Chapter 580 Technician Vanunu
Welcome to:. Underground nuclear test refers to putting the designed nuclear device (i.e., nuclear warhead) into a certain depth of underground to verify whether the test meets the requirements, verify whether the theoretical calculation and engineering design are correct, so as to improve the design and provide a scientific basis for production.
Nuclear explosions are routinely carried out on the ground. Although the mushroom clouds produced by the explosion are very spectacular, as the explosion occurs, nuclear radiation will spread everywhere and have an impact on the environment. Therefore, ground nuclear tests are selected in deserts and other places, away from cities. For Iraq, the Hijara Desert is originally an ideal site for Iraq's nuclear tests. However, if a nuclear explosion occurs there, the United States and the Soviet Union will know it in a few minutes. Then, the whole world will know it. What Iraq faces is probably the anger of the whole world and the sanctions that follow.
Nuclear weapons are a very magical thing. A country without nuclear weapons and ambitions is racking its brains to get into the nuclear weapons club. Even if it is sanctioned or condemned, it is still willing to do so. Although it will be sad in the first few years of the explosion, as long as it survives and the whole world already knows it, it will be calm again. What should it do? And countries with nuclear weapons will desperately restrict these countries from developing nuclear weapons, which is sanctions and intimidation, which is to limit your development. This thing is Pandora's box and a demon. You cannot have it!
The two poles are seriously opposed, so all countries that want to develop nuclear weapons are developing quietly.
Kusai originally planned to detonate nuclear weapons if the Soviet Union invaded eastern Iran on a large scale. The difference between a small country and a big country is that a big country has nuclear weapons for various reasons. Although it has nuclear weapons, it is definitely not dare to use them easily because of checks and balances between them. As long as a small country is anxious, it will never be stingy when it is time to use it. There is a saying in China that is that barefoot is not afraid of wearing shoes.
Iraq is a small country, a big Soviet power. It is not strong to fight against their mechanized forces, but Iraq will show enough will. If the Soviet Union really dares to dispatch troops, then Iraq will never be stingy with throwing nuclear bombs on their heads. Moreover, it is the OTP-23 missiles they provide.
However, in that case, Iraq will have a hard time in the future. Although at the beginning, the United States will not impose sanctions on Iraq for the purpose of fighting against the Soviet Union. However, as long as it goes by, Iraq will definitely be sanctioned miserably by the United States.
Now that the threat has disappeared, Kusai knows that accordingly, his policies have to change accordingly, from demonstrative detonation of nuclear bombs to proceed quietly, and he will never admit it.
If you want to conduct nuclear tests underground, then the Hijara Desert is absolutely not possible, because in the desert, you cannot dig a pit deep enough, and dig tunnels in the desert. That is impossible, only in the mountains. And in the mountains, there are two places, either in northern Iraq or western Iran.
Kusai turned his attention to the Bakhtaran province in western Iran, where copper mines have been discovered and mining is underway. Heavy trucks imported from Austria and Germany are transporting stones from the surface of the copper mine from there day and night. Using this as a cover, one excavation is carried out around the mine at the same time to create a hole that is sufficient for nuclear tests.
After receiving the order from Kusai, the engineers in charge of the nuclear weapons program started the design again. They originally carried out the ground nuclear test, but now they have changed to underground nuclear tests. Then, there are still many data that need to be recalculated. The depth of the hole required for the experiment and the instruments needed for the experiment need to be redesigned, which will have to be delayed by several months.
Kusai didn't know that another country, Israel, its nuclear program, had also entered a critical moment.
In the northern city of Negev, Israel, Dimona. The city built in 1955 is 47 kilometers east of Seedum, the southwest coast of the Dead Sea, with a population of 28,000. This city is not famous in Israel, but countless eyes quietly pay attention to it because it is the only nuclear reactor in Israel.
The Dimona Reactor is a nuclear test reactor that Israel began to build in the 1950s. Its power is only 75 megawatts. Therefore, this nuclear reactor located on the edge of the African plate and in the desert is not a nuclear reactor that provides electricity at all. To the outside world, this is an experimental reactor that Israel peacefully studies nuclear energy.
Only the top leaders of Israel know that this reactor has been providing them with nuclear raw materials, and Israel's nuclear plan started here.
