Chapter 541 - 530: Burrowing_1

Takamushi Koyo was completely caught off guard by the current situation, so much so that he stood motionless, not knowing what to do.

And seizing this opportunity, the Secretary-General directly announced:

"According to the voting rules of the United Nations, with no veto from the five permanent members of the Security Council, with 120 votes in favor, 18 votes against, and 25 abstentions, the 72nd United Nations Resolution No. 21102 is passed and comes into effect immediately!

The United Nations will grant The International Atomic Energy Agency full authority to handle the Fukushima calamity, approve the application for the corresponding fusion energy devices to qualified parties, and authorize fundraising activities.

UNESCO, as well as the Red Cross Society and the Peace Development Foundation, will monitor the entire process and ensure the safety of the lives of the people in the disaster-affected area!"

Almost as soon as he finished speaking, the representative from Annan seamlessly began to vigorously applaud, attracting all eyes before leaning forward towards the microphone and saying:

"The fact that The International Atomic Energy Agency is taking such a responsible stance and clearing the nuclear contamination for free is a significant milestone in the history of the United Nations, showing that the human community of shared destiny is more closely interconnected."

As soon as his words were conveyed by the interpreter, the representative from South Korea immediately followed with applause.

"Bravo."

"Well done!"

After two almost identical acclaims, other representatives, especially those from East Asia, began to applaud enthusiastically; after all, countries in this region are more dependent on the fishing industry, and nuclear pollution has the greatest impact on the price of aquatic products.

As for the method of cleanup, they weren’t as concerned; at least IAEA’s experts surely couldn’t lie about the effectiveness. As long as the pollution could be cleaned up, what did it matter if a few more hydrogen bombs were detonated? At least it was not on their own soil.

For a while, the United Nations meeting hall was filled with applause and praise, looking like a celebration, with only Takamushi Koyo and his assistant bowing their heads, gathering their things, preparing to leave quickly.

At this moment, Takamushi Koyo had regained his senses, once again using his years of experience to calmly think:

This United Nations session was very strange, with the five major nations actually joining forces to pull a stunt, but the Fukushima Power Station surely wasn’t in a state that would make them set aside their conflicts of interest to cooperate, especially with America taking the lead.

This was not normal, very abnormal; there was no need for such a commotion, this shouldn’t be the case.

When things are abnormal, there must be a demon at play. They certainly had other goals, but what were those goals?

...

On October 14th, following the close of that day’s United Nations assembly, the passage of Resolution No. 21102 immediately caused an uproar around the world.

Due to the intense propaganda of the Cold War era, upon hearing the word "hydrogen bomb," people immediately thought of nuclear winter, thought of cancer, thought of lands uninhabitable for hundreds of years; few could rationally understand the peaceful use of such atomic energy devices—let alone for disaster management.

The majority could not understand neutron streaming, so Lin Ju was actually quite worried that many people would oppose using hydrogen bombs again.

But until the next day, when he walked into the headquarters building of the Aerospace Development Committee, he had yet to find such sentiments on the internet.

"Director Lin!"

"Hey, good morning."

An employee greeted and then hurriedly ran past him. Looking in the direction the employee had gone, there was a large crowd gathered.

He moved silently to the back of the crowd, stood on tiptoes, and saw people inside operating a computer and explaining something:

"...Look, I’ve just set up a VPN, this is the IAEA’s official website. Although it can be accessed without a VPN, the payment process is slow and prone to failure or freezing, but I won’t have that problem now.

Let me try the Meridian Online Translation service... Oh, click here to enter, it supports VA, UnionPay, and Alipay. Let’s give it a go."

After a "beep," the website redirected to the Alipay payment page, where the surrounded person typed in "1000￥," and after a successful payment, a page showed a row of numbers:

"Congratulations on becoming the 3,521,549th benefactor. Amount raised so far: ＄161,991,254, 0.809% of the goal achieved."

"Wow, this website has raised 160 million bucks in less than ten hours? Everyone must have donated at least several tens of dollars each."

At this moment, someone asked:

"Liu, why are we donating to this, anyway? In the end, all the money goes to them."

"That’s where you’re clueless." Liu turned his head around, looking like he had everything figured out:

"Think about it, nominally we say it’s humanitarian donations we’ve raised, but the money for the nukes from The International Atomic Energy Agency is definitely deducted from it too—a hydrogen bomb only costs a few million dollars.

You really think they’re five big philanthropists, raising 2 billion just purely for charity?"

"So that’s how it is! Quick, let me donate too, I’ll straight-up chuck in 3000—too bad we’re not using our hydrogen bombs, otherwise I’d be happy to give 10,000."

"Don’t even mention it, there are three in total, the remaining two should be supplied by us and Russia, we can’t just watch and do nothing, right?"

"Definitely!"

"..."

Watching a crowd of people taking turns to scan Alipay codes for several thousand each, Lin Ju quietly stepped out again, then took out his phone to enter the base’s internal forum.

The sticky post at the top was titled "Let’s Buy a Nuke and Blow Those Bastards to Hell," and the thread already had over a thousand replies, with the most recent posts all discussing this matter.

However, some of the comments were pretty outrageous, like someone asking, "Ground Drilling Bombs need extremely high initial speed, is it better to launch them with missiles or drop them from an Aero-Space Plane?"

Somebody had already suggested that the base should offer a New Yuan Six solid rocket for free, using a civilian rocket to carry a non-weapon nuclear device, which sounded reasonable.

Lin Ju planned to speak with Academician She, but to his surprise, She, who usually arrived early, had not yet appeared. After waiting over an hour, he finally saw the old man coming in with a briefcase to open his office door.

"Sir She, did you oversleep today?"

"Hey, don’t mention it, I was held up for a couple of hours."

Academician She immediately began to rant:

"On my way here, I ran into four processions... well, not really processions, they were celebrating, and some were protesting that we should have launched the first bomb. Anyway, it was a total mess.

And someone managed to bring fireworks into the city center—I can’t for the life of me figure out how they got them in. They were even setting them off from sunroofs while driving, with traffic cops and urban management officers chasing after them. It was a bit better regulated here, but downtown was just indescribable."

"..."

"Oh, and we need to issue a notice right away. The IAEA’s fundraising channels in the country aren’t very effective and many people aren’t aware of them. Scams are already starting up in the name of proxy fundraising. Suddenly, there’s a bunch of them popping up on various online platforms; we have to be careful."

"I’ll keep an eye out... Sir She, we’re supplying the Ground Drilling Bomb, right?"

"Of course, and it’s related to our space industry too, guess how?"

Lin Ju thought for a while but couldn’t come up with anything, at least not considering having private company rockets undertake the launch, so he could only shake his head.

"The chief designer of Gravity Space Technology Company used to work on medium-range ballistic missiles, and the Second Artillery Corps plans to use their front, taking an East Wind 15C Ground Drilling Bomb for the mission.

Launching it from Mudanjiang or Yanbian would be just right, and it’ll serve as a bit of a deterrent as well."

Academician She had that ’you know what I mean’ expression, and Lin Ju instantly understood.

East Wind 15C, with a range of 1000 kilometers designed to strike hardened underground fortifications—using it probably also includes a lot of careful consideration.