The time difference between Washington and Artura Island is nine hours.

While Artura Island swallowed four mushrooms in a row on Independence Day in the United States, Washington time was still bustling on Independence Eve.

At 12 o'clock in the afternoon of July 3, Washington time, President Dewey received the major giants from the US domestic military industry in the White House and shared lunch together

Over the past few years, President Dewey has built a naval expansion plan to build "the strongest God Butcher fleet in history", and the biggest beneficiaries are the giants of domestic steel, shipbuilding, military and other industries.

On the eve of the National Day, the President summoned these representatives of industry to gain their support. After the Battle of Hokkaido, on the surface, President Dewey was wielding a nuclear stick, which seemed to be infinitely beautiful, but in fact he was aware of his own suffering and felt weak in his heart.

Privately, he said to his wife: "This is a big gamble, but I have no right to leave the table freely because I have put too many chips on the table." ”

When he took over the presidency three years ago, Dewey received information that the Germans were developing an atomic bomb, but he did not know exactly what was going on.

But what President Dewey was clear about was that the Germans would not be long in developing the atomic bomb. To make matters worse, in recent months he has received information that Germany has been secretly cooperating with the Soviet Union in nuclear research for the past few years. To President Dewey's dismay, Germany has obtained a large amount of uranium ore from overseas through various channels in recent years.

However, President Dewey still does not know the progress of the nuclear projects of the Soviet Union and Germany.

The unknown is the scariest thing.

Once the Eurasian coalition also possessed the atomic bomb and used it in the war, President Dewey had a headache when he thought about what the war would look like.

When President Dewey was having a "table meeting" with the domestic industrial giants, his secretary walked over with a serious face, and then the president pulled aside.

Judging from the other party's serious expression, President Dewey immediately had a premonition that something big had happened.

"What's going on?"

"More than an hour ago, on the island of Artura, contact with the Admiralty was suddenly lost. Until twenty-half a minute ago, one of our destroyers nearby, desperately sent an urgent telegram to the Admiralty, saying that they had seen a huge rising sun in the direction of Artura! The light was so harsh that it looked like it was"

The secretary glanced at the president, hesitated, and continued: "Atomic bomb explosion!" ”

"Damn it!"

President Dewey cursed in his heart, and then he forced his composure, first went back to the dining room to say goodbye to the guests, and then walked briskly to the president's office in the White House.

There, the secretary of state, who had received an urgent call from the Navy, was already waiting for him, and people from other places and the Navy were also hurrying to deal with the emergency.

In the process of waiting for people, the bad news kept coming.

Radio communications between Washington's side and the Pacific front were constantly disrupted by nuclear explosions that sounded every twenty minutes or so. However, in the dark of night, the fireball of the 80,000-ton atomic bomb was so spectacular that it could be seen even from a distance of 100 kilometers.

From 12 p.m. to 2 p.m., the president's office continued to receive telegrams from "another huge fireball suspected of a nuclear explosion on the island of Artura." Due to poor communications and confusing intelligence sources, it has not yet been determined how many fireballs will rise, and the only thing that is certain is that there were at least three nuclear explosions on the island of Artura. (To be continued......)