Big Time 1958

A fifty-ton crane was used to send the big Ivan under the Tu-95B" strategic bomber. During the whole process, Serov and Itvasov's expressions were extremely calm, but the constantly surging Adam's apple proved that the two were only in the air. Forced calm in front of subordinates.

The commander-in-chief of the test was Lieutenant General Pavlov, the commander of the 46th Air Force. The final assembled hydrogen bomb was loaded into the Tu-95B" strategic bomber in a special vehicle. The soldiers at the airport were working overtime to complete one thing, digging trenches. , Big Ivan's entire projectile was dragged to the ground and could not take off at all. The only emergency way was to dig a ditch on the airstrip below it. Otherwise, if the big Ivan took off by force, the outer shell of Big Ivan would rub against the ground, and the consequences would be disastrous. If you're lucky, the Soviet capital Moscow, 40 kilometers away, will be the first capital on Earth to be wiped out by a nuclear bomb.

   "Go, let's get on the plane!" After watching the whole process, Serov felt that he was brave enough to show his courage, and he didn't need to stop here to prove anything, so he quickly greeted Itvasov to leave here. He didn't want to continue his life from Zhukovsky.

Take the transport plane to the nearest observation site in Novaya Zemlya. After getting off the plane, Serov tightened his military coat and stretched out his hand to Gurikov, the person in charge of the test site in Novaya Zemlya. On the way, itwa. Sov has left Moscow, and he will sit in the KGB and liaise with the Ministry of Defense. When the experiment begins, close 80 percent of the Soviet radar station on the Arctic Ocean coast. All power grids north of Leningrad, including Leningrad, will cease to operate. Cities including the city will shut down the communication network.

  All conditions are in place, and the test personnel prepared carefully. The last inspection of various equipment and places, the armored shelter is normal, and the observation platform of the command post is located 250 kilometers away. The destroyer was parked 180 kilometers away, and all monitoring points were on guard.

"Hello. Comrade Serov! Seeing your security cadres will ease my nervousness!" Gurikov, the person in charge of the Novaya Zemlya test site, patted his chest somewhat exaggeratedly, "I don't know why, but when I think of it The date of the nuclear test is approaching, and my nervousness can't be eased..."

"Oh, this may be the first time I feel so important!" Serov didn't know whether to be happy or disappointed when he heard this, but he knew one thing. Not only was Gurikov nervous, but Serov was also a little nervous. Not a lot.

"We are hundreds of kilometers away from the Madochjing area where the experiment was conducted. The buildings in the entire test site are very solid and are newly built for this experiment. From a solid point of view, there is no problem!" Gurikov led Serov to the observation site, indicating that they are still quite safe to observe here.

   "I believe in the quality of Soviet manufacturing in terms of sturdiness and durability!" Serov didn't say another problem when he said this. The quality of Big Ivan is also quite good, and the power is halved and still ranks first among all the big bombers in the world.

   Entering the control room Serov immediately started to communicate with the Central Presidium in Moscow and the Ministry of Defense. Although the main control room is a semi-underground building, there are no problems of poor signal. The Soviet equipment is absolutely excellent in this regard, and the radar of the MiG-25 can burn animals on the ground. A lot of equipment in the Soviet Union can be described as seven wounding fists. It hurts oneself first and hurts others. Either the other party will die or oneself will die.

   "Yuri Yefimovich Serov has arrived at the Novaya Zemlya test area, and the report is complete! Everything is normal here, the weather is good, and the test can start at any time!" Serov's words will be transmitted to Moscow by radio waves. Look out through the viewing hole. You can even see seabirds flying outside. I hope that the sixth sense of this group of seabirds is a little more sensitive, and they don't fly to the place where the bombs were dropped.

   "Report of the Ministry of Defense. Tu-95B" strategic bombers have taken off from the Zhukovsky military base! The ground radar station is directing strategic bombers to the Madochkin area, your local radar station will see it then! "

"After the radar station in the Novaya Zemlya test area has completed the guidance, it will immediately report to the Ministry of Defense. We will close most of the radar stations in the Arctic Circle! I will go to the test area tomorrow to watch," Marshal Negerin said after a pause. Here, your Uncle Bagramyan told you to be careful..."

"Thank you!" Shelov thanked with a blank face, and then sent a report to the Central Presidium on the situation of Novaya Zemlya and the preparations made by the local experimental area for this. After a while, he received a call back from the Central Presidium, and the test date remained unchanged. It is still the 30th, that is, starting tomorrow, and all departments use the last day to make all preparations.

   Novaya Zemlya is very solid, because most of the place is covered with granite. It is now October, and the normal temperature here is minus 15 degrees. Serov is not unbearable for this temperature, and it is still within the range of human activities. The buds left by the short summer have already withered and yellowed. In fact, the summer temperature here is about zero degrees. Because of the latitude issue, there will be no rotation of the seasons. At this time, the Tu-95B" strategic bomber of the Zhukovsky military base has left there and went to Murmansk with the assembled Big Ivan.

