Chapter 918: The Darkest Hour

Alan Wilson has been explicitly hinted that the future is going to be in the field of diplomacy, it is quite normal for him to read the reports of the Soviet TASS news agency, is considered to be one of the first people to know on the same day that the first Sputnik went up to the sky living in the free world.

With a cold look scrutinizing the newspaper, this gesture makes Bokina very difficult, at this time the Dragon Rider’s mood is complex, on the one hand she cherishes the current superior life, but also for the original motherland to achieve such a great achievement happy, only to see Alan Wilson as a formidable appearance, do not dare to show it in this sensitive moment.

“You are very happy.” After a long time, Allen Wilson put down the report and asked Bojina very sincerely.

“No.” Bokina hurriedly shook her head, “Is it because you think Britain feels threatened?”

“No.” Alan Wilson similarly denied it, adding, “The Soviet Union has long been able to threaten Britain, and with the two countries so close together, it should be the United States that is feeling the headache right now.”

Britain has long been targeted by Soviet nuclear weapons, and feeling threatened now is a bit too much of an afterthought.

So it’s not that Alan Wilson is too neurotic to take it seriously, the situation is what it is. The U.S. supposedly feels threatened by the Soviet Union for the first time since the beginning of this year.

If before that, the United States had one eye on the Soviet Union and the other on Britain and France, then from now on, the United States was supposed to have put its main focus on the Soviet Union.

“You just got a shock.” Bokina let out a light breath, admitting that she had just been startled by that expression, “The Americans are being threatened, and you don’t seem to be worried about it, you seem to be confident in America’s technological capabilities.”

“That’s right, America’s base is still quite thick, the reason why we’re in this situation now is purely a matter of the system.” Alan Wilson bristled, expressing his contempt for the United States. There was no problem with America’s strength, but it ran into military conflicts.

It was similar to the kind of contradiction between the Japanese Navy and Army, talk about playing out an Army carrier operation, but the destructive power wasn’t bad at all.

The Air Force’s strategic bomber formation status led to the USAF’s opposition to the development of rocket technology.

Why is the USAF independent. Because the Air Force’s strategic bombers can take off from thousands of miles away and conduct strategic bombing and even attacks. This is something that the Army’s mode of operation cannot possibly encompass.

But if the Army relies on the development of rockets, it can dye space itself, and even through ICBMs, it can accomplish the combat mode of nuclear attack from thousands of miles away itself. So why on earth would the Air Force want to become independent?

The newly independent U.S. Air Force was very concerned about this, so it simply held the attitude of holding that missiles that are not allowed to be managed simply don’t want to pass the budget hurdle, and frantically suppressed the Army’s Ballistic Missile Development Agency (BMD).

However, with the Soviet Union’s first Sputnik in the sky, the United States will certainly reconcile the military conflict, only to take the approach of sacrificing the Army, even if stimulated by the Soviet Union and determined to accelerate the development. In the end it was the will of the U.S. Air Force that triumphed.

In nuclear-armed countries, only the United States is the Army first developed ICBMs, the result of intercontinental missiles finally transferred to the Air Force management. Strategic nuclear weapons land, sea and air in the trinity of land and air strategic nuclear weapons, all belong to the United States Air Force.

This is unique among the P5, regardless of China, the Soviet Union, Britain and France, ICBMs are assigned to the Army.

“I’m leaving Europe and going back to my post.” Allen Wilson rushed at Bokina to indicate that he was returning to duty. It wasn’t going to be a parting shot, although that could not be avoided. It was mostly to keep an eye on where the British space program was at.

Since it had taken a few months to formulate a plan to deal with the economic crisis, along with the maritime delimitation and the Icelandic provocation, there was no need for him to remain in Europe, and he was ready to hit the road back home.

Iceland in this time period is extremely unlucky, about certain criminal colonial empire, in the European Community to bully harmless, peace-loving Iceland, suffered from bullying Iceland, in addition to sending people to Europe to explain the hope of lifting the ban, but also hoped that Washington can intervene.

It must be said that Alan Wilson pinched the lifeblood of Iceland, he was not prepared to fight the cod war with Iceland, directly banned Iceland’s fist product, but also prepared for Iceland to make trouble.

Once Iceland did something unconscionable to British fishermen on the ocean, Britain was not going to do anything to Iceland, but the richest piece of the world today, the Crown Dependency of Newfoundland, wasn’t going to allow it. A few destroyers is not much of an overwhelming force, and that’s in front of Britain and the United States.

The United States, which is held in high regard by the Icelanders, has no time for Iceland, at least for now, and the news of the Soviet Union’s launch of its first artificial satellite, reported by the TASS news agency, has already created a furor in the United States.

