Homo sapiens

"Eight keyhole satellites lost contact?!"

Victor swallowed his throat: "What on earth is going on?"

The team leader in charge of satellite monitoring was very panicked: "These satellites are our satellites specially used to monitor Southeast Asia and the Ceylon Ocean. Just now, all of these satellites suddenly lost contact."

"Damn it!" Victor had already guessed something.

Before Edward could say anything, his assistant rushed in. Seeing this scene, a bad premonition suddenly emerged in his heart:

"What happened again?"

The assistant took a breath: "Huh... More than 300 communication satellites of the Space Exploration Company were destroyed. In addition, one of our nuclear reaction information monitoring satellites detected dense gamma rays shooting from Southeast Asia to near-Earth at the same time. track."

"gamma rays?"

Victor's expression was extremely solemn. He picked up the phone and said, "...Char, please report on the status of the Space Exploration Company's communication satellites!"

"Director! I just wanted to report this to you. The low-Earth orbit satellites passing through the Eastern Hemisphere have been hit by unknown gamma rays. We have lost 37 satellites, and the Space Exploration Company has also lost 431 satellites. Communications satellite……"

Charles's voice on the other side of the phone was trembling: "Did you know? God! They destroyed nearly 500 of our satellites in less than 5 minutes. This is really terrifying..."

Hearing this quick and incoherent answer, Victor felt a storm in his heart. After hanging up the phone, he slumped down in his chair.

His eyes were empty and his mouth was muttering: "5 minutes...5 minutes..."

"What five minutes?" Edward asked.

The assistant on the side seemed to understand and quickly added: "These satellites were destroyed in just a few minutes."

Edward was stunned. Just now, his anger had obscured his reason. After being reminded by his assistant, a cold feeling surged up from the bottom of his feet to Tianling Gai.

Cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

Because like Victor, he discovered another more fatal problem.

He looked at Victor and said in horror: "The nuclear deterrent has failed! Our nuclear deterrent has failed!"

"Yes!" Of course Victor knew that America's nuclear deterrent had failed.

Since Homo sapiens can launch gamma rays from the ground to destroy satellites in low-Earth orbit, and it can be completed within a few minutes, it means that the opponent's high-altitude strike and interception capabilities are very powerful.

You know, this can destroy nearly 500 satellites in a few minutes.

In other words, change the concept.

This means that the Homo sapiens company can intercept nearly 500 ballistic missiles in a few minutes.

According to the various information just learned, the gamma ray strike range of Homo sapiens basically covers the entire Eastern Hemisphere.

The ballistic missiles equipped by America did not exceed 10,000, probably only a few thousand. Even if they were pressed all at once, Victor did not have high hopes for how many of them could break through the defense circle of Homo sapiens.

Edward was also confused at this time: "Victor! What should we do now?"

Victor, who calmed down again, racked his brains and thought for a while: "We have not completely failed. There is still a part of nuclear deterrence. Don't forget, we can also detonate highly polluting three-phase bombs in the stratosphere over North America." .”

"Yes! We still have this!" Edward seemed to have grasped the last straw.

At this moment, Edward was very grateful to the elders of the Cold War era, because they had left many big weapons for America.

Among them is a highly polluting three-phase bomb, which was a backup plan adopted after the failure of the study of cobalt bombs.

Edward turned to his assistant and ordered: "Notify the person in charge of the Nuclear Strategy Office to come over!"

"OK!"

Victor was very clear about Edward's reaction, and even knew what the other person was thinking.

Obviously Edward wants to expand the scale of pollution-type three-phase bomb equipment to restore America's deterrence.

Otherwise, according to the current gamma ray interception network of Homo sapiens, America's ballistic missiles will basically become useless materials. There will be no way to deter Homo sapiens homeland, and the strategic deterrence between the two sides will be completely unbalanced.

If the balance of strategic deterrence is lost, the consequences will be very serious. Homo sapiens can suppress America unscrupulously, but America dare not fight back.

Just like at this time, even though hundreds of satellites were destroyed and tens of billions of dollars in investment were lost, Edward did not dare to clamor for revenge on Homo sapiens.

The reason is that strategic deterrence has failed.

In the triad nuclear deterrence system, high-altitude ballistic missiles are now useless.

As for another deterrent, underwater nuclear submarines, they have long been restrained by Homo sapiens and rendered useless.

Nowadays, any nuclear submarine approaching the Western Pacific and Ceylon Ocean will be discovered by Homo sapiens warships and "escorted home" all the way.

If it can't get close to the headquarters of Homo sapiens, what kind of deterrent effect does this nuclear submarine have?

You can't launch ballistic missiles thousands of kilometers away from the sea, right? This may have had some deterrent effect before, but now it is completely useless, because the high-altitude defense circle of Homo sapiens has been formed.

So it's not difficult to guess what Edward was thinking.

Since it is impossible to directly attack Homo sapiens, then we should carry out stratospheric nuclear explosions, and then throw the incompletely reacted radioactive materials through the atmospheric circulation and scatter them all over the world.

However, this kind of deterrence must have a prerequisite. Victor reminded: "Sir, we must restart the atmospheric nuclear experiment and ensure that homo sapiens know that we have the ability to die together, otherwise they will take advantage of it."

Edward nodded: "Your consideration is very reasonable. In addition, the underground nuclear test data of the contaminated three-phase bomb must also be published."

Hiding and tucking is obviously useless.

After a while, Robinson, the head of the Nuclear Strategy Office, hurried to the office under the leadership of his assistant.

"Robinson, how many B93 warheads do we have?"

Robinson had also just taken over the work of the Nuclear Strategy Office. He quickly flipped through the small book he carried with him. There were some numerical codes that only he knew: "...there are 42 more."

"Not enough, too little!" Edward did not feel the slightest sense of security about this quantity: "Take out the 500 ordinary warheads in stock and transform them all into B93 types."

Gulu! Robinson reminded: "Sir, the pollution of B93 is too serious. 42 of them can already pollute an area of ​​5 million square kilometers."

"Do you think I don't know?"

Victor quickly explained the cause and effect.

After listening to the explanation, Robinson finally understood why Edward made such a request: "It's terrible! I will arrange transformation as soon as possible..."

"No, you must complete it in half a year." Edward was very serious.

Robinson was a little embarrassed: "This time is too short. Our nuclear industry has been stagnant for decades. For a time, there were not so many professionals."

However, Edward clenched his fists: "Then transfer technicians from other departments and ask General Electric, Raytheon, and Lockheed Martin to provide technical personnel to cooperate with the transformation project. We don't have time!"

"..." Robinson gritted his teeth, then nodded and replied, "I will go all out and try to complete it within half a year."

"Victor, if you send someone to help Robinson, I will report this matter to the council. If anyone dares to obstruct it, it will be betraying America."

Facing the approaching Homo sapiens and the unbalanced strategic deterrence, Edward was desperate.

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