At first, Washington was still "fantasizing" that the three atomic bombs transported to Atura Island had exploded because of "poor care". However, the relevant science immediately assured the president that all the atomic bombs sent to Atura Island were detonated. It is in a dismantled state, and it is absolutely impossible to explode before being assembled.
This guarantee shattered the president¡¯s last self-deceptive illusion.
By two o'clock in the afternoon, the most worrying thing was finally confirmed. In the past two hours, the guard warships traveling outside Atura Island had received intermittently telegrams from the Third Fleet stationed on the island, claiming that they had been attacked by two atomic bombs. During the communication process, the alert warship saw a new "sun" rising in the direction of Atura Island, and then the communication there was withdrawn and terminated.
Then, as communications became smoother, more and more "bad news" continued to flow from the Pacific to Washington. "What happened on Atura Island?" This mystery was quickly solved.
¡°Atura Island suffered at least four nuclear strikes!¡±
"The guard ship west of Atura Island discovered a large number of four-round heavy bombardment flying towards the island before the nuclear explosion."
¡°After dawn at four o¡¯clock local time, radar signals showed that a large number of flying objects were flying towards Atura Island in the direction of the Soviet Union.¡±
"The outer guard fleet was attacked by a large number of carrier-based aircraft painted with British and Japanese markings, and the fleet suffered heavy losses."
Information from all aspects was continuously gathered together, and like a puzzle piece, the entire incident was slowly restored.
By dinner time in the evening, a destroyer that had narrowly escaped death finally sent the most brutal live battle report to Washington after repairing the radio station on the ship.
"Atura Island was attacked by atomic weapons from the Eurasian coalition forces. The other side dropped four atomic bombs on the island one after another! Then a large number of heavy bombers were sent out to carry "trackable bomb sheets" to attack the fleet parked there. The troops stationed on the island The first, second, third and seventh fleets were basically wiped out.
When I received this telegram, it was already dinner time. But the people in the President's Office in the White House had no appetite for food at this time.
Tomorrow is the National Day of the United States, and President Dewey is scheduled to hold an unprecedented grand military parade in Washington. Follow the script he prepared. There is a well-planned climax script in this military parade: three "atomic bomb samples" will be loaded on three large open-top trucks and drive majestically through the streets in front of the White House. Let the atomic bomb come out into the open. By flexing its "nuclear muscles" to the whole world, it reveals the illustrious martial arts of the United States of America.
However, the day before the National Day military parade started (note: due to the time difference, Atura Island time is fifteen hours earlier than Washington time) the Eurasian coalition forces took action, and the result of annihilating four American fleets gave him this A slap in the face from the president.
When he took over as president in 1943, succeeding President Willkie who died of heart disease, Dewey thought that no American president could be more unfortunate than his predecessor. Only now did he realize that. It turns out I was wrong.
During this period, President Dewey summoned the ambassadors of Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union to the United States to question the matter. However, the ambassadors of the three countries had received official notices before, and the replies were all consistent: the war on Atura Island was purely In the "fierce self-defense" action, Britain, Germany and the Soviet Union did not want to have a fierce conflict with the United States.
At that time, President Dewey had the urge to pick up the coffee cup on the table and hit someone.
So far, what happened on Atura Island has been kept secret from the people and the National Assembly, and has not been revealed yet. But paper can't stop the fire. By tomorrow's Independence Day at the latest, this matter will be known to the whole country.
When the time comes. The United States of America will face an extremely difficult choice: whether to declare war on the great powers of the Old World.
Although the overall industrial strength of the United States is equivalent to that of the United Kingdom, Germany, the Soviet Union, China, and Japan combined, its shipbuilding capabilities are even higher than those of them. But the total population of these countries is several times that of the United States.
However, President Dewey knew very well that the United States, which did not have an advantage in population and military resources, could only maintain its advantage at sea and could not win a land war at all. After it became clear that the Old World had nuclear weapons, it became impossible for the United States of America to win this war.