Israel has never signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which means that their nuclear reactor will not be subject to the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency. In this way, everything here is only controlled by Israel itself.
If Israel wants to become a big power, it must have nuclear weapons!
Israel has established a series of secret research institutions next to the Dimona nuclear reactor. Here, Israel's nuclear weapons experts have been working silently for the sake of Israel's strength. In the eyes of hostile forces, their nuclear weapons are a powerful umbrella to protect the Jews!
However, they did not know that Modike Vannu, a technician who was working here, was in a very bad mood.
Vannu was born in 1954 in a Jewish family in Morocco. In the early 1960s, his family moved to Israel and settled in Israel since then. Infected by the authorities, Vannu resolutely joined the army. After working as an engineer for several years, Vannu retired and went to Tel Aviv University to study, but was dropped out of school because he failed the physics exam. In early 1977, Vannu got a job opportunity and worked as a technician in the Dimona nuclear engineering in the Negf Desert.
After he came, he realized that this was a base for Israel to study nuclear weapons! This job was a secret, and he and other newcomers were asked to sign a confidentiality oath. It stipulated that those who leaked secrets would be sentenced to 15 years in prison. Originally, he was also a staunch Zionist, and he felt extremely honored to be able to participate in Israel's nuclear weapons development plan. He was full of pride and worked extremely hard, and stood out among the newcomers.
However, Vannu's thoughts are slowly changing. Israel's current area is much larger than the area of the United Nations resolution at the time, while Palestinians are displaced. Why can't both sides live in peace?
Especially, the previous year, Israel could ignore the United Nations resolution and blatantly invade Lebanon, which caused a fundamental change in his thinking and instead opposed Israel's foreign troops. He believed that such behavior was a naked invasion. Israel needs to be strong, but it must not be based on the barbaric invasion of foreign countries!
Just a few days ago, Vannu participated in a campaign to release a soldier who was imprisoned for refusing to serve in the occupied Arab territory. He felt that the soldier was very correct in doing so, but was imprisoned by the government for unreasonable imprisonment and felt even more unreasonable about the government's barbarity. However, after returning from the march, Vannu received a warning from the base leader to restrain him. This warning was very serious.
Vannu's mood began to become extremely uneven. He was full of disgust for the work he was doing now. The work he was doing now would make the government more confident in invading foreign countries! Everything he was doing now was wrong.
The angry Vannu began an action that he had not considered the consequences. He quietly brought it into the camera at work. When he was on night shift and no one paid attention, he began to photograph his working environment, the machines he operated, and centrifuges that enriched uranium.
The leaders of the Dimona nuclear project did not pay much attention to Vannu, because Vannu's hard work in the past few years left a good impression on them. They thought that Vannu was only temporarily affected by bad emotions and did not supervise him. They did not know that Vannu was doing something that would make them doomed. This person was the sinner of Israel!
The Dimona nuclear project has now reached the most critical point. They will detonate Israel's first nuclear weapon within two months and choose the underground nuclear test method. Few people are particularly concerned about the matter of that little technician.
At this time, in the United States, a special meeting was being held, with 500 formal representatives from 20 countries, including representatives of the Soviet Union. Among them were scientists, diplomatic envoys and officials from various countries, as well as government officials, educators, environmental issues experts, business leaders, foreign policy makers and military figures. Discuss a new theory proposed by the United States: Nuclear Winter.
"In a nuclear war of 5 billion tons of equivalents, 960 million tons of dust and 225 million tons of black smoke can be lifted into the air, covering the sky, the sunlight shot towards the earth is absorbed by these black smoke particles and becomes hot. The hot black smoke produces an upward airflow, pushing the black particles to the 30-kilometer-high strata, destroying the ozone layer. In this way, the entire earth will become a dark gray world, and the sky will no longer be clear.
, Thick clouds of smoke cover the sky and never disperse all day long, the sunshine on land is no longer visible, it is difficult to distinguish between day and night, the temperature drops sharply, the green vegetation is frozen to death, the ocean rivers are frozen, the earth's ecology is severely damaged, and human living conditions are destroyed." Carl Sagan, an astronomer at Cornell University in the United States, proposed his theory to them: in the nuclear war, without a winner, the entire earth will face the extinction of life!
Chapter completed!