Of course, Japan was a beneficiary of the "appeasement policy," but Murakami did not......

The "appeasement policy" is an attitude of concession, compromise and acquiescence adopted by major powers at a specific time and in a specific event for the sake of their own interests. The precondition of the "appeasement policy" is that the fundamental interests of the major powers are not harmed or threatened. As soon as this bottom line is exceeded, there will be an immediate shift in the attitude of the great powers.

Historically, the most famous "appeasement policy" was the policy of appeasement, connivance, and willingness to sacrifice the territorial sovereignty of other countries and even its own interests at the expense of the fascist invaders before the outbreak of World War II.

How similar is the current scene compared to history.

Murakami is well aware of Japan's future. With every step of the way, Japan can go very far, but it does not mean that it can continue to go "unharmed" all the time. As long as Japan takes the "last step" and poses a mortal threat to the national interests and national security of China or the United States, forcing China or the United States to resort to "last resort," war will break out and Japan will face the test of life and death.

Which step is the "last step"?

Ordinary people can't see it, but shrewd politicians can see it very clearly.

The key "final step" is whether Japan can have a strategic deterrence capability that poses a lethal threat to any country as quickly as possible, before China and the United States can react. Until then, no matter what Japan does, China and the United States will "sit on the sidelines."

Japan's national conditions are rather special, and it is unable to establish a "three-in-one" strategic strike force like China, the United States, and Russia.

With an area of less than 380,000 square kilometers and a population density of 320 people per square kilometer, Japan not only lacks space to deploy land-based strategic ballistic missiles, but also "kidnaps" 12 people. Even if the major powers exercise extreme restraint and do not carry out strategic nuclear retaliation against the entire territory of Japan, and only carry out nuclear strikes on strategic ballistic missile bases and deployment positions, Japan will become a "barren country," and the people of the Yamato nation will become direct victims of the war.

For Japan. The most desirable options are strategic bombers and strategic nuclear submarines.

Relatively. The former not only has poor survivability and penetration ability. There are also disadvantages such as difficult development, huge investment, and the need for local bases. Most importantly, it is. Japan is less than 1 km away from the Republic. All air bases are within range of Republican ground fighters, short-range ballistic missiles, and cruise missiles. Even if strategic bombers were on duty before the outbreak of war. There are questions about whether they can play a role in the war.

For Japan. Ideally, the platform for the delivery of strategic weapons would be a nuclear submarine.

The survivability, concealment and carrying capacity of strategic nuclear submarines far exceed those of strategic bombers.

Japan is an island nation. Facing the vast Pacific Ocean. There are no restrictions on the sailing of strategic nuclear submarines. Most importantly, it is. Japan can build strategic nuclear submarine bases on islands that are far away from the strike range of the Republic's tactical forces and within the cover range of Japan's tactical air force. For example, the Iwo Islands, the Daito Islands, and the Korihara archipelago are a large island in the middle of the islands.

From the beginning. Murakami Sadamasa put strategic nuclear submarines on the same level as nuclear weapons.

Over the past few years, Murakami has been making every effort to coordinate the progress of various projects and strive to complete the "strategic nuclear submarine system" (a strategic nuclear submarine with a truly strategic deterrent capability needs the support and cooperation of auxiliary systems such as ultra-long-wave/very long-wave radio communication systems, satellite communication systems, strategic air command systems, and strategic navigation systems) at one time.

Submarine-launched strategic ballistic missiles are not the top priority in the entire system.

Although Japan's scientific and technological strength is very strong and its industrial base is very developed, the United States, Russia, and the Republic of China have encountered many problems in developing submarine-launched strategic ballistic missiles (SLBMs) in the nuclear powers of the interior; when Britain built its "avant-garde" class strategic nuclear submarines, it did not even develop its own submarine-launched strategic ballistic missiles, and equipped its submarines with "three-pronged missiles" imported from the United States.

Science and technology have their own laws of development, and ideology plays a very small role in promoting it.

At the time of the project, Japanese scientists and engineers seriously underestimated the technical difficulty of SLBMs, did not realize the huge difference between SLBMs and land-based ballistic missiles, and instead thought that it would be very easy to transplant land-launched mobile ballistic missiles to nuclear submarines.

On November 17, Japan test-fired its first ZX-1 ballistic missile.

Because the ZX-11 is based on the X--1 and the two are very similar, the reconnaissance satellites of the Republic and the United States have not been able to detect that Japan has test-fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile.

The test launch was unsuccessful, and less than 30 after the missile lifted off, the stabilization system failed, and then it fell into the sea and self-destructed.

Two days later, Japan test-fired a second ZX-11. Although it still ended in failure, the result was slightly better, the missile's first-stage rocket engine was successfully separated from the second-stage rocket engine, but the second-stage rocket engine failed to ignite smoothly, and the missile burned out when it fell.

By the end of November, Japan had test-fired two more ZX-11s, all of which ended in failure.

Although the engineers who designed the missile vowed to solve all the problems within the year, Murakami Sadamasa was already aware of the "problem".

