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The cadres and soldiers of the militia company of the mountaineering team are now all wearing military medals. Many of them are so happy that they can't even close their mouths. They still look silly when they take a group photo after the award.
"This..." Liu Lianman touched the first-class merit medal on his chest, "If this was a year ago, I would never have imagined it would be like this."
Wang Fuzhou: "I didn't think of it either."
Shi Zhanchun: "Comrades, comrades in the mountaineering team, I have an idea. By the end of May, when we climb to the top of Mount Everest, each of us will wear the medal of self-defense and counterattack on our chest. How about it?"
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2 month 3 day.
2 p.m. local time in Xinjiang.
The U-2 reconnaissance plane piloted by Landon Blinken flew at an altitude of 24500 meters and cut into China.According to the previous route map, Blinken bypassed Hotan Air Force Base and the two radar stations lined up in a row, and entered the endless desert.
Flying over the desert is safer than other places.After all, it is a restricted area of life, people cannot enter, radar stations are difficult to repair, and anti-aircraft missile troops cannot enter the middle of the desert.
The U-2 that Blinken was driving was not the one that specially collected nuclear explosion data, but an ordinary camera reconnaissance plane.But ordinary reconnaissance planes now have to frequently enter China's airspace to observe changes on the ground at any time.
After China conducted two consecutive nuclear tests, the purpose of the third nuclear explosion tower in Lop Nur has become the biggest suspense in the eyes of the US military and the CIA.
The technical experts of the U.S. military and Los Amos first confirmed one thing: before the first nuclear bomb test, three nuclear explosion towers were erected in one go, indicating that the previous three nuclear bombs used for testing had been manufactured or were nearly completed. Then, taking advantage of the period when the winter wind direction has not changed significantly, three consecutive nuclear tests were carried out.
The first nuclear explosion tower tested an implosion-style uranium bomb, and the second nuclear explosion tower tested a layer cake-enhanced atomic bomb. The details of this layer cake nuclear bomb may have been analyzed by the CIA headquarters. But it hasn't been announced yet.
The use of the third nuclear explosion tower, the US military speculates that there are three possibilities:
The first is to test an implosion plutonium bomb, the configuration that will be required in both future small nuclear weapons and hydrogen bombs.
The second possibility is to test a miniaturized implosion uranium bomb that can be loaded onto a ballistic missile.The outside world has no reason to doubt China's ballistic missile technology. The rocket used to launch the navigation satellite in 1959 is a long-range ballistic missile with an estimated range of 5000 to 7000 kilometers (the size of the warhead has not yet been determined, so there is only one range).
The third possibility is to test a more mature nuclear bomb with a slightly smaller volume and use it as a nuclear aerial bomb.
That's what Blinken got from chatting with CIA intelligence officers and fellow pilots before takeoff.In any case, China will conduct three consecutive nuclear tests in a short period of time. This situation shows that China is very determined to advance its nuclear weapons program—the sunlight outside the cockpit is very strong.
Fatigue from the long flight and the mess of things going through his head, it took Blinken a few seconds to figure out what had happened.On the left front of U-2, at a distance of more than 100 kilometers, a huge, bright white hemisphere appeared on the ground and rose slowly. The sun hanging in the sky was not as bright as it.
"Oh my God!"
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Zhang Yunyu pressed the detonation button on the console for the third time, and the dozen or so people in the main control room accepted the baptism of strong light without any suspense, but this time the strong light was much more dazzling than Qiongqi and Huntun.
Everyone is prepared for the possibility of 110 million tons of equivalent, not looking at the direction of the nuclear explosion, wearing special sunglasses... But now the ground, walls, and people in the main control room... are all shrouded in white light .
The white light weakened enough for people to observe, and everyone crowded to the window, looking in the direction of Tower 2.
The white, glowing hemisphere is still on the ground. Although a few seconds have passed, the big fireball is still in the white-light color temperature range. It is still dazzling when viewed with sunglasses.Compared with it, the sun hanging in the sky is a small one.
"Old Qian, the diameter of the fireball this time...?" Tang Hua asked Qian Sanqiang.
Qian Sanqiang: "Don't ask me, I forgot about it."
The surface of the fireball churned, traces of patterns swam on the surface of the fireball, and sometimes even made the fireball grow a horn, as if the fireball was endowed with life, it was not a mass of ultra-high-temperature plasma, but a monster was bred mass of matter.
Why are there these on the surface of the fireball?Why are they moving like crazy?Tang Hua thought, he must ask Yu Min when he is free.
Ten seconds before the detonation of Wuwu, the column of smoke pulled out by a row of small smoke-pull rockets launched into the sky tilted, showing that the shock wave had spread here.
