I Became Stalin chapter 271

I became Stalin chapter 271

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“Hoo… Did you say that?”

The United States communicated MacArthur’s intentions through informal diplomatic lines. Diplomatic investigations were mobilized to say something good and good, but in the end, it was ‘Fuck it up’.

Still, the American offensive capabilities were superior, and the Soviet anti-aircraft defenses were poor. There was no certainty that the Soviet Union would be able to stop all of the bombers loaded with nuclear bombs at high altitudes by the United States. Especially when flying from an outpost like the UK or Iceland.

MacArthur did not hesitate to show hostility because he was convinced that even if the Soviet Union launched a preemptive nuclear attack on the United States, it would not perish alone, but would perish together.

Even a secret U.S. Air Force report judged this.

[The Soviet Union’s ability to deliver nuclear missiles is limited even when evaluated at its maximum, and if it reduces its ability to launch nuclear missiles through a preemptive strike or starts a war at the cost of damage, it is highly likely to win.]

“You’re crazy, you’re crazy right.”

“Comrade General Secretary, these fascist war-maniacs do not seem to have any will for peace.”

In other words, it is said that ‘even if you fight with a few nuclear missiles, you can win’. The U.S. intelligence department did not think much about the possibility of human extinction through nuclear war, and planned the operation on the premise that they would destroy the Soviet Union together at the expense of tens of millions of their own citizens.

The Air Force report implied that. If you build an ‘ark’ inside Washington, a secret bunker that can withstand a nuclear attack, and launch heavy bombers from air bases in Britain, Spain, and southern Italy, you can destroy all major Soviet cities!

In return, large cities in the eastern United States will be in ruins, but what? There were many industrial facilities in the West, and the US Air Force evaluated that the strong industrial power of the United States could maintain the world’s number one rank after the nuclear war.

Allies will also be devastated by the Soviet nuclear retaliation. The Soviet Union will not leave the US allies flying in with nuclear bombers, and under the pretext of doing so, the Soviet allies can also do nuclear bombing!

Again, they were really crazy people. What would Britain or Spain say when they saw this?

He uses his allies as meat shields to exhaust the Soviet nuclear counterattack capability, and dreams of occupying the post-apocalyptic world alone. Since European countries have small territories, the damage caused by nuclear bombardment is large, but the best part was that the United States was evaluated as “worth it”.

“Do you know who the greatest enemy of the US government is?”

“Yes?”

“It’s the American people. Ha ha ha ha ha!”

But the biggest obstacle to MacArthur’s ambitious plan was the people. Wouldn’t the people to be destroyed would like to know that Washington’s dignitaries could order them to build bunkers to hide in and wage wars to destroy each other?

The Vietnam war, the Afghan war, the Iraq war, and the war in actual history were ended by the will of the people. This was also the reason MacArthur didn’t openly tell him to fuck him in the end. If you openly refuse, you are afraid of a backlash from public opinion.

Assuming his term and re-election, he will probably come up with a “final solution” within six years.

“You know he won’t be as long as Roosevelt before he can be president. We will find a solution in it. Isn’t the reason why we refused to reduce nuclear power because we have already invested too much?”

As soon as MacArthur came to power, he poured an astronomical budget into armaments. And a significant part of it was devoted to the enhancement of nuclear forces. There is no nuclear power plant, but there are hundreds of nuclear bombs, and it has become a contradiction.

The Soviet Union, on the other hand, devoted almost all of its finances to economic development. As the US did not send troops directly to the world to wage war, the size of the military was reduced, and hundreds of nuclear bombs were not stocked like the US.

Most of the enriched uranium went to power plants, not bombs, and nuclear power now accounts for about 15% of Soviet electricity production.

As a result, the economic power gap between the United States and the Soviet Union was rapidly narrowed. So MacArthur’s shit line is bound to burn. Maybe, he didn’t know that he was going to start a nuclear war really quickly and permanently defeat the Soviet Union.

“Isn’t the development of nuclear submarines still a long way off?”

“That’s right, Comrade Secretary General. But if you give me a little more time and budget… .”

Well, it wasn’t the nuclear submarine itself that mattered.

“Is nuclear submarines important? It matters that they believe it exists.”

* * *

“… Is this report true?”

Another shocking news arrived for OSS, who was shocked by the shock of the Sputnik launch, to be precise, that he was completely unaware of it while it was being launched.

I asked the spies who had infiltrated the Soviet Union for a while if they had anything to ask, and they did ask, but the content was very intense.

“Yeah, I couldn’t even steal the specific blueprints, but… .”

“Ha, ha, these guys are inferior? How crazy do you have to be to say something like that?”

The Soviet Ordnance Bureau has already succeeded in developing something more practical and powerful than a nuclear missile that crosses the continent.

“A submarine that fires nuclear missiles! Damn, how are you supposed to deal with this!”

An urgent report by the spies stated that the Soviet Union had already secretly commissioned nuclear-powered submarines from bases in the Barents Sea.

