A fifty-ton crane was used to send Big Ivan under the Tu-95B strategic bomber, and Serov and Itvasov were extremely calm during the whole process, but the constant surging Adam's apple proved that the two were only pretending to be calm in front of their subordinates.

The commander-in-chief of the test was Lieutenant General Pavlov, commander of the 46th Air Army, and the final assembled hydrogen bomb was loaded into the Tu-95B strategic bomber in a special vehicle. The soldiers at the airport are working overtime to complete one thing, digging a trench, Big Ivan's entire bomb body is dragged to the ground and cannot take off at all, the only emergency way is to dig a dirt ditch on the runway below it, otherwise if it is forcibly taken off, Big Ivan's shell will rub against the ground, and the consequences will be unimaginable. If we're lucky, Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union, 40 kilometers away, will be the first capital on earth to be wiped out by a nuclear bomb.

"Let's go, let's get on the plane!" Serov, who had watched the whole process, felt that he had shown enough bravery to prove that he didn't need to stop here to prove anything, and hurriedly beckoned Itvasov to leave here. He didn't want to continue playing with Zhukovsky.

After getting off the plane, Serov tightened his military coat and stretched out his hand to Gurikov, the head of the test site area on Novaya Zemlya, who had already gone down from Moscow on the way, and he would sit in the KGB and liaise with the Ministry of Defense, and at the beginning of the experiment, shut down 80 percent of the Soviet radar stations on the Arctic Ocean coast, all power grids north of Leningrad would stop operating, and the cities, including Leningrad, would shut down the communication networks.

All the conditions were in place, the test personnel made serious preparations, and the various equipment and places were inspected for the last time, the armored shelter was in normal condition, the command post observation station was set up 250 kilometers away, and the destroyer was parked 180 kilometers away. All monitoring points are on standby.

"Hello, Comrade Serov! Seeing your security cadres will ease my nervousness! Gurikov, the head of the Novaya Zemlya test site area, patted his chest somewhat exaggeratedly and said, "I don't know why, when I think of the date of the nuclear test approaching, my nervousness is always unrelieved......

"Oh, this is probably the first time I've felt so important!" Hearing this, Serov did not know whether to be happy or disappointed. But there is one thing he knows, not only Gurikov is nervous, but Serov is also nervous.

"We are hundreds of kilometers away from the Maduoqijing area where the experiment was conducted, and the buildings in the entire test site area are very solid, all of which were newly established for this experiment, and from a solid point of view, there is no problem!" Gurikov led Serov to the observation site, indicating that it was fairly safe for them to observe here.

"I believe in the quality of Soviet manufacturing in terms of durability!" Serov did not say another question when he said this, and the quality of Big Ivan was also quite good. The power halving is still firmly at the top of the list of all the big hits in the world.

Entering the control room, Serov immediately began to contact the Presidium of the Central Committee in Moscow, as well as the Ministry of Defense. Although the main control room is a semi-underground building, there are no problems with poor signal. The equipment of the Soviet Union is absolutely excellent in this regard, the radar of the MiG-25 can burn animals on the ground to death, and many of the equipment of the Soviet Union can be described as a fist of seven wounds, first injuring oneself is hurting others, either the other party dies or dies oneself.

"Yuri Yefimovich Serov, has arrived at the Novaya Zemlya test zone, the report is complete! Everything works fine here. The weather conditions are good and the trial can start at any time! "This passage of Serov will be transmitted to Moscow by radio waves. Look out through the observation hole. You can even see seabirds flying outside, and I hope that the sixth sense of these seabirds will be sharpened and they will not fly to the bomb drop.

"The Ministry of Defense reports that strategic bombers of the Tu-95B type have already taken off from the Zhukovsky military base!" Ground-based radar stations are directing strategic bombers to the Madokijing area, and your local radar stations will see it then! ”

"As soon as the radar station in the Novaya Zemlya test area completed the guidelines, it reported to the Ministry of Defense. We will turn off most of the radar stations in the Arctic Circle! Tomorrow I will go to the test area to watch," Marshal Nederin paused and then said, "Yuri, your Uncle Bagramyan told you to be careful......"

"Thank you!" Serov thanked him expressionlessly, and then sent a report to the Presidium of the Central Committee on the situation on Novaya Zemlya. As well as the preparations made by the local experimental area for this, I received a call back from the Central Presidium after a while, and the test date remains unchanged, it is still 30 days, that is, starting tomorrow, and all departments will use the last day to make all preparations.

Novaya Zemlya is very strong, because most of the place is covered with granite, and it is already October, and the normal temperature here is -15 degrees Celsius, for which Serov is not unbearable, and it is still within the range of human activity. The shoots left over from the short summer have already withered and yellowed, and in fact, the summer temperature here is around freezing. Because of the problem of latitude, there will be no rotation of seasons on this side, and by this time the Tu-95B strategic bombers of the Zhukovsky military base had already left there and went to Murmansk with the assembled Veliky Ivan.

