Washington, U.S.A., inside the President's Temporary Office.

After being interrupted by a sudden news during a high-level meeting of the Japanese Cabinet, the same scene was played out in Obama's office at the same time. Hagel hurriedly pushed open the door to the president's office and hurriedly reported that Somalia might possess nuclear weapons.

After hearing the news, the "imperial pen" that Obama was signing the document slipped directly from his fingertips, rolled a few times on the table, and fell directly to the floor. After half a ring, a shocked Obama asked, "Is the news accurate?" ”

"The source of the information is reliable, and AFP and Reuters have also reported on it." After Hagel closed the door, he put the tablet he brought in his hand in front of Obama's eyes, clicked on a paused video on the tablet, and continued: "This video was taken by a Reuters correspondent in Gossip City, Somalia, and the three moving trucks were all over 35 meters, and the signs of a nuclear bomb were also found on the cars. If Somalia has nuclear bombs, it is likely to be three long-range nuclear missiles. ”

"What about the other source?" After watching this short video, Obama took a deep breath and asked.

"It was a top-secret document sent by the CIA, which, through secret channels, confirmed that Somalia was aware of our plan to carry out a tactical nuclear strike, and Somalia immediately launched a nuclear retaliation plan." Hagel knew very well that if this information was true, then the United States was on the edge of the precipice, whether to hold the reins and stop the galloping chariot, or rush directly over and cross the abyss to the other side of victory.

Neither of these options is what the United States wants to see, and although it can ensure its own safety, it will never reach the other side. But if you gamble and rush over, once you can't jump, you will fall into the abyss, and the result will be broken bones.

"Somalia has nuclear weapons? Can you believe it? "Obama's mind is in turmoil. Suddenly his head was as big as a fight, and he could only hand over the key issues that were currently bothering him to Hagel, hoping that he could give a clear opinion.

Hagel has been thinking about this question for a long time and already has the answer in his mind. Therefore, after Obama asked, he replied without hesitation: "According to the analysis of think tanks, Somalia has a nuclear weapon more than 80% of the time, because Somalia has a lot of advanced technology than making nuclear weapons, and nuclear weapons are for Somalia." It's not impossible to build. And my view is that whatever the odds of Somalia having nuclear weapons, as long as it's not 100 percent, then we'd better not take any chances. ”

"Then according to you, we are going to give up a nuclear strike?" Hear Hagel's answer. A haze of meaning flashed across Obama's face. The sudden appearance of such a thing made his mood drop to the lowest point all at once.

Conventional warfare has been fought like this. The limits of what the United States can now bear have been reached. This war has been in just seven days since it broke out. The United States has already spent nearly half a billion dollars in weapons and equipment. The number of soldiers killed has also surpassed that of the Iraq war, and is rapidly moving towards the death toll of the two wars combined. And the war has only been going on for seven days now. In the face of such huge losses, if it were not a war that gambled on the fortunes of the country, a war that belonged to the whole United States, then no one could afford it.

In addition, it is unlikely that there will be a greater breakthrough in a short period of time in conventional warfare. Obama has high hopes that a tactical nuclear strike will break the stalemate and turn the half-dead battlefield posture in his favor.

However. Before the idea could be put into action, a cyberattack nearly broke through the central firewall of the U.S. Department of Defense, and while he was still thinking about how to deal with the economic turmoil, he heard the news again, how could Obama be happy.

"It's hard to say this, first of all, to find out whether Somalia has the ability to hit the homeland, and then to think about the follow-up issues." Hagel also did not want to give up his nuclear strike plan, because the United States really cannot afford to fail, otherwise the US position as the hegemon of the world world may begin to shake. Let the United States decline in his own hands, which is unacceptable to him.

Mr. Hagel's suggestion that Mr. Obama quickly heeded that if Somalia did not have the capability to deliver nuclear weapons over long range, or if it was a very simple missile strike, it would hardly threaten the security of the United States. As long as the U.S. mainland is safe, the fear of a nuclear strike will be very small.

"However, the soldiers we have invested in the battlefield in Somalia, as well as the military bases in the Middle East, will not end up with nuclear retaliation." Obama thought more about whether to continue the nuclear strike, and said very heavily: "The first thing to determine now is whether Somalia has a nuclear bomb or not, and I don't want estimates, nor speculation, but strong evidence." ”

"I understand, I'll figure it out right away." Hagel said quickly, and then left immediately, he had to immediately confirm the truth of the matter. As Obama said, it is reluctant to give up without good intelligence, and on the other hand, he does not dare to bet that Somalia does not have a nuclear bomb.

