Struggle in Soviet Russia

Semipalatinsk 21, area zero. It is completely constructed of granite. According to experts, it is the first underground floor in the command center that can prevent nuclear explosions.

Comrade Beria in a military uniform was walking on the stairs leading to the ground. As the leader who nominally presided over the nuclear test explosion, his mood is now more nervous than most people, because for him, this The success or failure of the field test is very critical. It not only affects the future of all the technicians involved in the nuclear test, but also his own future. In fact, the success or failure of the experiment must have a greater impact on him than the technicians involved in the project.

Practically speaking, on the issue of the success or failure of the nuclear test, those who do administrative work like Beria and Berusin, when faced with the outcome of the failure of the test, the responsibility they need to bear is the main one. As for the relevant experts and scientific researchers, they are not the main responsible parties, and they will not be punished so severely, which is inconsistent with the reports of later Western countries.

In fact, after thinking about it a little, I know what a lie is. Like these scientists involved in research and experiments, their role in actual work is much more important than those in charge of administrative work. If the experiment is successful, their importance Sex may not be that high, but if the test fails, the situation is completely the opposite. After all, the alliance's nuclear test project cannot end after one failure, but needs to continue to prepare for the next time. In this case, responsible for the administration The person who works and the person in charge of scientific research, who is more important, naturally does not need to be discussed.

Follow the stairs from the basement floor to the ground. The space on the ground floor is airtight, and the heavy air-lock door at the exit has been locked and will not be opened until the end of the test.

Unlike ordinary buildings, the above-ground buildings of the command center are not high, and the floor area is also small, similar to the water tower type, except that the first floor is very short and the space is airtight. Don't think that such an architectural style was made casually. On the contrary, this small building was specially designed by a group of experts from the Soviet Academy of Sciences after repeated calculations. It can not only resist the shock wave of a certain destructive force. The impact can also quickly fill the confined space with a specific filling material when the external structure is damaged, thereby avoiding damage to the underground structure.

In fact, these preparations were only made with a preparedness attitude. In fact, the command center was far enough away from the explosion point to be completely in a safe position.

Comrade Beria did not stop on the first floor, but went straight to the second floor. Compared with the sealed first floor, the second floor is much more spacious because of the higher ceiling. At the same time, in the direction facing the south, there are several more circular metal covers fastened to the wall. These metal covers It looks like a few pots hanging on the wall. Of course, it is definitely not a pot, but an observation port facing the direction of the test field.

Seeing Beria coming up from the stairs, the two soldiers who had been guarding the observation port gave him a military salute. Beria nodded and walked straight to an observation port.

Seeing him coming, a soldier stepped forward and lifted the circular metal cover on an observation port to reveal the observation telescope under the metal cover.

If Victor was here, he would have recognized these observation telescopes mounted on the walls at a glance. This thing was captured by the Soviet army from the Germans. When he was in Berlin, he saw the same type - 10 *80 45 degree standard observation telescope.

Beria leaned down and put his eyes on the two observation ports of the telescope. Then, from the field of view of the telescope, he observed the high hanging tower at the center of the nuclear explosion. At this time, a round bulging tower appeared. The thing is hung above the hanging tower. In a dune near the suspension tower, there are more than a dozen T34 tanks and a dozen trucks parked. In addition, from the telescope, you can also see some scattered cattle and sheep, patrolling not far from the hanging tower. Whether it is a tank or a truck, or those cattle and sheep, they are all test objects in this nuclear test.

Just when Beria tried to adjust the observation telescope to see the situation of the hanging tower more clearly, a sharp and piercing alarm sounded suddenly in the command center, and at the same time, the dome light that was originally on was extinguished in an instant, and replaced it. Yes, it is dimming lighting supported by the emergency power supply system.

Beria gave up the plan to adjust the telescope, he turned around, and walked to the ground along the way. The alarm is a signal that the nuclear test is about to start. Later, the staff who carry out the hanging test and record the characters will enter their jobs, including the part upstairs, while Beria needs to go to the underground command center. Wait, he will accept Moscow's instructions there and prepare to report the results of the test to Comrade Stalin as soon as possible.

