Chapter 1302 The Cloud of Nuclear War (Second update, please subscribe)
“What a beautiful world! Peace is more important than anything else!”
In the early morning, when entering the study, Li Yian sighed After saying this, he opened the intelligence briefing and started reading.
Compared with the emergencies on the roof of the world, it is Cuba that really attracts the attention of the world. Although the United States has not informed the public of the incident at this time, the entire Western world is making preparations.
In the past few days, the United States has completed its military deployment. They have transferred as many as eight aircraft carriers to Florida from the Pacific and other places. At the same time, they have also deployed more aircraft carriers to the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Aircraft carriers and fleets were sent.
This time the U.S. Navy's troop deployment is huge, and it can even be said to be the largest military deployment after the war.
Such a huge military mobilization has naturally attracted the attention of various countries, and everyone is guessing what the United States wants to do.
In fact, the U.S. Navy is not trying to hide anything. On the contrary, it can be said to be a big show of fear that others will not know, because they want the whole world to know.
While the U.S. Navy, Army and Air Force were constantly mobilizing, Kennedy was being troubled by various opinions.
The White House and the military disagreed on whether to directly attack Cuba or use surgical air strikes, which annoyed him.
Kennedy was even a little envious of Li Yi'an. He could directly and boldly solve Iraq without caring about the Soviet Union at all.
But the United States cannot act so boldly, because as long as the United States moves, the Soviet Union is likely to follow suit. This is exactly what he is worried about!
Whether it is an air strike to solve the problem, or a further direct invasion, there is a risk of a nuclear war.
Judging from the current intelligence available, even if the United States can get rid of the Soviet Union, it will be reduced to rubble by the Soviet long-range missiles!
"Mr. President, we have 294 intercontinental ballistic missiles, 144 long-range submarine-launched ballistic missiles, 630 long-range strategic bombers, and we have more than 28,000 nuclear bombs. The intercontinental ballistic missiles deployed by the Soviet Union may There are only about 20 nuclear bombs. Although they have about 3,000 nuclear bombs, the Mia 4 long-range bombers have no chance of flying to the United States. We believe that even if a nuclear war breaks out, we will have an absolute advantage..."
Recalling the words of the generals, Kennedy frowned.
Atomic bomb war?
Are you kidding me?
Those generals are crazy. They had even calculated how many missiles would be needed to destroy the Soviet Union, and in a word - we could win.
Once an atomic war breaks out, the entire world will be destroyed, not just the United States, but also the entire Europe,
The better days are yet to come!
Why are they so confused?
But the Pentagon obviously prefers to take military action to solve the problem, regardless of the harm to the United States itself.
I am afraid they are all thinking about how to hold a military parade in Moscow in the future, if there is still Moscow at that time.
But will Washington still exist when Moscow disappears?
Troubles are troubles, but problems that need to be faced always have to be faced!
“Damn Russians, they are still deceiving us until now!”
Four days ago, Gromyko’s face-to-face deception made Kennedy understand that spitting cannot solve actual problems. Days of diplomatic efforts – virtually meaningless.
“The Soviet Union cannot listen to the logic of reason, but it is very sensitive to the logic of force!”
Once again, Kennedy’s mind recalled what the other party said when he talked to Li Yian that day. Extra words,
"It seems that this is the only way!"
Kennedy, who understood that it was impossible to change the Soviet Union's mind through diplomatic work alone, thought for a while and then picked up the phone.
October 22nd.
At noon, the White House press secretary announced that President Kennedy would deliver an important speech tonight, calling on all people to listen or watch.
Just a simple appeal made Americans realize that this speech is very important.
So important that the White House asked them to listen!
So that day, many Americans began to wait for the president's speech, although rumors had already spread, and rich people were "going abroad to negotiate business." But the vast majority of American citizens knew nothing about this and were waiting for Kennedy's speech with confusion.
In fact, as president, Kennedy is now disliked by Americans, and his victory was questioned by the Republican Party as a fraud. It allowed Cuba to fall toward the Soviet Union and did nothing. Coupled with the downturn in the U.S. stock market this year, everything has made many people dislike this Irishman.
Although most people did not know the content of Kennedy's speech, they still waited at home honestly. After all, people sensed something was wrong, and by the afternoon word had spread through the grapevine.
At seven o'clock in the evening, Kennedy appeared on the TV screen and delivered a television and radio speech to the United States and the world:
"Good evening, my fellow citizens:
As promised, this administration will, The Soviet military buildup on the island of Cuba is under the closest surveillance. Over the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile bases are now being prepared on the imprisoned island. .The purpose of these bases is nothing more than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the Western Hemisphere."