The use of extremely dense nuclear energy rather than diesel fuel could theoretically increase the submersible range of a submarine indefinitely. The report also talked about that point, and said that the new Soviet nuclear submarine, Nautilus, had completed a trial round the world.

OSS Director Walter Smith took a deep breath.

If the Soviet Union had really planned and launched a preemptive strike, the United States would have been beaten without knowing where the nuclear bomb had come from. If the nuclear submarine’s long-distance capability was sufficient, it could depart from the Barents Sea, break through the British border, and suddenly appear in the waters off the coast of the United States.

No matter how powerful the U.S. military was, it was unable to monitor the sea 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. If a Soviet submarine launched a cruise missile in the dark, the United States would have been hit with a preemptive strike without knowing anything.

It was not possible to know how many nuclear warheads with sufficient power could be mounted on the missile, but the possibility itself was dangerous. What if it fell on Washington, DC, and destroyed all high-ranking American politicians and military officials?

The chief trembled as if cold water had been poured on his spine. The Soviet Union was playing tricks on the United States with many dangerous toys that could destroy the United States. What else?

“Whew… I will report this to you directly.”

“Yes, Chief.”

How would MacArthur react? If the United States is determined, it will be able to imitate the Soviet achievements within a few years. In the meantime, the military budget has been increased to an unusual extent, so it may be possible with a little more investment.

Maybe until then, it seemed better to stay in the mood for peace with the Soviet Union. If you have a power that is equal to or superior to that of the Soviet Union, you will be able to wipe out the Soviet Union with less damage. In that respect, this blueprint stolen by the spies was quite encouraging.

And senior White House officials felt the same way.

“With this, you can definitely destroy the Soviet Union under any circumstances, right?!”

“Well, with the right missiles, it seems possible. The level of the blueprint has not yet reached that level, but… .”

“What are you doing! I need to go to Parliament and get the budget!”

“Yes, I understand!”

When MacArthur read the OSS report, he was furious again. The aide ran out of the conference room, startled by the rising voice.

Once there were nuclear submarines, the launch range was dramatically closer. Normally, explosions are directed in three dimensions, so when the distance is closer to 1/2, the explosive power increases 8 times. Even with a warhead of the same weight, it can produce eight times more power.

It was impossible to put a precise guidance device, a powerful warhead, and a lot of fuel in the limited system of a missile, so something had to be given up. However, if it was a missile that could be fired by surprise, the proportion of fuel or guidance devices could be reduced.

If they could sneak into the Baltic Sea and burn Moscow and Leningrad, and if they could deploy hundreds of anti-submarine destroyers to sink Soviet nuclear submarines, a complete nuclear war could be won.

Anyway, the nuclear warhead power of the Soviet Union itself did not reach that of the United States, which augmented its nuclear power with its own power. I would have developed this with the intention of overcoming that gap.

“Who was the OSS agent who stole this? I’m going to give that friend a reward. Very well done!”

“Hahahaha, yes, that’s great. Even a medal of honor is not enough!”

“That’s right. Now, until we succeed in this plan, if we pretend to hold hands with the Soviet Union… .”

Confidence that the Soviet Union could finally come to an end gave people peace of mind. It would be okay to let the Soviet Union instigate a left-wing revolution in the world for five or five years. After that, it can be destroyed anyway.

There was also an alternative to the Soviet Union’s choice between peace and ruin.

“Well, you can pretend you’re doing nuclear reduction now. Let them enjoy peace for just five years. What will my bastards do? They’ll just sit around ignorantly until a nuclear bomb falls on their heads!”

* * *

“Comrade General Secretary, wouldn’t it be burdensome to leak such highly confidential information? If America has a different mind with it… .”

“Kruglov, aren’t you doing something wrong?”

“Yes? What are you talking about, Comrade Secretary?”

Compared to Beria, Kruglov was quite tall. You can’t figure out the exact details even after you’ve ordered it.

If you’re acting like that on purpose while watching your purged predecessor, you’re really good at acting. Kuznetsov groaned, as if he was absurd.

“Isn’t that fake?”

“… Ah!”

The OSS agent, unaware that we had already figured it out, swallowed the leaked information. No matter how technologically advanced the Soviet Union may be, how can they already deploy nuclear submarines with this budget?

The design of the nuclear submarine was Gagora. The design of the reactor to be mounted was also a ‘bomb’ loaded with flaws. If it explodes… It would be quite difficult.

The performance probably won’t come out as expected, and because of that, it was obvious that the upper-level scientists would be pretty polished. What kind of expression will MacArthur make when he realizes that the expensive nuclear-powered submarine project he has been pushing for has been an absurd, nonsense?

With two years remaining in reelection, it was unlikely that MacArthur’s tenure could be completed. But for us, it’s as if we’ve earned valuable time.

“If the U.S. government decided to tune in for a few years… Well, in the meantime, why not redefine the world?”

I became Stalin chapter 271

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