Great time travel

Chapter 1: Is this a nuclear winter?

April [-], [-], Washington, District of Columbia, the capital of the United States
In the Oval Office of the White House, President Truman was happily reviewing documents, humming a few little tunes from time to time—although it has been a month and a half since the "Blood Valentine's Day" war that nuclear bombed the Soviet Union.But the good mood it brought him was still not exhausted.

——What can be better than punching the enemy hard in the face first, so that his head is bleeding, and then immediately travel thousands of miles, shrinking to a place where the opponent can't reach, watching the opponent get angry in the distance Jumping feet, but being helpless with yourself... What makes people feel more happy and well-informed?

Although the cost of organizing this nuclear explosion expedition by the U.S. Strategic Air Force is really high, the cost of each new B-29 "Super Sky Fortress" strategic bomber alone is as high as 70 U.S. dollars. Various accident losses during the field trip to Iceland, as well as several previous reconnaissance operations and small-scale harassment bombings against the Nordic countries, the U.S. military lost more than 29 B-14 bombers for this operation alone. That is, $2 billion was burned in one go.In addition to the loss of escort fighter jets, the cost of 40 atomic bombs, and the training costs of more than [-] aircrew... Adding all these together, the total cost is more than [-] billion U.S. dollars, and it can be converted into gold to pile up like a hill. high.

However, compared to the losses of the Soviets, this cost is nothing - the construction cost of the Soviet battleship Soviet, the flagship of the Red Navy that was sunk in Stockholm by a nuclear bomb, was about 4000 million U.S. dollars .And the destruction of the five Baltic port cities of Stockholm, Helsinki, Tallinn, Vyborg, and Leningrad and a large number of merchant fleets caused economic losses of no less than [-] billion U.S. dollars!

(During World War II, the gold content of the U.S. dollar was much higher than it is now. The purchasing power of one U.S. dollar at that time was equivalent to about forty to fifty U.S. dollars today.)
Of course, after the atomic bomb exploded in Leningrad, Stalin retaliated furiously immediately, but the staff of the Pentagon are not fools. What's your reaction?
In fact, as early as when the combat plan for the nuclear explosion of the Soviet Union was formulated, the U.S. military expected that the Soviets would retaliate against the Icelandic base with nuclear bombs afterwards.Moreover, considering that after this full-scale attack, the nuclear arsenal in the hands of the U.S. military will be exhausted again, and God knows how many B-29 "Super Fortress" bombers that attack will come back. There is a wave of attacks, so it's better to accept them as soon as they are good.

Therefore, on the day of February 29th, before the B-10,000 "Super Fortress" bomber group that raided Leningrad for a long distance arrived at the destination, the U.S. troops stationed at the Icelandic base began an intensive retreat. As a result, Five days later, when the hastily gathered Soviet strategic bombers set off from Murmansk and carried atomic bombs to the US military base in Iceland, they found that the retreat of Iceland was coming to an end, and more than a dozen military airports in Iceland had already been deserted. The building is empty, the military port and the barracks that once stationed [-]+ troops are also empty, leaving only a handful of miscellaneous troops from the South American allies, and some third-rate black and Asian troops in the U.S. Army, who were left to suffer from nuclear bombing and topping. cylinder.

Even so, Iceland, which should be wiped off the map, still needs to be blown up—whether it is Stalin, the man of steel, Ms. Sophie, the seriously injured ship lady, or Wang Qiu and others who almost failed the mission. In any case, Iceland must be blown up so that it is not suitable for human survival, at least not to allow the US military to use the airport here again to launch the next nuclear strike on the Soviet Union.

As a result, wave after wave of Soviet strategic bombers came one after another, and dropped more than 30 atomic bombs on Iceland. On this island, which has been down for eight lifetimes, it is full of mushroom clouds blooming everywhere... The U.S. military spent a lot of money on Iceland. The dozens of airports built over the years, as well as military ports, docks, warehouses, radar stations, and weather stations were blown up to nothing. The original 10,000+ Vikings in Iceland were almost wiped out. In the end, there were only a few thousand dead species with particularly tenacious vitality left on the whole island, still struggling to die in the radiation wasteland of this alpine zone.

Then, what made President Truman even more dumbfounded was that it seemed that because the Soviets’ throwing nuclear bombs offended God, Iceland brazenly used large-scale geophysical weapons to retaliate—perhaps because of the stimulation of the Soviets’ repeated nuclear explosions , Iceland’s Eyjafjallah volcano hiccupped suddenly at noon on March [-], spewing out a large amount of smoke and volcanic ash, and shot down [-]% of the last formation of long-range bombers dispatched by the Soviet Union for strategic nuclear strikes against Iceland on the spot: In addition to the sound waves of the volcanic eruption, the dense volcanic ash in the air can easily cause aircraft engine failure.