Unlike the historically declare warfare in Japan, once the face is officially launched, it is the war of the United States of the United States to the old continent. Just thinking about this situation is scary.
On the night before the Fourth of July, the lights in the Office of the President in Washington were all on. President Dewey and the chattermen discussed it repeatedly. Once a full-scale war breaks out with the Old Continent, the situation could not be worse. Especially if the opponent also possesses a similar "world-destroying weapon"Down.
"This will be a war with no end in sight, and it may even be a war that will destroy everything!"
That night, more than one person said this in front of President Dewey.
At nine o'clock in the evening, the ambassadors of the Soviet Union, Germany, the United Kingdom, and China entered the White House together and submitted another "truce request" to President Dewey.
The armistice demands put forward by the four countries are still much the same as before, requiring the United States to completely withdraw from Asia and stop interfering in Asian affairs.
"You guys raised me by female cousins!"
Although in the first twenty minutes of meeting these people, even President Dewey himself was having a headache because the United States would be forced to go to war with "the whole world", but after seeing the scene where the ambassadors of the four countries came together to put pressure on the United States, At this time, the angry President Dewey still roared uncontrollably, and then he wanted to order the guards to come over and carry out the four "rogue ambassadors from the Old World" in groups of two. Fortunately, he was stopped by the curtain chatter.
Situ Qiaoxing, a Chinese diplomat stationed in the United States, witnessed the scene when the U.S. president lost his temper and went berserk. When he mentioned the incident in his memoirs many years later, he wrote: ¡°The expression on the U.S. president¡¯s face at that time reminded me of the late Qing Dynasty. At the end of the year, when the Eight-Power Allied Forces entered Beijing and forced the Qing government to sign the "Xinchou Treaty", the shame and anger on President Dewey's face gave me an indescribable pleasure. "
At that time, the ambassadors of the four countries not only sent an old-fashioned "peace request", but also submitted a warning: warning the U.S. government not to take the opportunity to attack Canada, otherwise the coalition forces will not be excluded. The possibility of being "forced" to use atomic bombs in defensive warfare.
At that time, the British ambassador fiercely revealed the truth to President Dewey: "The British Empire with its divine envoys is the country truly favored by God. You made that 20,000-ton gadget in Alamogordo We already had more than 80,000 tons of weapons before."
At this time, Britain also had an atomic bomb. This atomic bomb was secretly manufactured by Britain and Germany. Three months ago, Germany transferred a complete set of atomic bomb manufacturing blueprints and related data to the UK, and then the British mixed the nuclear materials they had with some of Germany's nuclear bombs for processing. Soon he built his first atomic bomb.
In the process, Hannah made a huge profit by transferring nuclear technology to Britain. After the United Kingdom obtained a complete set of ready-made nuclear technology "cheaply", it also had the confidence to stand up and talk to the United States.
The United States, alone in North America, is protected by the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and is almost not threatened by the Old World, but it is in the north of the United States. There is also a country called Canada, which was still in the Commonwealth at this time.
After the door to the nuclear age was opened, President Dewey waved the nuclear stick to threaten the whole world. When his "neighbors" also threatened him with the nuclear stick, President Dewey discovered that the atomic bomb was sometimes abominable. of a thing.
President Dewey angrily said to the British envoy: "The aircraft of the United States of America will shoot down any bomber that dares to enter the airspace of the United States!"
"What if that thing is already in the belly of the United States?"
As soon as he finished speaking, President Dewey¡¯s expression suddenly changed.
At this time, the German envoy smiled and motioned to the presidential secretary in the room to turn on the radio.
The era entered the 1930s, with the popularity of radio broadcasting. For the average American, after dinner, they turn on the radio and listen to the evening broadcast of the local radio station. It has become an indispensable part of life.
In the past few years, with the influx of a large number of cheap and lightweight German-made transistor radios into the United States, car-mounted crystal radios have become an essential part of even taxis walking on the street, let alone ordinary residents.
