His eyes closed.
Then they slowly opened. Richard found himself in Outer Space, surrounded by countless brilliant stars.
With a thought, the stars rushed closer, and his body fell toward one of the planets.
The planet had an ocean, the ocean had an island, the island had a forest, and within that forest stood a grand, interconnected library. Before long, he had entered the library and taken a seat in one of its Purple Halls.
Numerous Redwood Bookshelves over three meters tall stood in the hall, filled with books. A long-necked Turtle Statue plucked a heavy volume from one of the shelves and placed it before him.
He reached out and opened it, seeing the words within—The Technology of Manufacturing an Atomic Bomb①.
Building an Atomic Bomb was difficult, yet easy.
When the first Atomic Bomb was built, the most powerful nation on Earth mobilized all the technology it possessed. More than a hundred thousand people served the project, and a large group of the world's foremost scientists took part. It took several years before they succeeded.
Before its success, the Atomic Bomb had undoubtedly been the most cutting-edge creation in the world.
But once the Atomic Bomb was created, it began to fall from the clouds. Cutting-edge technology became outdated theoretical fundamentals, and the difficulty dropped from extraordinarily high to very low. Almost anyone could replicate it. This was mainly because, when the first Atomic Bomb was being built, no one knew whether it could succeed. Vast amounts of effort and resources were spent on trial and error and verification, studying whether this path was viable at all.
Once that path had been proven viable, all the obstacles blocking the way instantly ceased to be obstacles. At most, they were pebbles beneath one's feet. Technology once thought unattainable became