At this moment, Zhang Nan really felt how powerful Nicole was!

She's American.

There are many plates that a person can handle, this time the matter is so big that it is beyond Zhang Nan's own control, if it is not handled well, I don't know whether to take precautions or make trouble for myself.

Nicole is helping herself, helping this family in a ruthless way, in an extreme way.

But one thing can't be wrong: how much strength can you have, this creed is the same as always, Zhang Nan doesn't want to end up becoming Shen Wansan.

In ancient and modern times, people who are too rich but have no corresponding strength basically have no good results.

Zhang Nan feels that he has almost become a big light bulb, and his current self is different from those rich people who relied on the Internet to make their fortunes ten or twenty years later: even if they have tens of billions of private individuals and hundreds of billions of dollars in the market value of their companies, they are just a fish in the financial market.

Rain, meat.

For Washington, those rich people are empty to put it bluntly, and they care more about and stare at the real powerful faction!

Zhang Nan is a powerful faction, he is a fish in the market, and he already has the ability to manipulate the market to a certain extent. The main economic lifeline of the group is not in the virtual financial market, and that territory is just a place for itself to make money.

In the past two years, "Sunshine Star" has not only been a simple investment company, but also a big industry, so big that it will soon become a giant!

The cash flow is so large that it has a solid industrial foundation, and there is a private armed force on the surface...... When people use you, everyone is a good friend, if any White House speaker is unhappy with you, then if you don't have enough strength, the end will be worse than those trusts that were dismembered by the "Antitrust Law"!

Not to mention that the White House will not treat itself as its own person for a few decades, which Zhang Nan knows in his heart, because of his background and skin color, as well as his consistent style.

Just be a good tax citizen, but others don't think of you as a good citizen in their bones, in the eyes of those people, the ones who wash dishes in restaurants and work in basement garment factories are.

If you have a nuclear bomb, you will not be afraid of a bad situation in the most extreme cases, and at least in a few years there will be a real crisis that cannot be resolved, and there will always be a way for people to get out of it.

Of course, if it can successfully transform into a centuries-old trust family like that of Europe and the United States, there is no need to worry about the family facing external crises that cannot be solved by conventional means.

At that time, I can effectively influence the presidential election behind my back, what are you afraid of.

A few nuclear bombs can allow your family to survive the first fifty years of the most likely crisis, and if you can't get entrenched in this continent after these decades, you will either take the initiative to return to the relatively ordinary, or you deserve to be finished!

Bring it back, the box is small in size, the weight is not particularly large, there is always a way.

But is it necessary to put your own Empire State Building?

Zhang Nan frowned and said his opinion.

"You only have one, at least now we actually only have one.

Allen, no secret is perfect, if the Soviet Union loses the nuclear bomb, and the buyer or our news is exposed, even if you hide the nuclear bomb in the Sahara or even throw it into the Pacific Ocean, Washington will still do everything to destroy us!

But as long as you don't get caught, even if the only nuclear bomb I hand over to the CIA guys in my office in the Empire State Building, I can still do whatever I want, and there's a whole bunch of free bodyguards secretly protecting me.

They would even pray to me not to have any accidents, or they wouldn't be able to afford the consequences!

If there is a first one, there will be a second, and even if the Russians tell Washington that they lost one, can Washington guarantee that you really only have one?

The discovery of a 500-ton miniature nuclear bomb in a more remote location, not at an important location like downtown New York, would have caused those to miscalculate.

It's too remote, and even if it explodes, it can make up an accident.

But in Manhattan, they don't dare, they definitely don't dare to bet on whether you have a second one!"

500 tons is not 500 kilograms, and the charge of 2,000 pounds of aerial bombs used by the US military today is about 500 kilograms.

Most of the explosive energy is applied to the inside of the target, and the destructive effect produced by this is not comparable to that of the car bombs in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Manhattan is densely populated, and Zhang Nan remembers that someone used a computer to simulate it in his previous life: if a large bomb with a TN-T equivalent of more than 20 tons of TN-T was exploded near the center of a city with a high density like New York, at noon during the day, what would be the effect of the damage?

According to computer simulations, more than 14,000 people could be killed and more than 11,000 injured.

Of course, this is detonated in a relatively "idealized" environment, and it does not count in the middle of New York's Central Park.

If you detonate such a bomb in a skyscraper in Manhattan, the death toll would probably be higher, because there could be tens of thousands of people working in one building.