Murmansk is the only "ice-free port all year round" in the north of Russia, it is located about 68 degrees within the Arctic Circle, due to the influence of the warm current of the North Atlantic, although it is located in the Arctic Circle at high latitudes, the temperature is very low, the harbor here never freezes all year round, even in the coldest months the sea temperature is not lower than three degrees Celsius, and it can be navigable all year round.

Because it was too dangerous to take off from Zhukovsky, Marshal Negelin finally chose Murmansk as the take-off site for the Tu-95B strategic bomber, and the next morning, Serov was still experiencing the polar climate for the first time, State Councilor Palavsky and Marshal Nederin, commander of the Strategic Rocket Forces, took a military plane to the Novaya Zemlya test site, and at the moment when the two landed, the Tu-95B strategic bomber of Murmansk carrying Big Ivan began to taxi slowly at the airport that had been renovated.

Ten minutes later, the Ministry of Defense sent a telegram that at 9:27 a.m., a "Tu-95B" plane carrying a giant hydrogen bomb and another "Tu-16" plane carrying a laboratory took off in pairing and headed for an island in the Novaya Zemlya archipelago.

"They're coming?" Serov's voice was particularly strange, with a metallic synthesized sound.

"Yes, maybe we're going to see something that we don't see in history!" Marshal Nederin replied that in fact, if it were not Serov, the person standing here at this time as if nothing had happened should be the successor commander of the Strategic Rocket Forces, Marshal Moskalenko.

Half an hour later, Captain Durnovsev, who was 180 kilometers off the coast of Novaya Zemlya, reported that a Tu-95B strategic bomber and a test aircraft had been detected and that the two planes were approaching Novaya Zemlya.

"We have arrived in the Madokijing area, everything is normal!" Yasnikov, the pilot of the Tu-95B strategic bomber, reported over Novaya Zemlya.

"Bomb dropping!" At the same time as Marshal Nederin gave the order, Serov, who was standing by the observation hole, took out the sunglasses that he had already prepared, of course, he took out a bunch, and Serov dared to come here at the risk of blindness only when he was completely prepared.

"Understood!" Yasnikov's voice was heard over the radio at an altitude of 10,000 meters, and the big Ivan, which was fixed on the belly of the Tu-95B strategic bomber, was thrown out, first with a parachute half a meter long, then a second with a size of about 5.5 square meters, and then a third with a size of 40 square meters. Finally, the main parachute opened, 1,600 square meters in size, and the hydrogen bomb was smoothly lowered with the parachute. At this time, Marshal Nederin's command to open the parachute was heard from the command post, and there was a relaxed sigh in his reply. After that, it was another difficult wait for the explosion.

Yasnikov, who had successfully dropped Big Ivan, finally no longer had to carry this seriously overloaded cargo, and his hands in black leather gloves were already muddy, and the Tu-95B strategic bomber that got rid of Big Ivan quickly departed like a sword off the string, and according to calculations, the safe departure time was a total of fifteen minutes. The pilot applied a light-impermeable aerosol from the tail.

At 11:32 p.m., the most powerful explosion in human history occurred at an altitude of 4,000 meters above the Novaya Zemlya Islands. A dazzling flash of light appeared in the air for nearly seventy seconds, visible hundreds of kilometers away, despite being obscured by thick clouds. The next fireball of flame covered the heavens and the earth and lasted for a long time. Finally, a huge, grayish-black mushroom cloud rises into the sky, reaching the top of the stratosphere, reaching a height of tens of kilometers.

At the time of the explosion, the test personnel in the cabin of the aircraft were more than 100 kilometers away from the center of the explosion, avoiding the strong flash. However, even the thick smoke from the aft hatch did not fully protect it. A heat wave rushes into the cabin, and as the shock wave passes through the aircraft, the indications of all instrumentation equipment soar upward, and the pointer jumps back and forth...... And that's not all, it was later learned that all the seismic testers around the world had measured this nuclear explosion, and the shock wave it produced was transmitted around the globe three times.

Serov, who was two hundred and fifty kilometers away from the explosion site, instantly felt a dazzling light through the observation hole, and even the sunglasses on his face did not work, followed by a wave of shaking, and the semi-underground control room, which looked solid, was in a violent shock.

"The experiment was successful, and we can report to the Presidium of the Central Committee in Moscow!" Marshal Nederin said with a sigh.

Serov nodded, but did not immediately remove the sunglasses on the bridge of his nose, "If our communication network is still useful now, of course it can!" "I don't know if the equipment at this proving ground is tube-based, but if it is, it should still work. (To be continued.) )