Five minutes after Hagel returned to his office, the secret American spies in China and Russia began to get busy, synthesizing all the information, and sending back information half an hour later, China and Russia had not used nuclear weapons, and there was no trace of nuclear weapons quietly being shipped to Somalia. However, in the information provided in these replies, it was also pointed out that these were within the scope of limited information, and that the nuclear weapons of the two countries were highly classified and that they could not access many things, so it was impossible to guarantee whether there were any nuclear weapons shipped out of the two countries and into the hands of Somalia.

Hagel, who saw this information, was dissatisfied, but he also understood that the intelligence services had worked hard.

Fortunately, he has other means to further verify what the nuclear markings exposed in Somalia are.

Outside the port of Bagua City, the merchant ships of various countries were neatly parked together, and the whirlwind had passed for almost a day, but there were still many ships that had not moved at the moment. Among them are two 100,000-ton oil tankers of Saudi nationality, and the crew members are drinking on board at the moment, and there seems to be no intention of leaving for a short time.

And inside the tanker's cabin, in a gloomy cabin, five computers are put together, and in front of one of them, there is a device like a fighter gamepad. In the corner of the cabin, there is also a toy airplane that resembles the hand of a child.

In front of the computer, five white men were looking intently at the computer in the cabin, and one was examining the small plane.

The six of them thought it was another day of nothing to do, as if the previous two days had passed, but the order came down. These six people are secret agents of the CIA's African Intelligence Agency, and these two Saudi oil tankers are actually cover tools of the US intelligence services.

With the help of this whirlwind, they took the opportunity to hide in the port of Bagua City, ready to play their part at the right time. Previously, the seal team that sneaked into Bagua City from the freighter, two different departments, carried different tasks.

Originally, this intelligence reconnaissance team was tasked with guiding the target, but the attack was aborted before it even began, and now, they are waiting for a new mission.

The trip seemed more like a death trip to them, and as one of the CIA's many agents in the African Intelligence Agency, they knew full well what Somalia meant to people like them!

More than three years ago, when the African Intelligence Agency sent its first agents into the region, they quickly lost contact, and then sent several more groups of agents into Somalia, only to disappear from the world and never be heard from again. It was later determined that it was the agents who had been declared dead that had disappeared.

Soon, the northeastern corner of Somalia was considered a place of death by C.I.A. operatives. No one knows how the perfectly disguised agents were discovered, or what happened to them. But one thing is for sure, they definitely don't want to let themselves go through this kind of thing.

However, now that the order has been given, they can only obey it and step into the land where the agent died. In the past two days, they had never stepped out of the gloomy cabin, and the surveillance cameras that filled the ship were controlled by here, and every second, at least two people were watching the footage. If they detect anything wrong, they will not hesitate to detonate the two tankers loaded with fuel.

Fortunately, they have been safe all the time, and the tension that has just arrived has eased a little.

Now, they're about to get moving, a small, toy-like tactical drone slowly climbing up from the tanker, and inside the cabin, one of the CIA agents is concentrating on using a computer to control the drone.

"The suspicious location is to the east, twelve kilometers from us, and the target of the reconnaissance is in a barracks there."

When they received the order, they also received a general orientation of the target of the action, so their direction was clear. At a speed of sixty kilometers per hour, small tactical UAVs fly towards the target. Inside the cabin, everyone held their breath and prayed that the Somalis would not be found out, or too late.

Sure enough, God was with them and heard their prayers. Twenty minutes later, the drone approached the target unharmed, and on the computer screen, you can see the real-time picture taken by the drone and record it automatically. When the barracks appeared in everyone's eyes in the picture, their breathing suddenly became a little short.

Under the control, the drone flew in close to the wall of the barracks, there was no need to look for it, they had already seen the target, three missile launchers, and the nearly thirty-meter-long missiles on the vehicles had been erected, and the appearance of the missiles was exposed in the air. There were many soldiers busy around the missile launch vehicle, and there were three launch command vehicles next to it. And on the round body of the missile, there is also a very clear electro-nuclear mark.

But that was the end of the picture, and the drone was shot down. (To be continued......)