Chapter 358: Misfire
This is simply a blatant threat, and according to the calculations of American scientists, once Yellowstone explodes, the best result is that the United States becomes an uninhabitable place for human beings, and a little bigger, the whole of NATO will be affected. The worst-case scenario is that humanity could perish, and almost no one would have thought that anyone would dare to pay attention to Yellowstone.
"I heard that Yellowstone is recovering, according to the estimation of our Soviet scientists, Yellowstone is now in an active period, what a good time, fortunately we in the Soviet Union did not have this thing!" At this time, Serov is like an assassin who catches the imperialist ****, and this feeling is really as cool as it gets.
"Maybe nothing will happen, you have wasted nuclear bombs in vain, and the next nuclear strike is not something that your Soviet Union can withstand!" U.S. President John F. Kennedy said lightly, "Compared to this threat that may have serious consequences, the threat that the United States has given you is real, and our nuclear missiles can be enough to bomb the Soviet Union over and over again until all the Soviets are gone......
Yellowstone is a very dangerous place, and no one can predict what will happen if it erupts. At least the American scientists of the sixties did not come to a unified conclusion, and Serov certainly did not tell Kennedy that the Soviet Union had not studied it, but one thing he did know was that the crust of Yellowstone could be stable or unstable, and what he could confirm was that it was the most active volcano on Earth at present, and it was in the eruption cycle. As for whether a nuclear bomb can detonate Yellowstone, there is no need......
This problem is the Americans themselves, and it is not in the territory of the USSR, if something goes wrong, the Americans die first, and the Soviets may be able to live a little longer, in case the dose of the explosion is relatively small, and only the United States is blown up, and the USSR earns ......
"What exactly do you Soviet Union want?" Kennedy said impatiently that the problem could not be dragged on. The United States was unwilling to drag it out, and so did the Soviet Union.
"The US military withdraws from Guantanamo, withdraws Turkish missiles, and we, the USSR, can withdraw Cuban missiles!" Dobrynin put forward the conditions of the Soviet side, which Khrushchev had in mind after the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
"Guantanamo is a matter for the United States and Cuba, and the US military will not withdraw!" U.S. Secretary of Defense McNamara refused, saying, "We can secretly withdraw Turkey's nuclear missiles, but Soviet nuclear missiles must be withdrawn in their entirety under the supervision of the United Nations." β
"Let's leave the matter to the war!" Serov directly interrupted McNamara's words, raised his wrist and looked at the time, "Our submarine forces should have reached the range of fire, and now the two sides are truly equal, and after the war begins, there will be no victors......
"You're lying to us!" Attorney General Robert Kennedy stared into Serov's eyes and said, "I hope we retreat!" β
"I'm only telling the truth, but I do want you Americans to be more sincere!" Serov replied calmly, "If Mr. President Kennedy is a little more sensible, you can think so, then I am asking you to come to your senses, and it will not be good for us to fight, as you said, there is no winner in a nuclear war." Then why do you have to trample on the dignity of the Soviet Union, if you could take into account the feelings of our Soviet Union when deploying missiles in Turkey, this kind of thing would not have happened today, and we could have coexisted peacefully! β
Putting on a hysterical appearance is not something Serov himself wants to do. But if he didn't do this, he couldn't do better, and expected the American conscience to find peaceful coexistence with the Soviet Union from now on? Cut, how is this possible. Russia in the Khitan era knelt completely enough, why didn't you see the Americans open up?
In the final analysis, the strength is not enough, so he puts on a desperate appearance. The United States has sufficient strength, so it naturally takes the initiative to wait for the Soviet Union's request and consider whether to accept it. This is the deep-seated reason why the United States will take the initiative in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
"The withdrawal of all Cuban missiles must operate under the surveillance of the United Nations, and we withdraw our missiles from Turkey, while publicly undertaking never to attack Cuba." Kennedy pondered for a moment and then proposed his own plan, which was what the United States had in mind after the Cuban Missile Crisis began.
"The whole world knows that the Guantanamo base is an unequal treaty, but do you the United States still insist on it?" Dobrynin shook his head slightly and said, "We, the Soviet Union, can completely announce the content of this negotiation, and the two sides can't reach an agreement entirely because the United States must keep this colony, and in the future, you in the United States should not say anything about national independence and world peace, because you can't do it at all!" β
Kennedy was reluctant to speak out on the issue of Guantanamo in Cuba because, among the small countries here in Latin America, the issue of Guantanamo in Cuba was not an isolated issue. This is also happening in Panama, where, at the behest of the United States, some people in the Panama region of the Republic of Colombia staged a coup d'Γ©tat and proclaimed the Republic of Panama. The United States and Panama signed an unequal U.S.-Pakistan treaty that provided for the United States to obtain the right to use the Panaste Canal Zone in perpetuity at a cost of $10 million in a lump sum and $250,000 in annual rent after nine years. In addition to this right, the United States was given the right to build railroads and fortify garrisons.
