Chapter 547: Israel's Nuclear Program

The entire Soviet Union was in a high-spirited atmosphere at this time, and it seemed that none of the factors that had ever been at odds with each other did not exist. Some of the confusion that has occurred in previous years is not really the same www.biquge.info and the reason why I say this is because the leadership of each state of the USSR was changed by Khrushchev to two secretaries, one industrial secretary and one agricultural secretary were at the same level. In recent years, if it were not for the fact that the external environment of the Soviet Union has been improving, mainly because the accession of Indonesia and Sudan has solved many problems in the Soviet Union, in fact, the development speed of the Soviet Union has actually declined.

Now it turns out that even with two parallel secretaries, the USSR can function well. Because the heads of the various departments of the Central Committee and the Presidium of the Central Committee are united, under the death orders from above, the cadres below have no time to think about fighting for power.

"The history books I've read talk about Khrushchev's political reforms so lazy? Especially when the two secretaries at the same level said that it was a failure, it turned out that this matter could be overcome? Serov had the feeling that he had been deceived by historical sources, and it turned out that as long as the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union coordinated the overall situation, it could prevent the cadres below from competing for power.

However, Khrushchev can still do this reluctantly, and Brezhnev will certainly not be able to play it. Khrushchev was the leader in the Presidium of the Central Committee, and once he retired, Brezhnev would be a comrade compared to other members, and he did not have the prestige of Khrushchev, and neither Sherepin nor Kosygin would buy it. If there were still two local secretaries in this case, there would definitely be problems in the USSR.

Khrushchev turned the local state party committees into two secretaries, and he himself may not be able to play with it, and this kind of reform, Serov believes, is actually the most suitable for Stalin. Only a leader with absolute authority and ability can control it. So the fact that two secretaries exist at the same time, as soon as Khrushchev retires, it will definitely be abolished immediately.

"I'm thinking about something!" Serov, who was in the office of the head of the building of the Ministry of Petroleum Industry, stood by the window and looked down and asked, "Don't you think it's a bit too much, Tikunov?" In fact, I can see that the motivation for this unity is to let our first secretary retire with peace of mind, but what about the new leader coming to power? ”

"What do you mean? Isn't it great now? A growth rate of 10 percent, except for a few years after the end of the Great Patriotic War, which has not been seen in recent years. Tikunov said with a relaxed expression, "The reserves of the third Baku are expected to be more than the second Baku, and I really hope that our country will have more such oil fields." ”

It's still enough! Serov secretly pouted that it is not good for a country to pin its economy on oil. Later generations of Russia had this problem, and it hurt when it was hit. The Soviet Union actually had a little bit of this problem, but the Soviet Union's dependence on oil was not serious, mainly because the Soviet Union's industrial strength far exceeded that of later Russia. About 70% of the Soviet Union's oil was used by itself, and the remaining 30% was exported, and more than half of the export was used to provide energy to Eastern European countries, and the rest was exported to Western Europe in exchange for foreign exchange.

The Soviet Union was not the kind of country that did not use much of its own country, and how much oil was used for money. This is completely different from those countries in the Middle East, the kind of countries in the Middle East that have little resistance, and Serov can make those countries kneel as long as they choke the water sources of that kind of country and find a way to cut off the import of grain.

"I mean, even if the first secretary really retires on his own initiative, after the new leader comes to power, will you still be able to maintain such a high growth rate? Now that it's 10 percent, and the new first secretary has come up, is our economic growth returning to 8 percent? Isn't that embarrassing the new leader? Serov, who turned around, asked, "What will you do with these departments then?" Don't tell me I can go up to 15 percent, I don't believe ......."

"We'll talk about it then!" The phone on the desk just opened Tikunov's mouth rang, answered the phone and said a few words and then turned his head sideways, "Lubyanka's phone said to let you go back, there is a more important thing for you to judge personally." ”

"Got it, I don't know what's going on?" Serov lazily waved his hand and said goodbye, in addition to him, the chairman of the KGB, the KGB had two first deputy chairmen, as well as thirteen deputy chairmen. In fact, there is nothing to do in an organization with a complete structure, and there must be major news for him to be called in such a hurry.

The news is indeed very significant, the intelligence of Israel's nuclear program. The Suez War broke out that year. Despite the success of Israel's operation, which occupied the entire Suez Peninsula. But France and Britain were bogged down in the attack on the Suez Canal, and then declared defeat under pressure from the United States and the Soviet Union. The withdrawal of Britain and France left Israel alone and under intense pressure from the two superpowers. Soviet Prime Minister Bulganin warned that if Israel remained obstinated and insisted on withdrawing its troops from Mount Sinai, the Soviet Union would strike it nuclear.