What's worse, a week later, just next door to the Eyjafjallah volcano, another larger volcano, Katla, on Iceland also erupted violently, and the loud noise of the eruption even spread thousands of kilometers away to Scotland, Ireland and northern Norway... The magma erupted by two volcanoes covered [-] square kilometers of land, and the high temperature that followed melted the eternal solid ice cap, triggering great floods all over Iceland—this is actually It doesn't matter, anyway, after so many nuclear bombs, there are not many living people left in Iceland.At the same time, the millions of tons of volcanic ash particles, dust and soot erupted by the two volcanoes have been rising into the atmosphere under the action of heat, and then drifted in all directions under the push of the wind, forming a sphere with a diameter covering the entire Iceland. The giant dust cloud is still drifting south, dwarfing any atomic bomb mushroom cloud.

Until now, the eruption of these two volcanoes in Iceland has not ended, and the air route to the North Atlantic has been completely cut off.If it was before the fall of Britain, this may have a bad impact on the logistics and transportation of the US military.But now that the U.S. military has withdrawn from Europe and confronted the red camp across the Atlantic Ocean, it is tantamount to adding a natural barrier, blocking the attack route of Soviet bombers from the Arctic Ocean to penetrate into North America.

However, although Stalin had nothing to do with the U.S. troops who had already withdrawn from Iceland in advance, it did not affect him from throwing the flames of revenge on the U.S. troops in the Middle East led by Eisenhower—Jerusalem, where Eisenhower set up his headquarters, is one of the three major human religions The common holy land of the city, the religious, cultural and historical value is so high that even Stalin, the steel uncle, dare not destroy it easily.Therefore, the Soviets turned to nuclear bombing of Basra in Iraq, the port that assumed the main logistics tasks of the US military in the Middle East, in an attempt to cut off the supplies of the 30 US and British allied forces trapped in Jerusalem, and cause chaos without a fight.

As a result, the helpless General Eisenhower, like the allied forces who escaped from North Africa through the Sahara Desert, embarked on a difficult journey southward across the desert—fortunately, the width of the Arabian Desert is much narrower than that of the Sahara Desert, and There is also the Red Sea that can be used as a convenient supply channel. In this way, 30 American and British Allied forces abandoned their heavy equipment, came to the shore of the Red Sea from Jerusalem, and then went all the way south along the east coast of the Red Sea.

Compared with those unlucky colleagues in North Africa who were forced to risk their lives across the Sahara Desert, and only one out of three survived, the journey of the 30 Allied troops from Palestine along the east coast of the Red Sea was much more comfortable.Allied East Africa Command managed to organize six hundred transport planes to drop them food and medicine.In addition, two 1000-ton oil tankers were urgently remodeled to carry fresh water from Eritrea and Yemen to the east coast of the Red Sea, and set up a series of water replenishment stations for the troops going south... Therefore, after paying a small price for the loss of more than [-] people , Eisenhower finally brought the only remaining backbone of the Allied Forces to the Saudi Arabian Jeddah Port in early April, once again gaining a firm foothold at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula.

At this point, across the vast desert, the two camps of the United States and the Soviet Union once again turned to confrontation. The military operations that took place on the Old Continent in the early days of World War III have temporarily come to an end here.Although the white camp headed by the United States was beaten to the ground at this stage, collapsed thousands of miles away, was in a state of disarray, and wiped out millions of effective forces, but at any rate, they retreated in great strides and exchanged space for time. , stabilized the entire front so that it would not collapse.

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While the front lines of the Old Continent battlefield were stabilizing, the situation in the American rear was also developing in favor of the United States.

First of all, after three months of chaotic fighting, killing dozens of cities to bloody rivers, and killing 10,000+ people, the situation in Canada has finally calmed down.According to the mediation of the U.S. government, the British government-in-exile was forced to release the detained Canadian MPs, and negotiated a truce with the Canadian local authorities on the spot, and finally reached the following peace plan-the Canadian Federation separated from the British Empire and no longer loyal to the Windsor royal family , members of the British royal family and Churchill's government-in-exile were declared "persona non grata" by the Canadian government and were given a one-month deadline to leave the country.

——Seeing that guerrillas are swarming all over Canada, they have turned into quagmire black holes that swallow up troops and supplies, and the war even spread across the border and burned the war into the United States. Naturally, President Truman is unwilling to lose money and toss Going down, all I want is to calm things down as soon as possible.

On the other hand, Churchill must have been extremely dissatisfied with such a humiliating and humiliating mediation result, and even uttered absurdities, declaring that with the military power of the British government-in-exile and the support of Canadian die-hard royalists, the "Canadian Colonial Eradication" "Rebel War" to the end.Helplessly, the White House and the Pentagon have no intention of continuing to play with him, let alone being dragged into flames by him, and directly issued an ultimatum to this fussy fat man-openly threatened by the United States to deny the legitimacy of Churchill's government-in-exile, free of charge. All his overseas assets were confiscated, and even when the U.S. Army was dispatched to disarm the exiled British troops collectively, the fat man was shamefully discouraged and gave up Canada in a desperate manner.

