＜ Episode 290 >
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Moscow, Russia.
“Nikolai! Nikolai!”
“Romanoff! Romanoff!”
In the parade welcoming the safe return of the world’s first astronaut, there was an almost frenzied cheer.
Even foreign media, including the United States, applauded the return of the hero who made a feat that will go down in human history, the feat of advancing into outer space for the first time.
When the parade finally reached the front of the Kremlin, the Russian army in line split apart, and the highest ranks of the Russian Empire, his family, stood smiling.
His father put his hand on Nikolai’s shoulder as he walked down the red carpet to it, and said softly.
“I am proud of you.”
“……!”
“Don’t waste your time negligently, go ahead.”
Nikolai, with a light hit on the back, looked straight at his wife.
“…… honey.”
In the meantime, she smiled as her stomach was visibly summoned.
“Did I say that? It’s an amazing gift.”
“…..ah.”
“Congratulations on being a dad, sweetheart.”
“Dad……”
“I looked at the date and it was about a month before you entered the camp.”
“…then it means that there are less than two months left…”
Nikolai, who barely managed to put the words together, was overwhelmed with emotion.
But, cautiously, just to avoid harm to the child, he embraced her and kissed her on the forehead.
She also buried her face in the nape of his neck and whispered softly.
“Welcome back safely.”
After a round of applause, Nikolai saw their father standing on the podium. Father began a calm speech to the audience.
“On December 12, 1953, humanity succeeded in stepping out of our cradle.”
“And, we are now making clear progress towards the future. Archduke Nikolai Mikhailovich Romanov plucked up the courage to go out into space, and the bride in the blue veil looked at the Earth, and now we are ready to leave her cradle, the cradle from which we were born, and set out for the infinite universe. This will bring infinite glory to our country, and each footstep of our heroes will remain as an immortal anthem. I am convinced that the next 50 or 100 years from this moment will be very different from the 50 and 100 years before, and progress will be made at a pace that has never changed so quickly in history.”
“There are still many records to be established about space stays. Humanity will head to the moon. Humanity will head to Mars. We will walk through the veil of the unknown and continue to step out of the atmosphere.”
“The future and progress of mankind is clearly in space. We will go into space for the sustainable development of mankind.”
“Of course there will be threats. Current technology is still incomplete, and there is a risk of human casualties on the way to space at any time.”
“How many heroes will give their lives for the advancement of mankind, we do not know. But that’s exactly why we want to get ahead. We believe that the Romanovs are imperial, and that is why we should set an example. It’s dangerous, so we go ahead. Since it is unknown, we will walk first. Whether in war, in harsh environments, with temperatures of hundreds of degrees below zero, hundreds of degrees above zero, and with rarefied oxygen, for the sake of progress and victory, we will not sit in a safe place and force the sacrifices of others. As we represent this country, we deserve to take the responsibility, so we should go ahead as the vanguard. It is not because it is glorious or honorable, safe and comfortable, but because it is dangerous, sometimes unnoticed, and very unlikely to succeed.”
“Historically, monarchs and nobility have been given the power to rule over their citizens and the duty to protect them. That is why he said that if they have the ability to do so, but do not fulfill their duty to protect the citizens, then such people cannot dare to be called royalty.”
“If any threat awaits on the path of the empire for eternity, it can be said that the imperial family and descendants of the imperial family should stand at the forefront to face it. .”
“Rights come with obligations. And that duty should never be avoided. And I believe that as long as the Romanovs remain on the throne, I and my descendants will be happy to bear the immortal duty.”
***
White House, United States of America. Washington DC
“It is clear that the United States of America, while having an advantage in conventional aviation and naval forces, is at an overwhelming disadvantage in nuclear weapons, space, and ground forces.”
President of the United States of America, George Marshall, listened to Defense Secretary James Forrestal’s explanation.
“Then, where is the United States of America to deal with?”
“First, it is Japan and South China where the United States of America and the Russian Empire are likely on the ground to confront each other. All of the Middle East and Persia are Russia’s territory, and there is a buffer zone called France, so the possibility of clashes in Africa, Southeast Asia, and India is quite low.”
“Japan and South China.”
“But both have their limitations. The Russian army is not capable of advancing to Ryukyu by any means, and for the same reason, an offensive as far as Taiwan is impossible. In the worst case scenario, it will end with the loss of those two areas.”
