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Chapter 413 How can a nuclear explosion be possible without Japanese people?

The Outer Space Treaty has a long history. The first party to sign the treaty was the ROC. It was not until 80 when the ROC was kicked out of the United Nations that the PRC took over.

After Chen Yuanguang finished speaking, Musk obviously did not react. He cited the Outer Space Treaty as an excuse, which did not mean that he knew much about the treaty. These were all excuses woven by the think tank team far away in the White House.

Even though the Starlink launch was criticized by relevant officials from the European Union and Russia in the past, who believed that it seriously violated the Outer Space Treaty, Washington helped to resolve such criticism and accusations, and the pressure could not be transmitted to the company at all.

America is not so weakened that Musk would need to go to the United Nations headquarters in New York to face such questioning in person.

In other words, Musk did not expect that Chen Yuanguang would refute his response from a legal perspective. Even if Chen Yuanguang said that the truth is only within the range of cannons, it would be more in line with his expectations than such a response.

The citation of specific clauses made Elon at a loss for how to refute for a moment, as he himself did not know what the specific clauses of Article 6 of the Outer Space Treaty were.

Fortunately, Musk responded quickly: "Wright, this is not the same thing. Whether Starlink violates the Outer Space Treaty is worth discussing.

We have never used Starlink for military purposes. But the explosion of nuclear weapons in outer space is undoubtedly a serious violation of the Outer Space Treaty."

Chen Yuanguang shook his head: "Elon, is Starlink really not used for military purposes? You know better than me what role it played in the internal war among the Slavic peoples.

There is no point in us getting hung up on this, because the Outer Space Treaty itself does not bind America.”

Essentially, those who can be restrained do not have the ability to launch, and those who have the ability to launch cannot be restrained.

Do you think it is effective? Of course it is, as most countries in the world have signed it. However, in reality, it has almost no effect on the permanent members of the Security Council.

In other words, any similar treaty cannot actually bind the five permanent members of the Security Council.

This is true of the Outer Space Treaty and the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.

"Today we only talk about technology, not these empty things. This is a confrontation at the diplomatic level." Chen Yuanguang changed the subject. He didn't want to waste time on meaningless things.

In fact, this essentially involves a chain of suspicion. The Chinese do not want to start an all-out war. In order to prevent the other side from making irrational decisions, they have to keep flexing their muscles and tell you that if you dare to act rashly, none of us will feel good.

This was the case with the previous new nuclear submarines, and it is also the case with this nuclear bomb that changed the orbit of the asteroid.

But the other party will feel that your abilities are becoming stronger and stronger, and naturally you will have greater demands. Ability and power are equal. You have already taken away part of my authority, and you will only want more in the future. Moreover, you are constantly accumulating energy in the military. Are you trying to catch me off guard?

The lesson of Pearl Harbor is there, and it has only been less than a hundred years.

“Yes, we shouldn’t talk about this, but it is indeed a threat to all mankind. We need to consider this issue carefully. As the most powerful technical elite, Wright, the indiscriminate use of nuclear weapons in space will open Pandora’s box.

Just because you can control it doesn’t mean other countries can control it, or that the situation won’t get out of control.

Because nuclear weapons are not only satellite killers, they are also space killers. Any electromagnetic explosion will cause indiscriminate damage to satellites near and far, and pollute the orbital environment with harmful radiation.

Of course, I know that the nuclear bomb you are going to launch will go to the far Earth orbit and will not contaminate satellites in the near Earth orbit, but no one can ensure that such a launch will not affect the tens of thousands of satellites currently serving countries around the world.

Once an impact occurs, it will not only have direct catastrophic consequences on the earth's infrastructure, but will also continue to increase the risk of nuclear war on earth in the future.

By the 60s, all countries with nuclear weapons would have the ability to put them into orbit. Even in the 60s when the situation was so tense, countries could sit down and sign the OST. Our current situation is far from that level in the s.

Our two countries remain close economic and trade partners, and we have a great deal of common interests across the region.”

Two and a half years in the White House has forced Musk to become a qualified bureaucrat. Before that, even if the White House think tank prepared lines for him in advance, he would not be able to speak them so naturally and fluently.

Now, such performance is considered acceptable even for senior Washington civil servants with decades of work experience.

Chen Yuanguang said helplessly: “Elon, in 2021, two Starlink satellites numbered 1905 and 2305 approached the Tiangong Space Station twice, forcing the Tiangong Space Station to take emergency obstacle avoidance. SpaceX never notified CNSA in advance.

This essentially violates the Outer Space Treaty and poses serious risks to space security.

Not to mention that America's past experiments in using missiles to shoot down satellites in outer space have never stopped.

1985年9月13日，加利福尼亚州爱德华兹空军基地起飞的F-15A战斗机发射了ASM-135反卫星导弹，成功击毁了在555公里高轨道上运行的太阳风P78-1军用实验卫星。

This type of research has continued from the last century to today and has never stopped.

This time we are not even experimenting to destroy satellites, but to change the orbit of asteroids. Its purpose is completely different from that of your similar experiments, and is far less severe than the experiments you have conducted.

No matter from which angle you look at it, it is you who keep opening Pandora's box."

America's technological strength is indeed not to be underestimated. What they did in 1985 was closely followed by Russia, which did not successfully use the new A2021 anti-missile system to shoot down an orbiting satellite until 235. Although after America's success in 1985, Russia claimed that its MiG-31D fighter jets equipped with the "Product-07" airborne anti-satellite missile could achieve the same effect, this was just a claim after all, and the strength had not been proven by experiments.

