Chapter 55: In addition to red mercury, there is also the rod of God

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Yanayev, who sat down at the negotiating table again, appeared much calmer than before, which made Bush feel a little uneasy. And when Yanayev looked at Bush, he was completely like a lion fighting a rabbit, standing tall. The Soviet Union, which planted the red mercury hoax, had a full say on the issue of small nuclear weapons, and any draconian treaty proposed by the United States could be rejected, of course, only if they had not yet discovered that the red mercury bomb was a hoax.

"The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Miniaturized Nuclear Weapons, whereby States Parties possessing miniaturized nuclear weapons undertake not to transfer, directly or indirectly, to any recipient State miniaturized nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices or control over such weapons or explosive devices; It does not in any way assist, encourage or induce any non-nuclear-weapon State to manufacture or otherwise acquire nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices or control over such weapons or explosive devices. ”

"Moreover, the number of miniaturized nuclear weapons possessed by neither the United States nor the Soviet Union can exceed 50, and miniaturized nuclear weapons will not be the first to be used externally when war breaks out."

If the first article is an official statement, then the second article is the real purpose of the United States, which deliberately obscures the concept of no more than 50 nuclear weapons, and does not explain the actual limitation of the power of nuclear weapons and the real number, so that after the United States develops weapons that are also comparable to red mercury nuclear bombs, it can bypass these cumbersome regulations. And the time of the outbreak of war? No kidding, besides the Soviet Union, there are countries other than the Soviet Union that can make the United States use nuclear weapons.

What if it was a war between the United States and the Soviet Union? That is when humanity is destroyed.

Listening to the translation's narrative as cold and emotionless as these nuclear weapons, Yanayev couldn't help but interrupt the other party's rambling speech and asked directly, "I think the number of fifty is too harsh, at least it should be maintained at a maximum of three hundred, isn't it?" After all, nuclear weapons are an important weapon for the defense of a country, and we cannot accept this amount. ”

Yanayev deliberately showed that the Soviet Union possessed a certain number of suitcase nuclear weapons in order to make the United States make a wrong judgment on the number and type of Soviet nuclear weapons depot. It is more likely to act as a deceptive deterrent.

"You mean three hundred? Wouldn't that be too much...... A little? Bush swallowed his saliva, 300 nuclear weapons, even if the number of red mercury nuclear bombs in the Soviet Union was reduced by half from the figure reported by Yanayev, the remaining 150 nuclear weapons would be enough to make a devastating big bang in all the 50 states of the United States. But Bush would not have imagined that in fact Yanayev did not have a single red mercury nuclear bomb in his hands.

"President Bush, we don't agree with what you say." Yanayev deliberately frowned, and his tone became a little cold, "If you had this kind of weapon of destruction that could counterbalance any country, would you want them to be restricted by a treaty that would not even allow you to make such weapons?" I don't think you'll say yes, just as I wouldn't say yes to fifty now. ”

"So, you'd better hurry up and find a counterweight to miniaturized nuclear weapons." Yanayev decided to guide the United States on the wrong path, and he pretended not to care, saying, "Unless you can speed up the development of the 'Scepter of God' outer space strike weapon, once the balance is broken, our steel torrent will plant the red flag all over Europe." ”

"How did you know about Project God's Staff?" Bush was slightly stunned, because Star Wars was a strategic propaganda plan that had always been fraudulent, and the so-called scepter of God was nothing but a conjecture strike plan imagined by the Americans, and it was extremely difficult to really implement it. The degree of unreliability is as absurd as the Soviets tried to detonate a nuclear bomb on the surface of the moon.

"Of course I know that the plan you Americans have devised is nothing more than a ridiculous hoax, and the Soviets have the same plan for the Scepter of God, but it is much more reliable than you use tungsten rods. We have deployed tactical nuclear strike warheads in near-earth orbit, which can clearly tell you that it is aimed at turning the tide in the struggle for hegemony. ”

Yanayev almost unfolded a non-existent plan and disfigurement, plus the previous red mercury hoax, enough to combine a sharp blade that did not exist in the first place, hanging above the head of the bald eagle, while the red polar bear carried the thread hanging from the blade, as long as the finger was easily opened, the bald eagle would surely die.

I don't know how Bush, who was sitting across from him, had a collapsed mind when he heard the news, and he always thought that the United States was already ahead of the Soviet Union in science and technology, and only then did he finally find that the other side's technology tree had always been above him. Before, they were complacent and thought that they finally had a chance to punish the Soviets and their allies.

Of course, Bush is skeptical, and they have confirmed the information with one hand, but it is difficult to say whether there is such a superweapon based on Yanayev's words and the economic difficulties of the Soviet Union in recent years. His first reaction was whether Yanayev was threatening himself with the panic caused by red mercury.

As long as the United States is entangled in whether the Soviet Union has these unconventional weapons, even if it does not, it will try by all means to increase funds to develop similar weapons, and the result of the arms race is that the two sides will endlessly develop some weapons that seem to be very powerful but do not actually have much effect. For example, the 138 model with two turrets similar to the Apocalypse Tank, and the M388 nuclear rocket with a shorter range than the explosion range.

Sometimes thinking too many people is not a good thing after all.

Eventually, Bush, who was a little distracted, agreed to Yanayev's request, but the number of 300 was sharply reduced to 215 after bargaining. It also demanded that the equipment of the Smolensk plant must be dismantled by May next year, and the production of red mercury weapons can no longer be carried out.

Yanayev acceded to Bush's request, but he also demanded that when the United States reached its upper limit, it must never produce such weapons, as the Soviet Union did. Devoted to the study of the power of small nuclear weapons, the Americans are naturally well aware of this so-called treaty loophole, and as long as the weapons they produce crush the number of the other side in terms of power, it does not matter if there are fewer of them.

It was imperative that the United States also need to have its own suitcase nuclear bomb to deal with the Soviet threat. Bush was eager to immediately end the meeting and return to the White House to persuade Congress to approve the approval of the new military weapons research and development funds.

As the meeting was about to end, the two sides signed their names on the document, and then each shook hands with ulterior caution, allowing reporters to photograph the historic moment. The contrasting photographs of Bush, who looked a little tired, and Yanayev, who were in high spirits, made newspaper headlines. People all over the world are watching the signing of this treaty on the non-proliferation of miniaturized nuclear weapons. But there are also a small group of intelligence analysts who have analyzed some troubling answers from Bush's tired demeanor.

The contest between the free world and the communist camp in the West has broken the benchmark of equilibrium.