"Ring, ring, ring." A hurried bell rang. Truman, who was still asleep, was woken up by this sudden sound, his hand groped for the phone next to the bed, and sleepily picked up the microphone and said lazily, "Hey." ”

However, the content of the phone call made him suddenly sleepy, and when he heard the news, Truman sat up from the bed and said solemnly, "Is the source reliable?" A nuclear bomb test explosion was carried out in the Atlantic? Could it be that the Soviets did it? Okay, I'll come over right away. ”

Truman lifted the sheet, got up, brushed his teeth, washed his face, got dressed, and hurried to the Pentagon conference room as fast as he could. Along the way, he wondered which country was carrying out the nuclear test behind everyone's back. The Soviet Union, as a competitor, is the most suspicious country, and the United Kingdom, as an ally of nuclear technology sharing, is also possible. But a unilateral nuclear test, bypassing the United States, also feels unlikely.

Truman felt that the situation was more serious than he had imagined.

When we arrived at the Pentagon conference room, everyone was busy. They kept calling other national intelligence agencies to confirm the incident, but the replies they received were all negative. Many countries also asked the US government rhetorically, believing that the nuclear explosion at sea was the work of the Americans.

"Marshall, how's it going?" Truman stepped into the conference room before he fastened his tie, and Marshall, who was busy and anxious, was constantly flipping through the papers, whether he was ordering his subordinates to bring over the other documents. so focused that he didn't even hear Truman's inquiry.

"I said Marshall, what's going on now?" Truman had to raise his voice and ask again. Marshall finally heard Truman's voice, he raised his head and stepped on the sweat on his forehead, and said nervously, "It's not clear which country did it, we're contacting our allies in Europe, but their intelligence services don't know anything either." ”

"Gentlemen, please be quiet." Truman shouted, and everyone stopped and put down their work, as if frozen by a magician. Seeing that his voice was working, Truman cleared his throat and said, "Don't mess up with yourself yet, did the Soviets do this operation?" ”

"It's not." CIA Director Roscoe Henry Hillencott vetoed this possibility, "The Soviets' Pacific Fleet, Baltic Fleet, Northern Fleet, and Black Sea Fleet are not moving, and they will not go all the way to the Atlantic to test explosions, the risk is too great." ”

"Are they the British and the French?" Truman asked.

"No, the British and the French also called us to verify whether the United States had tested an atomic bomb in the Atlantic Ocean behind its ally's back." Marshall, who was a diplomat, also rejected the claim.

Then Truman met the last person he wanted to see in the conference room, Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. The Virgin Heart-Filled Fellow always felt that dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a sin, and as a member of the American delegation, he blurted out at the UN General Assembly: "Mr. President, my hands are covered with blood." Angry at the time, Truman shouted, "Don't bring this guy to me again." In any case, he only made the atomic bomb, and I was the one who ordered the bomb to be dropped. ”

However, in the face of external troubles, no matter how deep the contradictions are, Truman can choose to let go.

"It's not the same as the nuclear fission reaction of an atomic bomb, it's much more powerful, it's more like the nuclear fusion reaction that you're working on intensively." Oppenheimer had cut off research on nuclear fusion since the atomic bomb.

"You're saying it's a fusion bomb?" Although Truman did not understand these advanced physics, he could tell Oppenheimer that this thing was even more terrible than his own atomic bomb.

"The nuclear fusion process was discovered as early as 1932 by Australian scientist Mark O'Lifeng, and we have also been working on fusion reactions in the years. Nuclear fusion refers to a form of nuclear reaction in which atoms with a small mass, mainly deuterium or tritium, polymerize with each other under certain conditions to form new nuclei with heavier mass, accompanied by a huge energy release. The nucleus of an atom contains a huge amount of energy, and such changes are often accompanied by the release of energy. And this release of energy is even more terrifying than the explosion of an atomic bomb. ”

"So, the Soviets are actually ahead of us?" Truman took a deep breath, and the sense of superiority in his heart with the atomic bomb was instantly swept away.

Just when the entire conference room was quiet and a pin drop could be heard, CIA Director Rothko raised his hand and said, "With all due respect, the British intelligence organization mentioned a message that the Belgian fleet had been in that place for a short time twenty-four hours before the test explosion. Because it was so unbelievable, we didn't report to President Truman on the phone. ”

"Why didn't you say it earlier!" Hearing Rothko's words, Truman rebuked loudly. He remembered what Albert had told him privately in the White House, and Truman felt more and more that the nuclear weapons test was inextricably linked to Albert.

"Immediately invite the Belgian crown prince from the hotel to the White House, I have something to say to him." Truman hurriedly gave the order, and at the same time invited Maher and Secretary of Defense James Forrest to a small secret meeting in another conference room.

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Albert, who lives in a five-star hotel, enjoys this moment of tranquility, and if it weren't for the fact that he can't buy alcohol under the age of 18 in the United States, he would really like to have a bottle of '82-year-old Lafite. Albert lay back and forth on the double bed, thinking that it would be cool to open the room, and he could sleep in such a large bed alone.

"It seems that the hydrogen bomb test explosion was very successful, not to mention the Americans, the whole world should be panicking." Albert is like a child who has done a prank, peeking at the rich and wonderful expressions of all the adults.

"Why aren't you worried about the United States and the Soviet Union doing Belgium? You must know that the hydrogen-bomb thing has not been able to be developed by the United States and the Soviet Union so far, and sooner or later something will happen. ”

"The Americans are going to move on Belgium by the minute, but he also has some scruples, after all, we have just bought three stratofortress bombers in the United States, and if we really upset Belgium, they are afraid that we will have a mode of destruction. The Americans will not do what is worth the loss. So they're going to make a deal with us. ”

After talking so much, Albert felt a little dry and scorched, Albert got up and went to the refrigerator to take out a bottle of Coke, unscrewed it, drank it, and praised it.

"What's the deal again? You're not tired like this every day. "Tianyan can't stand it anymore.

"I can't stand you babbling in my ear all day long, making me feel like a psychopath. What a bumpy news it would be to be seen chatting with the crown prince in the air. Albert rolled his eyes at the Eye of the Sky, he was no longer the consciousness attached to his mind, but a projection that could be imaged, but only Albert could see this image.

"If they want to buy fusion technology from me, they have to accept certain conditions from me. Otherwise, how can there be so many good things in the world who want to be a and want to set up an archway. "Albert has already figured out how to blackmail the Americans.

"It turns out that this is a series of plans carefully designed by you, starting from the beginning of the conflict in Berlin, you have set them step by step, provoking the Soviet Union and causing a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in Berlin. Then detonate a nuclear bomb in the Atlantic, and the United States, which is in dire need of this weapon against the USSR, will certainly reluctantly promise your lion to open his mouth. If you make a statement that a nuclear-armed Belgium will follow the American policy, then the Soviets have lost so far. Because of how powerful the torrent of steel is, it is impossible for him to challenge two countries with nuclear weapons at the same time. The Eye of Heaven perfectly recounted Albert's plan.

"That's right." Albert looked at his watch, roughly calculated the time, and said, "The Americans should have analyzed the cause of the accident by now, so Truman probably sent someone to find me." ”

"Papapapa" Albert's words had just finished when there was a sudden knock on the door.