The officers headed by Zhu Zhaoxie, after handing over command to Guan Tianpei, continued to Yingtian Mansion to meet the emperor.
The location was still in the main hall of Wuying Hall, and Zhu Jingyuan still stood on the steps wearing Wu Bian uniform and accepted the military salute from the future generals of the Forbidden Army.
After the ceremony, both parties sat down, and Zhu Zhaoxie presented the two reports he had prepared.
One is about the current situation of the entire atomic energy industry system, and the other is a summary of data from the two nuclear tests in Tiannan.
At the same time, I explained the general situation on site, which can be regarded as highlighting the main points.
Zhu Jingyuan first looked at the nuclear test data above.
The content of the report is very standardized, starting with a brief description of the content.
The most critical and important content is accurately extracted and listed at the front of the report, with detailed explanations at the back.
Zhu Jingyuan first read the introduction of the power of the explosion.
In addition to the simple and direct equivalent data of 20,000 tons, what is more important is the actual killing effect on various types of targets.
Then Zhu Jingyuan became a little confused.
The killing effect of this 20,000-ton fission bomb seemed not to be as great as I had always thought.
The most direct killing effect of the explosion is the pure energy shock wave.
For various animals that are close to humans in size, the direct fatality rate can reach about 50% within a radius of about two kilometers.
The killing range of an air-blasted bomb with the same effect at a height of 600 meters is slightly larger than the range tested on the bench.
What follows is the light and heat generated by the explosion, which can directly ignite surrounding combustibles and form a large-area fire.
Moreover, driven by the shock wave, the fire is likely to spread rapidly and become one.
The report calls this superimposed effect a "fire storm."
Although the direct fatality rate of a shock wave within a two-kilometer range is 50%, when combined with a fire storm, the fatality rate is close to 100%.
Therefore, this two-kilometer radius is temporarily called the "destruction radius" by testers.
The coverage area of the fire storm is approximately twice the 50% lethality range of the shock wave, which is a radius of four kilometers.
In this range from two kilometers to four kilometers ago, many animals can survive.
Because not all places have combustibles, the fatality rate of shock waves at a distance of two kilometers is already less than 50%.
At four kilometers, the shock wave can only shatter ordinary glass and collapse some of the simplest shanties.
The firestorm also spread less than four kilometers.
Therefore, the mortality rate of animals four kilometers away has been reduced to single digits, and most animals can survive.
The dead individuals were mainly killed by falling objects.
Therefore, this four-kilometer range is temporarily called the safe range by the testers.
The observation bunker at the test site is ten kilometers away from the experimental explosion point.
At this time, I could only feel the changes in the wind.
The observers at that time would not be injured even if they were not hiding in the bunker.
Zhu Jingyuan looked at the relatively safe distance of four kilometers and felt vaguely like "it's just that".
The yield of 20,000 tons is not large, but the energy of the explosion spreads to the entire space.
The ratio between the radius of the damage range of the explosion shock wave and the yield of the explosion should be a cube root.
When the equivalent power is increased to eight times the original, the killing radius can only be increased to twice the original, and the killing range can only be increased to four times the original.
At present, Ming Dynasty has conducted two experiments. The currently measured safe distance of four kilometers is obviously not accurate enough, but in general it should be correct.
Zhu Jingyuan did some math in his mind, and based on this data and superimposed the cube roots upwards, he could roughly conclude:
For a bomb of about 100,000 tons, the safe distance should be about seven kilometers and the destruction radius should be 3.4 kilometers.
For a bomb of about one million tons, the safe distance should be 15 kilometers and the destruction radius should be 7.3 kilometers.
For a bomb of about 10 million tons, the safe distance should be about 30 kilometers, and the destruction radius should be 15.7 kilometers.
The Big Ivan, which weighs about 50 million tons, should have a safe distance of about 54 kilometers and a destruction radius of 26.6 kilometers.
It can be seen from this that weapons with particularly large yields are not uneconomical.
If used to combat the urban population, the radius of the core area of most cities will not exceed ten kilometers.
Therefore, for attacking ordinary cities, one million tons is enough.
For a super city with a population of 10 million, the radius of the core area is only 20 kilometers, so 10 million tons is the limit.
In fact, because the closer to the edge of the strike range, the actual killing effect is smaller.
In addition, the larger the equivalent, the more difficult the actual scheduling and control will be.
Therefore, instead of fighting with one megaton warhead, it is better to replace it with four megaton bombs.
It may be easier to use and the impact will be better.
If it is used to destroy special military buildings and special military facilities, the scope will be even smaller.
