Chapter 1130 – World Peace

“Allen, you’re here.” Rab Butler saw Allen Wilson push in the door and immediately nodded his head then said, “You’ve heard it all, what’s your opinion?”

“Heard what?” Allen Wilson sat down after a rhetorical question, directly to Labo Butler will not, hall of permanent undersecretary of the foreign ministry, but still do not know what happened, “the Soviet Union’s nuclear test in the island of Xindi.”

“This small matter ah.” Alan Wilson nodded once, and then nothing more.

This reaction baffled Rab Butler, “The most powerful nuclear bomb in the world, and you don’t have a single thing to say about it?”

“Nope!” Alan Wilson replied dryly, not giving the Foreign Minister a leg up at all, “There’s nothing I can comment on when the yield is that high. What is it that the Minister wants me to say?”

“What about the response? You just don’t have once opinion.” Rab Butler couldn’t understand how Alan Wilson was so cold, so different from usual.

“My opinion is irrelevant, it’s not like Britain is a match for the Soviet Union anyway.” Alan Wilson shrugged, “It’s not like Britain doesn’t have a five million yield nuclear bomb. It’s the same if the USSR launches it against the UK and the UK launches it against the USSR. It’s all one outcome in a fight, if the Minister has to feel that Britain has to do something? I don’t know which way. Can you give me a hint? Something cautious, or something aggressive?”

Alan Wilson took the initiative to ask the question, and then waited quietly for an answer, how busy he was, he was working on counter-intelligence lately, and talking to the president of the Biological Society about biological evolution, and Dr. Ike talked about the generalized conclusions of scholars from other countries about the Ediacaran Epoch.

Of course none of the above work is significant, what is more significant is of course the issue of the next generation, he and Vivien Leigh had a more significant discussion about their son’s upbringing, and what is more significant is whether the ball flower should buy a Bentley or a Rolls Royce.

Compared to these things, was the Soviet Union’s Tsar’s nuclear bomb important? It might be important in the eyes of some, but he definitely didn’t think so, for reasons like he said, Britain couldn’t beat the Soviet Union, so what was the point of focusing on that?

“What would prudence suggest?” Rab Butler inquired, to see what advice the permanent undersecretary could give.

“We should probably do something, but it’s already too late.” Alan Wilson replied, unperturbed.

“What about something radical?” Rab Butler shook his head outright, it was clearly not the answer he wanted.

“Minister, you are very aggressive.” Alan Wilson looked deeply at the minister, while thinking, “In fact, the Tsar’s nuclear bomb did not reach its maximum power, even for the Soviet Union, it is not easy to find a sparsely populated place to maximize the power of the nuclear bomb, but the free world is not without such a site.”

“Theoretically, the power of thermonuclear weapons is unlimited, it’s just a matter of whether or not you dare to increase the power. If we take a radical response, first we’ll need to find a test site that’s sparsely populated.”

“Like Australia, for example?” Rab Butler opened his mouth to ask rhetorically, wondering if that was what Alan Wilson meant.

“Like, no, that’s a Commonwealth country.” Alan Wilson almost bit his tongue off, his wife lived in Australia, was this minister reliable? It couldn’t be a Soviet spy planted in the British Empire, could it? It should be checked.

“Seven million square kilometers of the Sahara Desert, is a good testing ground, if France doesn’t mind, we can, together with France, make a more powerful nuclear bomb, if the Soviet Union makes a 50 million ton one, we’ll make a 100 million ton one, no matter how much the Soviet Union raises the yield, we can make a nuclear bomb twice as big.”

“The locals will be upset.” Rab Butler sucked in a breath of cold air, did the other man know what he was talking about or not?

Comparing yields with the Soviets? The results of this test, already at 60 million tons, Britain would have to respond with 120 million tons of yield?

“Local dissatisfaction is irrelevant, people are not equal, just as the earth is not equally warm or cold.”

Allen Wilson muttered lightly, “A lot of factors might interfere with this idea becoming a reality, but the only thing that can’t really be said to be a reason is that the locals are disgruntled.”

According to the inequality of public opinion aroused in Alan Wilson’s mind, roughly the value of the British and the value of the black Africans converted, should be around one to fifty thousand. One hundred deaths on the British side would be roughly equivalent to five million African deaths.

Rab Butler still disagreed with the suggestion, “It’s a bit too radical, is there any other way.”

“Ask the Americans how they would respond, and if there is anything they need Britain’s cooperation on.” Alan Wilson’s eyes flashed unsurprisingly, “If the United States has no intention of responding, why should Britain respond. It’s better to pretend this doesn’t exist, as long as we have the heart to be an ostrich, no one can make us stick our heads back out.”

