Reborn Before the Apocalypse: My Backing is the Nation

Chapter 48 Lunar Bomb
With just one leap, the filming mission was complete. The next moment, a staggering 18GB of data began transmitting to the Earth base at a downlink speed of 600 Mbps.

Including the time for data verification and antenna scheduling, the data was downloaded in about ten minutes and then transmitted to the image analysis team organized by Professor Lu Zhaoming.

Just over ten minutes later, the online meeting resumed, and Professor Lu Zhaoming solemnly announced the results: "We did not find any anomalous structures within the corresponding coordinate range of the Jinghai Plain."

He uploaded an image to the virtual conference room. Jiang Yang clicked to open it, zoomed in, and saw a detailed and realistic view of the lunar surface.

Dark basalt, thick lunar dust, sharp, angular lunar debris, and other elements combine to create a desolate and lifeless scene.

It is possible that since billions of years ago, when the moon cooled down and lost its ability to be geologically active, no foreign objects have ever visited this place.

It has preserved this scene like a specimen to this day.

Compared to the rest of the moon, there is nothing unusual here.

"About two hours later, the lunar reconnaissance satellite will fly over the corresponding area again, at which time it will take a second picture and transmit the data back."

But based on experience, I don't think there will be any new discoveries.

Professor Lu Zhaoming said solemnly, "Whether there are any abnormal formations in the corresponding area is obvious at a glance. There is no need for too much complicated analysis, and repeated shooting will not help improve the accuracy."

Jiang Yang asked uncertainly, "Is it possible that the anomalous object is small in size, and the lunar reconnaissance satellite lacks sufficient precision, or... the anomalous object is extremely similar to the lunar surface background environment, making it undetectable?"

"That's a possibility. It's also possible that it's underground and not on the lunar surface at all."

This is where things get tricky.

Existing intelligence indicates that the anomaly must be in that area, but our side has been unable to find any clues.

Sun Changhe said, "Commander Gu."

Gu Changshan stood up from behind Jiang Yang, making his own image appear on the screen: "Gu Changshan reporting for duty."

"Do we currently have the capability to deliver nuclear weapons to that region of the moon? How long would it take? How many could we deliver?"

In an instant, the online meeting room fell silent.

Jiang Yang's heart tightened instantly.

Indeed... no matter what anomalies exist in that area, our side can simply send nuclear weapons there and carry out a carpet bombing, which may also solve the doomsday problem!
This is undoubtedly one direction worth exploring!

However, Jiang Yang was also clearly aware of the limitations of this approach.

It can only be used as a last resort after all other means have failed. After all, we don't even know what's there, what its state is, or what form it takes. Blindly bombing like this is hardly going to be effective.

Gu Changshan said solemnly, "We need some assessment, and we should have the results in about an hour."

"Go immediately."

"Yes."

Gu Changshan turned and left, leaving Jiang Yang alone in the core conference room.

Just as he had thought, Sun Changhe continued, "Using nuclear weapons for indiscriminate bombing is our last resort. Before that, we still need to find out as much as possible about the situation there."

Professor Lu, what facilities do you think would be needed to conduct the most comprehensive search and inspection of the JH area under current technological conditions?

“I also need some assessment, about an hour.” Sun Changhe looked at Jiang Yang again. Jiang Yang straightened up: “Then let’s take another hour’s break.”

The screen went black, and Jiang Yang leaned back in his chair, rubbing his forehead wearily.

This high-intensity information exchange and thinking is extremely mentally taxing. Even as an observer, simply receiving those high-frequency and important decisions and engaging in thought is exhausting enough, let alone the fact that Jiang Yang also assumes the roles of facilitator and decision-maker in this process.

"If only Zhou Yu could massage my head."

The idea suddenly popped into his head.

In his previous lives, whenever he felt tired from studying, Zhou Yu always had a way to relax both his mind and body. Unconsciously, he even felt that he had become somewhat dependent on it.

But thinking about Zhou Yu's current state...

"There's always a process of accepting things like the end of the world. I guess she hasn't recovered yet."

Jiang Yang shook his head, abandoning his plan to find Zhou Yu now. Instead, he leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes, and pretended to doze off, trying his best to calm his thoughts and give his constantly racing brain a moment's rest.

An hour passed quickly, and Gu Changshan completed the collective assessment. He sat back down behind Jiang Yang, and the online meeting resumed.

"Reporting to Director Sun, we have completed the preliminary assessment of the lunar delivery nuclear weapons program."

Our assessment concluded that existing intercontinental ballistic missiles, with some simple modifications, are fully capable of undertaking this mission.

In terms of communication, navigation, mapping, and positioning, the existing lunar exploration network can be used, without the need for additional support.

The missile body requires the addition or removal of some equipment, such as removing the reentry procedure, adding extra fuel, and adding a vacuum multiple ignition device. The modification work for a single missile is expected to take five days.

After the missile is launched, it will take about a day to reach the JH region of the moon.

We currently have a total of 60 intercontinental strategic nuclear missiles, each capable of carrying up to 8 nuclear warheads with a yield of 200 megatons of TNT, for a total of 480 warheads.

Based on a bombing area of ​​300 square kilometers, one bomb could be allocated to every 0.625 square kilometers on average.

A lunar vacuum environment nuclear explosion simulation program shows that a single warhead is fully capable of vaporizing everything within a 0.625 square kilometer area, creating a crater about 100 meters deep, and transmitting shockwaves several kilometers underground.

Based on our nuclear bunker capabilities, the shockwave from a single nuclear warhead could penetrate to a depth of approximately 400 meters below the lunar surface.

Hearing this series of data, Jiang Yang felt a profound sense of shock.

He knew that the destructive power of nuclear weapons would be greatly reduced in the vacuum environment of the moon.

Because the most important destructive mechanism of a nuclear weapon is the shock wave. In a vacuum environment, there is no air, so there is no shock wave.

Even so, its destructive power is still so great.

If it exploded on Earth, then...

No wonder so many countries immediately backed down when just one intercontinental ballistic missile passed through the air at an altitude of over a thousand kilometers in my previous life.

only……

Jiang Yang clearly remembered that conventional methods of launching satellites, landers, and lunar rovers to the moon usually took five or six days, but this missile only took one day.
(End of this chapter)