"At 9 a.m. last Tuesday, after receiving the first initial hard information of this nature, I directed that we strengthen. After confirming and finalizing our assessment of the evidence and our decision on a course of action, this administration feels it is our duty to report to you in the greatest detail possible."
"These new developments. The characteristics of the missile base indicate that there are two different types of devices. Some of these missiles include medium-range ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads over a distance of 1,000 nautical miles. In short, each of these missiles is capable of striking the Washington, D.C., Panama Canal. , Cape Canaveral, Mexico City, or any other city in the Southeastern United States, Central America, or the Caribbean. ”
After Kennedy elaborated on the seriousness of Cuba's deployment of nuclear missiles, he finally changed the topic and said in a tough tone:
"...In order to stop this offensive build-up, offensive attacks on all shipments to Cuba are being launched. Strict quarantine of military equipment. All ships of any type bound for Cuba from any country or port found to be carrying offensive weapons will be returned. This quarantine will be extended to other types of cargo if necessary. And the carrier..."
Although Kennedy used the word "isolation" instead of "blockade" in his speech, he believed that this word was less explosive than "blockade" and was more suitable for peaceful and self-defense actions.
But the smell of gunpowder will not be reduced much. Especially for Americans in front of the TV, what they feel is not just the smell of gunpowder, but - destruction!
Kennedy's televised speech caused an uproar throughout the United States, and everyone was stunned!
Under the nose of the United States, nuclear missiles that can destroy the United States in an instant have appeared, and they are also targeting major cities in the United States!
The Cuban Missile Crisis went from behind the scenes to the front, from inside information known to a small group of people to an open fact.
After Kennedy’s televised speech, more than 200 million Americans were shocked!
For the first time, they truly felt the fear of destruction - the dark cloud of nuclear war enveloped the entire United States.
That night, many Americans could not sleep. All TV stations had adjusted their programs. In all TV programs, experts were talking about what would happen to Cuba's medium-range missiles once they were launched. What kind of disaster has America brought.
ABC TV station also urgently produced a cartoon in which experts introduced cities that might be hit by Soviet medium-range missiles, as well as the killing radius of nuclear bombs and the possible damage caused.
Of course, there is also an advertisement for "Family Emergency Shelter". The animated advertisement shows how a family hid in a fiberglass shelter within one minute of the alarm sounding, and successfully survived. The contrast with the city that was later razed to the ground is stark.
As soon as this ad aired, the company that provides fiberglass emergency shelters was bombarded with calls - this was the world's first phone shopping ad, and the number of orders that day exceeded 1 million. set!
This is an order worth billions of dollars!
It can only be said that it is human instinct to survive in the face of crisis.
Crisis, there are also business opportunities hidden in the crisis! But they all have to wait, because this kind of holistic shelter is still in Nanyang.
When the night passed and the morning sun shone again on the earth, while Americans spent the first night in fear, Kennedy signed in his Oval Office a ban on the shipment of any offensive weapons to Presidential Decree of Cuba.
Kennedy’s speech was not only for the United States but also for the whole world. While it spread throughout the United States, it also spread throughout the world.
Of course it also shocked the whole world.
The market's reaction was sharp. On that day, the Yongan Index fell by more than 7%, and European countries were even more affected. After Kennedy announced a naval blockade against Cuba, everyone around the world was shocked. This of course included European countries that needed to directly face the Soviet Union. The most nervous was not the United States, but Europe!
During the Cold War, Western Europe was the front line of the Cold War. Faced with such a crisis, the most nervous countries were of course Western European countries.
After all, everyone knows that once the war clouds in the Caribbean evolve into a nuclear war, then the entire Europe will be reduced to ruins.
Just when Europeans turned their attention to the United States with concern, many popular science programs and expert interviews related to nuclear war appeared on European TV. No one knew whether those experts were exaggerating, but it was certain. What's more, when people saw on TV the houses and buildings that were razed to the ground like toys at the nuclear test site, everyone felt the fear of nuclear war.
Under the shadow of destruction, especially in the explanations of experts, people seemed to see scenes of Europe being destroyed and prosperous cities razed to the ground, and those popular science animations only intensified people's anxiety. kind of fear.
When the living environment becomes harsh, even animals will choose to migrate. While ordinary people were discussing the crisis and the destruction caused by nuclear war, the powerful people had already begun to make plans.
Just like the rich people in the United States went abroad to discuss business or go on vacation after learning the news, the rich people in Europe also made the same choice. After all, they know better than anyone else that once a nuclear war breaks out, Europe will be What kind of result.
So a migration began with the Cuban Missile Crisis.
(End of this chapter)