Chapter 21 Particle Storm
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At the end of the high-level meeting, it was no secret that a nuclear explosion occurred in the East China Sea.
In addition to the strategic early warning satellites of the five nuclear powers that detected nuclear explosions, several commercial remote sensing satellites also captured the nuclear explosions.
In the early morning of July 12, news related to a nuclear explosion appeared on the Internet first.
Subsequently, hundreds of TV stations around the world made reports, and some large TV stations also urgently adjusted their program arrangements and asked military experts to make comments.
Although the information obtained by public opinion is very limited, most military experts believe that the impact of the nuclear explosion on China is very limited, and will not cause serious casualties and property losses, nor will it cause damage to the second most populous city in the world (Mumbai, India, is the most populous city in the world). If it comes to the impact, the fishery output in the East China Sea will definitely shrink significantly in the next few years.
Of course, what public opinion is most concerned about is not the impact of the nuclear explosion, but what China will do.
Almost all military experts believe that China will definitely launch a strategic counterattack, at least using nuclear warheads to destroy a large Japanese city. Some military experts believe that Japan's behavior has exceeded China's bottom line. In order to punish Japan, China will raise the level of revenge and destroy several cities.
Interestingly, when making the comments, there was no official news that the nuclear explosion was related to Japan.
In other words, all public opinion is that Japan dropped the atomic bomb. Of course, this is not a big problem, because China has no reason to drop an atomic bomb at its own home. Besides, China's nuclear technology is very advanced and it has long since eliminated the first generation of nuclear weapons.
At this time, China was collecting first-hand evidence for the foreign war.
About two hours after the nuclear explosion, a special reconnaissance aircraft of the Chinese Air Force arrived over the explosion site and obtained air and dust samples.
It can be said that this is very important evidence.
During a nuclear explosion, not all nuclear raw materials will undergo chain reactions. For example, a 20,000-ton atomic bomb filled with ten kilograms of enriched uranium, only 20% of uranium participates in chain reactions. Another 80% of uranium evaporates in the high temperature generated by the explosion and then solidifies into shèxing dust. In this way, by placing shèxing dust, the attenuation rate of uranium elements can be determined when these enriched uranium were produced. Because Japan does not have uranium ore, all nuclear raw materials are imported, and all exported uranium is registered with the International Atomic Energy Agency, and its half-life rate is like a human fingerprint, so it can be determined whether it is a nuclear warhead made by Japan.
On the morning of July 12th, at 7:30 Beijing time, Du Xiaolei held a press conference at the foreign ministry.
After strongly condemning Japan's use of nuclear weapons and claiming that China will retain all means of strategic counterattacks, Du Xiaolei brought out evidence that no one could deny.
By inspecting the dust released, it has been confirmed that the uranium element that made the atomic bomb was produced by France and was exported to Japan twenty-eight years ago as nuclear industrial waste, which Japan claimed twelve years ago that the batch of nuclear waste had been used for power generation after treatment.
Based on this, Du Xiaolei made it clear that Japan has been secretly developing nuclear weapons, and launched the nuclear weapons project twelve years ago, that is, before 2023, without reporting to the International Atomic Energy Agency according to facts. In order to completely eliminate the potential threat of Japan's development of nuclear weapons, China will not end its military operations before fully achieving its goal, and reserve the right to take any military means.
From an outside point of view, this is definitely a perfect battle.
In front of conclusive evidence, let alone Japan denies it, even the United States cannot object.
To put it bluntly, China's reason for going to war against Japan has been proven, so no country can oppose China's war on insufficient reasons.
At this time, Li Pingko and Yi Yuanchao had boarded the special plane for their visit.
After ten o'clock, Huang Hanlin signed the first war mobilization order at the State Council, and then transferred to the Ministry of National Defense, where the Ministry of National Defense officially implemented the mobilization work.
The first thing to mobilize is retired soldiers under the age of 35.
According to the War Mobilization Law and the Military Service Law, all retired soldiers sign a re-service contract with the army, that is, they return to the army to serve when the state calls. They will not be incorporated into active-duty troops, but will be supplemented with reserve troops or temporarily assigned to military supplementary forces.
In fact, the military value of the first phase mobilization is not very high.
The war was still dominated by bombing, the Air Force's losses did not exceed expectations, and there was no need to supplement the pilots. The Army and the Marine Corps have not participated in the war, so there is no need to supplement it. As for the Navy, except for the Indian Ocean Fleet, the other fleets are full.
Only after the ground war begins will mobilize reserve soldiers be valuable.
Of course, military mobilization can be regarded as a political signal, that is, China has let go and will never give up halfway before achieving its goal.
The Ministry of National Defense is responsible for the mobilization, while the General Staff is responsible for the organization and training, which has nothing to do with Mu Haoyang.