The Soviet artificial Earth satellite, the size of a beach volleyball, was circling the globe every ninety-six minutes at a speed of eighteen thousand miles per hour, occasionally beeping.

The skies were no longer safe, and the supposedly powerful air superiority of the United States was gone. Going into space was a pipe dream for anyone in this day and age, and many Americans were already in a state of panic when the news broke.

The U.S. stock market, already in the midst of an economic crisis cycle, plummeted, as if the end of the free world was near.

The New York Times questioned, “How could the Soviets send a satellite into space when they couldn’t even build a good refrigerator? How is this possible?”

“This one Soviet satellite will be watching us from the sky at all times, and the whole of America has been exposed to the eyes of the Soviets, and we have no secrets in plain sight.” The Boston Globe’s report fueled the panic over the Soviet Union’s launch of its first artificial satellite.

In the American climate of public opinion, the Soviet Union was an extremely backward country, not even close to a monkey, not much different from a colony, and what was America? Public opinion tells American citizens that America is the city on top of the mountain, that today’s America is the central force leading the world, that America is the technological hegemony, that the so-called technological creativity exists only in America.

U.S. citizens steeped in this public opinion are now hearing about the Soviet Union launching the first artificial satellite into space?

The president of Pennsylvania State University, Eric Walker spoke heavily to reporters, “We are already a secondary world power.”

“I think the consequences of this are well understood, the Soviet Union will dominate the world.” Lt. General Doolittle, Foreign Intelligence Advisor to the President of the United States, bowed his head, his heart heavy under the lenses of his eyeglasses.

Senator Henry Jackson of Washington wanted the president to declare it a day of national shame and public danger.

Fulbright of Arkansas says: The real challenge we face involves the very foundations of our society. It involves our educational system, which is the source of our intellectual and cultural values. The current administration’s plan to manage the academic renaissance is disturbingly visionless.

The artificial satellite circling around in space is a polished metal sphere (58 centimeters in diameter) with four external radio antennas transmitting radio pulses. Its radio signals are easily detected by amateurs, and its 65-degree inclination during orbit allows it to cover almost the entire inhabited Earth.

Radio listeners, all over the world, were able to listen for signals on it, and listening to the beeping in their headphones, countless people from the free world were filled with silence.

The silence surely did not include Alan Wilson, a walking Anglo-American special relationship, convinced that the United States, once it adjusted, would surely catch up, provided it invested a little more, simply put, spent a little more money.

In order to reflect the love of a father, so that his own son learns to stand on his own two feet so that he can thrive in the future.

Alan Wilson doesn’t have to remind America what to do, only when they come to their own realization can they be considered on their own, no one else can do it for them.

In fact, what’s the big deal, it’s just that the United States from the dizzying belief that they are ahead of any country in any technology, all of a sudden went to the other extreme, out of thin air to elevate the Soviet Union’s superiority in aerospace.

To the extent that Kennedy proposed, in the presidential election, to close the missile gap by deploying a thousand Minuteman ballistic missiles, far more than the Soviet Union possessed at the time.

It also has to do with the fact that Khrushchev could blow, starting in 1957, with a civil and military attack that scared the United States to death.

The first artificial satellite, in fact, does not have any scientific instruments, the only thing that can make its presence felt is that it itself will beep radio signals, but other countries, especially the United States do not know.

Arrived in the capital of Western Australia, Persia, the whole world is still discussing the first satellite in the sky, the United States domestic public opinion is to reach boiling point, the two parties blame each other one after another, the elite of all industries have to comment on this time, or else it is lagging behind the trend of the world.

Allen Wilson is not so troubled, he even in passing through Kuala Lumpur, but also with Vivien Lei for some in-depth exchanges, for Pamela Mountbatten inquired, Allen Wilson is also very calm, “I happen to come over to ask, our space program to which step, the Blue Light Missile this time the launch of the missile are successful, although as an intercontinental missile range is still not enough, but to go on the space then it should still be possible.”

“The American side is all over the place right now, it’s manic.” Pamela Mountbatten covered her belly, “You’re not in a hurry at all.”

“I don’t think this is as important as you having a baby soon.” Alan Wilson nuzzled his mouth to express his love for his wife and pressed against Pamela Mountbatten’s belly inquiring, “When?”

“Just a couple days.” Pamela Mountbatten’s face was blissful, this man just knew to say good things.

“Then I’ll wait for the baby to be born before going to the launch site.” Alan Wilson made a trade-off after a short consideration, the Imperial Commissioner’s mindset is very good, are already behind in the hurry what’s the use? Just follow the plan step by step.