In the view of the US Government, once the United States relinquishes the ownership of the Guantanamo base, it is very likely to open a very dangerous precedent when facing the Soviet Union, and if the Soviet Union replicates the Guantanamo model in the future, forces the United States to withdraw from Panama and abrogates the US-Pakistan treaty, will the United States also withdraw according to the Guantanamo precedent? This is a question that must be considered......
But Kennedy also knew that because the Soviet Union was always hyping up the issue, the whole world now knew that Cuba's largest port was still occupied by the United States, and had always rejected Cuba's efforts to return to Guantanamo. Since the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis, in addition to seizing the opportunity to smash India, China has been supporting the confrontation of the Soviet Union with the greatest force, and has used the Guantanamo issue to continuously publish editorials, which has caused a great influence in Asia. Kennedy knew this, and Khrushchev also knew that, because of China's constant encouragement, the Guantanamo issue had gone from being a pretext for the Soviet Union to intervene in Cuba at the beginning, to a problem that had to be resolved.
"I'm going to discuss it with our government officials, and I'll give you a definitive answer tomorrow!" Kennedy had to enlist some support, especially the military's understanding.
"We also have to communicate with the Moscow side, but before that, I suggest that we first de-prepare the first level, because the military forces of both sides are now under tension." "It's already very dangerous, and the soil for misfire is there!" Dobrynin advised. β
Both sides stood up and shook hands cautiously, each to share information about their negotiations, with Serov and Dobrynin reporting on progress to Moscow, and Kennedy discussing Guantanamo with his military generals.
That morning, a tropical rainstorm fell on Soviet positions. Major Gelchenov commanded the missile battalion on combat duty in the Banes area, which is one hundred and eighty kilometers from the higher command. Antonets, chief of staff of the missile battalion, was nervously watching the situation in the sky: because the United States and the Soviet Union were already at the first level of combat readiness: so all Soviet officers and soldiers were ready to participate in combat operations, and the Americans might want to invade. The radar has been activated and has allowed to fire into the air. Everyone felt that there might be a war. Soon after, Major Gelchenov's radar unit learned that an American plane had taken off from the US base at Guantanamo and was flying in our direction, and the target was set as the 33rd. The radar immediately spotted the target. It does not respond to 'own man-enemy' signals. The aircraft flew at an altitude of 22,000 kilometers. β
"Shoot down the enemy!" Major Gelchenov ordered the commander of the anti-aircraft missile battalion. The first missile flew out. There was silence again, and even the intermittent breathing of the officers could be heard. Immediately the anti-aircraft missile battalion fired a second missile, and on the radar screen, two small dots of the missile and the target were approaching. And then it merges into one.
Kennedy, who was holding a meeting of the National Security Council at the White House, and everyone present knew about the situation at the same time, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Maxwell Taylor, suddenly stood up and said, "Cuba should be attacked immediately......
"Start a global nuclear war?" Secretary of Defense McNamara covered his forehead and asked a little tiredly, "We all know that there will be no victors after the war begins, and now, it seems that we don't even have time." Mr. President, are we going to go to a nuclear war with the USSR? β
"Are you ready for nuclear war?" Kennedy looked at Admiral Maxwell Taylor and asked, "Can you win?" If you can guarantee that we can wipe out the Cuban cluster, I can give you the right to go to war! β
Kennedy was responded to by a very awkward silence, in fact no one could guarantee himself the winner of a nuclear war, neither could Admiral Maxwell Taylor, nor could Marshal Malinovsky, the Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union.
"We still have to negotiate after talking for a long time, because we can't guarantee that we can win the nuclear war unscathed!" Kennedy decided, "There is no need to retaliate, we agree to the Soviet Union's proposal to withdraw Turkish missiles in exchange for Soviet missiles from Cuba, withdrawal from the Guantanamo Bay, and in exchange for the Soviet Union never using similar problems to manipulate the situation in Latin America." But what the Soviet Union must promise us is that our withdrawal of Turkish missiles is a secret operation, that the Soviet Union must now openly withdraw its missiles under the supervision of the United Nations, and that if Khrushchev does not agree, the blockade will continue to ......" (To be continued. )