The power of a 1000-ton yield nuclear bomb Zhang Nan knows that 500 tons is halved?

It's not that simple!

One day in June last year, two trains met on the Trans-Siberian Railway near Ufa in the Soviet Union, when an explosion occurred on a gas pipeline 1,300 meters from the railway line due to a leak in the gas pipeline: the gas pipeline crew, although they had already seen the problem on the barometer, did not bother to check the pipeline, and simply adjusted the barometer.

And then, with a bang!

The explosive yield of that explosion was estimated at 250-300 tons of T-NT, and it is possible that the terrain caused a large part of the shock wave generated by the blast energy to hit the railway, resulting in a total of 575 people killed and more than 800 injured on the two trains!

What's even worse is that the two trains are children's trains, one carrying children to summer camps on the Black Sea coast, and the other has just returned from summer camp.

Some people say that the energy of the explosion is equivalent to tens of thousands of tons of T-NT, and those people don't even think about how much gas leaked and how much gas is in the pipeline.

Even if the natural gas is exposed to the air, the energy that the detonation can produce is only as much.

This is a physics and chemistry problem, which is very complicated, but one thing can be clear: if that bit of natural gas can really produce tens of thousands of tons of TN-T explosion energy, this will be eliminated by any fierce explosives, cloud burst bombs, thermobaric bombs or something in the world, and the armies of various countries can use natural gas cylinders to cover the world!

The Ufa explosion produced at most an energy equivalent to 300 tons of TN-T explosion, and 1.3 kilometers away was a catastrophe!

In Manhattan, even if the world of reinforced concrete structures is not as devastating in a straight line as far as the Ufa accident, the skyscrapers are far better at absorbing the energy of the explosion than in the wilderness near the Ufa Railway.

The result of good energy absorption by people is that the internal organs are sparse, and the buildings absorb energy well......

In 1990, there was no other place quite like Manhattan's steel jungle for the effects of a nuclear bomb.

There are many people, absorb energy!

Find a map, center on the Empire State Building, and draw a compass with a circle with a radius of one kilometer...

Oh!

You'll find that most of Midtown Manhattan is included in this circle, which is the most crowded and prosperous area of the entire Manhattan Island, and has the highest density of skyscrapers in the world.

In addition to being dense, it is towering into the sky!

The dozen or so skyscrapers at Rockefeller Center are exactly a kilometer from the Empire State Building, the northern end of the circle, and the streets in between are almost sun-barren.

The house is too tall and too dense!

While the actual size of Midtown Manhattan is uncertain, no matter how it is divided, it is undoubtedly the busiest business district in the United States within a one-kilometer radius centered on the Empire State Building.

Most of New York City's skyscrapers, high-end hotels, and luxury homes are located in Midtown, where more than 3 million people work in offices, hotels, and large retail businesses, malls, and luxury stores.

It controls almost the economic lifeblood of the United States, and it is well deserved to say that it affects the world's economy.

If a 500-ton nuclear bomb explodes inside the Empire State Building, preferably on a lower floor, which is always 1.5 million people within a radius of one kilometer, even if countless skyscrapers block the shock wave (those buildings are miserable, and the energy of the explosion is maximized and absorbed), but what about the diffuse nuclear contamination?

Ni may have said arrogantly: Even if she handed over the nuclear bomb to the CIA agents in her office, no one would touch a single hair of her, just because you don't know if there is a second one!

New York has developed for so many years, as long as you bring it in, there are not too many places to hide a few nuclear bombs!

Even if the whole city and the whole people launched a large-scale search, it is useless, and I don't know how many abandoned underground pipes there are in the central area alone, and the municipal archives department can't figure it out, so they can hide it casually.

Even if the president of the United States is crazy, he will not dare to get along with a family that can get a nuclear bomb and hide it in New York.

The United States cannot afford to grow a mushroom in Manhattan, even if it is small, only 500 tons.

Besides, over there in Washington, how far is the fence on the South Lawn from the White House?

But no matter how ruthless Nicole is, her mind is still clear: when the five suitcases and the ten shells arrive, there will be no need to put things in New York.

She and Thomas are Americans after all, and they still live on Long Island.

My own nuclear bomb can't blow up the manor on Long Island and the villa of Thomas and others, so where is the nuclear contamination?

Putting a nuclear bomb in the Empire State Building is just a stopgap measure in the worst-case scenario.

