Chapter 115: Bald Eagle's Nuclear Counterattack Plan (II)

Then there were some good things that worked in favor of President Truman's personal power -- in order to cope with the difficult situation at the outbreak of World War III and to curb the spread of Bolshevik ideas in the country, Wall Street pressed Congress to pass a series of wartime bills that could be described as frenzied, greatly increasing the powers of the president. As a result www.biquge.info under the auspices of President Truman, various coercive measures that broke through the Constitution were introduced one after another after the outbreak of World War III -- compulsory confiscation of civilian firearms, institutionalization of mail checks, the establishment of a press supervision bureau, encouragement of the public to expose each other, wartime martial law throughout the United States, the abolition of vacations and compulsory overtime work by military factory workers, and the launch of militarized training in schools across the country...... And so on, it's like turning the whole of America into a barracks.

Then, domestic resources were further inclined to military production. Last year, due to the enormous attrition of rebuilding the navy and the fact that wartime mobilization had not yet been fully carried out, the production of other arms and munitions was not as expected. Now that the large-scale construction of naval ships has come to an end, resources can be diverted to other departments, and the scope of wartime mobilization has encompassed the entire American society, and the government has much more resources at its disposal. To this end, Truman decided to increase the production of 250,000 aircraft and 100,000 antiaircraft guns this year in order to cope with the increasingly fierce global war. At the same time, it is also preparing to produce 80,000 tanks, 3.5 million military trucks and jeeps, as well as more bullets and shells.

Of course, the production of merchant ships could not be stopped, because with the official outbreak of World War III, the Atlantic Ocean, which had become safe with the fall of Nazi Germany, once again became a hunting ground for Soviet submarines, while Japanese submarines and the Broken Cruisers also wreaked havoc in the Pacific Ocean and became more and more skilled in breaking engagements...... In just a few months, 4.5 million tons of U.S. merchant ships sank, and in order to make up the shortfall, the United States must continue to increase the production of merchant ships.

Then, because the war situation on the front line was really poor, in order to avoid dampening the morale of the people, the US government could only choose to let the people not hear the real news, and at the same time forcibly suppressed all voices that dared to speak out against the wartime -- in just a few months after the outbreak of World War III, the US government closed down thousands of newspapers and magazines, closed down 25 universities suspected of being "polluted" by red ideology, threw thousands of leftists and their families into concentration camps, and millions of Russian, French, German, and Asian immigrants. Arrested or investigated for various flimsy reasons.

All of a sudden, the entire American society was rapidly militarized and fascistized, all kinds of white terror were in vogue, and a bunch of "radical patriotic groups" under various banners sprang up in every state, and with the tacit approval of the police and the government, they smashed the industries and meeting places of those "dissidents" everywhere, and even directly broke into people's homes to smash and loot and burn them...... The official media's royal literati applauded this, openly declaring that "...... In order to win this holy war and destroy the evil Bolsheviks, now the United States does not need any mess of freedoms and human rights, only more whips, bayonets, bullets and burns at the stake! In order to defend everything we know well, the United States can only have one voice, one doctrine, one leader, one idea!"

More recently, Congress also authorized Joseph . Senator McCarthy created a "Subcommittee on the Investigation of Non-American Activities" to conduct so-called "loyalty investigations" into all citizens throughout the United States, as well as censorship of all kinds of banned books. Initially, only 75 left-wing literati at home and abroad were banned, and the impact was not too great. Later, in order to expand his influence, McCarthy quickly expanded the scope of the banned books, classifying more than two million books as "harmful reading", and even Mark Twain's political satire became banned. And those who have read banned books and the libraries that have kept them are subject to endless censorship of loyalty. Under this influence, the major libraries in the United States had no choice but to ban or even burn "any suspicious books and magazines" on their own before the "Subcommittee on the Investigation of Non-American Activities" came to the door.

At the same time, McCarthy also illegally arrested Chaplin, a famous actor who dared to contradict him, insisted on leftist views, and denounced him as "even more evil than Hitler", and threw the hapless star into a concentration camp in the Nevada desert. Even Einstein, who accidentally said a few more words, would have almost followed him into a concentration camp if the president had not personally vouched for McCarthy to stop. All of a sudden, McCarthy, a little-known little Senate, was majestic in American society, wantonly manipulating life and death, and was called "Beria of America...... Although this led to a sharp metamorphosis in the direction of the United States as a police state and even a Nazi state, for President Truman, it was good news that unified ideas and consolidated power.

-- In a closed country where there are no newspapers, no news, no communication media, no open activities of opposition parties, censorship and police everywhere, and ideological movements three times a day, public opinion is directly strangled and the opposition can only operate underground, the difficulty of stirring up turmoil is very, very high. In many cases, even when thousands of people have starved to death, state power remains strong. Just like the North Korean regime in later generations.

