On the distant horizon, the sun of the planet slowly sets, and the sky gradually darkens.

As the scheduled midnight approached, the officers and men participating in the exercise became a little nervous but excited. After all, such an extraordinary experience may only happen once in a lifetime.

In this large-scale exercise, most of the combat equipment and venues were basically provided by the Empire, but a large number of officers and soldiers participating in the exercise were from the Chinese countries on Earth, including thousands of experts and scholars, who had to personally lead and participate in the entire exercise process, and the most important work was to collect data and establish analysis models afterwards.

"You are the person in charge of the exercise, and you will give the launch order later. ”

On the platform, Zhao Xinglan handed Xie Xuan a fist-sized blue prismatic crystal ball, which was the general controller of all nuclear weapons on the planet, commonly known as the "nuclear button". Its material is a high-efficiency information storage crystal, and its performance is hundreds of years ahead of the information storage equipment on the earth.

Xie Xuan took it with a solemn expression and cautiously, and put it in his hand and looked at it cautiously. In fact, this thing is not heavy, the operating procedure is very simple, it looks more like a beautiful craft, no big deal.

Just thinking that this thing controls tens of thousands of real nuclear bombs, if placed on the earth, this is enough to knock human civilization back to the era before the industrial revolution, and no leader of any major country will be indifferent to this.

"Come, let me see. ”

Ji Meng leaned over with great interest, took the crystal ball and looked at it for a while, and asked with a smile: "It looks different from the Mi Guo's nuclear button described in the news! How is the password set? Is it also eight zeros?"

"There's no password for this thing right now, but you can set it up however you like. Zhao Xinglan replied.

In fact, the nuclear weapons command and control launch procedures of the five major rogue on the earth are all similar, and the supreme leader controls the nuclear button, which is the black lockbox that often appears in the news, which contains password documents and top-secret communication equipment. Carried by an officer, it is always at the head of state, and can be activated when the situation changes, and issue combat orders to the country's nuclear weapons bases.

According to the documents and materials declassified by later generations, the nuclear weapons launch code of the United States during the Cold War was very simple, that is, eight zeros. And it's not a tall input device, it's a fairly primitive mechanical dial, a technology that was available during World War II.

It is said that this is to prevent the president from forgetting or entering the wrong password because he is overly nervous when a nuclear war breaks out. Moreover, although the mechanical input equipment is somewhat backward, it is extremely stable and reliable, and it is not easy to be interfered with and destroyed by hostile forces, and it is much more reliable than more advanced electronic information technology equipment.

After all, once the time comes when nuclear weapons are needed, the external environment is likely to be unprecedentedly harsh, and no one dares to guarantee how many of the so-called Internet, GPS positioning, strategic missile early warning satellites, optical cable communications, and other things will be able to function normally. At that time, all combat units can basically do is enter the password, turn on the power supply, and press the launch button to finish.

The Russians' nuclear strike plan is similar to that of the United States, but there is an even more terrible "dead hand" automatic control system. In the event that the top leadership is completely destroyed by the decapitation of the hostile countries, it can also activate the launch procedures on its own and carry out a full-scale nuclear strike against all potential hostile countries.

As for how to set Huaguo's nuclear button, it is a top secret that is not known to outsiders, of course, Zhao Xinglan has no intention of asking, these things have no meaning to her now.

As time passed, midnight finally came.

Under Zhao Xinglan's prompting, Xie Xuan gave the command to start the exercise through the crystal ball a little nervously, and the invisible radio waves instantly spread to every corner of the entire planet.

The doomsday rehearsal was thus launched, and the ballistic missile early warning satellites in synchronous orbit on behalf of China simultaneously received infrared signals and engine tail flame radiation from the ignition of missiles from dozens of missile bases and many strategic nuclear submarines on the other side of the ocean, and immediately issued an alarm to the headquarters.

Soon, the results of the tracking trajectory showed that they were heading for the East Asian continent, and the highest level of alarm was immediately issued to the underground national strategic command center located in the imperial capital Xishan.

