Chapter 115, Bald Eagle’s Nuclear Counterattack Plan (Part 2)
Next, some good things happened that were beneficial to President Truman's personal power. In order to deal with the difficult situation of the outbreak of World War III and curb the spread of Bolshevik ideas in the country, Wall Street pressured Congress to pass a series of crazy wartime laws. Act, which greatly increases the powers of the President. Therefore, under the auspices of President Truman, various coercive measures that broke through the Constitution were introduced one after another after the outbreak of World War III - the forced collection of civilian firearms, the institutionalization of mail inspection, the establishment of a press regulatory bureau, and the encouragement of people to report each other's whistleblowers. Martial law was imposed during the war, military manufacturers canceled vacations and forced overtime, and schools across the country launched militarized training...etc., it turned the entire United States into a large military camp.
Then, various domestic resources are further tilted towards military production. Last year, it was due to the huge consumption of rebuilding the navy and the fact that wartime mobilization work had not yet been fully launched that the output of other arms and munitions was lower than expected. Now that the large-scale construction plan of naval ships has come to an end, various resources can be diverted to other departments. The scope of wartime mobilization has also included the entire American society, and the government has much more resources. To this end, Truman decided to increase the production of aircraft to 250,000 aircraft and the production of anti-aircraft guns to 100,000 this year to cope with the increasingly fierce global war situation. There are also plans to produce 80,000 tanks, 3.5 million military trucks and jeeps, and more bullets and artillery shells.
Of course, the production of merchant ships cannot be stopped, because with the official outbreak of World War III, the Atlantic Ocean, which once became safe with the fall of Nazi Germany, once again became a hunting ground for Soviet submarines, while Japanese submarines and diplomatic cruisers also Wreaking havoc in the Pacific, and becoming more and more skilled at breaking up engagements... In just a few months, 4.5 million tons of American merchant ships were sunk. In order to make up for the gap, the United States must continue to strengthen the production of merchant ships.
Next, because the fighting situation on the front line was really bad, in order to avoid damaging the morale of the people, the U.S. government could only choose to prevent the people from hearing the real news, and at the same time suppress all voices who dared to speak against the wartime - after the outbreak of World War III In just a few months, the U.S. government seized Thousands of newspapers and magazines closed down 25 universities suspected of being "contaminated" by red ideas. Thousands of left-wingers and their families were thrown into concentration camps, as well as millions of Russians, French and Germans. , Asian immigrants were arrested or investigated for various flimsy reasons.
For a time, the entire American society was rapidly militarized and fascist. All kinds of white terror became popular. A bunch of "radical patriotic groups" under various banners emerged in every state. With the tacit approval of the police and the government, people everywhere Destroyed the properties and gathering places of those "dissidents", and even broke into private houses, smashed, looted and burned them... while the official literati in the official media were very angry about this. Add cheers and openly declare that "...in order to win this holy war and eliminate the evil Bolsheviks, the United States does not need any messy freedoms and human rights now, it only needs more whips, bayonets, bullets and burning racks! In order to defend us As we all know, America can only have one voice, one doctrine, one leader, and one thought!"
Recently, Congress also authorized Senator Joseph McCarthy to establish a "Subcommittee to Investigate Un-American Activities", which is responsible for conducting so-called "loyalty investigations" on all citizens throughout the United States and reviewing various banned books. Initially, only seventy-five left-wing literati at home and abroad had their works banned, and the impact was not too great. Later, in order to expand his influence, McCarthy quickly expanded the scope of banned books, classifying more than two million books as "harmful readings", and even Mark Twain's political satires became banned books. People who have read banned books and libraries that collect banned books will suffer endless loyalty censorship. Under this influence, major libraries in the United States had no choice but to seize the opportunity to ban or even burn "any suspicious books and magazines" before the "Un-American Activities Subcommittee" came to visit. For a time, the university campus was filled with paper ash. Nicknamed "American Ash Wednesday".
At the same time, McCarthy also illegally arrested the famous actor Chaplin who dared to speak against him, insisted on left-leaning views, and called him "more evil than Hitler". The unlucky star was thrown into a concentration camp in the Nevada desert. Even Einstein, who accidentally said a few more words, would have almost followed him into the concentration camp if the president had not personally guaranteed it and ordered McCarthy to stop. For a time, McCarthy, a little-known little Senate, became powerful in American society, arbitrarily controlling life and death, and was called the "Beria of America"... Although this moved the United States towards a police state and even a Nazi state The direction of the war changed drastically, but for President Truman, it was good news that unified his thinking and consolidated his power.
——In a closed country where there are no newspapers, no news, no communication media, no public activities of the opposition party, censorship and police everywhere, and ideological campaigns three times a day, public opinion is directly strangled, and the opposition can only operate underground. , the difficulty of causing unrest is very, very high. In many cases, state power remains rock solid even as thousands of people starve to death en masse. Just like the North Korean regime in later generations.