On the last day of January 1947, the U.S. Congress passed a shocking "Wartime Election Act" by a narrow majority. The main content of this bill is that due to the outbreak of World War III and the fall of Europe, it is now an extraordinary period that determines the life and death of the country, and the United States must concentrate all its forces to deal with the challenge of foreign enemies. In order to maintain the unity of military orders and decrees and ensure the continuity of various national policies, Congress decided to suspend all political elections nationwide and freeze any motion of impeachment before the end of the state of war—that is, every governor, congressman, and president of the United States can now be directly re-elected without election and without impeachment, and until the end of the state of war!

In other words, if the state of war had never ended, Truman would have even hoped to become the only president for life in American history!

According to common sense, a bill like this, which is extremely contrary to the purpose of democracy, freedom, and republic, is enough to blow up the entire United States. But the truth is that the justices have tacitly acknowledged its legitimacy, and under the strict supervision of the news administration, newspapers across the United States have also been applauded and supported, and any newspapers that dare to raise any objections are closed down the next day or smashed to rubble by "patriotic groups...... Even the political crowd in Washington, who have always relied on elections for food, had to lament that they were unlucky, and then they were arrested and sent to the front line to be cannon fodder.

In this way, President Truman, who had completely shaken off the haze of impeachment, happily signed a decree whose main content was "to include the nation's civilian radios in wartime control, and those who did not obtain a license must surrender their private radios free of charge." Then he received another piece of even more exciting good news -- After working overtime day and night at the Oak Ridge factory, the latest batch of 24 atomic bombs in the United States was finally completed and shipped from the factory!

This good news almost brought tears to his eyes for a while -- how many days had passed, and the United States, which had lost the last atomic bomb, could only watch the Soviet Union's nuclear bombs sweep the world into piles of radioactive fallout, destroying tens of thousands of American soldiers and famous cities and fortresses, but they could not even come up with the slightest means of countermeasures...... Fortunately, this most difficult period has finally come to an end. From now on, the once empty nuclear arsenal of the United States will once again have a stockpile, and it will not have to be bombed one-sidedly, and it will be able to compete with the Russians to plant the sun all over the world!

President Truman was so pleased that he convened an emergency meeting that afternoon to discuss the United States' nuclear counterattack plan. It would be better to drop an atomic bomb on the Soviet mainland as a way to boost the morale of the people, and by the way, to give a little color to the Soviets, who have been rampant lately, - it is useless to just drop atomic bombs on the European continent, which will only make the Europeans hate the United States even more and push them over to the side of the Soviets.

Then, Truman was somewhat disappointed to find that with the current strategic posture of the US military, it seemed that it would be a bit difficult to nuclear bomb the Soviet mainland......

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By February 1947, the US military had not only lost all its strongholds on the European continent, but also lost all the military bases in the British Isles; if it wanted to bomb the European part of the Soviet Union, the best way was to take off from Iceland and cross the Norwegian Sea and Scandinavia to the west into the western border of the Soviet mainland, with a total range of 2,500 kilometers, and of course, the maximum range of the US B-29 "Super Flying Fortress" strategic bomber was up to 8,580 kilometers. It is not difficult to fly from Iceland to Leningrad, Kiev or even Moscow.

But the problem is that the bomber formation carrying the nuclear bomb must pass through Norway, Sweden and Finland before the nuclear bomb can be dropped to Leningrad, which gives the Soviets a very sufficient warning time, and they can calmly mobilize fighter jets to intercept and hunt in multiple batches, and the bomber carrying the nuclear bomb is likely to be shot down halfway. Moreover, in the era when there is no GPS navigation and positioning, it is also very likely that there will be a loss of navigation if you go deep into enemy territory for such a long distance.

Another possible direction of attack would be to deploy B-29 "Super Fortress" strategic bombers and atomic bombs to the Middle East, take off from Baghdad or Tehran, and head north into the territory of the Soviet Union in Central Asia, where they will smash the polar bear's "soft underbelly...... The problem was that while it was easy to bomb Russia's Caucasus from Baghdad, the damage to Soviet military power would be limited in whether it was a nuclear bombing of Georgia, Azerbaijan, or Armenia. It would be too risky to continue north and go deep into the Russian hinterland to bomb Baku, Stalingrad, Donbass and other industrial towns. The success rate calculated according to the war chess game is really pitifully low, and even lower than the success rate of the bombing of Leningrad from Iceland.

Eisenhower, who was on the front line, proposed a more feasible nuclear bomb to destroy Constantinople and destroy the shipping lanes between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, but the problem was that if they did, the embarrassed Soviets would likely retaliate by bombing Baghdad, Tehran, and Jerusalem, and the hundreds of thousands of American troops in the Middle East would be wiped out if the Soviets still had enough nuclear bombs.

What's more, it would take at least a month to transport the atomic bomb from the United States to the Middle East front and complete the commissioning. And looking at Eisenhower's previous collapse, whether he will be able to hold out until the moment when the atomic bomb arrives, the Pentagon is really not sure.

