(The second update, and one more)

"The Soviets demanded a ransom? Oh my God, what is the difference between these guys and bandits, hell, they were originally a bunch of bandits who overthrew Tsarist Russia and divided the property of the original rulers, and finally sat on the ruler's seat and became mongrels of shameless exploiters! Is this called communism? It's simply even more annoying exploitivism than Wall Street. "It is rare to see President Bush talking on the phone so angrily, and of course, Bush, who has been passive at every step recently because of the Vantaa incident, is naturally not in a much better mood.

When the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union told the president the bad news, Bush's voice on the other end of the phone was about to puncture Matlock's eardrums, and he moved the microphone away from his ear for a moment before he said in a trembling voice, "Your Excellency, the Soviets have not announced the ransom amount, but I believe that according to the fact that they are in dire need of funds now, this amount will not be small." ”

"Forget it, no matter how angry you are, it won't help. I see, thank you, Ambassador Matlock, and rest early. After venting, Bush's voice was a little lost, from pressing Gorbachev step by step to the present, he never imagined that the US policy toward the Soviet Union would have such a failure, in the final analysis, everything was the guy who tried his best to keep the Soviet Union from being disintegrated, so many incidents happened.

After putting down the phone, Bush turned to the staff members around him and said, "You have heard, the reason why the Soviets dared to provoke us so unscrupulously was because of the so-called red mercury nuclear bomb. ”

The conference room became quiet, and the two unfortunate news of the red mercury bomb and political blackmail were placed in front of President Bush almost simultaneously, and no one would be in a good mood.

"Can you confirm the authenticity of the red mercury bomb with the agent providing the intelligence?" Bush asked Robert, the director of the intelligence department, who, after all, was the first to read this information and present it directly to the president.

Robert, who had lived through the Vantaa incident, became very cautious in his speech, and he cautiously replied to Bush, "Intelligence experts have analyzed that there is an 80 percent probability that the Soviets already have a red mercury nuclear bomb, but I don't think this data is reliable." Two weeks ago, we received information that the Soviets were gathering specific information about the pressures and temperatures at which nuclear weapons were manufactured. If it were ordinary nuclear weapons, the USSR did not need these data at all. And we found out that the data they were collecting was all about miniaturizing nuclear weapons, so we came to the bold conclusion that the Soviets were trying to create some kind of miniaturized nuclear weapon that might be the size of a nuclear shell. ”

"A few months ago, we found a large factory under construction somewhere in Smolensk, in the Soviet Union, and we were suspicious because the location was too remote, but for the time being we didn't find any mistakes, nothing more than the entry and exit of some trucks. It wasn't until all the nuclear weapons intelligence collected was fed back to Smolensk that it came to our attention. ”

"Agents embedded inside the Soviets may have gotten a glimmer of intelligence information through informants, and those sealed drums containing antimony oxygen, pressure and temperature difference data for small nuclear weapons, antimony oxygen, and the Soviets' unsophisticated deception foreshadowed a terrible weapon they might be building, the red mercury nuclear bomb."

When he heard that the red mercury nuclear bomb was being manufactured, the calm Bush's face changed suddenly, he did not expect that the Soviets were actually stepping up their time to develop a "suitcase nuclear bomb"; could it be that those high-level leaders of the Soviet military who controlled the Soviet Union knew that their time was running out and were ready to use such extreme measures to attack Western countries?

"Just before the Vantaa incident, the Soviet Union immediately stopped collecting and infiltrating data and intelligence on nuclear weapons, and the factories with frequent vehicles fell silent, as if nothing had ever happened, and there was only one possibility for this to happen." Speaking of this, Robert was silent for a while, and what he was going to say next was probably a reality that no one wanted to accept.