On the last day of January 1947, the U.S. Congress passed a shocking "Wartime Election Act" with a slim majority. The main content of this bill is that due to the outbreak of the Third World War and the fall of Europe, now is an extraordinary period that determines the life and death of the country. The United States must concentrate all its forces to deal with the challenges of foreign enemies. In order to maintain the unity of military orders and political orders and ensure the continuity of various national policies, Congress decided to stop all nationwide political elections before the end of the wartime state and freeze any impeachment motions—that is to say, every person in the United States now Governors, congressmen and presidents can be directly re-elected indefinitely without election or impeachment until the end of the wartime state!
In other words, if the wartime situation never ends, Truman may even hope to become the only lifelong president in American history!
According to common sense, a bill like this that extremely violates the tenets of democracy, freedom and the republic is enough to make the entire United States explode. But the facts are calm: the justices silently recognized its legality, and under the strict supervision of the news management department, newspapers across the United States also applauded and supported it. Any newspaper that dared to raise any objections was It was seized the next day, or was smashed into rubble by "patriotic groups"... Even the political crowd in Washington, which had always relied on elections, could only lament that they were unlucky, and then they were captured and sent to the front line as cannon fodder.
In this way, President Truman, who had completely shaken off the haze of impeachment, happily signed a decree whose main content was "to include private radios nationwide as wartime controls, and those who have not obtained a charter must turn in their private radios free of charge." , and then received another piece of even more exciting good news - after working overtime day and night at the Oak Ridge Factory, the latest batch of twenty-four atomic bombs in the United States was finally completed and shipped out of the factory!
This good news almost brought tears to his eyes for a moment - how many days had passed, and the United States, which had lost its last atomic bomb, could only watch helplessly as the Soviet nuclear bombs showed their power all over the world, killing tens of thousands of people. American soldiers and famous cities and fortresses were blown up into piles of radioactive dust, but they couldn't even come up with any countermeasures... Fortunately, this most difficult period of time was finally over. From now on, the once-empty nuclear arsenal of the United States has stocks again. It does not need to be bombed one-sidedly, and it can compete with the Russians to plant suns all over the world!
As a result, President Truman was very happy to convene an emergency meeting that afternoon to prepare to discuss the United States' nuclear counterattack plan. It would be best to drop an atomic bomb on the Soviet Union to cheer up the people's morale and morale, and at the same time give some color to the Soviets who have gone too far recently - just dropping atomic bombs on the European continent is useless. This only made Europeans hate the United States even more and pushed them towards the Soviets.
Then, Truman was a little disappointed to find that with the current strategic posture of the US military, it seemed a bit difficult to nuclear bomb the Soviet Union...
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By February 1947, the U.S. military had not only lost all its strongholds on the European continent, but also all its military bases on the British Isles. If it wanted to bomb the European parts of the Soviet Union, the best way was to start from Iceland takes off, heading west across the Norwegian Sea and half of Scandinavia The island enters the western border of the Soviet Union, with a total range of 2,500 kilometers. Of course, the U.S. B-29 "Super Fortress" strategic bomber has a maximum range of 8,580 kilometers. If you want to fly from Iceland to Leningrad , Kiev and even Moscow are not difficult.
But the problem is that the bomber formation carrying nuclear bombs must pass through three countries: Norway, Sweden and Finland before they can drop the nuclear bombs to Leningrad. This gives the Soviets ample warning time to calmly mobilize fighter jets and carry out multiple batches of nuclear bombs. Interception and hunting, the bomber carrying the nuclear bomb is likely to be shot down midway. Moreover, in the era without GPS navigation and positioning, it is very likely to get lost when going deep into enemy territory for such a long distance.
Another possible direction of attack is to deploy B-29 "Super Fortress" strategic bombers and atomic bombs to the Middle East, take off from Baghdad or Tehran, go north into the Central Asian territory of the Soviet Union, and hit the polar bear's "soft lower belly" "... But the problem is that it is easier to bomb Russia's Caucasus region from Baghdad, but whether it is nuclear explosions in Georgia, Azerbaijan or Armenia, the damage to the Soviet military strength will be very limited. It would be too risky to continue going north and deep into the heart of Russia to nukes Baku, Stalingrad, Donbas and other industrial towns. The success rate calculated based on war chess deductions was pitifully low, even much lower than the success rate of bombing Leningrad from Iceland.
Eisenhower, who was on the front line, proposed a more feasible nuclear explosion plan, which was to use atomic bombs to destroy Constantinople and destroy the shipping lanes between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. But the problem was that if this was done, the angry Soviets would probably They will retaliate by nuking Baghdad, Tehran and Jerusalem. By then, the hundreds of thousands of American troops in the Middle East will be wiped out - if the Soviets still have enough nuclear bombs in stock.
More importantly, it would take at least a month to transport the atomic bomb from the United States to the front line in the Middle East and complete its debugging. Looking at Eisenhower's previous collapse, the Pentagon is really not sure whether he can persist until the moment the atomic bomb arrives.
