Reborn in 2010, the AI ​​in my mind is too powerful.

With a specific target in mind, Mao's various forces began to mobilize, searching for the people they had initially contacted.

The actual results were not good, after all, it was more than 30 years ago, some people had passed away, some had gone abroad to live, and some simply disappeared during subsequent government changes.

But after two days of effort, Sergei managed to piece together the general situation. Sergei wasn't an ordinary intelligence officer; he had a technical background, and after his investigation, he discovered that things seemed to be getting serious.

This matter may uncover a secret of Mao Zedong.

Three days later, inside the Kremlin, Sergei faced a group of high-ranking officials and began to recount the investigation results.

"It has been confirmed that on March 23, 1983, Reagan officially announced the Strategic Defense Initiative, which is the so-called Star Wars program."

Four days later, Andropov gave a strong public response, declaring that the United States was preparing a preemptive nuclear strike and warning that it would bring the world to the brink of nuclear collapse.

At the time, the economy was at a disadvantage, so in August, Andropov publicly announced that the Soviet Union would stop all research and development of space-based weapons.

Meanwhile, the unnamed project we are seeing now was probably secretly launched in April.

Andropov died before he successfully ascended to space; he did so when Chernenko became General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee.

To avoid suspicion, they did not adopt a new mission number, but instead used the then-in-progress US-KS mission Space 1546.

1984年3月29日，契尔年科上任第45天，宇宙1546号成功进入地球同步轨道。

However, the project did not go smoothly. In the autumn of 1984, the uplink receiving channel failed, and the satellite entered a state of transmitting but not receiving. Subsequently, after its service life expired, it automatically ignited to raise its orbit, entered a graveyard orbit, and was permanently shut down.

Before his death the following year, Chernenko may have given some instructions.

Ultimately, this led to the KGB Chairman at the time, Chebrikov, sealing off the matter, completely destroying all written documents, and issuing a warning to key personnel to silence them.

Based on current intelligence from various sources, we believe they may have placed three nuclear warheads inside, likely modified from the MIRVs of the Avangard-UTTK (SS-20 ballistic missile).

The yield is not large, around 150,000 tons per missile.

Beside him, the imposing and domineering King of Rides (from a comic book, quite amusing), whose face showed signs of hyaluronic acid injections, asked with a somewhat unpleasant expression, "Are you sure?"

Sergei nodded: "Although all the decision-makers have passed away, we have figured out the timeline, and the project leader at the time, Livovich, can testify that the satellites were mass-produced, with several being built at once."

However, during the final assembly of Cosmos 1546, the payload bay originally intended to house the infrared telescope was replaced. Livovich assisted another person in performing related calculations and designs for the payload deployment, specifically addressing how to fit the three warheads inside and how to balance the center of gravity.

The other person has passed away, but we found out that she came from the 12th Main Directorate of the Soviet Ministry of Defense, which was specifically responsible for the safety, maintenance, operation, and transportation of warheads.

The rest of the process, while strictly adhering to the compartmentalized system, meant that each person only knew their own small part of the responsibility. The workers at the nuclear device manufacturing plant only knew they were building a specific model, and the headquarters escort officers only knew they were placing the munitions at the designated location, unaware of the specific warheads' whereabouts.

The personnel receiving the package on the production line only knew that it was a special package and did not know that it contained three nuclear bombs.

Along the entire route, we only managed to contact two people; the rest had either passed away or emigrated.

But basically, we can confirm that this is the truth of the matter.

No one present was stupid; none of them asked the foolish question of whether the satellite could still be used.

Since nuclear warheads are not maintained, it's a miracle they don't explode; they're definitely unusable.

Furthermore, Aurora's space capabilities are far superior, and it is currently building spacecraft in a grand manner. Russia does not want Aurora to start considering space-based weapons, because in reality, only Aurora currently has the resources to develop space-based weapons.

The King of Riders sighed and asked, "So, how much of an impact will it have on us?"

The defense minister beside him nodded and said, "Let me answer this question. Once the aurora has indeed cleared our malfunctioning satellite, if they have indeed discovered that it contained three warheads, they will likely be able to obtain a lot of specific data."

First, they can calculate the proportion of plutonium-241 that decays into murex-241, precisely deducing the year the plutonium was last chemically purified. Then, by comparing this with the year the warhead was manufactured, they can determine that the turnover cycle had increased from 3 years to 11 years.

This was during the peak of Soviet plutonium production, yet the plutonium remained in storage for increasingly longer periods. There's only one explanation: the rate of consumption was far lower than the production rate. They can deduce that we had far fewer warheads than the international community realized.