Vice President Dan Quill took CIA Director Robert's words with trembling lips, "Yes, that means our intelligence is no longer useful to them. The Soviets have found a solution to the temperature pressure, that is, the Soviets have developed a red mercury nuclear bomb. ”

Robert put a stack of satellite photographs in front of the president, on which was a blurry mountain from above, and a dazzling fireball could be vaguely seen in the middle, and this pile of photos revolved around the beginning and end of the explosion of the mountain, Robert explained, "This is the Soviet explosion test that we detected the day before the intelligence collection stopped, and from the test you can see the rising mushroom cloud, but the yield of this nuclear weapon is relatively small, even so small that it is comparable to the ** yield of nuclear shells." But the explosion and radioactive radiation were enough to wipe out a Pentagon or the White House and kill everyone present. ”

"Can our security facilities detect this weapon?" Bush was a little restless, thinking that there were such stealth nuclear weapons all around, and who could sleep peacefully.

Dan Quill explained to Bush, "The Pentagon's security surveillance has been raised to the highest level, and we can make sure that doesn't happen, but Your Excellency, they don't need to detonate inside the Pentagon, they just have a martyr standing at the gate, they can level the entire White House." And if the Soviet Union had exploded everywhere in New York, in Los Angeles, and in San Francisco, the American economy would have collapsed in panic. After all, no one wants to live in the shadow of a nuclear threat. Perhaps in the end, the Soviet Union dismantled the free world with a few suitcase nuclear bombs. ”

"If we allocate funds to spend research now, can we make our own suitcase nuclear bomb? I mean, to support this research without reservation, when can we get the results in the shortest time? Bush asked anxiously.

"Because President Reagan thought this weapon was nonsense, we are much more backward than the Soviet Union in this regard, and it will probably be seven or eight years before we really see the first results. Moreover, there is such a thing as antimony oxide-mercury that only Soviet Russia has large-scale mineral reserves, and other regions are stretched. Robert reported to Bush a figure that would make everyone present feel dead. Eight years was enough for the Soviet Union, whose production capacity was almost miraculous, to build tens of thousands of red mercury nuclear bombs, and then methodically detonate them one by one in the West.

Dan Quill comforted President Bush, "The Soviets have just developed a red mercury bomb, and the performance of various aspects may not be perfect, such as the safety of red mercury bomb radiation, the cost of transportation, etc., and so on, maybe when they find a solution, we will also find a solution." ”

But at this moment, it was useless for the vice president to say anything. Bush felt like he had lost everything. He sat weakly in his chair, his hands on the table, and was silent for a long time. All the senior personnel waited for Bush's speech, and in the end he just said helplessly, "Let's negotiate peace with the Soviets." ”

Hearing that peace was to be negotiated, the director of the intelligence bureau was anxious, "But President Bush, we still don't know whether that weapon is a real red mercury nuclear bomb, maybe this is just a bureau set up by the Soviets, waiting for us to negotiate peace and take the bait?" ”

"Could it be that Director Robert wants a brilliant mushroom cloud to rise over the White House to believe that this is not a hoax, but a bloody fact?" Bush gave Robert a blank look, "Removing economic sanctions and renegotiating peace with the Soviet Union is at most a return to the starting point, and if the Soviet Union is forced out of breath, it is difficult for me to imagine that the entire United States will be full of nuclear weapons." You and I can't afford to take on this responsibility. ”

Robert wanted to justify something, but Bush directly and rudely interrupted him, "Enough, Director Robert." I've run out of means to keep your position as head of the intelligence bureau in Vantaa, so don't let me down again. Gentlemen, I am very tired right now and want to be alone for a while. ”

Knowing that he could not persuade the president, Robert sighed and prepared to leave the room, and before leaving, Bush said to Robert faintly, "Although the economic offensive has been stopped, I hope that Director Robert will not forget to create a small friction for the Soviet Union, and the external offensive will be temporarily stopped, but the riots caused by those member countries will not stop." ”

Robert's eyes lit up and he understood what Bush meant, he nodded to the president and said firmly, "Don't worry, you will definitely live up to the president's expectations." ”