Although there was a possibility that the pilot was not operating properly, John immediately blew up and sprayed on social media, and even held a press conference at dawn to angrily denounce Lucia as "not professional enough".

The families of the pilot's victims are on land, and the expedition team, which is not afraid of death, cannot find the family for the time being because of the difficulty in identifying the body, but John has confirmed that he wants to use this incident to create international pressure.

Finally, after finishing the press conference, which was full of criticism, John immediately summoned his staff.

"Paul has just brought me the idea of the councillors, and we must overpower them!"

Paul was talking about Paul Ryan, the current president of the House of Representatives, who clearly conveyed to John the attitude of the councillors.

Congress's approval of the IAEA cleanup plan was largely due to a rough first half of the year, when the Artemis 2 and Aurora 3 moon landings were just over a month old, and lawmakers were eager to assert their force before agreeing to take the risk of dropping nuclear bombs.

Later, their attitude towards the equivalent problem is also very clear: the cleaning effect does not matter first, but it must be the maximum.

The vast majority of senators do not understand the difference between nuclear leakage pollution and explosion pollution, and in their opinion, nothing has happened to so many nuclear tests with a yield of more than 10 million tons in the last century.

Therefore, the parliamentarians could not tolerate Maozi's "betrayal" at all, and directly put pressure on John.

Sullivan: "I've consulted with Santis National Laboratories on yield issues, and they said they could immediately provide a nuclear warhead with a yield of 1.8 million tons and 3.4 million tons without modification, and with a slight modification, it could be mounted on a Trident."

It will be able to fly to the island nation tonight, where the missile warheads of the nuclear submarines will be replaced, and they will be put into service as soon as December 20. ”

"Oh? They're so fast! ”

John was a little surprised, and immediately asked:

"Are they prepared?"

Sullivan nodded and explained:

"What is needed to clean up the radiation is a two-stage configuration hydrogen bomb, and our current warheads are three-phase bombs that are designed to save volume and weight, and the yield is also concentrated in 50 to 1.5 million tons.

Our second-stage hydrogen bomb only has the B61, and some of the early original versions were mothballed because they were too heavy and too large, and the yield can be adjusted from 1.2 million to 3.4 million tons, which also exceeds the needs of the B plan.

But now it is very suitable to use the B61 and these early models, and the mothballed warhead is also in good condition, it was originally a warhead attached to the 'Gnome' missile, and it is not too troublesome to modify it for the Trident. ”

"Great!"

John immediately instructed:

"Let the plane go as soon as possible, as for the equivalent...... Hmm, how much do you think is appropriate? ”

This question made Sullivan hesitate a little, after all, this is not a matter of power, too big and too small are not appropriate, and a value that everyone can accept must be taken.

After all, the first hydrogen bomb only had a yield of more than 300,000 tons, and if they blew up a 3 million ton bomb, it might have the opposite effect and cause public opinion to resist.

"It can't exceed 2 million tons, almost 1.5 million tons of equivalent, and it's enough for us to be slightly higher than Lucia."

"Okay, that's it."

John made a decisive decision, the current time node is very sensitive, too much hesitation will increase the variable.

Although two hydrogen bombs have exploded one after another, not much of the video data from the scene has flowed out, and most of them are very marginal pictures.

First, tourists are still affected by electromagnetic pulses in their distances, and ordinary people who lack professional equipment have no recording ability, and ordinary electronic equipment can be temporarily out of order or permanently damaged.

Second, the official is also sorting out the information, screening the parts that can be broadcast, and at the same time observing the reaction of public opinion first.

It was already morning in the Western Hemisphere, and the news would only spread on a large scale at this time, and it would be troublesome if there was a moth that made the people resist the follow-up mission.

……

The reaction of ordinary people is still waiting for public opinion to ferment and unify, but the founders of two space companies on both sides of the Pacific let out a wail at the same time.

If anyone has resisted the nuclear clean-up operation in advance, it is probably the satellite communication provider.

For large communication satellites in synchronous orbit, it is okay and has little impact, but those small satellites in low orbit are really suffering.

Low-orbit orbits are either manned spacecraft or small satellites, large spacecraft can avoid the explosion window by consuming fuel to change orbits, and small satellites can be fueled without spacecraft or shuttles, especially satellite networks focused on low-orbit communications.

From last year to now, SpecaX has launched more than 800 first-generation Starlink satellites and more than 4,000 second-generation satellites into space, and more than 40 satellites have lost contact in two rounds of nuclear explosions, which is almost the total amount of a Falcon 9 full load.

The number of Jingwei satellite networks in Xinyuan is much smaller, but they have funded domestic projects such as "Lingxi", "Great Wall", and "Geely" similar to Starlink, and the losses of these projects add up to similar to SpecaX, and the follow-up network replenishment is not small.

During the construction, the launch was aimed at a single area, and the replenishment network could not always be hit there with all the brains, and it was necessary to use a separate small rocket, and the price would definitely be more expensive than one arrow and multiple satellites.

It's just that Xinyuan's losses are still much less than those of Starlink, in fact, now the base is celebrating something, and Lin Ju, who is far away in the capital, is even more happy to hide in the room and refuse to come out.

At the time of the Iskander launch a few hours earlier, the base had Qianjun Bang-1 conduct a firing exercise aimed at its missile pallet.

According to data collected from open sources, the warhead tray of the Iskander will be intercepted as a false target when it is separated, but this is no longer effective with the advancement of radar technology, and the signal of the tray can be distinguished by mainstream radar.

What is popular now are fake warheads that are exactly the same as real warheads, can even maneuver, and can even simulate thermal radiation.

And this kind of pallet false target will also re-enter the atmosphere like a warhead, but there is no control, just enough to allow oneself to conduct a real missile interception exercise.

The base set up an interception circle for Qianjun 1 in the Honshu Island area, which was designed to automatically lock the pallet after it was separated and perform laser irradiation.

In the end, the experimental effect was quite satisfactory, Qianjun Stick No. 1 locked the target after the tray was separated, and carried out a tracking irradiation that lasted for 25 seconds, according to the observation of the satellite, the trajectory of the tray after irradiation had an abnormal deviation, apparently the shape has been destroyed by ablation.

This is the first successful example of mankind's successful interception of a ballistic missile with a laser terminal in space, which fully proves the correctness of this route.

What's even more exciting is that thanks to the technology obtained from the smelting satellite, Qianjun Bang-3 has overcome all technical difficulties and will enter the prototype manufacturing stage.

(End of chapter)