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Chapter 1322 New Crisis, New Challenge (First Update, Please Subscribe)
It feels so good to be alive!
After the Cuban Crisis ended, almost everyone expressed such sentiments.

But everyone knows very well that the reason they were able to survive was not because the "Soviet Union was peace-loving", but because of their lack of strength and the deterrence of nuclear weapons.

It is also for this reason that, compared to before the crisis, almost all countries have realized that nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles are related to the survival of the country!

If there were no nuclear missiles, then in this world where the strong prey on the weak, the country would most likely suffer a catastrophic disaster!

So the Soviet Union began to make missiles like sausages, and the United States was also strengthening its nuclear power, as was Britain, and Southeast Asia was naturally no exception.

The resolution of the crisis did not lead the world to peace, but instead plunged the world into an arms race.

Historically, a similar competition was the "Anglo-German Naval Race", but that competition led to World War I.

No one knows where this competition will lead to, but one thing is certain: no country dares to let its guard down!

After all, this is a matter of life and death!

"…The new ballistic missile nuclear submarine has a displacement of 9000 tons and an underwater speed of 28 knots. Each submarine can carry 20 "Polang" 2 submarine-launched missiles with a range of 5000 kilometers. The first submarine is scheduled to begin patrolling in ."

In the Navy's Ship Administration and Engineering Department, when engineers were showing the submarine renderings on the drawing board, Navy Commander Zou Tongjie asked about some details from time to time.

"Is it true that this submarine can carry 20 missiles?"

Zou Tongjie asked this question because it was your Excellency's request. In fact, the original plan for the new ballistic missile nuclear submarine of the Navy was relatively conservative. It was just a modification of the "Guardian Class". At that time, the "Guardian Class" strategic nuclear submarine was built by taking shortcuts. However, when the "Guardian Class" was still under construction, the Navy had already discovered some shortcomings of this class of nuclear submarines. For example, the superstructure was very large and obvious, which brought many adverse effects to the underwater performance of the submarine; the space inside the submarine was too crowded and the living environment was poor; the diving depth was small; the excessive number of bow torpedo tubes occupied the precious space inside the submarine, etc.

Therefore, the Navy decided to design and build the second-generation strategic nuclear submarines and try to make up for the shortcomings of the "Guardian Class". For this reason, the prototype of the new strategic nuclear submarine still has only 16 missile launch compartments.

However, after the plan was submitted to the official residence, some changes occurred. Your Excellency requested that the new generation of strategic nuclear submarines be able to carry 20 "Polang-2" missiles.

"We plan to build five strategic nuclear submarines. Don't be so conservative. If there are only 5 launch tubes, there are only 16 missiles. We might as well make it bigger and add four launch tubes. This will not increase the cost much, but we can deploy 80 more missiles. 4 missiles means 20 sub-missile warheads, which can attack dozens more cities..."

This is your purpose - to strengthen the second wave of nuclear counterattack capabilities in the South Pacific by increasing the number of missiles carried. With five new strategic nuclear submarines and four improved versions of the "Guardians", the Navy will have up to nine strategic nuclear submarines, 164 submarine-launched missiles and 656 nuclear warheads.

And this is also the most terrifying aspect of this arms race - even in Southeast Asia, in future wars, hundreds of nuclear missiles can be launched in an instant, destroying hundreds of cities.

And this is just submarine-launched missiles. Nanyang also has land-based missiles and air-based Tomahawks. By then, Nanyang may launch thousands or even tens of thousands of nuclear bombs, razing thousands of cities to the ground.

Overnight, human civilization would regress to the Stone Age.

This is definitely an extremely terrifying thing, but precisely because everyone knows how terrifying this kind of thing is, they dare not take it lightly!

They are even developing missiles with greater power, longer range and more warheads.

"There is absolutely no problem. Considering its future improvement, we deliberately enlarged the bomb bay during the design to ensure that it can carry larger missiles with longer range in the future."

Wu Lingyong, a naval submarine engineer, graduated from Southwest Associated University, but he was the first generation of ship engineers trained in Nanyang. It was he who proposed to "fully utilize the hull and equipment of the Jiaolong-class attack nuclear submarine and embed a ballistic missile compartment" to take a shortcut and allow the "Guardian-class" to serve 24 months ahead of schedule.

Wu Lingyong also entered the vision of the navy's top brass and became the chief designer of the new generation of nuclear submarines. After answering the commander's question, he explained some design details. Finally, he emphasized.

"From the overall perspective, the new strategic nuclear submarine will be the world's largest and most powerful ballistic missile nuclear submarine."

This is not arrogance, but a fact. After all, it can carry 20 ballistic missiles, and the Polang-2 is very advanced in terms of data. Not only does it have a long range, but it can also carry 4-5 independently targetable nuclear warheads with an explosive equivalent of 4 tons.

After the special meeting on the new ballistic missile submarine, Zou Tongjie did not leave the Navy Ship Engineering Office immediately. He went to another office to inquire about the construction of the aircraft carrier. Although the construction of the new aircraft carrier has started, with the development of new electronic computers, radars and other equipment, the aircraft carrier also needs to keep up with the times. Whether it is an aircraft carrier or a strategic nuclear submarine, they are both important national weapons in Nanyang. As the commander of the navy, Zou Tongjie is paying attention to them, and Li Yian is also concerned about their progress.

