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In a certain area of the calm Gulf of Aden, two warships, one large and one small, were sailing against the weak sea breeze and waves. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info standing on the deck of the USS Antonio missile cruiser, Colonel Tony...... No, now the name is Brigadier General Tony, who is looking at the sea in the distance.

A Navy Colonel who was less than 40 years old but had served more than 20 years, Tony became a rising star in the U.S. Navy military by virtue of his own efforts, serving as the captain of a guided missile cruiser in his thirties.

This achievement should be extremely satisfying for the vast majority of people. At least with a little effort, it is not difficult to be promoted to a general around the age of fifty. However, Colonel Tony did not want to work on his qualifications, but wanted to rise faster.

Napoleon said that a soldier who does not want to be a marshal is not a good soldier. Colonel Tony was reluctant to become a general by virtue of his 'seniority' and some previous achievements, perhaps the lowest among the generals.

However, in times of peace, it is very difficult for a soldier to earn enough merit to be promoted. Although as a beauty, she can also get the opportunity to fight in peacetime, and she can fight for the interests of the United States. However, compared with the Army and Air Force, the US Navy has not been the main force in all the wars in which the United States has participated in recent decades, and its credit is naturally not as great as that of other branches of the military, and it is not even as good as the Marine Corps.

The road to promotion was difficult, but it was not without opportunities, and Colonel Tony was unexpectedly given a chance to earn merit. Escorting a group of top British and American scientists to the Gulf of Aden to carry out irregular assignments will have a high chance of being promoted. This was hinted at by Tony's immediate superior, commander of the Naval Command of the US Central Headquarters, commander of the Fifth Fleet, and Tony.

Half a year later, Colonel Tony had finally completed the seemingly easy task, and a month earlier, the notice of his promotion to Commodore had come down. Just as he was about to take up his post at the headquarters after handing over to the new commander of the missile cruiser, he suddenly received an order from the headquarters, and in this way he became the commander of this small fleet consisting of a missile cruiser and two missile destroyers. He was tasked with leading the fleet to the waters around Somalia and to show the natives the power of America.

General Tony, who had just been promoted to brigadier general and had not yet achieved a little merit, was stunned by this easy task that felt like a vacation in Hawaii. He felt that God must have heard his countless silent prayers, and with this mission, his position as brigadier general was consolidated.

As for the Somalia that did not even have a small sampan, how it would react after seeing three powerful American warships, Commodore Tony could imagine.

According to the predetermined plan, the two warships with him will join up with another guided-missile destroyer rushing from the base in Bahrain in a certain sea area in eastern Somalia, and rush to the port of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, on the morning of 8 August to show Somalia the mighty posture of the US Navy.

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"Colonel Hardy, I heard that your country intends to conduct the first atomic bomb test in July?" Shi picked up the teapot on the table and filled the water cup in front of the two of them again, and asked seemingly unintentionally.

The words "nuclear explosion test" were like a thunderbolt, waking up Colonel Hardy, who was immersed in the contradictions and disputes between the United States and Iran, and a touch of vigilance naturally rose on his face. Very few people in Iran know about Iran's secret nuclear explosion test. Either the top military and political leaders, or the scientific researchers in charge of nuclear tests. And the Oriental man in front of him was able to report the specific month of the nuclear test in one mouth, how not to make Hadi vigilant. The first thing that came to his mind was to conclude that someone had leaked secrets inside Iran.

Because even he himself does not know what month the Iranian nuclear explosion test is.

"Don't be surprised, Colonel Hardy. We are allies, and it's normal to know some secrets from each other. Stone said with a slight smile. That being said, Stone still saw from Colonel Hadi's reaction that his status within Iran was not too high. Among the secret agreements reached between the Star Group and Iran, there is a clause for the exchange of monitors to monitor each other's nuclear weapons research and deployment. It was no big deal that Stone knew that Iran was going to conduct a secret nuclear explosion test in July.

Since Colonel Hadi's identity is not enough to play a role in Iran's decision-making level, the next words of the stone are naturally put in his stomach and not spoken.

"Colonel Hardy, I want to talk to Major General Safavid now, I don't know if it's okay?" Although Stone has Safavid's contact information, he does not dare to guarantee the security of the communication of the Star Organization now. And Iran's secrecy measures in this regard are certainly much stronger than those of the Star Organization.

"I'll ask, wait a minute!" Colonel Hardy knew very well what Stone meant by talking to Major General Safavi. I agreed without much hesitation. Once as a high-ranking member of the military, of course, I knew that there were some things that should not be asked, so I should not ask. His current mission is only to be in charge of liaison with the Star Organization and the R&D center.

Ten minutes later, Colonel Hardy had the old Big Brother phone in his hand. This is a highly classified military satellite telephone, and although Iran has not yet launched its own communications satellites, it has purchased satellites that Iran can enjoy on its own.

