Volume III, Chapter 18, The Game of Nuclear Deterrence, August 2117
The vibration of the cabin was accompanied by the screams of the alarm system, and at the same time, a red light was lit up in the cabin. "What happened?" Everyone in the cabin was trying to hold on to something to stabilize their bodies.
After a while, Fatman's walkie-talkie rang, and the tower staff came with a message: "At 23:15:16, that is, two minutes ago, there was an earthquake on the west coast of the mainland, and the earthquake brought a tsunami...... The energy level is 3.3 on the Richter scale. ”
"What caused it?" Fatman asked the ship tower.
"It's not clear yet, but I'd suggest keeping an eye on tonight, no, the news live in the early morning." "There are still 10 minutes left for the live broadcast to start, and you can use your mobile phones to access the news network." ”
While waiting for the news to be live, Fatman asked Medivan to bring everyone's magnetic shoes, which he planned to distribute to customers the next day, but in order to cope with the shock caused by the tsunami that may happen again, he suggested that everyone wear them tonight.
After everyone put on the magnetic shoes, the news just began, and the NNC news channel of country A released the latest news:
At around 22:00:10 last night, on Interstate 21451 in the Sorowan Desert in California, 124 miles from the town of Santadano, the Eye of Zeus 1 satellite of State A located a suspicious convoy. After repeated screening, the Space Force of Country A determined that the convoy was the convoy of Asalraf extremists and nuclear warheads pointed to by the previous intelligence. The air force of country A immediately dispatched F39 fighters to the satellite positioning site and annihilated all the personnel of the convoy using precision-guided weapons. Subsequently, the 102 helicopter airborne unit was assigned to the site of the incident to clean up the convoy. During the clean-up process, the Airborne Forces found that the nuclear warhead had been activated and entered a 30-minute countdown to detonation, a countdown, which could not be stopped.
At around 23:15:16, after the lightning withdrawal of the Airborne Forces, the nuclear bomb was detonated.
The news broadcast part of the footage recorded by the combat recorder, and in the final news footage, a lieutenant on a helicopter of the Airborne Forces, whose combat recorder captured the moment of the nuclear explosion:
Behind the helicopter, the night was illuminated and turned into day. It was just a moment, the picture was locked on this only moment, and no one saw the ball of light of the nuclear explosion, because at this moment, the light sensor element of the combat recorder, which was still in night vision mode, burned out due to the photosensitive overload.
Although no one saw the ball of light of the nuclear explosion, the mushroom cloud of the nuclear explosion occupied the fantasies and imaginations of everyone in the cabin for a long time.
At the same time, everyone can imagine how people in country A, in all cities, who think that their cities are about to be attacked by nuclear weapons, must feel when they hear or see this news.
"We," said the fox lady, "we can sail back, back to San Diego." She glanced at Fatman, as if asking for Fatman's permission, but, without waiting for Fatman to reply, she began to call her retinue on the ship, asking them to pack up their salutes and prepare for their return voyage.
"Sister Aya," Yang Yiyi was also a little excited, and she whispered, "So, most of our salutes are still in San Diego......
Sima Aya nodded at Yang Yi, hoping to retrieve the salutes that had been thrown at the Malton Hotel while fleeing for her life, but Sima Aya noticed that not everyone was excited to think that the matter was over. Sima Aya noticed that there was no excitement in Colonel Colin's eyes.
He was on his phone, replaying the news over and over again. There were also other people present, and when they saw that Colonel Colin did not speak, they also put away their excitement.
By this time, the clatter of the fox dog lady's high heels was no longer audible, and she had left the hangar. The rest of the people all looked to the Colonel, hoping that he would make a statement.
Soon, Colonel Colin finally looked away from his phone and looked up. He looked at everyone and opened his mouth: "As far as I know, the usnu_xxxxx series of Evaporator nuclear warheads are not the kind of nuclear bombs you are familiar with, the kind of nuclear bombs you see in the movie, it is not an atomic bomb, nor a conventional hydrogen bomb, but a neutron bomb. "The neutron bomb is a small, low-yield hydrogen bomb with high-energy neutron radiation as its main lethality. The name in the industry is a highly radiating weapon. The neutron bomb is a special tactical nuclear weapon with a weakened blast wave effect and increased radiation. It only kills and injures enemy personnel, causes little damage to buildings and facilities, and does not bring long-term radioactive contamination. Therefore, it can be simply understood that the evaporator only evaporates living things, not buildings. The city after the explosion of this thing, the buildings are almost intact, but all the creatures are dead, which is like the Grim Reaper took all the life overnight, leaving behind an entire city - a ghost town. ”
The crowd whispered for a while, and Fatman nodded to him, motioning for the Colonel to continue.
"Although, there is only a 1 in 30,000 probability, I ask you not to forget the sense of steadiness and security that you felt when you set foot on this ship today," said the Colonel slowly, "it is better to stay on this ship for a few more days, see further news, and wait until the dust settles, and then it is not too late to go home." ”
When the colonel said that the dust had settled, he said it in C, and as he spoke, he smiled and nodded to Sima Aya and Yang Yi, because these four words are the idioms of country C.
Sima Aya also nodded to the colonel, thanking him for his special reminder.
At noon the next day, the Clark completed the rendezvous with the USS Swain Aircraft Carrier Strike Group and was assigned to the temporary formation of the USS Swain Aircraft Carrier Strike Group to be responsible for part of the maritime patrol work.
When Medivan took his clients to the bow of the Clark to see the spectacular scenery of the aircraft carrier battle group up close, Sima Aya asked Medivan why he used his own ship to work for the government for free, which was not like the style of these two profiteers.
Mr. Medivan said it was for the small tax exemption that the government might give next year, as well as the ability to get some low-cost "in-formation" supplies from the carrier battle group.
(Sure enough, two profiteers.) Sima Aya thought with a sigh.
At noon the day after the USS Clark and the USS Swain aircraft carrier battle group completed their rendezvous, the latest news came from the mainland of country A.