50s: Starting with a storage ring

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After their wedding in March, Sun Zhiwei and Tong Jiajia embarked on their honeymoon.

Only then did Tong Jiajia begin to understand the full picture of Sun Zhiwei's career, which he had built up over the past few years abroad.

Sun Zhiwei planned to take her to visit every industry and introduce her to the heads of all the industries.

In this way, if Sun Zhiwei is unable to appear in person in the future, he can control and supervise all the businesses through Tong Jiajia.

Of course, he also had to keep confidential the confidential information from Tong Jiajia, such as the identity of 'Di Ting' and the details of his mission.

In Tong Jiajia's eyes, he had always been just an ordinary person with a bit more strength, but now she realized that she had only ever known the tip of the iceberg about Sun Zhiwei.

Even if one doesn't understand the difficulty of making money in the US, it's not something that an ordinary person can achieve by simply being described as 'ordinary'.

Fortunately, this second wedding dispelled all her doubts.

Tong Jiajia is good at this; she only asks for the basic result and doesn't pry into the details.

No matter how much wealth Sun Zhiwei accumulates, as long as it ultimately ends up with Sun Hongying and Sun Aiguo, she doesn't care about anything else.

In March, while Sun Zhiwei was taking Tong Jiajia around the world, the current White House occupant, Reagan, delivered a speech.

In this speech, Reagan proposed the now-famous "Star Wars" program.

In fact, "Star Wars" is just a space arms race, and this concept has existed for a long time.

As early as April 1961, when Gagarin became the first human to set foot in space, the two superpowers of the East and West began various forms of space competition.

They each put all their efforts into launching various artificial celestial bodies into space, and kept loading them with weapons and even people.

These man-made celestial bodies can be categorized by size, from small satellites to large space stations. They can also be classified by function into two main types: reconnaissance and attack.

Both satellites and space stations, if used for military purposes, can serve as platforms for loading weapons.

The concepts of mid-course missile defense, laser weapons, particle weapons, microwave weapons, including the Rod of God and nuclear satellites, which are still prevalent in the 21st century, were all proposed during this period, and many of them have even moved from theory to reality.

When the nuclear arsenals of both sides remain in balance, the anti-missile defense advantage brought by air superiority will undoubtedly disrupt the current balance.

Therefore, when one side leaves the field, the other side will inevitably have no choice but to follow suit.

The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty signed by both sides in 72 had already put the brakes on the space arms race.

Reagan's speech has now reignited the space race between the two sides.

In this era, the Russian economy was already deteriorating rapidly, and this costly and meaningless competition would undoubtedly accelerate this deterioration.

The situation in the United States is not much better. The economic and oil crises that occurred in the past few years have made the economic outlook of the United States less than optimistic.

In reality, Reagan's speech contained more elements of performance, blackmail, and boasting.

This is a habit he developed as an actor, and it aligns with his consistent hardline stance towards Russia.

What he didn't know was that, because of the tense situation between East and West in previous years, in 81, the Russians secretly launched an intelligence plan called "Operation Ryan".

Operation Ryan aimed to prevent surprise attacks and eliminate the "suddenness" of war; in layman's terms, it was about "prevention before the event."

This meant using precise intelligence to allow the Soviet leadership to grasp the direction of all Western actions, thereby ensuring that the Soviet Union had ample time to react, or even to launch a "first" nuclear counterattack. Objectively speaking, the launch of "Operation Ryan" was very necessary for the Soviet Union, which was then besieged on all sides.

But the key issue is that the Russians overlooked one thing: the KGB's intelligence system is no longer what it used to be.

Due to budget constraints, the KGB's intelligence gathering capabilities have become significantly insufficient.

Using intelligence obtained through a flawed intelligence network as the basis for deciding whether to launch a nuclear war is undoubtedly very dangerous.

But we are currently in this situation, with both the newly appointed Kremlin lord and the newly appointed White House lord being 'hardliners'.

Both sides need to demonstrate a tough stance against their enemies to the domestic audience.

So it's like two strong men, each wielding a deadly weapon, threatening each other, each hoping the other will back down first.

"Come here."

"Come on over here if you dare."

In this situation, Reagan, being an actor, undoubtedly had a greater advantage.

He can put even more pressure on the Russian bear family by relying on his acting talent, without any cost, and just by bragging.

Faced with Reagan's intimidation and threats, what could the Russians do with incomplete intelligence? They could only remain vigilant and be ready to strike first at any time.

In other words, the world may seem peaceful now, but in reality, it is on the verge of a very dangerous situation due to the hardline confrontation between the leaders of the two superpowers.

The two sides could easily clash due to a miscalculation.

At this critical juncture, due to the mutual obstruction of information, neither side could clearly see the source of the danger.

While pressing the nuclear button, the Russians nervously watched Reagan's every move. But Reagan, oblivious to the approaching danger, continued to spout nonsense in his various speeches.

When Sun Zhiwei received news of Reagan's speech, he and Tong Jiajia were on their honeymoon on their own island.

It wasn't until the word 'Star Wars' reached his ears that he became aware of the danger it posed.

Sensing the danger, he immediately reported his analysis, because if a conflict were to break out, our family would undoubtedly be affected as well.

Only if our family understands the current dangerous situation and immediately reveals the news can we minimize the possibility of an accident.

Historically, the Nordic exercises a few months later would have been the peak of the danger, when the Soviet Union was already close to pressing the nuclear button.

If the Kremlin hadn't held back, the world would have been doomed.

Later, Reagan learned from intelligence relayed by the CIA that the Russians had almost engaged in a nuclear war due to extreme shock, and he himself was terrified.

Only then did Reagan change his previous hardline stance and make efforts to communicate with Russia, and relations between the two sides began to ease rapidly.

But that was the original situation. Now that he's the butterfly that flaps its wings, Sun Zhiwei can't guarantee how things will turn out.

That's why he wants to send the current situation back to China, and through our family, suppress the impending danger.

(End of this chapter)