If the ZX-11 cannot be successfully developed, the strategic nuclear submarine will not be able to enter service after it is built.

At the beginning of December, Murakami Sadamasa adjusted the construction progress of the "strategic nuclear submarine system", once again slowed down the construction of nuclear submarines, accelerated the development and progress of the ZX-11, and proposed the "ZZ-11" plan to replace the ZX-11, that is, to develop a submarine-launched cruise missile with a range of more than 3,000 kilometers on the ground basis of the Z-11 cruise missile, and launched the ZX-2 ~ system.

Strictly speaking, the ZX-2 is the submarine-launched strategic ballistic missile that Japan needs.

Because of the limitations of the X-11's performance, the performance of the Zx-11 was not very good, with a maximum range of 350 meters, carrying one warhead, without a decoy warhead, and an accuracy compass deviation of more than 500 meters.

ZX-2 is a ballistic missile specially developed for strategic nuclear submarines, and its performance indicators are on par with the "Trident" D5 and JL-2B.

Of course, the ZX-2 ~ is far more difficult to develop than the ZX-11, which is almost an unattainable "peak" for Japan.

At a time when it was time to step up the development of submarine-launched strategic ballistic missiles, Japan stepped up the work of finalizing the X-11 and the progress of the development of the nuclear warhead of the atomic bomb.

On 27 November, Japan conducted a second underground explosion test of an intensified fission unit.

The test was very successful, and Japan not only collected a large amount of data on the explosion, which laid the foundation for the establishment of a mathematical model for computer simulation of nuclear tests, but also mastered the basic principles of strengthening the fission nuclear device.

The warhead miniaturization project is also proceeding smoothly as planned.

On 13 December, the Republican and U.S. ground reconnaissance satellites flew over the home island and took photographs of Japan's preparations for the next nuclear test.

The alarm immediately sounded because Japan was about to conduct an underground explosion test of a nuclear warhead!

Japan's underground nuclear explosion tests were conducted in vertical shafts, not inclined shafts, which were relatively less difficult. The so-called "shaft" is to drill a test well with a depth of 100 meters or even hundreds of meters vertically, put a nuclear device or nuclear warhead at the bottom of the well, and then seal it with cement. Because of the need for large drilling equipment and a large amount of cement, the scale of the project is very large and the cost is huge. When North Korea conducted underground nuclear tests, it used relatively simple inclined shafts. The biggest advantage of the shaft is that there is no need to deliberately choose the terrain, and underground nuclear tests can be carried out at almost any location.

The CIA's conclusion that Japan's previous test explosion was a nuclear device was based on the "caliber" of the shaft.

This time, the diameter of the shaft drilled by Japan on the home island is less than 15 meters, which is slightly smaller than the diameter of the warhead of the X-1 missile, which is exactly in line with the basic size data of the nuclear warhead.

On December 17, Japan tested its first nuclear warhead.

Although it was just an ordinary atomic bomb with an explosive yield of less than 20,000 tons of TNNT, the nature of this nuclear test was completely different from that of previous nuclear tests.

Japan has mastered the technology of miniaturizing warheads, and has also created nuclear warheads!

Although it is unlikely that Japan will carry out a "nuclear missile" test launch, because after the nuclear missile test, the nuclear warhead will explode in the atmosphere, not underground, and the impact will be very bad, but Japan has mastered the technology of warhead re-entry into the atmosphere through the previous 1C missile test launches, and as long as the nuclear warhead is equipped with X-1 missiles, Japan will have a strategic strike capability.

The only thing that is fortunate is that the only thing Japan can use to deliver nuclear warheads is the X-1 ballistic missile.

The Y-11 and Z-11 cruise missiles have a payload of less than kilograms and cannot carry nuclear warheads weighing up to 750 kilograms. Unless Japan makes a greater breakthrough in warhead miniaturization technology, it will be difficult to develop a cruise missile with strategic deterrence capability.

What is even more lightweight is that Japan will not be able to produce thermonuclear weapons in the short term.

Although on 20 December, reconnaissance satellites discovered that Japan had started construction of its first heavy water processing plant near Obihiro, Hokkaido, but Japan still had to build supporting facilities nearby, including power stations and power transmission networks, and it would not be able to produce enough thermonuclear weapons within three years.

It can be said that on the issue of developing thermonuclear weapons, Murakami is more cautious.

If it is said that the purpose of Japan's development of the atomic bomb is "self-defense," it is barely tenable. Then there is no defensible "defense reason" for Japan to develop the hydrogen bomb, because the power of the hydrogen bomb far exceeds that of the atomic bomb, and it is inherently capable of destroying the entire human world, and the meaning of "attack" is even more obvious.

In order to avoid a premature turn of face with the United States and force the Republic to take drastic actions, Murakami had to be cautious.

By the end of 20211, it was an indisputable fact that Japan had nuclear weapons that could be used in actual combat, and that Japan had nuclear weapons that could be used in actual combat, although the Japanese government had not publicly declared that it had nuclear weapons capable of actual combat or strategic deterrence.

There is only one question before all countries: when will Japan use its rapidly increasing military power for war!

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