Mu Haoyang is still waiting for the opportunity.
On this day, something big happened that had not received much attention.
At about 9 o'clock in Beijing time, Nanjing Purple Gold Observatory was the first to observe the sunspot explosion and immediately issued an alarm to the National Astronomical Center.
However, the National Astronomical Center did not announce the news.
Four hours later, the Russian Observatory located south of the Ural Mountain also observed the sunspot explosion, and estimated the energy released by the sunspot explosion.
Unfortunately, Russian TV stations did not report related news.
It was not until two hours later that a German observatory observed a sunspot explosion that German state television station reported.
Of course, it is not just a report, it is an alarm.
According to the TV station's report, the scale of the sunspot explosion is very large, far exceeding that of 2019, and it will definitely have the impact of disaster.
The problem is that there were no more than ten people who really understood the sunspot explosion this time.
It was not until the evening of Beijing time that several observatories in the United States observed the sunspot explosion that astronomers in Western countries suddenly woke up.
According to data observed by observatories in many countries such as Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Ireland, Iceland, the United States and Canada, the International Astronomical Association officially issued an alarm to all countries at around 11:00 p.m. Beijing time.
This huge explosion of solar energy has exceeded the scale of the sunspot explosion. Although it has not reached the level of a solar storm, it is definitely not a linear radiation, and there are also a large number of particle radiation. According to the judgment of the International Astronomical Association, this "sub-solar storm" will destroy all artificial satellites in orbit, causing most radio equipment to be paralyzed, and will also have a disaster impact on the high-voltage power systems of various countries.
No one can say how big a disaster will it cause. Because since the records of astronomical observations, the sun has never had such a large-scale energy eruption. In other words, there is no such large-scale energy eruption concentrated on the ecliptic surface and comes directly towards planets such as the earth.
More importantly, the high-energy particles erupted by the sun will arrive on Earth in two days.
On July 13, the war seemed to be a secondary issue.
On the same day, the China Astronautics Administration issued an evacuation order, urgently dispatching two launch vehicles to transport two evacuation capsules to the space station. A few hours later, the first four astronauts on the space station returned to the ground in the emergency escape capsule, three of which were nvxing.
The United States, the European Union and Russia launched operations almost at the same time.
You should know that when the particle storm arrives, not only will the space station be destroyed, but the astronauts left in the space station will also suffer from high-energy radiation.
The problem is that other countries are not well prepared.
At that time, the United States only launched one launch vehicle, and the emergency escape compartment on the space station could only evacuate twelve astronauts, and there were twenty astronauts on the US space station. Therefore, in the afternoon of the same day, the United States issued requests to China, Russia and the European Union, hoping to assist in the evacuation of astronauts.
China responded immediately, expressing its willingness to help the United States evacuate four astronauts.
The reason is very simple. The two launch vehicles launched by China were able to evacuate sixteen astronauts, while only twelve astronauts remained on the space station and four seats.
Unfortunately, the EU and Russia are clay Buddhas crossing the river.
After emergency consultations, that night, the China Astronautics Administration agreed to launch two launch vehicles in the early morning of the 14th to help the EU and Russia evacuate astronauts.
Of course, the United States, Russia and Europe pay for it.
Money is a small matter, saving astronauts is a big matter.
At this time, China, the United States, Russia and Europe seemed to have forgotten that Japan is also a major space power, and it has a space station with twelve astronauts on it.
Obviously, Japan can no longer launch the shè launch vehicle.
As for international rescue, it is even more unlikely. The United States, Russia and the European Union are asking for help from China and are unable to help Japanese astronauts at all. Even if China has the ability to launch another launch vehicle, there is no reason to lend a helping hand, and China did not have any extra evacuation cabin at that time.
Of the twelve astronauts, only four were able to return to the ground in the emergency escape cabin, and the other eight had to stay and wait for the arrival of Death.
According to the memories of the surviving Japanese astronauts, everyone was very calm at that time.
After deciding to let two NVxing astronauts enter the escape compartment, the remaining ten male astronauts used the Chou signing method to decide who left and who stayed.
The eight astronauts left behind died tragically.
The particle storm can instantly penetrate the radiation-proof shè compartment of the space station, and within a few milliseconds, the internal temperature of the space station is raised to 800 degrees Celsius. Even if the space station is vacuumed, astronauts cannot survive because the astronauts must wear completely isolated space suits, and there must be air in the space suit, which will be heated by high-energy particles. However, the remaining eight astronauts all believed that wearing space suits had a higher probability of survival. As a result, eight Japanese astronauts burned coke at the high temperature generated by the particle storm.
In fact, they could not feel the pain at all before they died.
Chapter completed!