The third and safest option for nuclear explosions in the Soviet Union is to take off from an air force base in southern Alaska and bomb Petropavlovsk, the capital of the Soviet Union's Kamchatka. For pilots performing missions, this route is the safest, because Petropavlovsk is adjacent to the coast, has minimal depth, and weak air defense, making it almost impossible to defend against high-speed bombing from high altitudes - the city The Soviets had just received an air defense warning, and they were carrying atomic bombs. U.S. bombers have already flown over their heads. What's more, the latest model of the U.S. military's B-29 bomber has been equipped with APT1 "Dina", APQ2 "Small Carpet" radar jammers and RR3U chaff, and even has specialized electronic warfare B-29 bomber. Electronic warfare can be used to paralyze the Soviet air defense radar and anti-aircraft gun fire control radar.
But the problem is that Petropavlovsk's value as an atomic bomb target is too low. Such a small border town with no industry, no historical and cultural significance, and no large army stationed in it. Even the exiled criminals disdain the remoteness of the past. Even if it is bombed into a radioactive ruin, it is only a drop in the bucket to the Soviets, or even worse. The Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor caused even greater damage to the United States!
If extremely expensive atomic bombs are used to bomb such a poor place, Americans always feel that the gains outweigh the losses, and it is not cost-effective in any way.
"...Since the B-29 took off from Alaska and could bomb Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka Peninsula, why not fly further and bomb Vladivostok? That was the Soviet Pacific Ocean The home port of the fleet is also the core of the Soviet rule in the East. Dropping a few atomic bombs is definitely worth the money!" President Truman asked with some confusion as he looked at the military map of the North Pacific hanging on the wall.
"...This...I'm afraid it will be difficult to do. Mr. President, Vladivostok is too far away from Alaska. If the B-29 is used to carry out a nuclear explosion mission, it will probably never return. , turned into a one-way suicide bombing with the same fate. Moreover, the defensive force deployed by the Soviets in Vladivostok was far from comparable to that of a small border town like Petropavlovsk..."
General Henry Arnold, commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and replied, "...With multiple levels of early warning and interception, the possibility of successfully nuclear detonating Vladivostok is extremely slim. Moreover, Even if they succeed, the Soviets will retaliate in turn..."
"...Huh? So what about suicide one-way bombing? How many good young men have died in the United States since the war started? Can't the Air Force even find a group of pilots who have the courage to sacrifice their lives for the country? How is the loyalty investigation of pilots done? ”
President Truman jumped up angrily and slammed the table several times, "...We have already decided to fight a nuclear war with the Soviets, but we are still afraid of Soviet retaliation? Even if we don't take action, will the Soviets still be afraid of them? Will they stop using atomic bombs? Besides, even if the Soviets want to What can they do to retaliate against us? They don't have the ability to transport atomic bombs across the Pacific or Atlantic. At most, they can only blow up Iceland, Iran or Alaska. This exchange ratio is really a good deal for the United States. …”
"...Moreover, if we fail to seize the time and take action, the Soviets may carry out preventive strikes and use their atomic bombs to bomb Iceland, the Middle East and our air force bases in Alaska first. In this case, the situation will be even worse. ”
Secretary of State Hull also waved his fist and added, "...We must race against time against an unprecedentedly ferocious enemy to strike first!"
Then, while everyone in the meeting was still hesitating and hesitating, another bombshell of bad news came from the front line.
——"...Reporting to you gentlemen, the Soviets carried out a new nuclear strike twelve hours ago. They dropped atomic bombs on Mosul and Tehran! The Shah of Iran died in the nuclear explosion, and the whole country of Iran fell into chaos. , all 300,000 people in the Mosul Army Group are dead!”
After a moment of silence, President Truman spread his hands expressionlessly, "...you see! Gentlemen. The ferocious enemy will not give up atrocities because of our kindness and kindness. Only by meeting violence with violence can we win. It may contain the opponent and win a glimmer of hope for the country... Let’s start formulating nuclear attack plans against the Soviet Union in the three directions of Western Europe, the Middle East and the Far East before more bad news comes!”
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On February 1, 1947, after learning that Mosul and Tehran had suffered nuclear explosions one after another, and that the Middle East front was once again on the verge of collapse, President Truman issued the most stringent order, requiring the last 300,000 Middle Eastern Alliance members under Eisenhower to The army continues to hold on and must defend a counterattack position no matter what. ——"...You can only win or die, but you must not retreat. No one is allowed to take a step back without an order. Any commander who abandons his position without an order from the superior command will be regarded as treason. Criminals and must be dealt with in the harshest manner ”
The Pentagon added to this strict order, claiming: "Anyone who cowers on the battlefield without standing still and dying will be pronounced as a traitor who betrayed the country." It also organized a large-scale ocean-going fleet to attack the Middle East front line. The US military urgently carried out large-scale reinforcements. General MacArthur and his men, who had just withdrawn from the Philippines, were also sent to the Middle East to provide blood transfusions and encouragement to Eisenhower, who had become a frightened bird.
At the same time, the U.S. atomic bombs that had just left the factory were also loaded onto cruisers and battleships and shipped to various parts of the world, ready for deployment.
——The new wave of strategic nuclear counterattack plan of the Bald Eagle, the beacon of human freedom and democracy, is about to hit the Russian polar bear hard... And this war-torn world of human civilization is also heading towards the radiation wasteland. Determined to continue to take a big step forward...