Homo sapiens.

Chapter 432 Deterrence Imbalance
"8 keyhole satellites lost contact?!"

Victor swallowed his throat: "What's going on?"

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

"Damn it!" Victor had already guessed something.

Before Edward said anything, his assistant also 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 Corporation were destroyed, and one of our nuclear reaction information monitoring satellites detected dense gamma rays from Southeast Asia to the near-Earth at the same time track."

"gamma rays?"

Victor's expression was even more serious. He picked up the phone: "...Charles, report the situation of the communication satellites of the Space Exploration Corporation!"

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

Charles, who was on the other side of the phone, had a trembling voice: "Did you know? God! They destroyed nearly 5 of our satellites in less than [-] minutes. This is really terrifying..."

Hearing this incoherent answer, Victor felt a turmoil in his heart at this moment. After he hung up the phone, he slumped on a 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, his reason was covered by anger just now, after being reminded by his assistant, a coldness surged from the bottom of his feet to the Tianling Gai.

There was even more cold sweat 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 on the ground to destroy satellites in low-Earth orbit, and it can be done within a few minutes, it means that the opponent's high-altitude strike and intercept capabilities are very powerful.

You know, this is destroying nearly [-] satellites in a few minutes.

In other words, change the concept.

It means that Homo sapiens can intercept nearly [-] ballistic missiles within a few minutes.

According to the various information just learned, the gamma ray strike range of Homo sapiens basically covered the entire eastern hemisphere.

And the ballistic missiles equipped by America did not exceed 1, probably only a few thousand. Victor did not have much hope for how many of them could break through the defense circle of Homo sapiens even if he put his brains on it.

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

Victor, who had regained his composure, racked his brains and thought for a while: "We haven't completely failed, and 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 grasp the last straw.

At this moment, Edward is very grateful to the old-timers of the Cold War era, because they left a lot of big killers for America.

Among them is a high-pollution three-phase bomb, which is a backup plan adopted after the failure of cobalt bomb research.

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

"OK!"

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

Apparently, Edward wanted to expand the scale of pollution-type three-phase bomb equipment, so as 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. There is no way to deter Homo sapiens to the mainland, and the strategic deterrence of both sides will be completely out of balance.

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 if hundreds of satellites were destroyed and the satellites invested in tens of billions of dollars were lost, Edward did not dare to clamor for revenge on Homo sapiens.

The reason is that strategic deterrence has failed.

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

And another deterrent, the underwater nuclear submarine, has long been restrained by Homo sapiens, making it useless.

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

Can't get close to the headquarters of Homo sapiens, what deterrent effect does this nuclear submarine have.

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

Therefore, Edward's thoughts are not difficult to guess.

Since it is impossible to directly strike Homo sapiens, a stratospheric nuclear explosion will be carried out, and then the incompletely reacted radioactive substances will be scattered all over the world through the atmospheric circulation.

However, this kind of deterrence must have a premise. Victor reminded: "Sir, we must restart the atmospheric nuclear test to ensure that Homo sapiens know that we have the ability to die together, otherwise they will make progress."

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

It's obviously useless to hide it.

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 also just took over the job of the Nuclear Strategy Office, and quickly flipped through the small notebook he carried with him. There were some digital codes on it that only he knew: "...There are 42 more."

"Not enough, too little!" Edward didn't feel a sense of security about this amount: "Take out the 500 ordinary warheads in stock, and transform them all into B93."

grunt!Robinson reminded: "Sir, the B93 pollution is too serious, 42 can already pollute an area of ​​500 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 the transformation as soon as possible..."

"No, you have to finish 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 while, there are not so many professionals."

However, Edward clenched his fists: "Then transfer from other departments, let General Electric, Raytheon, and Locke Martin all provide technical personnel to cooperate with the renovation project, we have no time!"

"..." Robinson gritted his teeth, then nodded and replied, "I will do my best to finish it in half a year."

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

Facing the pressing Homo sapiens and the out-of-balance strategic deterrence, Edward is already desperate.

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