In other words, it took Mao until 21 years to achieve what others had achieved in 1985.

"I think the Outer Space Treaty was too broad. After all, it was a product of the last century, and it's almost a hundred years old now. It's obviously no longer in line with the current technological development in the aerospace field. I think we need a new treaty to keep the earth peaceful." Musk still refuses to give up.

"Of course, but this matter needs to be discussed with diplomatic officials. I can't make the decision," said Chen Yuanguang.

"But I will fully respect your opinion on this matter," Musk added.

Chen Yuanguang hesitated for a moment and said, "Elon, I hope for world peace just like you."

Seeing this, Elon knew that there was no way to force the other party to make further statements. He knew that his mission had ended and no one else could do more.

"Well, Wright, this is advice, although I believe that in our lifetime, we will be able to see humans go to Mars to open up a new human base, whether it is you or me who does it.

But even if it comes to that, the Earth is our only home, and nuclear weapons can destroy everything.”

Obviously, when you really have the power to destroy the world, your competitors will also start to persuade you to calm down.

Other senior executives of foreign companies were given very little time, and most of them were seated after a few simple greetings.

“Welcome to our Light Armor Aerospace site to observe the first step of asteroid mining, which is the beginning of mankind’s march into the space age.

In fact, you can also watch the live broadcast at home, but they are just some first-person perspective images, and you may be able to see it more comprehensively here.

We will use artificial intelligence to simulate the scene of a nuclear bomb hitting an asteroid as soon as possible and show it to you.

Because it involves nuclear bombs, I know everyone has various concerns, considering that after a nuclear bomb explodes, various radioactive isotopes will be produced, such as fission products such as uranium-235 and plutonium-239, and fusion products such as tritium and helium-3. These radioactive materials will spread in space in the form of fragments.

The asteroid will be about 30 kilometers away from the Earth. In the space environment 30 kilometers away, due to the lack of atmospheric obstruction and convection, the diffusion of radioactive substances mainly depends on the energy of the explosion and the promotion of cosmic rays. They will form a cloud of radioactive substances in space and will not drift towards the Earth.

Of course, some of the radioactive substances may gradually approach the earth with the movement of cosmic matter such as solar wind and interstellar dust streams.

When these radioactive substances enter the Earth's magnetic field, they will be captured by the Earth's magnetic field and move toward the polar regions along the magnetic field lines. In this process, they may collide with gas molecules in the Earth's upper atmosphere, resulting in the precipitation of radioactive substances.

In the future, they may gradually spread to other parts of the world through atmospheric circulation and other means, bringing long-term, low-level radioactive contamination to the earth's overall environment.

Secondly, even if it produces secondary radiation, the high-energy particles released after the nuclear bomb explodes in space will interact with various substances in space. For example, high-energy neutrons will collide with hydrogen, helium and other atoms in interstellar dust, producing more gamma rays and other secondary particles.

These secondary radiations may also propagate toward the earth, but they will undergo attenuation and scattering during the propagation process.

In short, the above are just possibilities. In essence, the probability of these possibilities happening is very low. Even if they do happen, the intensity of this radiation is not even as high as the concentration of nuclear wastewater discharged by Japan, so you don’t have to worry at all.

In addition, according to preliminary estimates, the asteroid we plan to capture this time weighs about 3000 tons. An asteroid of this weight only needs tactical nuclear weapons, and the equivalent of tactical nuclear weapons is enough to change its trajectory. Compared with strategic nuclear weapons, the radiation caused by tactical nuclear weapons will be much lower. "

Near-Earth asteroids also vary in size. For example, the near-Earth asteroid MK-24, which was very close to the Earth in 2024 years, was only 29.5 kilometers away from the Earth at its closest point. This asteroid weighs as much as 530 million tons, so space agencies of various countries were paying attention to whether it would fall to the Earth. If it did, it would be a disaster.

Just like Shenhai has a magic barrier, the typhoon was about to hit Shenhai, but it always turned around and went somewhere else. The earth seemed to have a barrier as well. This asteroid was obviously very close to the earth, but in the end it did not hit the earth, but changed its trajectory and went somewhere else.

Based on the law of conservation of kinetic energy, a simple calculation of the equivalent of a nuclear bomb used to change the orbit of an asteroid can roughly tell that for asteroids weighing tens of thousands of tons or less, tactical nuclear weapons are more than enough.

Even though the angle at which the missile hits the asteroid, the material composition and structure of the asteroid, and whether it explodes inside the asteroid will affect whether the missile's energy can fully affect the orbital change of the asteroid, tactical nuclear weapons are more than enough in this scenario.

After Chen Yuanguang finished speaking, the bigwigs smiled at each other. Everyone was in a relaxed mood because they came to watch a ceremony and see the latest achievements in science and technology.

The foreigners were obviously not in a very good mood, especially the executives of Japanese companies.

Let’s not talk about the Japanese astronauts still floating in the sky and not coming back. What if the asteroid fragments hit the Japanese astronauts’ escape capsule? Of course, NASA probably hopes that the escape capsule will be hit so that the responsibility can be passed on to the Chinese.

The fact that Chen Yuanguang linked this matter to Japan's nuclear wastewater was enough to make the executives of Japanese companies feel unhappy.

There are executives from Japan here, including Nikon, Fuji, Tokyo Electric, etc. Executives from these companies have all been invited.

In fact, they didn't have to invite them, but the executive of Guangjia Aerospace who was in charge of this matter felt that a nuclear explosion without the Japanese would be a little lacking, just like eating mutton hotpot in winter without sesame sauce.

(End of this chapter)