When President Dewey was receiving the Eurasian ambassadors and enduring the nuclear threats raised by his opponents face to face, the "Voice of the City Radio" program in various places started broadcasting at nine o'clock every day.
Between half past nine and ten o'clock, residents in many cities in the United States are used to turning on the radio today. Those old listeners in front of the radio suddenly felt something was wrong with the host's voice coming from the radio.
"Listener friends. I have in my hand an extended telegram that I just received from the United Kingdom. The content of the telegram is shocking. The Eurasian coalition forces led by the United Kingdom, Germany, the Soviet Union, China, and Japan, at Atura Island local time, At three o'clock in the morning on July 4th, that is, at 12 o'clock on July 3rd, US time, a nuclear strike was carried out on Atura. A radio station from the United Kingdom announced that the coalition forces had dropped a total number of nuclear weapons on Atura Island. The entire atomic bomb, well, is an "enhanced atomic bomb", its explosion yield is equivalent to the power of the explosion of 350,000 tons of TNT explosives.?The First, Second, Third, and Seventh Pacific Fleets of the United States have been completely wiped out in this nuclear explosion! "
Today, with the popularization of radio communication technology, "headline news" breaking out in Europe is often transmitted to the United States across the ocean via telegraph in a few minutes. At this sensitive time when the Pacific Fleet suffered a nuclear attack, the upper echelons of the Eurasian Allied Forces did not want to wait for the news to be "slowly" spread to the United States. Instead, they used all means to announce it to the world as quickly as possible.
Radio stations across the United States received telegrams with similar content from Europe almost at the same time. Naturally, this was deliberately arranged by Britain and Germany in advance. Here, Britain and Germany have just announced good news to the people across the country on the radio. Before listeners in both countries could digest the news, officials who had been waiting at the telegraph office immediately sent "urgent" telegrams to major American news media and radio stations.
During the war, although the U.S. government implemented strict controls on public opinion propaganda, the unscrupulous media would fight against the people in the Information Management Office to get out such a big news, even if they risked their lives. This is also true. in this way.
And residents in Detroit, New York, Houston, and Philadelphia also heard big reports of "special additions" and "special excitement."
"From the urgent telegrams from Europe, we learned that the British and German governments claimed that they had built the atomic bomb a year ago, earlier than the United States. Not only that, they had built it a few months ago , they secretly smuggled several special "little gifts" into the United States, and they are now stored in these cities in the United States. "
¡°Detroit, New York, Houston, Philadelphia, and Washington!¡±
When he said this, the radio host¡¯s voice was trembling.
Listening to the voice coming from the radio, President Dewey said with a livid face: "How dare you use nuclear bombs on the soil of the United States of America?"
The German ambassador said from the side: "This is not a nuclear bomb, it is a bomb! We did not send that thing to the United States. What we sent over was just a demonstration bomb without charge."
As he spoke, he took out a piece of paper and placed it in front of President Dewey.
¡°This is where we store these little gifts, you can send someone to check them out!¡±
President Dewey took the note with a livid face, and then ordered the secretary next to him to deal with the matter urgently.
Then he asked the other party: "What do you want to say?"
"Peace!"
The four ambassadors in front of them said in unison.
"We are just trying to prove one thing to the president through this matter. The Pacific and Atlantic Oceans have not made the United States safer. If Mr. President still wants to continue to use atomic bombs in the war, we will have to use atomic bombs like today. Then. This war will become a game of destruction over who can build more and stronger atomic bombs, and neither you nor we, the president, want to see such a result. "
The Soviet ambassador on the side took out a stack of photos from his arms and placed them in front of President Dewey: "This is the "boy" that our divers salvaged from the sea near Hokkaido three months ago after the nuclear explosion in Hokkaido. The photo. After our experts saw the "boy", they thought that I would tell their colleagues in your country that your nuclear explosion technology is too backward, so they reprocessed this thing."
When the ambassadors of the four countries left together with a proud mood, the angry President Dewey smashed the coffee cup on the table. This was the second coffee cup he smashed today. (To be continued)