There is no need for bombs exceeding one million tons.
It can be seen that the bomb yield range with the best cost performance should be below one million tons, ranging from tens of thousands of tons to hundreds of thousands.
Therefore, the major nuclear powers in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life all pursued multi-warhead technology after the technology matured.
None of them pursued large equivalents without any restrictions on the basis of Big Ivan.
After calculating this, Zhu Jingyuan felt that the power of these weapons did not reach his subconscious impression...
There is no such feeling of destruction.
To completely destroy the entire land surface of the world, more than four million 100,000-ton bombs would be needed.
Or 900,000 megaton bombs, or 200,000 megaton bombs, or 70,000 Big Ivans...
Seventy thousand Great Ivan...
At the peak of the Cold War in the previous life, the number of nuclear bombs in the world was less than 100,000, and most of them were tactical nuclear bombs ranging from tens to hundreds of thousands of tons. ,
Therefore, a nuclear war to wipe out the world has always been a completely exaggerated statement.
Destroying the world dozens of times is an exaggeration.
A very simple truth is that the production and maintenance of nuclear weapons and strategic missiles also cost money.
If any organization has mastered a weapon capable of destroying the whole world, it will be impossible for it to continue to produce more similar weapons.
Decision makers in any country have to consider costs, so it is impossible to produce weapons that can "destroy the world dozens of times."
The media doesn’t need to think about it, so they say it to appeal to readers’ curiosity.
Catering to the common underlying fantasy that "rulers are all fools and lunatics, only they are the sages who have calmness and wisdom".
However, after listening to Zhu Zhaoxie's introduction and looking at the detailed data in the report in front of him, Zhu Jingyuan slowly gained another level of understanding.
The report I saw was very detailed, specifically how high the fatality rate could be at what distance.
It is not the exaggerated Internet statement of "destroy a city" in general, or "nuclear bombs wash away the land" or "restart the world".
If you look at these data carefully, you can find that they are actually really scary.
More cruel than those empty exaggerations.
"Fifty percent fatality rate" means that half of all people die instantly. It is conceivable that half of the people around you will fall to the ground instantly.
Moreover, this is sampling data at a critical point. The further in, the higher the mortality rate, and the further out, the lower.
Coupled with the burning of the fire storm, the damage to humans is actually very terrifying, and the mortality rate in this range is actually close to 100%.
The ultimate goal of mankind is to destroy all hostile mankind, and there is no need to actually wash the entire surface of the earth.
Humans just need to bomb the places where people gather.
A nuclear bomb of less than one million tons can destroy most conventional cities and destroy most of the entire city's population.
Zhu Jingyuan's home country in his previous life had 2,844 county-level administrative districts, while the United States had 3,143 counties.
Even if it is a huge city with a population of tens of millions, if the core area is hit by a megaton nuclear bomb, the peripheral areas of the city may not be completely destroyed, but the entire city will definitely be basically paralyzed.
The key is that county-level administrative districts include municipal districts, and the built-up area of a super city with a population of tens of millions may be very large, but in fact it is also divided into many districts.
Therefore, a total of more than 6,000 bombs with an equivalent of several hundred thousand tons are needed to completely destroy the two largest state-owned cities in the world.
Even if this scope is extended to the whole world, it is estimated that only tens of thousands of them will be enough.
At the height of the Cold War, the world's two nuclear powers did have tens of thousands of large bombs in their hands.
Throwing all these bombs could really set back human civilization by decades.
Both America and Red Lucia had conducted nuclear war assessments at the time.
If they were hit by a comprehensive nuclear strike from the other side, it would take at least ten years to restore most of their industrial capabilities.
But the premise of this assessment is to consider the defense mechanism and, more importantly, the situation in which the original government is still functioning well after being hit.
However, after a comprehensive nuclear attack on each other, more than one-third of the population of both sides will be lost, and 99% of the social order will completely collapse.
All government agencies and communication facilities must be key targets, and the collapse of the imperial court is inevitable.
It may take one or even two generations to return to pre-war conditions.
But humanity will not perish.
Even human civilization will not perish because of this.
There will be a large number of people surviving in villages and small towns outside the city, as well as in remote mountain villages.
Half of the population will survive the war.
Then in just a few decades, they will be able to restore production facilities, re-establish a new order, and form new vested interests.
It’s just that the original country and court no longer exist.
The original ruling class and the original vested interests definitely no longer exist.
The court of a conventional country is actually the representative of the ruling class, and represents the interests of the ruling class, or the interests of those with vested interests.
In other words, a total nuclear war that completely destroys each other actually destroys the existing order and is the interest of those with vested interests.