As the shock wave spreads, the fireball rises.Above the fireball, another white halo appeared—not caused by the flattening of the fireball, but by the atmosphere being roasted by the nuclear explosion.
"Old money! Did you put scraps of paper on the table?" Tang Hua asked loudly again.
"Leave it alone! Of course I won't forget this!"
Based on the time calculated from the distance from the No. [-] Tower, everyone was counting down the seconds.When the shock wave reached the main control room, Qian Sanqiang watched helplessly that the table he had placed outside the house for stacking scraps of paper was overturned.
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Blinken was the only foreign observer when the "梼杌" exploded.
He couldn't send out a radio, so no one shared his feeling of watching the nuclear bomb explode. Blinken could only fly around Lop Nur, while trying to use the side-scan camera to capture the fireball and mushroom cloud after the nuclear bomb exploded.
Blinken saw the ball of fire change from a flash of light to a glowing white orb that rose and turned yellow, then reddish yellow, then black reddish.
The shock wave struck, and U-2 shook violently. Although Blinken tried his best to control the aircraft, U-2 still dropped 300 meters in altitude.
Now, even a layman in nuclear physics, Blinken knows that the nuclear bomb tested is not a simple thing.
Because - the height of the mushroom cloud has exceeded the flight height of U-2.He had to look up now to see the top of the mushroom cloud.
The mushroom cloud flew over 24 kilometers!And it's far from stopping the rise.
Blinken knew that when the "Castle Bravo" exploded, the mushroom cloud rose to a height of 40 kilometers, and finally when the mushroom cloud turned into a mass of white mushrooms and gradually dissipated, some people even thought that the hydrogen bomb went all the way into space—4, 50 kilometers in fact Not space, but to be honest, many school laboratories make "vacuum containers" with air residues higher than the density of the atmosphere at this altitude.
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Lop Nur main control station, after the shock wave, people walked out of the semi-underground main control room and came to the open space to look into the distance.
"When will the rough equivalent test of the monitoring station come out?" Qian Sanqiang asked.
Zhang Yunyu: "Come on, there are still three to five minutes."
The dark red mushroom cloud is still rolling up, and the dust, silt, and gravel on the ground are constantly being rolled into the sky.
The giant umbrella of the mushroom cloud has formed. Due to the absorption of a large amount of dirt and dust, it is an umbrella with black edges, blocking the sun.Now under the explosion point, on the ground with a radius of 5 kilometers, the sky should be black.
"The rough test result! 91 plus or minus 1500 tons!" In the main control room, Wang Ganchang, who had been on duty all the time, poked his head out and shouted.
Chapter 8, Missile test firing to grab the bag
After the hydrogen bomb exploded, the first to have adverse reactions were Mikoyan, the first vice chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, and Bervushin, the minister of the medium-sized machinery manufacturing industry.The two quickly found a secret place to meet, trying to figure out what was going on.
"Comrade Bervushin, are you sure that there were no hydrogen bomb experts in the Black Sea Sanatorium?" Mikoyan asked.
"Very sure. Although Academician Kurchatov is responsible for managing and controlling the hydrogen bomb project, he does not master the secrets of the hydrogen bomb. Except for Kurchatov, other physicists have not even been exposed to the hydrogen bomb project. It can even be said that as long as If Sakharov didn't show up in the nursing home, Tang Hua wouldn't get the secret of the hydrogen bomb."
Bervushin answered Mikoyan in a very positive tone.
Mikoyan: "That's strange, why did the Chinese master the hydrogen bomb so quickly."
Bervushin: "I heard from Kurchatov that the atomic bomb plan that the Chinese came up with in early 1958 had an almost completely correct plan that did not need to be revised. They took so long to test the atomic bomb, just waiting Nuclear plants and reactors only produce raw materials. It is entirely possible for them to do research on the hydrogen bomb while waiting for the nuclear plant to operate and produce.”
Mikoyan: "Kurchatov also told me that the secret of hydrogen bomb design can confuse most countries in the world. The atomic bomb is a simple engineering design with linear thinking, while the hydrogen bomb is a subversion that violates conventional thinking. sexual design."
"I'm not sure about this," Bervushin said. "It seems that Tang Hua is the actual general manager and coordinator of China's nuclear program. Maybe it is related to Tang Hua that China's hydrogen bomb came out so soon."
Mikoyan was speechless for a moment.
"I don't care about the impact of China's hydrogen bomb, as long as I can confirm [-]% in the final investigation that the Black Sea Sanatorium has nothing to do with China's hydrogen bomb, that's fine." After thinking about it, Mikoyan said another sentence.