The Negev Nuclear Research Center is at the center of Israel's nuclear weapons program. It is located in the vicinity of the desert city of Dimora, hence the abbreviation of Dimora. In the late fifties and early sixties, France built a nuclear reactor and a plutonium production plant in this center. All the special materials needed to make the atomic bomb are manufactured in Dumora, including plutonium, lithium-6 deuteride, and enriched and unenriched uranium. But the design and assembly of the atomic bomb was carried out elsewhere.

It can be said that Israel's nuclear program is partly due to pressure from the Soviet Union, "these French really gave Israel a good foundation!" So you're close to success? As the General Political Commissar of the Soviet Union's National Security, he once used China as an excuse to veto India and North Korea's requests for the Soviet Union to provide nuclear research institutes and technical support.

For the first time, Serov felt that the French were not cute anymore, because France was in Western Europe, which belonged to NATO, so France's maverick Soviet Union had the mentality of watching the excitement. But what France did this time also embarrassed the Soviet Union very much, "What do our Ministry of Defense think of the British and French pair of-stirring sticks?" Serov tilted his head and asked his head chief of general affairs Servanov.

Before the Middle East war, the Soviet Union planned the war, and it planned to attack Israel in an attempt to deliberately provoke this Arab-Israeli war by spreading false intelligence and other means, and the reason why the Soviet Union did this was mainly because Israel had made a huge breakthrough in nuclear research. To counter this threat, the Soviet Union wanted to unite Egypt in the war to bomb Israel's Dimona nuclear facility, and they even planned to land off the coast of Israel. At that time, Soviet nuclear submarines also approached the shores of Israel in order to return fire when Israel was ready to use nuclear weapons.

Similarly, on the eve of the war, the United States had developed a secret military plan to launch a military strike against Israel if it entered the West Bank east or captured the Sinai Peninsula westward, but this plan ended in miscarriage. What made the United States and the Soviet Union go home was the swift speed of the Israeli army.

"What the Ministry of Defense means is to let Egypt destroy Israel's nuclear facilities." It is clear that the attitude of the Ministry of Defense is about the same as the assessment of the KGB, hoping to use Egypt, the most powerful of the Arab countries, to solve the problem.

Serov thought for a moment, if I am not mistaken, this Middle East war was first attacked by Israel by means of sneak attack, to be honest, the reason why Egypt later began to distrust the Soviet Union was because of the disappointing performance of the Soviet Union in this war. The main reason is that Egypt has been unable to fight back after losing the Sinai Peninsula, making the Suez Canal, a golden waterway controlled by pro-Soviet countries, a threat from Israel on one side. It can be said that in the third Middle East war in six or seven years, the Soviet Union seemed unaffected, but in fact lost a lot of potential things, such as the trust of Egypt.

"Pay attention to the battle plan of the Ministry of Defense, I will report to the Presidium of the Central Committee, and, forget it!" Serov actually wanted to get in touch with the Americans to solve this hidden problem. Americans are certainly dissatisfied with Israel's development of nuclear weapons, don't really think that the Jews are invincible in the world of American influence, a housekeeper does not know his identity, and the master can be on the stick as well.

The United States needs Israel to pull hatred in the Middle East, but in this era, it does not want Israel to have nuclear weapons, but later Israel has nuclear weapons, and the United States chooses to accept them.

"The Ministry of Defense means to provoke a war in the Middle East, for Egypt, Syria, Jordan to destroy Israel's nuclear facilities, and to prevent the balance in the Middle East from being upset. I think that this plan, while risky, is also a way out of the question, unless we, the Soviet Union, can accept our Arab allies and engage in an unequal confrontation with a nuclear-armed country forever. Serov, who arrived at the Presidium of the Central Committee, said with uncertainty, "But based on the analysis of the available intelligence, Israel should be close to the verge of success, but it has not yet produced nuclear weapons." ”

"The KGB and the Ministry of Defense came up with a plan and submitted it to us for evaluation." Khrushchev was shocked, after all, he was seventy-four years old, and he had recently been letting the other members of the Central Presidium make decisions, usually in the role of a supervisor, but this matter was not ordinary, and Khrushchev showed great concern.

"Got it, if the target is limited to one country, Israel, I personally recommend that the use of tactical nuclear weapons could be considered. I believe that the Ministry of Defense also sees it this way. Serov glanced at the new Minister of Defense, Marshal Gretchko, or rather, the acting Minister of Defense, because Malinovsky was admitted to the hospital for observation. (To be continued.) )