Indian Ocean.

West of the Diego Garcia Islands.

The USS Carl Vinson and USS George Washington advanced in anti-submarine formation.

The Aegis phased array radar on the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer and the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser is turned on at full power to protect against an air attack that may come at any time.

Dozens of SH-60 Seahawk anti-submarine helicopters are scattered within hundreds of kilometers around the carrier cluster, cooperating with the five Virginia-class nuclear submarines below the fleet in search of elusive submarines.

Having already made up its mind to target Somalia, the naval and air forces of the US military were now fully operational.

However, even so, the two aircraft carrier battle groups deployed by the US Navy in the Indian Ocean only dare to operate in an area 2,000 nautical miles away from the east coast of Somalia, and do not dare to go further.

The tragic experience of the Arab allies has clearly taught the Americans that they cannot get close to the Somali coast, not even from a distance.

Vice Admiral Mark Fox, commander of the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet, stood in front of the porthole of the bridge with his eyebrows furrowed.

As the supreme commander of the US military in the Middle East, the last time he was in Manama, the capital of Bahrain, he saw with his own eyes how the genesis-like light of an electromagnetic pulse bomb could completely return a city to the agricultural era in an instant.

It is a pity that the current head of the White House is no longer the president of the past.

The new president of the United States has taken a very hard line on Mogadishu's policy, and even in the CIA report, he has already faintly pointed the culpate behind Oguanhai's death in Mogadishu.

However, Lieutenant General Fox knew very well in his heart that he wanted to talk about the assassination of Oguanhai, IS, al-Qaeda. China and Russia and other countries are all possible, but a war is the least likely.

What's more, before Ao Guanhai's assassination, there was a lot of trouble in the United States because of the Golden Dragon battery and controllable nuclear fusion, and the biggest suspicion of killing Ao Guanhai was precisely the vested interest groups that were directing the country in Washington.

"Hey, I don't know what the outcome of this war will be!" Lieutenant General Mark Fox sighed in his heart!

That's when it happened. A piercing siren sounded on the aircraft carrier.

A Navy Colonel hurriedly came behind Vice Admiral Fox and said, "Report to the general, there is an abnormal nuclear radiation value in the engine room, and the emergency team is going to deal with it." ”

Vice Admiral Fox's face changed: "Immediately order all the members of the ship to immediately put on nuclear radiation protection suits and deal with them according to the highest level of contingency plan!"

The Colonel was slightly stunned, it's just that the nuclear radiation is abnormal, so there's no need to make such a fuss!

Just as he was about to speak, another signal corpsman rushed over: "The USS Washington aircraft carrier is calling, and there is a nuclear radiation anomaly in the engine room. ”

The Lieutenant Colonel's face changed slightly. I swallowed back the words that I was about to say.

Vice Admiral Fox should have been fortunate for his decision, which saved the lives of most of the officers and men on the USS Carl Vinson and USS George Washington.

Even two Virginia-class nuclear submarines not equipped with nuclear warheads surfaced with backup power and were retained.

Lieutenant General Fox naturally did not know that at this time, the three major strategic missile wings of the US Air Force, the nuclear arsenal of Nellis Air Force Base, the nuclear arsenal of Andersen Air Force Base, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Naval submarine base in Gissepp, naval base in Norfolk. Similar radiation appeared in the nuclear arsenals of the Pearl Harbor base in Hawaii, the Guam base, the San Diego naval base, the Diego Garcia base......

These military bases are largely stockpiled with nuclear warheads, so the losses are extremely heavy.

Within a radius of five hundred meters from the center of radiation, all living things die within one to three minutes. Within a radius of one kilometer, the exposed organisms will die within one hour to three hours, and within a radius of three kilometers, most people will be disabled and teratogenic.

Fortunately, however, these warheads are largely kept in a closed environment. In addition, the military base is remote, and it only kills and injures the soldiers in the base, and does not hurt many civilians.

And nuclear-powered submarines that submerge in the depths of the ocean are miserable.

The nuclear reactor of the 10 Ohio-class ballistic missile nuclear submarines on the cruise, coupled with the nuclear warheads on the Trident III ballistic missiles, caused the radiation inside the nuclear submarines to explode in just a few seconds, and the soldiers in the cabin almost did not have time to react before they were completely wiped out. In the end, most of the ten nuclear submarines were buried at the bottom of the sea after losing power.

By contrast, attack submarines and nuclear-powered aircraft carriers that do not carry nuclear warheads fared much better.

Since the uranium concentration of the nuclear fuel is not so high, and it is not weapons-grade enriched uranium, the radiation dose is limited and does not cause much casualties except for causing panic inside aircraft carriers and submarines.

But even so, the U.S. military has been weakened by at least two-thirds, especially the aircraft carriers that are on cruise missions, most of which have lost power and drifted at sea, and after this incident, they were towed back to the continental United States, dismantled and returned to the steel mill, and finally became part of the space elevator floating platform at sea.

In contrast, the situation of other countries is undoubtedly much better, China, Britain, France, India, Pakistan, Israel, North Korea and other countries have a limited number of nuclear weapons, and most of the deaths are soldiers on the front line of nuclear bombs, with a total of less than 10,000 people.

Regardless, radiation-induced storms have sent waves through the world.

……

At half past ten o'clock in the evening Washington time, the new President of the United States, Joe Biden, who had just fallen asleep, was awakened by a banging knock on the door.

The White House secretary directly pushed the door in, ignoring the angry eyes of Mr. President and the First Lady, and said: "Mr. Biden, emergency, the Pentagon just called, something is wrong with our nuclear arsenal!"

Joe Biden's face changed, and he no longer bothered to reprimand the reckless White House secretary, so he quickly got up from the bed and put on his clothes.

The White House secretary has given him a rough account of the current situation facing the United States.

The three major strategic missile bases on the US mainland have all lost contact, and the air bases with a large number of nuclear warheads have also been attacked by strong radiation, and the Fifth Fleet, which is carrying out tasks in the Indian Ocean, is relatively lucky, because of Vice Admiral Fox's insistence, the two aircraft carriers have only lost power, but they have also temporarily lost their combat capability. (To be continued......) R1292