“Because the navy isn’t strong enough.”
“That’s right. Russia will never be able to cross the Azores and Ryukyus within the next decade or so.”
“Except for intercontinental ballistic missiles and bombers.”
“Yes that’s right.”
“What about our projectile technology?”
“The Sinite rocket using technology stolen from the Russian Empire has been successfully launched, and research is currently underway to improve the Sinite rocket.”
Sinite rocket, a space launch vehicle of the United States of America based on the technology obtained by exchanging the technology of the Russian Empire and the CIA’s intelligence network in Russia.
Because of their ignorantly large size, each rocket costs a lot for a simple one, but it is the most stable rocket available to the United States of America.
However, due to its excessive weight, there is a restriction that it must be launched from the water, which means that a significant number of naval forces will be in charge of the operation of nuclear missiles.
The problem is that it’s a lot of waste. When I tried to mass-produce it, the US defense budget was consumed in percent. In the original history, ICBMs were originally expensive weapons to the extent that 5% of the defense budget was lost every time the Soviet Union fired one R-7 rocket.
Of course, the accuracy rate was also open-ended. No country has yet had the capability to produce satisfactory circular error in ICBMs. So, they tried to launch a hydrogen bomb under development using the surplus payload.
The hydrogen bomb was very large, beautiful, and heavier than the existing atomic bomb. It was perfectly suitable to be mounted on Sinite. But the quantity is just not enough.
“And the origin of the launch is also limited. There are no coordinate limitations, but the problem is that we have to use the method of loading and firing on United States-class aircraft carriers currently in operation. The number of ballistic missiles that can be fired simultaneously is bound to be limited.”
In conclusion, the lack of rocket technology in the United States has limited the means and reliability of nuclear delivery to Russia. To the extent that the main nuclear retaliatory measure is still nuclear-loaded cruise missiles.
And the cruise missile, whether ground-launched or submarine-launched, was still an unfamiliar strike system. It was difficult to think that the Russian military would not be able to intercept a missile that was easily caught up and intercepted by US Air Force aircraft.
It was also related to the Russian Empire’s neglect of leaking the basic technology of the space launch vehicle.
Because SDI fundamentally undermines the only factor that kept the peace during the Cold War, the only factor that caused strong backlash worldwide, even within the United States: the guarantee of mutually assured destruction that if nuclear is used, both will die. .
In order to prevent the US from desperation and first attack, it was aiding the leak of basic technology for making guns.
“If we can’t make nuclear missiles, shouldn’t we rather create a way to defend against Russia’s nuclear weapons?”
“A surface-to-air missile with a nuclear warhead, that is currently the most likely option. The Russian Empire has a similar weapon system.”
“At the Pentagon, not only surface-to-air missiles, but also in outer space, a number of nuclear warheads are mounted on satellites like mines in the orbit where Russian nuclear missiles are supposed to pass. This was envisioned. However, there is a possibility that a failed launch may cause irreversible damage, so it would be wise to try it after the stability of the space launch vehicle has been secured for a certain amount.”
“The United Nations Atomic Energy Charter unconditionally prohibits the export of nuclear weapons, nuclear materials, nuclear raw materials, etc., to the outside of their territory by nuclear-weapon states, except for aircraft and ships belonging to their own military. It is also expressly forbidden to deploy on land in a fixed military base treated as the territory of the country concerned, so the legal interpretation of whether a satellite is treated as a fixed ‘base’ or legally an ‘aircraft’ is not clear. It could be different.”
In a word, it was not to deploy tactical nukes abroad. It is legal to equip nuclear submarines or other domestic ships with nuclear weapons.
Nuclear warheads cannot be unloaded from airplanes or ships for any reason in areas beyond the sovereignty of the nuclear warhead-owning country. It was even stated that it had an obligation to dispatch a nuclear warhead and supervise the recovery of nuclear materials.
In other words, the interpretation of international law could be different depending on whether the satellite was viewed as an ‘aircraft’ or a ‘base’, and a legal interpretation had to be prepared.
In addition, methods for evading interception by abruptly dropping from a satellite while floating in outer space were suggested, and as a result, it was concluded that all of them were pursued.
It was a choice made because there was literally no need to save a budget, and because it was so desperate.