In fact, no one paid more attention to them than him. After all, the lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis was that everyone needed to have weapons that the other side would be afraid of in order to ensure their own safety.

Gently pushing the report in front of him forward, Li Yian asked:
"…So, in other words, at the Nassau Conference, Macmillan expressed his strong dissatisfaction with the United States for stopping the development of the Sky Lightning Missile!"

Two days ago, on December 12, British Prime Minister Macmillan and the US President held a meeting in Nassau, Bahamas. Li Yian was very concerned about this meeting. The reason for paying attention to the "Nassau Conference" was that the Nassau Conference marked that the United States had finally completely crushed its biggest strategic rival, the British Empire. This conference also marked that the British Empire had completely lost its superpower status and had since become a second-rate power. In fact, Britain withdrew from the position of a Cold War contestant, and the Cold War began to become a two-man show between the United States and the Soviet Union.

The "Lightning Missile" has been the key issue for the United States and Britain since last year. Although Britain purchased the "Wanhu IV" medium-range missile from Nanyang at a preferential price through cooperation, in order to strengthen its nuclear power, Britain joined the US military's "Sky Lightning" project two years ago.

Sky Lightning is a two-stage ballistic air-to-ground missile with a range of 1000 miles that can be launched from under the wings of large aircraft. It enables bombers to strike the enemy at long distances beyond the range of enemy air defenses. For the UK, Sky Lightning seems to be more important-because the UK's narrow homeland is not suitable for the deployment of land-based missiles.

So two years ago, the UK decided to purchase Sky Lightning missiles from the United States to rearm its 3V bomber fleet and completely canceled its own Blue Light airborne missile program.

This was equivalent to pinning the future entirely on the weapons systems that were yet to be produced in the United States. Unexpectedly, something very unfortunate happened to the UK: the US Air Force decided to cancel the plan, and the British order was naturally scrapped. The Americans' explanation for this seemed very sufficient and helpless - the R&D costs were seriously overspent and the technical difficulty was too high.

Britain is naturally angry about this, because it knows very well that these reasons are lame excuses. The reason why the United States disregarded the interests of Britain's allies and insisted on canceling Sky Lightning was not only because of financial and technical reasons, but more importantly, it did not want Britain to develop its nuclear power.

Finally, all the discontent and conflicts finally erupted at the Nassau Conference. Of course, in another world, Kennedy was tough, but what about Britain?

Finally, I had to surrender!
“It’s not just dissatisfaction!”

Berlin said bluntly:
"The original agenda of this summit meeting was to discuss the international situation. But after Macmillan proposed the "Lightning Missile", the meeting moved towards ending Britain's independent nuclear deterrent force. This also made the meeting full of gunpowder. From the first day, the debate between the two sides was very fierce. Kennedy insisted that Britain stop developing strategic nuclear forces and hand over strategic nuclear forces to the United States for management, but Macmillan's attitude was also very firm - he directly refused!"

Berlin then reported on some of the contents of the meeting. Of course, his report was not a notification from Downing Street. In fact, all official statements until now have stated that "the two heads of state are having a constructive meeting."

But this does not prevent Hydra from obtaining intelligence in this regard. After all, Hydra has been operating in the UK for many years. Even in the Cabinet Office on Downing Street, there is Hydra. Because of their existence, basically any decision made on Downing Street will appear on Li Yian's desk within a few hours.

In fact, this is nothing big. Historically, during World War II, decisions made in the White House and Downing Street were almost always made here and appeared on Steel's desk there. It's a joke that when Truman first became president, Steel knew much more about the "Manhattan Project" than Truman.

In fact, collecting intelligence on allies is the most important task of intelligence agencies.

Just like another world, South Korea's intelligence on North Korea is basically a mess, but it doesn't matter. Just like for the Stasi, the most important thing is not to infiltrate Bonn, but to infiltrate the Kremlin and make the KGB unaware of their existence. Saudi Arabia is not interested in Tehran's nuclear secrets and missiles, but every time the US presidential election ensures that the party they donate to is elected, it is a matter of life and death for the Saudi royal family.

For Nanyang, intelligence on the Soviet Union is far less important than intelligence on the United States and Britain, because the Soviet Union is nothing more than a direct showdown. Although intelligence work on the United States and Britain is not life-threatening, it is related to too many aspects of Nanyang's interests.

Whether Nanyang has the ability to interfere in American politics will inevitably directly determine the final fate of Nanyang. After all, whether it is confrontation or cooperation, intelligence is needed to support it so that the right decision can be made at the right time.

"According to the intelligence from our insider, Britain will have a final showdown with the United States tomorrow!"

When the "showdown" was mentioned in Berlin, Li Yian raised his eyebrows slightly and said:

"Tomorrow... is Britain planning to break with the United States?"

The answer is of course no, but in fact the "special relationship between Britain and the United States" formed after the war faced unprecedented challenges at the Nassau Conference.

"Your Excellency, it should be said that tomorrow Britain will want to use all means to protect their interests!"

(End of this chapter)