Chapter 148: The nuclear bomb needs to be more powerful
However, the Soviet Union has no obligation to accompany these American congressmen who feel too good about themselves and continue to sit on the Capitol Hill and slowly calculate the gains and losses... On February 1, the Soviet Tu-100 "Flying Bear" jet loaded with atomic bombs Ultra-long-range strategic bombers once again attacked from the Pacific and Atlantic directions, carrying twenty-four thick, black and hard atomic bombs, and came to visit the land of the United States of America to "send warmth."
This time, the U.S. Air Force finally became ruthless. Regardless of whether it was high enough to reach the stratosphere, all aircraft that could fly were released. The anti-aircraft cannons on the ground also fired more lively than New Year's fireworks - even though the artillery shells were not at all You can't hit that high, it's just a blast to embolden yourself.
Any American aircraft that can fly into the stratosphere, whether it is the B-36 "Peacemaker" that has been urgently converted into a gunship, or the original B-36 bomber that was too late to be modified, or even some that are still undergoing test flights. The experimental aircraft, which had not yet been equipped with weapons and equipment, were driven into the sky regardless of the situation to meet the Soviets who were invading at supersonic speeds! If you don’t go to heaven, there will be no chance of going to heaven! Those American pilots who were ordered to fly unarmed aircraft into the sky all expressed despair and tragically: Even if they use a ram, they will knock down the Soviet jet!
However, this was of no use. Relying on the real-time monitoring of reconnaissance satellites and the supersonic speed of Mach 1.5, the Soviet bomber group successfully discovered the approaching US aircraft in advance, and used its high speed to easily bypass the opponent. air defense line - of course, this also caused them to fail to penetrate into the sky above certain targets. They could only find a random city to drop the atomic bomb and return home. But the Soviet pilots didn't seem to care at all about bombing the wrong target and wasting expensive atomic bombs. Instead, they seemed to think that as long as they killed Americans, it would be considered a success!
Therefore, the twenty-four Soviet nuclear bombs dropped on the territory of the United States on February 1st caused "only" more than 800,000 casualties since most of them landed on minor cities with small populations. General Arnold of the Air Force was quite proud of this and believed that the tactics were appropriate.
But the problem is that the Soviet strategic nuclear strike force will not just visit once this month - on February 4th, seven Soviet Tu-100 Flying Bears roared from the other side of the Atlantic again, using a single aircraft to fly at high altitudes. The tactics of penetration made the U.S. Air Force in a hurry, blocking this side and not caring about that side... In the end, it was not able to completely block the enemy, allowing the Soviets to successfully nukes Little Rock, Arkansas, and Cleveland, Ohio. and Kansas City, Missouri. In addition, six small towns in central America suffered nuclear explosions, with the total number of casualties exceeding 600,000.
The next day, Soviet bombers in the Pacific direction also used the same single-plane high-speed penetration tactic to carry out a further devastating blow to the West Coast of the United States. California, which was the focus of the attack, once again raised ten mushroom clouds, while the remaining two Hit Nevada.
On February 11, after seven days of rest, the Soviet Tu-100 "Flying Bear" strategic bombers were dispatched again. Together with the newly commissioned fighters, there were a total of 32 aircraft. They were still attacking from the east and west, with satellite intelligence support and single aircraft. Multi-channel supersonic penetration...but this Once a new tactic of "shuttle bombing" was adopted, the "Flying Bears" carrying nuclear bombs no longer turned around and returned after dropping the bombs, but directly traversed the entire United States. Those that took off from Japan landed in North Africa and Portugal, and those that took off from North Africa and Portugal Those taking off from Portugal landed in Japan. Therefore, this time, the nuclear explosion target of the Tu-100 "Flying Bear" went deeper into the depths of the Midwestern United States. Denver, Las Vegas, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Salt Lake City located in the desert were hit one after another. Nuclear bomb. The famous Hoover Dam also collapsed under the sweep of the nuclear bomb shock wave.
In addition to the above-mentioned large cities, Hanford in Washington State and Los Alamos in New Mexico were also hit by nuclear attacks at the same time. Hanford in Washington State is the center of the American nuclear industry as famous as Oak Ridge. The uranium refinery is located in Oak Ridge, and the plutonium refinery is concentrated in Hanford. In another dimension of time and space, Hanford produced seventy percent of all U.S. nuclear warheads during the ensuing forty years of the Cold War. Los Alamos National Laboratory is currently the only nuclear weapons research and development center and assembly plant in the United States. As of now, all atomic bombs in the United States are produced at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
It can be seen that once these two places are bombed by the Soviets, the United States' nuclear weapons production capacity will also be abolished. Moreover, due to the destruction of the nuclear blast shock wave, a large amount of nuclear fuel stored in these two places leaked, causing extremely terrifying large-scale nuclear pollution - with the flash and explosion of the atomic bomb, the radiation originally stored in the sealed container The material was directly vaporized, and then turned into white smoke and sprayed out, polluting an area of dozens of kilometers around into a radiation hell: this is highly radioactive spent fuel that can kill within three hours! Afterwards, the Geiger counters at the Hanford and Los Alamos explosion sites exploded. The surviving experts and scholars who failed to evacuate in time and the American soldiers who participated in the rescue showed early symptoms of radiation sickness that day and began to Vomiting... Their remaining lives can only be counted in hours.
In addition, Berkeley, California, as well as the nuclear physics laboratories of the University of Chicago and Columbia University in New York, were also blown to pieces by successive nuclear explosions. Countless important experimental equipment and materials were completely destroyed, and thousands of Tens of thousands of scientists and engineers involved in the Manhattan Project were also killed by Soviet atomic bombs. This is tantamount to depriving the United States of its ability to launch nuclear counterattacks in the future.
As a result, the United States will no longer be able to manufacture new atomic bombs. After the inventory in the nuclear arsenal is consumed, there will be no more - although the Oak Ridge factory in Tennessee is still intact for the time being due to the desperate interception by the US Air Force. But it can only provide uranium fuel. At most, it can only make "dirty bombs" that create nuclear pollution, but it cannot produce a real atomic bomb. And due to the collapse of the power grid, the Oak Ridge plant was also forced to suspend production soon after. ※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※