Seeing that Canada could not stay, Churchill's government-in-exile had to find a place to stay.According to President Truman's plan, he originally planned to kick them to Cape Town, South Africa, to organize a "British African Empire" and continue to fight against the Soviet Bolsheviks across the Sahara Desert.Unexpectedly, the group of rebels in the Federation of South Africa who have no loyalty and shame in their hearts, seeing that the British Empire is such a phoenix is ​​not as good as a chicken, actually closed their doors to Churchill's government-in-exile, and then announced that after a "referendum (whites only) )” resolution, imitating Canada’s precedent, completely breaking away from the territory of the British Empire, and at the same time declaring members of the British royal family and Churchill’s government-in-exile as “persona non grata” and not allowed to enter South Africa.

And the remaining colonies in British Africa are also booing behind the ass of the South African authorities. Although they lack confidence and capital, they dare not directly announce the establishment of an independent country for the time being, but they have also sent out public calls one after another to reject this disaster. The British government-in-exile moved to their own territory-their territory is generally too poor and poor to support such a large government-in-exile!It only takes ten days and half a month to eat them all!
Obviously, since President Truman was unwilling to suppress the Canadian rebellion for Churchill, he would not have the mind to carry forward the spirit of Lei Feng at the critical moment of the Third World War, and send troops across the Atlantic to recover the African colonies for this fat man who died—Churchill was not His father!On the contrary, Churchill's government-in-exile must be restrained, and they are not allowed to send troops to South Africa, so as to prevent these trash from disintegrating the African front of the white camp from behind.

Facing the muzzle of his American cousin on the back of the head, Churchill, who has been reduced to a subjugated slave, really doesn't want to be coaxed at this moment, and can only continue to be counseled.But if you are a coward, you still have to find a place to stay.You can't really rent a house in New York as an apartment like those exiled politicians in small European countries!This is too out of the style of the British Empire, isn't it?And there is no room for the tens of thousands of loyal ministers and righteous men who followed Churchill to escape across the Atlantic Ocean!
Fortunately, the British Empire in its heyday was really a big business. Although it is now in disarray, there are still a few fragmented territories in Latin America, the largest of which is British Guiana. The "land of many waters" is located on the south coast of the Caribbean Sea, north of Brazil. In terms of land area, it has 21 square kilometers, which is not much smaller than the mainland of Great Britain.

Therefore, Churchill and Queen Margaret moved to Georgetown, the capital of British Guiana, with more than 6 local soldiers and civilians evacuated from the British Isles, as well as more than [-] die-hard royalist civilians from Canada and South Africa. ——It is also the only decent city in the area, temporarily settled down.

However, although the territory of British Guiana is a bit shabby and desolate, Churchill and Queen Margaret will never feel too lonely in Guyana, because in the next door to Dutch Guiana (Suriname), Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and Her Dutch government-in-exile has been moving in for a long time.Next door is French Guiana, and Mr. de Gaulle, who moved here almost at the same time, and the French government-in-exile led by him... These three families used to live together in Europe, and now they still live together in South America. ...

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All in all, in President Truman's view, since the successful nuclear explosion of the Soviet Union, everything is moving in a good direction: the frontal battlefield against the Soviet Union has finally stabilized, and the armies of both sides are separated by the ocean and desert. After contact, the U.S. military, which had been beaten out of breath before, had the leisure to adjust and supplement.Although there are turmoil among the allies, they are more faithfully united around the United States.Domestic public opinion has also recovered a little bit, at least the number of various anti-war demonstrations has decreased a lot—of course, this is more likely due to the Martial Law Order...

Of course, public opinion is nothing to the interest groups in power...as long as there is no division within the interest groups.

In recent times, the thing that has caused President Truman the most troubles has actually been the excessively cold late spring weather.

—In the spring of [-], the weather in the northeastern United States was so unpredictable that no words could describe it.In January of the beginning of the year, the weather was unusually cold. The snow in Boston was five meters thick, which buried two floors of the building. ice rink.It was hard to wait until the ice and snow melted and the flowers bloomed in spring. At the end of last month, the temperature suddenly dropped again, and there was freezing rain without warning. It was really a drop of water and it turned into ice. After a spring rain, the camellias and rhododendrons in the garden It looks fiery red, but as long as you take a closer look, you will find that every flower is frozen in a whole block of ice, so charming and lifelike that it is a work of art when knocked off.

Even though the calendar turned to April, the weather in Washington did not show any signs of warming up. Instead, two consecutive heavy snows fell. Looking out of the window at the snow-covered lawns and shrubs, and the frozen fountain, this scene covered in silver made people President Truman suddenly felt as if he was still celebrating Christmas... But in fact, at this time, nearly four months have passed since Christmas last year...

It's been damn cold this spring!Could it really be some devil's curse?Feeling a bit cold, President Truman sneezed violently, curled his lips, stretched out his hand to turn up the heating, and then immersed himself in the work of reviewing documents again.

What he didn't know was that this annoying late spring in Washington was only the beginning of the global climate anomaly in the following two years.

——Following this, the earth will usher in two eerie "years without summer" in a row besides the flames of war...