"Mr. Zhang, in order to ensure the safety of the call, I hope that you will not talk for more than ten minutes." When Colonel Hardy handed the satellite phone to Stone, he gave a single note and left the room.

Stone nodded, and when he was left alone in the room, according to Hadi's previous introduction, he connected with Major General Safavid, the commander-in-chief of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.

An hour and a half later, the stone reappeared in Li Mo's office, the headquarters of the group in Kismayo City.

"Boss, the Iranian side said that it would have to be considered, and the reason they gave was that the nuclear test was carefully planned, and by July, Iran would have several atomic bombs in its hands. Two of them will be used for nuclear tests, and the remaining ones will be installed on missiles as soon as the nuclear test is successful. If the time is advanced, their preparation will not be sufficient. Iran needs to consider the risks. Shi reported the content of his phone call with Major General Safavid to Li Mo word for word.

Li Mo sighed for a long time when he heard this, "Iran is gambling." If you want to break through the nuclear cordon, you must have a certain nuclear counterattack capability before foreign countries react. If we follow the usual procedure, wait step by step for the success of the nuclear test to obtain sufficient experimental data, and then study and manufacture a nuclear warhead, I am afraid that it will be too late. Because at that time, the outside world may have destroyed all of Iran's nuclear facilities before Iran had a nuclear counterattack capability. ”

There is a marked difference between this era and the fifties and sixties. At that time, countries were developing nuclear weapons, and there were no international regulations specifically for nuclear weapons research. Moreover, the scientific and technological strength at that time was very different from now, and there was no good way to reconnoiter whether other countries were developing. Therefore, the nuclear-armed countries in the world today are the first batch of people to eat crabs, and when they eat crabs and discover the benefits they bring, they will breed the idea of monopoly control and prevent other countries from following the trend and endangering their own status, so they will become the unanimous decision of the first batch of countries to eat crabs. Later countries not only did not compare their technology in nuclear weapons research with the first batch of nuclear weapons countries, but also faced sanctions from the first batch of countries that ate crabs. In this case, it will not work to follow the same old path as the first countries to eat crabs, even though that road is a sunny avenue that leads to the nuclear-armed states. But this sunny avenue has been artificially set up with countless thorny obstacles, and it is almost impossible to walk through it safely and unharmed.

Iran had no choice but to take a different path, secretly planning a nuclear explosion test while producing a nuclear warhead for actual combat. Grasp with both hands, and be hard with both hands. Whether it is a nuclear explosion test or the manufacture of a nuclear warhead, there is no room for error, otherwise it will be ruin for Iran.

"yes, but I think the Iranian authorities must now regret that they shouldn't have left us most of the stuff at the nuclear weapons site." Shi nodded knowingly.

The two analyzed well, and the Iranian top brass regretted it a long time ago. When Iran breached the nuclear base, Iran only took away some key information and important equipment, and the rest, such as nuclear warheads without detonating devices, and weapons-grade enriched uranium were left to the Star Organization. Iran's purpose in doing so was to minimize the possibility of exposure to the matter. After all, the countries of the world are staring at Iran with no known number of eyes. Once there is a big uproar, it is easy to leak the news that Iran secretly developed nuclear weapons and made a major breakthrough when it signed the 'Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons,' and Iran will definitely not have the strength to protect Iran's nuclear research results at that time." The Stars was originally a local organization with a small reputation within Somalia. It will not be noticed by international predators at all. And Iran does not believe that the Star Group has the ability to preserve and apply those enriched uranium, incomplete nuclear warheads.

After all, how powerful can a local African armed force be? This is especially true in the field of nuclear weapons research, which is also very advanced in modern times and has a huge cost of experimentation. As long as it takes a year or two for Iran to become a nuclear-armed state, there are too many ways to 'get those weapons-grade enriched uranium' out of the hands of the Star Organization. Let's not forget that there is also a first-class force within Somalia that is controlled by Iran - the Somali Patriotic Movement.

But who knows, the Star Organization not only has the strength to preserve these enriched uranium, but also has the ability to successfully develop those incomplete nuclear warheads, and can have the ability to counterattack nuclear before Iran. Iran simply does not know that the greatest benefit of the Star Group at the nuclear weapons base is not those weapons-grade enriched uranium, nor those nuclear warheads, but the substance.

With the existence of substance Y, it would have required huge maintenance costs, but it was basically not needed, and the biggest cost of storing enriched uranium and nuclear warheads was to prevent nuclear leakage, and with substance Y, the Camel Hill base was safer than any nuclear facility in the world. The acquisition of a group of scientists from Afghanistan by the Star Organization and the later return of the comet group are all important factors to ensure that the Star Organization has achieved superiority in nuclear weapons research.

(To be continued)