Serov, who witnessed the marriage of two couples without paying attention, looked at them with warm and blessed eyes, such a smiling face is so real, under the towering monument, there are two couples forming a family here, which makes this warmth and solemnity, this tradition of the Soviet Union is really touching.

"Congratulations, there are two more loving couples in the motherland!" After the photo shoot, Serov sincerely wished them, and this scene reminded Serov of sweet memories with Valya when he was in Baku. Because the bad mood brought by the Ural Tractor Plant has been slightly alleviated.

"Thank you, it's a pleasure to have a group of officers to witness our union!" The young man was happy and asked, "Are you all Communists?" ”

"Yes, we all are!" Serov smiled and asked, "What about you?" Did you join the Communist Party? ”

"Not yet, the application for joining the party is still being filled out, and it is in the inspection period!" The young man replied embarrassedly, and then said in the affirmative, "But sooner or later I will join in, and I would like to see our country get better and better......"

Khrushchev's reforms did not reduce the prestige of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, on the contrary, because of the relaxation of the political atmosphere, many young people are very hopeful about the future, and Serov fiercely felt the positive energy in front of the two young couples.

"Now that joining the party is relaxed, there may be many people who are not firm in their minds to come to our ranks, if you come to this group in the future, please believe in one thing, don't be disappointed in our organization, all difficulties are only temporary!" Serov was quite truthful, and regardless of whether the two newcomers in front of him could understand or not, he turned and left the square.

After a week here, Serov, in a lakeside hut, was bored on the grass. Beside her, a woman in a major's uniform sat on the side with her legs crossed, and the two of them were in the state of husband and wife.

"How's the Chechen movement over there?" Serov, squinting, was lying on the woman's lap and smelled a good smell, Lukani had just returned from Azerbaijan and had been there for the past few days to deal with something.

"In general, there are no problems, and the General Directorate of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan is very strict!" Lukani whispered.

Serov's eyebrows twitched, and he didn't make a sound. Isn't the reason why Aliyev has always attached great importance to the problems of the Chechens because he is always asking? Changing into a comfortable position and continuing to lie down, he said lazily, "If the Chechens think that life in the Soviet Union is depressing, it is not without a solution. Can they leave the Soviet Union, Azerbaijan shares a border with Iran, and if the Chechens really don't want to live a modern life, can they go to live in Iran? However, it seems that the Pahlavi shah is not very respectful of religion either, so he should go a little further to Iraq. If they don't care that Iraq is in a civil war......"

Because of Serov's intervention, the Chechen gathering area was directly relocated to the border area between the Soviet Union and Iran, and became a border people, if these people are not honest and have to wrestle with the Soviet Union, then Serov only needs to move his fingers to expel them to Iran to blockade the border, I believe that the Chechens are no longer a problem for the Soviet Union, and they will fend for themselves at will.

"My compatriots seem to know what they are facing, so they always want to go back to where they live!" Lukani is also Chechen. But growing up in Gatzna, she did not take the nation seriously, and raised the issue with Serov with a neutral attitude.

"Go back? I would put back the factors that destabilize society? Just tell them clearly. If you don't want to stay in the Soviet Union and go to Iran to be a Christian, and you want the modern life of the Soviet Union, and you want your own religious beliefs, how can there be such a good thing! Serov got up from the grass and said, "Since you're back, we'll go back!" ”

After a long journey, we returned to Moscow. Serov succeeded Itvasov, who was preparing to go to Leningrad, and Itvasov was ready to take command of the movement of the inhabitants of Novaya Zemlya. Serov, for his part, went directly to the Kremlin to report to First Secretary Khrushchev on the progress of Big Ivan.

"According to the calculations of mathematicians, if a nuclear test is carried out according to the original yield of 100 million tons, it is likely to have a huge impact on many regions of our Soviet Union. In fact, even the potential impact of halving the equivalent is enormous! Serov was holding a report of calculations that Moscow State University mathematicians had made. Report to Khrushchev.

If the power is halved is equivalent to 2.1×10^17 joules of energy, released in 39 nanoseconds, the power reaches 5.4×10^24 watts. This is equivalent to 1.4% of the sun's power.

"It's a satisfying force, Korolev did a good job!" Khrushchev was quite satisfied with the foreseen data in this report, and said, "If it is put into actual combat, I believe that the Americans will be more honest!" ”

"If we had five of these nuclear bombs and detonate them at the same time at a distance of 300 to 400 kilometers from the eastern coastline of the United States, the monstrous waves could drown all the major cities in the eastern United States!" Serov followed Khrushchev's words, "Unfortunately, it is very difficult to get there, unless you use civilian ships as cover to kill the Americans in a suicidal way, this nuclear bomb is still too heavy......

