The Ring That Defies Chapter 907 - 907 - Nuclear War

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Just when the final battle between the Mutants and the martial artists was reaching the climax, the Chinese and Arican Naval war was hitting a tipping point.

When Hasley contacted the Pentagon and told them what had happened and what he proposed, the whole Pentagon went amok. The reason was simple—Halsey was proposing to drop a nuclear bomb in China!

It was known that Arican held the highest number of nuclear warheads. It was not a question of power but the outco of it. A nuclear launch from Arica would definitely be retaliated with a nuclear launch from China as well. How would they be able to stop China from launching their own nuclear bombs? Mutually Assured Destruction, or M.A.D, was a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender, and in this case, China and Arica. Even though China did not have as many nuclear warheads as Arica, they had just enough to completely annihilate the entirety of Arica.

Although Arica had the best airborn projectile deterrent called Terminal High Altitude Area Defence that could intercept and destroy ballistic missiles. Even so, how could they be one hundred percent sure about destroying all the ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile), preventing them from reaching Arican soil?

"No! We cannot escalate this war any further! China will retaliate with the sa! It's madness! Mutually Assured Destruction!" cried one of the cabinet mbers.

"Hmph! So what? At least we have the chance to do so. If we do not destroy China right now, our entire fleet would be destroyed and the world would be run by China! When that happens, you will be their slaves! Do you want that?!" another mber refuted, obvious agreeing with Hasley's idea. Even if it ant taking one for the team, they would have to prioritize on destroying China to ensure their position as the world's ruler.

"Mr. President, what do you think?" said one of the moderators, placing him as the decisive vote.

"Mr. Chairperson, what do you want

to do?" said the President of the United States of Arica, trying to deflect the question to soone else.

The man was silent for a good minute before turning to the President and nodded.

"Alright then. It's a go! I am now declaring a nuclear strike on China!" said the President after no one dared to voice out their opinion. The President had only dared to sanction the nuclear strike because the Chairperson was none other than the President of the Mutant Brotherhood, Xavier.

Unlike how the martial artists ran things, Mutants had infiltrated deep into the Arican governnt. Both the governnt and the Mutant Brotherhood shared the sa interests. It was even safe to say that the Mutant Brotherhood had their hands so deep that they were controlling the governnt!

The sanction of using nuclear bombs reached down the chain of commands quickly. In Arica, silos across all parts of the land opened up, revealing nuclear ICBMs that were ready to be launched. In just a few minutes, countless of missiles were launched into the air and into sub-orbital space. Besides that, there were also missiles launched from the sea, carried by submarines that were always on standby in the Great Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean.

Besides that, there were stealth fighters in the air, the ones that Aricans took pride in but were trashed by China's alien fighter jets. They flew towards China, carrying short range nuclear missiles. It was obvious that they were going all out in this attempt to completely destroy China.

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"What?! The Aricans had done what?!"

"They dared to launch nuclear missiles?!"

"Looks like we need to answer them the sa way, with fire and fury!"

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China was not weak although their military strength was known to be weaker than Arica's. However, that did not an that they would not know about the missiles targeting them!

However, even though they had received information about Aricans launching their ICBMs, they did not panic but calmly relayed the information up the chain of command. ICBMs would usually take about 30 minutes before hitting their target. It was enough ti for China to launch a counterattack.

"The governnt has issued an order to deploy Project Iron Curtain. Attention, we are not allowed to launch a counterattack!"

The order ca back, but instead of ordering a counter nuclear strike, a defensive order was laid down.

"What? We are only to defend?" said one of the officers in the National Defense Army of China. They had already made preparations to launch all their missiles in retaliation, ready to bomb Arica back to the stone age.

"Stop whining. We have our orders!" said the senior officers. Although they too did not understand why the higher-ups would make such a decision, they did not have ti to question the order—nuclear missiles are coming!

Project Iron Curtain only took two minutes to deploy and when the Iron Curtain was up, 80% of the entire China had their electricity cut. All of the electricity were being redirected to power up a few designated places in China. From outer space, besides a few hundred tiny blinking lights, the entire China was now black!

Those few spots were military bases where Han Tianyu had installed Anti-Fission Devices and Land-To-Air missile defense turrets. When Han Tianyu was being held by the military, those bases were "confiscated" by the military and taken over by them.

Due to the sheer amount of power, those bases could not operate at all tis. However, the situation called for it since there were countless of missiles ard with a nuclear warhead coming to China! Now that they had enough power to turn on, the Plant Nak machine that Jiang Fei had given, activated.

"Located Aricans stealth jets! Targets locked!"

Even though the Arican stealth jets were strong and were able to hide away from China's radar detection system, they could not hide away from Planet Nak's technology! When the machine was turned on, those high altitude fighters were imdiately detected and locked.

"Calculating missile count..."

"Targets locked."

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Besides the Arican bomber planes that were still in Arican airspace, ICBMs in the air were detected and locked on by the Land-to-Air missile defense turrets. Once they were in firing range, they would be shot down!

Everyone that was involved in this air strike was tensed. The cabinet mbers in the Pentagon was at the edge of their seats, waiting for the result of the first wave of nuclear strike. They were also on edge about how China would retaliate. On the far side of the world, the Chinese were also extrely worried. The alien machine was turned on for the first ti and had yet to be tested. Who could know how well they would work and how efficient would they be. Even if they have a 99.99% efficiency, that would an at least one nuclear missile would get past the Iron Curtain and strike China!

At this point, only higher governnt officials of both countries knew about the nuclear strikes. Neither side had inford the public about it since a panic would not benefit them.

While the governnt officials were nervous, the citizens of both countries were just living their lives as usual. China, however, were raging on about the nationwide blackout. All they cared about was the motherf*cking electricity!