Compared with the observation tower on the ground, the underground part of the entire command center is much more spacious. Beria passed through the airlock door of the command center. The first thing he saw was Comrade Berusin who was sitting on the rostrum. He was smoking a cigarette while talking on the phone with someone, and beside him was Comrade Kurchatov, the leader of the expert group who was really in charge of the nuclear test.

Seeing Beria walking in from outside, Kurchatov left Berusin, who was still on the phone, and quickly walked towards him. When the two of them were still a few steps away, He couldn't wait to say: "Comrade Lavlenti Pavlovich, our radiation monitoring equipment, radiation dose detection equipment, and even all effectors have been deployed and tested, just because in the comprehensive rehearsal It is incomprehensible to delay the entire test if a simple problem occurs in one of the links to be tested. What we need to ensure is the smooth development of the overall test project, not the smoothness of a small project to be tested.”

Beria raised a hand, waved it gently in front of Kurchatov, and pointed in the direction of Berusin, then, ignoring the other party's reaction, he stepped up to walk away from him. Walked over and went straight to the podium.

Just as he stepped onto the podium, Berusin just took the telephone receiver away from his ear.

"What is Comrade Stalin's opinion?" Beria asked when he walked to Berusin.

"Comrade Stalin disagreed with the decision to postpone the test by 12 hours," Berusin said. "His suggestion was that the test should be started on time if the pending test would not affect the main test."

After a pause, he added: "We must pay attention to the huge political significance behind this project."

Beria breathed a sigh of relief, he turned around, glanced at Kurchatov, who was following, and said: "Get ready to start, Comrade Igor Vasilievich, I hope we can bring one to Moscow. good news."

This nuclear test project is not just as simple as detonating a nuclear bomb, it also involves a large number of data measurement tasks. Before that, an instrument used to measure the concentration of sol failed. Considering that this instrument alliance could not do it by itself, the one currently in use was brought back from Munich. If it is to be repaired, it needs certain time. Therefore, as the person in charge of these experimental projects, Berusin's opinion is to delay the launch of the experiment, but this opinion was opposed by Kurchatov.

Now, Comrade Stalin has made the final decision, not to postpone the launch of the test, but to abandon the additional test project that had a problem.

As Berusin said when retrieving Comrade Stalin's comments, this nuclear test was not just a test, it was a political event of vital importance to the alliance. As discussed by Viktor and Andropov, as long as this nuclear test is successful, many policy matters of the alliance will change from now on.

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Kizhi Island.

Darkness completely shrouded the island in the light rain. In the room on the second floor of the church, Victor was pacing back and forth in front of the desk with the lamp on. The cigarette between his right fingers was about to burn out, and the red cigarette **** was already slightly hot. .

It was only ten minutes ago that he sent Comrade Andropov away. The two reached a tentative agreement on certain issues related to propaganda and agitation work. Andropov agreed with Viktor on the national issue. certain views, and accepted the request to bring the issue to the newspapers for discussion, provided, of course, that the experiment underway in Kazakhstan must succeed.

Yes, in Viktor's previous life, there were all kinds of discussions about the Soviet Union, but no one thought about the impact of nuclear weapons on Union policy. In terms of time, the time when the alliance's first nuclear bomb was detonated was only four years behind the Americans, but it must be noted that it was during these four years that the alliance's foreign policy was completely biased towards defensive. The domestic policy formulated by the alliance is also completely based on the level of national military security, and has made huge sacrifices in other aspects.

Now, the alliance's first nuclear bomb test is ahead of schedule, at least nearly four years ahead of Victor's previous life, and not much later than the time when the United States bombed Nagasaki and Hiroshima in Japan, and the alliance mastered nuclear weapons technology at this time. , Undoubtedly, it has the ability to compete with the United States strategically. In fact, it has mastered the ability to confront the West. Under such a situation, where will Moscow's position change?