Immediately, all the leaders quickly dispersed and hid into the underground command center. The secret bases of the Rocket Force in the major mountain ranges of the country have been fully activated, and the nuclear submarines in the ocean have received launch orders to counterattack, and at the same time, the anti-missile interception system has been activated.

Half an hour later, the first batch of more than 100 missiles hit many targets on the other side of the ocean, and suddenly golden light erupted, fireballs volleyed into the sky, and mushroom clouds rose into the sky!

First of all, the large urban agglomeration on the east coast, several sub-guided nuclear warheads first emitted dazzling flashes of light 600 meters above the ground, and a number of churning fireballs soared into the sky, growing larger and larger, expanding to a diameter of 3,500 meters, constantly changing colors and dazzling brilliance. The fireball and the huge pillar of smoke that rose into the sky turned into a strange green mushroom cloud, tumbling and rising into the clear blue sky, and finally gradually disappearing at an altitude of more than 20,000 meters.

The fireball burst out with radiant heat of millions of degrees Celsius, blowing hot wind at a speed of 800 kilometers per hour, scorching the ground below. Within a radius of several kilometers from the center of the explosion, the steel frame was paralyzed into twisted noodles, the concrete was reduced to powder, the sand and gravel pebbles were melted and re-solidified into dark green glass balls, the trees were charred, and the human body was reduced to ashes.

A few minutes after the explosion, a sticky, jet-black rain of radiation fell from the sky, bringing deadly nuclear fallout. Within a few dozen square kilometers of the epicenter of the explosion, only a piece of scorched earth remained, and except for a few survivors in the underground bunkers, the people outside were either killed or injured. The fleet of planes at the airfield within the blast radius has been reduced to a steel skeleton.

Hurricanes triggered by the churning air currents of the shock wave carried billowing flames into the city from multiple directions, quickly causing fires in dry and crowded residential areas.

The flames spread to factories and warehouses, encountering explosives, chemicals and flammable materials, and the fire became more and more ferocious.

Some neighborhoods were burned through, and the rubber tires of the vehicles were burned and vaporized, leaving only iron wheels crawling. People rushed out of the flames, trying to hide in the open areas where the fire could not scorch. For a time, the streets, squares, and parks became safe areas, crowded with people, and chaotic.

It's just that as the fire approached, the flames around it soared into the sky, and the encirclement was frantically contracting. All exits were blocked by collapsed burning debris, and tongues of fire slammed into the clearing. There is more oxygen in the open area, which is the best accelerant for fires. The flames devoured oxygen and swept through the crowd mercilessly, leaving thousands of people unspared, most of whom were suffocated by the lack of oxygen after being suffocated by the smoke.

The apocalyptic catastrophe is staged in almost all major urban agglomerations on the North American continent, with important military targets, industrial manufacturing centers, energy reserve bases, shipyards, space launch sites, important transportation hubs, etc., all strategic objectives have not slipped through the net.

Yellowstone National Park, a rare fragile area of the earth's crust, was bombarded by multiple ground-drilling nuclear bombs, a low roar emanated from the ground, and the incomparably hot dark red magma erupted violently, rushing to a height of thousands of meters before scattering and exploding.

A huge amount of magma continued to gush out, covering an area of tens of kilometers, but the tea turned into the Shura Purgatory Field, and the black-red clouds generated by the explosion covered the sky for hundreds of kilometers in a radius of hundreds of kilometers.

This apocalyptic scene is being staged on different continents one after another, and the anti-missile interception system representing the United States has indeed played a partial role, and the first batch of nearly forty percent of the intercontinental missiles have been intercepted. However, with the destruction of important nodes such as early warning satellites and ultra-long-range radars, there is nothing that can be done about the follow-up missiles.

The situation on behalf of the East Asian continent of China is better, after all, thanks to the secret help of the empire, some unknown black technology equipment has been added, which has increased the success rate of interception a lot.

Tens of thousands of unmanned detection equipment and countless sensors are distributed in every corner of the planet, sending massive data and information to the exercise center for summarization.

Two hours later, the second and third waves of nuclear strikes came to an end, and tens of thousands of nuclear bombs were launched.

(PS: I didn't write much about the exercise, and that's it, book friends, don't take it seriously.) ）

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