“That’s too much of an accident, isn’t it?” Rab Butler couldn’t help but laugh bitterly, he felt like he wasn’t really behind the times, what are young people thinking nowadays?

“Right now the whole world is watching America’s reaction.” Alan Wilson looked like he had a lot of confidence in the United States.

Of course he didn’t know what this confidence was in, according to his memory, the Tsar’s nuclear bomb was the world’s largest nuclear weapon in terms of yield, and the United States hadn’t given much of a reaction at all.

But Britain could have borrowed public opinion in anticipation of an American reaction, and as a diplomat, how could he not be on friendly terms with the media?

Only Alan Wilson never, borrowing government pressure or kidnapping with personal relations, he and the media to get on good terms with the media is very simple, give money ……

“Now the whole world, are waiting for the United States to respond …… “Got to add money to the approach has never been immediate, after a short silence, the allies, mainly Britain, the free world’s hopes, are placed on the United States.

All countries believed that the United States would not let the Soviet Union coerce, threaten, demonstrate, or embarrass the free world will not succeed.

The U.S. now became the hope of the entire free world, and one wonders what the U.S. thought of this handful of moral abductions, and anyway, Alan Wilson just sat back and watched.

The top brass at the Pentagon are extremely indignant at this kidnapping, but of course the indignation is limited to within the Pentagon. These allies are really looking at the situation and letting the U.S. respond? How can the U.S. respond?

Where to find such a large test site to respond, anyway, the United States does not have such a place, in Alaska?

This also has to take into account the thoughts of the Canadians. Even Australia, the most reliable ally, would not dare to agree to let the U.S. build a big bomb that is more powerful than the Soviet Union’s nuclear bomb and test it on its own soil.

The Pentagon’s first response was to build new defenses to ensure that the U.S. top brass wouldn’t be caught in the crossfire in the face of a nuclear war with such a powerful bomb.

Previously, Charles, the Assistant Secretary of Defense, submitted to Secretary of Defense Robert, a plan to build a super-underground command center, which, according to this plan, would be used primarily to defend against non-warning nuclear strikes.

However, after the Soviet Union test-fired the Tsar Bomb, the U.S. military changed the plan and finalized the construction of a super underground command center.

This super command center was to be built near the Pentagon to give the Pentagon’s U.S. military executives time to get in the middle of a nuclear attack and not get decapitated by Soviet nuclear missiles.

This underground command center, three thousand feet above the surface, that is, creating a command center at a depth of one thousand meters, and is capable of preventing nuclear weapons with a total yield of 200 to 300 million tons of yield.

“What a joke.” Kennedy, confronted with the proposal sent to him, said directly to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, “What’s the point of this plan, a super command center a thousand meters underground? And next to the Pentagon? What will that make voters think? Citizens will think the military has lost faith in America.”

“But we can’t just do nothing.” Robert McNamara was also in a difficult position; the Secretary of Defense was not a military man, and he had to be careful with those military brass at the Pentagon.

“You tell the Pentagon directly that this program, which makes no sense and cannot be kept secret, is costly, and is completely whimsical, has been vetoed by the President.” Kennedy replied with a grimace, “Either we just don’t respond at all, or we don’t respond in that way.”

Anyway, Kennedy felt that it would be better not to respond at all rather than to respond in this way, a completely a counterproductive role.

In contrast to the silence on the American side, Khrushchev was Versailles up, commenting on the power of the Czar’s nuclear bombs, commenting ruefully, “We could have tested a much bigger hydrogen bomb, except that we didn’t want to shatter our own windowpanes.”

The U.S. made up its mind not to respond in terms of yield, the European side of public opinion naturally can not be grasped, and began to call for peace, calling on the U.S. and the Soviet Union not to let the world into a nuclear war.

After this, as if everything was business as usual, nothing changed. Alan Wilson accompanied Hepburn to the opera, accompanied her to the concert, to participate in the cultural evening, the woman has its own busy: buying goods, customized new clothes.

How could a mere czar’s nukes compare to Hepburn’s moods, and Alan Wilson did his best in proving that his adoration for Hepburn was the happiest, sweetest, noblest, and most beautiful affection in the world.

“Which is why I am so easily deceived by you.” Hepburn looked as if she had not had enough experience to be deceived by a man in the first place.

“That can’t be said, I can be fearless for you, even if a Soviet czarist nuclear bomb falls on my head, I can do it without a change of color.” Alan Wilson gambled, then added, “I’m not a tough-on-the-outside, cowardly-on-the-inside American, Audrey, you have to remember that.”