Nicole's suggestion was extreme, Zhang Nan shook his head at this, and said: "The Empire State Building is not suitable, I can't let my wife have an atomic bomb in her office, it's awkward to think about it."

Think about it again, is there anything else that fits? ”

Except for Zhang Nan's family and Boss Guan, even other old brothers will not make suggestions. Thomas and the others' minds were racing at high speed, thinking of a few good things, but they couldn't say it for the time being, unless the boss asked.

Jenny was there, too, and she said, "What's the radius of that box?"

"If you hurt someone in an instant, it may only be a kilometer, but if you just break ordinary glass and hurt someone, it will be at least two kilometers. ”

Hearing this, Jenny thought for a moment and said, "Put the 40 Wall Street building, and it's already ours." The population covered within a radius of one kilometer is slightly smaller, but a million is fine.

It is also a commercial building, and there are many fewer companies and banking institutions that rent offices in it than the Empire State Building, and if something really happens, it may not be able to catch us.

Thomas, isn't the headquarters of the 'United Forces' going to move there, this building is about to be renovated, just get a few vaults out, and use a few guys from Huaxia to do this work, insurance. ”

It's insurance, and the construction workers who come to the United States to work for a short time are all from Zhang Nan's hometown, just work, and go home when they make money.

As a result, Nicole was ruthless, and Thomas was even more ruthless, which would interject: "You don't need the boss's fellow countrymen, find a small construction team from Gambia, that place is poor, but it is experienced in building a vault......"

Yes, experienced: almost all of those high-ranking Gambian officials have vaults at home, practiced.

“... Closed construction, when the work is done, just let those people evaporate, leaving no trouble. ”

After Thomas finished speaking, it was like saying something very ordinary again, thoughtful.

Guan Xingquan agreed with him, although there was a relationship between the construction workers and the secret, it was safe to use the workers who would return to China: no American thief would go to Zhang Nan's hometown to ask the construction team for the blueprints.

But when it comes to nuclear bombs, any possibility must be considered: if you want to kill people, you can't destroy your own countrymen, you can't commit it, there are other options.

I have bought nuclear bombs, and it doesn't seem to be a big deal to kill a few innocent people, at most I can make some accidents outside the United States.

People are always selfish.

As for the question of how to detonate it in case ... That thing can be timed, can be wire-controlled, connected to external wires, as long as the external electrical pulse is given, make a phone call, and no one needs to watch it 24 hours a day.

But here's the problem.

"Jenny, 40 Wall Street, which one, when did it become ours?"

Manhattan has the largest number of skyscrapers in the world, and even if Zhang Nan has lived in New York on and off for several years, he has no interest in remembering the names of places in New York, let alone those skyscrapers.

Now I remember the landmark buildings in New York, and I can count them with two hands and two feet, and I really don't have the impression of that building in my mind.

"It's the former Manhattan Bank Building, I bought it two months ago, and I painted it for 6 million, and there was no profit, and I had to put a lot of money into it for decoration.

Don't you like to buy a house, it's not worth much now, but our analysts believe that it will sell for at least 300 million in 10 years.

Ten years of dozens of times of small business, easy to do. ”

Zhang Nan's mind turned, remembering which building it was: completed in 1930, with a height of more than 282 meters, it was once the tallest building in the world for more than a month.

What is it called the 40 Wall Street Building now, the building in the previous life had a very famous name: Trump Building!

In 95, Mr. Trump bought it for 8 million, and there was usually no profit, but if he really sold it more than ten years later, the profit ratio is really high.

It's hard to understand the price of these skyscrapers in the United States, because the question of the number of years of tenant rental, to use the lines of a Chinese movie I watched in my last life: "County magistrate, the previous king-bastard has been taxing for decades!"

But as long as it can be managed well, there is always hope for at least maintaining a balance between income and expenditure, and no matter how bad it is, it should be spent on a face-saving project, and we are not short of money!

Since this family is young, after more than ten or twenty years, those land-sitting households should almost leave, and if they don't leave, they will increase their rents. Over time, that building will become more and more valuable, as long as it can afford it.

A 70-story, 280-meter-high skyscraper is not as good as a mansion on the Upper East Side, which is one of the wonders of Manhattan.

I had the impression of the building in my head, and it should be just over 1.5 kilometers away from the Empire State Building in a straight line.

The windows of his own company are all explosion-proof glass, and even if they are blown up at such a distance, they will not pit his wife and children.

As for the others...

When it's time to grow mushrooms, take care of them!