The third, and safest, option for a nuclear explosion on the Soviet Union would take off from an air base in southern Alaska and detonate Petropavlovsk, the capital of the Soviet Union. This route is the safest for pilots on mission, because Petropavlovsk is adjacent to the coast, the depth is extremely small, and the air defense is also very weak, and it is almost impossible to defend against high-speed bombing from high altitudes - the Soviets in the city have just received the air defense alert, and the American bombers carrying atomic bombs have already flown over their heads, not to mention, the latest model of the US military B-29 bombers have been installed and carrying APT1 "Dinah" and APQ2 "small carpets" Radar jammers and RR3U chaff, and even specialized electronic warfare B-29 bombers. Electronic warfare can be used to paralyze the anti-aircraft radars of the Soviets and the fire control radars of anti-aircraft guns.

But the problem is that Petropavlovsk is simply too low a target for an atomic strike. Such a small frontier city with neither industry, nor historical and cultural significance, nor a large army stationed, and even the exiled criminals disdained the poor countryside of the past, even if it was bombed into radiant ruins, it would be only a drop in the bucket for the Soviets, and even worse than the damage caused to the United States by the Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor!

If the extremely expensive atomic bomb were used to bomb such a devastated place, the Americans would always feel that the gains outweighed the losses, and it would not be worth the effort.

“…… Since the B-29 took off from Alaska and was able to bomb Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka Peninsula, why not fly a little further and bomb Vladivostok? It was the home port of the Soviet Pacific Fleet and the core of Soviet domination in the East, and it was definitely worth it to drop a few atomic bombs in the past! Looking at the military map of the North Pacific hanging on the wall, President Truman asked, somewhat puzzled.

“…… This one...... I'm afraid it's hard to do, Mr. President, Vladivostok is too far from Alaska. If the B-29 were to be used for a nuclear bombing mission, it would probably be gone forever and become a suicide one-way bombing that would end in the same fate. Moreover, the defensive forces deployed by the Soviets in Vladivostok are far from being comparable to those of a small border town like Petropavlovsk......"

Commander of the U.S. Army Air Corps, Henry Brown. Admiral Arnold stretched out his hand to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead and replied, "...... Under multiple echelons of early warning and interception, the chances of a successful nuclear bombing of Vladivostok are slim. And even if it succeeds, the Soviets will retaliate in turn......"

“…… Ha? What about suicidal one-way bombing? How many good lads have died in the United States so far that the war has been fought? Can't the Air Force even find a group of pilots who have the courage to sacrifice their lives for the country? How is the pilot's loyalty survey done? ”

President Truman jumped up in a fit of rage and slapped the table a few times, "...... They have already decided to fight a nuclear war with the Soviets, and they are still afraid of retaliation from the Soviets? Even if we don't do it, will the Soviets stop using atomic bombs? Besides, what can the Soviets do if they want to take revenge on us? They also have no ability to carry atomic bombs across the Pacific or Atlantic, and at most they can only bomb Iceland, Iran, or Alaska, which is a bargain for the United States......"

“…… And if we don't get the time to get started, the Soviets might be able to strike a preventive strike and preemptively bombard Iceland, the Middle East, and our air bases in Alaska with their atomic bombs, which would be even worse. ”

Secretary of State Hull also waved his fist and added, "...... We must race against the clock against an enemy who has never been more ferocious than ever, and strike first! ”

Then, while the congregation was still looking ahead and hesitating, another bombshell came from the front line.

――“…… Report to gentlemen, the Soviets carried out a new nuclear strike twelve hours ago, and they dropped atomic bombs on Mosul and Tehran! The Shah of Iran died in a nuclear explosion, the whole of Iran fell into chaos, and the 300,000 men of the Mosul Army Group were all gone! ”

After a moment of silence, President Truman spread his hands expressionlessly, "...... See! Gentlemen. A murderous enemy will not give up atrocities because of our kindness and kindness, and only by countering violence with violence can we contain our opponents and win a glimmer of life for our country...... Now let's start formulating a nuclear strike program against the Soviet Union in three directions: Western Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East! Before more bad news comes! ”

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On February 1, 1947, after learning that Mosul and Tehran had been bombed one after another and that the Middle East front was once again on the verge of collapse, President Truman issued the most severe order, demanding that the last 300,000 Central Allied troops under Eisenhower continue to hold out and hold a counterattack position no matter what...... You can only win or die, but you must not retreat. No one is allowed to take a step back without an order. Commanders who abandon their positions without receiving orders from their higher command are considered treasonous criminals and must be dealt with with the most severely! ”

To this strict order, the Pentagon added that "anyone who cowers on the battlefield and does not stand and die will be condemned as a traitor who betrays the country." "And a large-scale ocean-going fleet was organized to urgently carry out large-scale reinforcements of the US forces on the Middle East front. General MacArthur and his subordinates, who had just been withdrawn from the Philippines, were also sent to the Middle East to give Eisenhower, who had become a frightened bird, a blood transfusion.

At the same time, the U.S. atomic bombs, which had just left the factory, were also loaded onto cruisers and battleships and shipped to all parts of the world, ready to go.

-- A new wave of strategic nuclear counterattack plans of the bald eagle, the beacon of human freedom and democracy, is about to hit the Russian polar bear......

And this war-torn world of human civilization has also continued to advance a big step in the direction of the radiant wasteland...... (To be continued.) )