This is of course of no practical benefit to the actual ruling class of any country.
This is something that has never happened in the history of human war.
Before the technology of strategic nuclear weapons plus nuclear missiles matured, no such weapon had ever had such an effect.
There is no need to eliminate the army of ordinary people controlled by the enemy's court, and there is no need to completely penetrate the homeland where ordinary people live and protect in the enemy's country. They can directly destroy the personnel and assets of the other party's ruling group.
In the past, the national ruling group and the vested interests in the existing order always lived in a stable rear area.
They will not be directly harmed until the national order completely collapses.
So they are not afraid of launching foreign wars.
Even if the entire country dies, they themselves will be the last to be executed.
After the emergence of strategic missiles and nuclear weapons, the rulers and vested interests themselves and their wealth changed from the originally most stable rear area to the key targets on the table.
Focus on hitting the target with the highest priority.
This is why, before the United States dropped atomic bombs in World War II, the Japanese pirates clamored for 100 million pieces of jade.
Because there are 100 million people, they can continue to rule for a period of time.
The key is to allow the opponent to give them better surrender conditions because they consider the loss of 100 million jade fragments.
But after the actual combat of the atomic bomb, it disappeared at the speed of light.
He was afraid that the rice beasts would not respect martial ethics and would directly blow up the imperial palace for them. No matter how many people outside wanted to be smashed, they would not be able to save them for a second.
This situation is equivalent to having a gun pointed at their heads by the United States.
Therefore, in the era after the middle of the Cold War, the rulers of conventional countries no longer dared to engage in full-scale cooperation with nuclear-armed countries.
Any country does not need to control the power to destroy the world. It only needs to control the power to destroy the rulers of enemy countries and those with vested interests. This can prevent powerful countries from bullying themselves to death.
Although possessing a small number of nuclear weapons cannot destroy the world, it can gain dignity for oneself.
Strategic weapons cannot destroy the earth, and it is difficult to truly destroy all mankind, but there is a high possibility of destroying any ruling group.
Therefore, the main ruling groups must constantly propagate to the public through the mouthpieces they control.
Let everyone believe that nuclear weapons are anti-human.
I believe that nuclear weapons will destroy all mankind, destroy all human civilizations, and even destroy the earth on which everyone depends for survival dozens of times.
Let everyone believe that no one can survive a nuclear war.
The key is that anyone other than yourself who tries to develop and control nuclear weapons is an evil anti-human terrorist.
In today's world, if a major country in Europe and the West obtained mature strategic nuclear weapons, they would point them at the Ming Dynasty's Yingtian Mansion.
Then Daming would not be able to give the other party the most basic respect.
If the other party ignored it and really threw the nuclear missile at Yingtian Mansion, even if the emperor hid in the underground air-raid shelter, he would not be directly killed.
But will the main members of the royal family live in an underground fortress in the future?
So are they rats hiding in the basement, or are they my dignified ruling family?
This kind of threat and panic in life is a feasible transaction in exchange for the Ming Emperor no longer forcing the other party to obey.
Therefore, in Zhu Jingyuan's view, the biggest failure of the United States in its previous life, or a doomed failure, was that it did not fully master this "gun" independently.
Although the United States in its previous life was powerful enough, it did not have the ability to truly rule the world.
They can't really monopolize nuclear weapons.
There is no way to immediately launch a full-scale war against Red Lucia when it develops nuclear weapons.
They are unable to do this either in terms of ability or public opinion.
Today's Ming Dynasty can barely be considered to have this ability.
Therefore, Ming Dynasty’s current nuclear strategic goal is to prohibit any country from acquiring nuclear weapons.
Not even early fission weapons would work.
Zhu Jingyuan did not allow any organization to point their guns at his head, even if it was a small pistol.
Therefore, after Zhu Jingyuan read the report, he did not make any direct evaluation of the report.
However, he directly issued a very strict order, which was also the first direct order related to war issued by Zhu Jingyuan:
"From now on, if any other country is found to be researching similar weapons, the Military Aircraft Department will immediately submit a declaration of war to me.
"From now on, the Military Aircraft Department begins to formulate and plan an operational plan to immediately declare war on any other country and launch a nuclear strike."
The future generals of the Forbidden Army headed by Zhu Zhaoxie, as well as the military ministers at the scene, were not too surprised by this decree.
They either knew the power of a nuclear explosion personally or from previous reports.
I have been thinking about what effects a weapon of this level can have these days.
Now when they heard the order, they all bowed respectfully and agreed:
"I obey the order."
