, Wang Bo also believed this was true.

For example, without Hua Tuo, anesthesia was still invented.

But the problem was that the earliest modern general anesthetic was invented by the British chemist Davy in the early 19th century.

As early as the 2nd century AD, Hua Tuo had already invented Mafeisan.

The gap between them was over a thousand years.

If Mafeisan hadn't been lost after Hua Tuo's death, a thousand years would have been enough for humanity to make earth-shattering progress in anesthesia.