Murmansk is the only "freeze-free port" in northern Russia. It is located at about 68° within the Arctic Circle. Due to the influence of the North Atlantic warm current, although it is located in the Arctic Circle at high latitudes, the temperature is very low. , it never freezes throughout the year, even in the coldest months, the seawater temperature is not lower than three degrees Celsius, and it is navigable throughout the year.

Because it was too dangerous to take off from Zhukovsky, Marshal Negerin finally chose Murmansk as the take-off site for the Tu-95B strategic bomber. The next morning, Serov was still experiencing the polar climate for the first time. Commissioner Palavsky and Marshal Negerin, commander of the Strategic Rocket Army, took a military plane to the Novaya Zemlya test site. At the moment when the two landed, Murmansk's Tu-95B strategic bomber was carrying the big Ivan in the already remodeled. The airport began to taxi slowly.

Five minutes later, the Novaya Zemlya test area got the news that Ivan had gone to heaven. Ten minutes later, the Ministry of National Defense sent a telegram. At 9:27 in the morning, the "Tu-95B" plane carrying the giant hydrogen bomb and another A "Tu-16" plane carrying the laboratory took off together, heading directly to an island in the Novaya Zemlya archipelago.

   "They're coming?" Sheloff's voice was very strange, with a metallic synth sound.

"Yes, maybe we will see a scene that is rarely seen in history!" Marshal Negerin replied, in fact, if it wasn't for Serov, the person standing here casually at this time should be the successor of the strategic rocket army commander Mo Mo Marshal Skalenko.

   Half an hour later, Captain Durnovtsev, 180 kilometers off Novaya Zevus, reported that the Tu-95B strategic bomber and the test plane had been detected, and the two planes were approaching Novaya Zemlya.

   "It has reached the Madochkin area, everything is normal!" Yasnikov, the pilot of the Tu-95B strategic bomber, reported over Novaya Zemlya.

"Bomb drop!" At the same time that Marshal Negerin gave the order, Serov, who was standing beside the observation hole, took out the sunglasses that he had already prepared. Of course, he took out a bunch of them. Serov dared to risk blindness when he was fully prepared. The danger comes here.

"Understood!" The voice of Yasnikov, who was at an altitude of 10,000 meters, came through the radio. The big Ivan, which was fixed on the belly of the Tu-95B strategic bomber, was thrown out. The first one came out half a meter long. the parachute, followed by the second one, which is about 5.5 square meters, and the third one is 40 square meters. Finally, the main parachute was opened, which was 1,600 square meters, and the hydrogen bomb was smoothly lowered with the parachute. At this moment, the command post came from Marshal Negelin's command to open the parachute, and there was a relaxed sigh in the answer. After that, it was an excruciating wait for the explosion.

Yasnikov, who successfully launched the Big Ivan, finally no longer has to carry this severely overloaded cargo. At this time, his hands in the black leather gloves were already muddy, and he got rid of the Big Ivan's Tu-95B type. The strategic bomber quickly departed like a sword from the string. According to the calculation, the safe escape time was fifteen minutes in total. The pilot released an opaque aerosol from the tail of the aircraft.

   At 11:32 noon, the most powerful explosion in human history occurred at a height of 4,000 meters above the Novaya Zemlya Islands. A dazzling flash of light appeared in the air, lasting nearly seventy seconds, and could be seen hundreds of kilometers away, despite being obscured by thick clouds. The flames of the next fireball covered the world and lasted for a long time. Finally, a huge, gray-black mushroom cloud rose into the sky, its top reaching the stratosphere, and its height was dozens of kilometers.

   When the explosion occurred, the test personnel in the aircraft cabin were more than 100 kilometers away from the center of the explosion, avoiding the strong flash. However, even the thick smog from the aft hatch used to block light was not fully protective. The heat wave poured into the cabin, and as the shock wave passed through the plane, the indications of all the instrumentation devices skyrocketed, the needles jumped back and forth... that's not much, until later, all the seismic testers around the world detected this nuclear The explosion, the shock wave it produced spread three times across the globe.

Serov, who was 250 kilometers away from the explosion site, instantly felt a burst of dazzling light through the observation hole, and even the sunglasses on his face did not work. The control room was in violent shock.

   "The test was successful, we can report to the Moscow Central Presidium!" Marshal Negerin said with a sigh.

   Shelov nodded, but didn't immediately take off the sunglasses on the bridge of his nose, "If our communication network is still useful, of course!" I don't know if the equipment in this testing ground is electronic tube, if it is, it should still work. (To be continued~^~)