Furthermore, the three plutonium craters must have stamped serial numbers. Currently, the most likely one is 676-3, but it could also be 676-2 or 676-1. Combined with the previous deductions about the turnover cycle, they can be even more certain that our nuclear arsenal is very weak.

There's also the issue of aging. Our warheads already have a short lifespan. Once they get their hands on the actual warheads, they'll be able to further calculate how many of the Soviet-era warheads are still reliable.

Silence fell upon the crowd. The problem of the Soviet Union exaggerating its warhead numbers was long-standing. For decades, the Soviet Union had begun to overstate its nuclear capabilities.

The main purpose is to provide cover, reduce the number of troops built, and save the money for the regular army.

After all, due to design flaws, the maintenance costs of Soviet nuclear warheads were more exorbitant than imagined. For the Soviet Union, whose economy was already weaker than that of the United States, this burden was simply too heavy.

Later, whenever nuclear warheads were counted, whether they were decommissioned or destroyed, they were all added to the inventory.

Of course, the most outrageous periods were the later Soviet period and the early days of Russia.

The legacy of the Soviet Union resulted in designs with shockingly short service lifespans; the SS-9 lasted only 6 years, and even the SS-18, which made some breakthroughs, lasted at most 10 years.

The collapse of funding, coupled with outdated technology and, more alarmingly, a loss of security control, put Russia's nuclear arsenal in grave danger, a fact that Russia itself acknowledged at the time.

The tritium tubes of a thermonuclear warhead must be refilled every five or six years; otherwise, the fusion secondary will be like a pile of firewood without a spark, its power decreasing year by year, eventually degenerating into a pure fission bomb.

Aging of polymer adhesives, decomposition of components, and deformation due to moisture can also cause a large number of duds or insufficient power. Even Russia itself doesn't know how many of its nuclear weapons are useless.

In 2004, then-Commander of the Strategic Missile Forces, Solovtsov, publicly acknowledged that the main problem of the strategic missile forces was the rapid aging of missile equipment. Currently, about 80% of the missile equipment on combat duty has passed its service life, and combat capability is maintained solely by the technical level of the combat personnel.

Ultimately, Russia had no choice but to hold on and activate a batch of unfueled, unguided munitions that had been stored away at the end of the Cold War, intended for the end of the world.

Then it's a matter of robbing Peter to pay Paul, rolling out retired missiles and replacing the aging parts of active missiles with the parts in good condition from the retired ones.

The only reliable solution was to cooperate with Ukraine, as the SS-18 was manufactured by the Yuzhnoye Machine-Building Plant in Ukraine. In March 2006, Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement, with Russia funding the extension of the SS-3's lifespan to 25 years.

However, all three are essentially relying on past achievements, and the third one has now been blocked by Russia itself.

Finally, when it came to the point where a world war was about to break out, Russia was shocked to find that its forces were not only inferior to those of the United States, but even to its former ally in the south, with whom it had a love-hate relationship.

Although US media claims that they still have more than 5,000 nuclear weapons, with 1,800 deployed in real time and ready to be launched at any time.

However, those who know their own situation know that at least half of these 1,800 bombs are likely to be less powerful than expected, and the rest are purely a matter of luck, with most probably being duds.

The King of Rides looked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and said, "Forget it, we're going to fight a conventional war now. We are determined not to use nuclear weapons, but we need to emphasize that we have a strong willingness to use nuclear weapons so that we can scare the other side."

And most importantly, what are they saying in Europe?

The Foreign Minister frowned: "I don't think we can intimidate France and Germany. We need to think of a way to divert their attention."

The King of Rides tapped the table and said, "We absolutely cannot let them know that we don't have enough nuclear weapons; that would directly cause them to lose their will to fight."

Sergei then spoke up: "I think it's hard for them to be sure that we're in a hurry because of nuclear weapons. After all, although it's not a good thing, more than 200 kilograms of nuclear material were stolen from us on the European market more than a decade ago."

This confirms, on the one hand, that there is indeed a problem with our nuclear arsenal. But on the other hand, it also proves that we have a relatively large stockpile of nuclear weapons, right?

I think we need to deliberately find ways to leak some other information, such as that our other satellites that have been announced as retired have actually been used for espionage purposes, even targeting Europe.

In this way, they might think that what we were worried about before was that Aurora would expose our surveillance of our allies.

But this is only a matter of public relations; France and Germany will at most issue a protest.

"That's all we can do. Let's push this forward as soon as possible and set a timeline. Once the aurora starts cleaning up space debris and reaches the orbit near Cosmic 1546, we can't wait any longer. We must launch the first attack and drag Fadla into the war."