"Not a bad idea, let's take a look at the results of this test first, and see if the power is evaluating whether it is possible to realize the idea you said!" Khrushchev then asked, "Korolev said how long there will be before the experiment?" ”

"It will take two months to prepare, and at the same time, the Tu-95 will need to be modified and strengthened to a certain extent." Serov told the truth in front of the first secretary that the Ministry of Defense was also planning how to complete this test in the face of such a big guy. As an air-dropped bomb, Big Ivan was too heavy and bulky.

Among the developers, it is also called "Ivan". This "Ivan" is huge: it weighs forty tons and is eight meters long. It is not difficult to build this behemoth from uranium raw materials, but it is difficult to send it to the test site.

After repeated consideration, the designers of this giant hydrogen bomb chose its delivery vehicle, the "Tu-95", which was the largest strategic bomber in the Soviet Union, but neither the designers nor anyone else could send this huge bomb to the "Tu-95", and in order to achieve actual combat delivery, the weight of Big Ivan must be reduced by 14 tons.

As for the impossibility of launching with missiles, the diameter of the Big Ivan has already exceeded the diameter of the current Soviet ICBMs, and it is simply impossible to fit in. In general, this nuclear bomb was still used by Khrushchev to scare the Americans.

"Well, let's wait for the day of the experiment, I believe the Americans will be shocked!" Khrushchev laughed and said.

"I trust the judgment of the first secretary!" Serov himself was particularly surprised to be able to make such a serious sycophant.

For all the departments involved in the military of the Soviet Union, the intensive preparations for Big Ivan were the most important things in the last two or three months, and this was true for the Ministry of Defense, the KGB, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Even some of the relevant departments are no exception.

"Seems like I've been coming here lately?" Serov, who was standing at the door of the Ministry of Defense building, was a little helpless, of course he would not want to come here if he had a choice, one powerful organization always brushed its presence in front of another powerful organization, and there was always some sense of demonstration, but he couldn't help but come.

"I hope that the marshals will understand one thing, the nuclear bomb of the 202 program far exceeds the nuclear bombs of our previous experiments, the power of its explosion and the pressure on our communication network far exceed the previous ones, this is not the same thing as the test of a megaton nuclear bomb, the power increases to a certain extent not only the increase in the yield, but also the destructiveness of electronic equipment is unpredictable!" Standing in front of the Marshal of the Ministry of Defense, Serov spoke out his worries very solemnly.

Project 202 is the official name of the Big Ivan nuclear bomb, and as for Serov, his eyes have always been firmly on the commander of the Strategic Rocket Forces, Marshal Nedelin, hoping that Marshal Nedelin can be on his side in this matter.

"Yuri, is there some exaggeration of the strength of Big Ivan's explosion? Will he be able to rush beyond Novaya Zemlya? Marshal Nederin looked at the report brought by Serov in astonishment, and was noncommittal about the conclusions of the report.

"Yes, not an exaggeration at all! I suggest that on the day of the experiment, we should shut down our radar station near the Arctic, and that the electrical network near Novaya Zemlya should also stop operating, and I still believe the scientists! Serov suggested to Marshal Nedelin.

The marshals present were also a little skeptical about Serov's conclusions, and finally Marshal Bagramian glanced at his colleagues and said, "Old guys, Yura grew up under my watch, and I will not be alarmist in this matter, just listen to his opinion once, just like Yura said, this experiment cannot be compared with previous experiments!" ”

Yura was Serov's nickname, and Marshal Baghramyan persuaded his old fellows in such a way.

Marshal Malinovsky thought for a moment and said, "Well, we can't turn off all radar stations that day, but for the sake of the state's experimental data, the radar stations around Novaya Zemlya are turned on as usual, and that's all!" "Marshal Malinovsky showed the readiness of the Ministry of Defense to temporarily close a number of radar stations close to the North Pole.

"Thank you, uncles!" Serov thanked that after all, it was risky, and a day of shutting down radar stations during the Cold War era could have happened to anything.

Then Serov began to prepare how to transport Big Ivan to the experimental site, it was impossible to transport it directly by air, or to rely on rail transportation, appointing the head of a special train group, accepting wagons carrying the hydrogen bomb, which weighed more than thirty tons. (To be continued.) )