Chapter 1129: Backup plan for adding ingredients
Jack's words made all the big guys look at each other in surprise, even Rossi was quite surprised.
He didn't expect that at a meeting of this level, he would dare to stand up and defend himself at a critical moment, and talk freely in front of all the big guys. Rossi felt very relieved, and his last disciple was not in vain.
Perhaps he was worried that his disciple would say something wrong, so he hurriedly continued what he had just said.
"Jack means that rather than saying that the death of General Hammer's wife was the fuse, it would be more accurate to describe it as a countdown. The ignition button had actually been pressed long ago.
Mrs. Hammer's death means that Hammer has lost his last concern in this world, which means the countdown has returned to zero.
Therefore, Jack and I agree that no matter what response we will make, there is only one chance. Once it fails, General Hammer is likely to throw away the chips in his hand to prove his determination.
And I believe that as a soldier, his way of proving his determination is definitely not as simple as shooting a few hostages."
General Hammer has only two chips in his hand, 83 hostages and 15 VX gas missiles. Since Rossi has denied the possibility of shooting the hostages, it seems that there is only one possibility left, firing two missiles to show determination.
Admiral Al Kleiman lowered his eyelids, and his voice seemed to be talking to himself.
"If I remember correctly, Frank (Hammer) has repeatedly requested the Special Military Committee to hold hearings to discuss new standards for determining deaths in action and to give due honors to soldiers who died in covert operations.
The last hearing was less than a year ago, and Senator Weaver rejected his request based on budget constraints and related provisions of the confidentiality bill.
That is to say, we had a chance to avoid all this."
Probably the only one who could say this among the people present. Jack noticed the expression on the face of Director Sinclair, the presidential assistant, who looked like he had eaten shit.
Fortunately, Admiral Al Kleiman just expressed his dissatisfaction a little bit, and he didn't really intend to send FBI people out to die, so he quickly moved on to the next topic.
"OK, then who can tell me how lethal a VX gas missile is? How far is its range?"
The person who answered the admiral's question was a two-star major general sitting near the corner of the table. "Based on the population density of San Francisco, we estimate the number of casualties to be around sixty to seventy, but the range of the E21 missile is enough to cover the entire San Francisco Bay Area."
"Sixty to seventy? It doesn't sound that bad?" A politician is embarrassing himself again.
"The unit is thousands. An E21 missile with a VX gas warhead can cause casualties of 70 thousand people!" The major general emphasized loudly, "and General Hammer has 15 such weapons of mass destruction.
By the way, may I remind you, Director Sinclair, the population of San Francisco is over 800,000, and the population of the entire San Francisco Bay is over 7.8 million, second only to New York City in population density."
Director Sinclair swallowed dryly and stopped interrupting. This time he really didn't intend to embarrass himself anymore.
"Does the military have any countermeasures against this nerve agent? I remember Jack mentioned in his action report in Korea that the military provided an emergency medicine called phospholipid injection."
Jim Womack seemed to have really read Jack's report carefully, which made someone flattered and had to whisper to his boss to popularize science.
"Sir, you can regard VX as a persistent poison. Whether it is phospholipid injection or emergency medicines such as atropine and belladonna, they can only be effective for short-term and low-dose poisoning symptoms.
Therefore, the best way to deal with weapons is to prevent them from being launched. Otherwise, even if they are destroyed on the launch pad, they will cause fatal pollution to the waters around Alcatraz, including the Golden Gate Bridge and Fisherman's Wharf, which are less than two miles away from the island.
Large-scale incendiary bombs may be useful, but this requires evaluation by military experts."
The director nodded slightly, and was very satisfied with the performance of his agent today.
The major general also nodded slightly at Jack, and then helped to add, "Pure napalm bombs can only cause a high temperature of about 1000 degrees, which is extremely ineffective against VX agents.
We need to find the storage location of those missiles, and drop thermite incendiary bombs in a targeted manner, and then evaluate how many waves of napalm bombs need to be dropped according to the damage effect until all the agents are consumed."
Jack's expression froze slightly when he heard this. You know, under normal circumstances, if you are not an enthusiast, you usually watch a movie once, and if it is particularly good, you may revisit it after a period of time.
But that is usually many years later. For example, he had watched "Independence Day" and "True Lies" at least three times in his previous life, with at least three to four to five years in between.
"The Rock" is considered to be an early work of "Explosive Bay", which was released in the 1990s. Although he had revisited it once before crossing, many details can no longer be remembered.
Even so, he roughly remembered that the military's backup plan included the use of thermite incendiary bombs, and in the end, an F/A-18 fighter jet did throw one when it was unable to retract its weapons.
But if the major general said so, it was not a question of using a few F/A-18s at the moment.
Sure enough, Admiral Al Kleiman knocked on the table and asked, "Can we prepare thermite incendiary bombs for F/A-18 fighters within 36 hours and equip B-52H with enough napalm bombs?"
"No problem, but I strongly recommend this as a backup plan." The major general replied.
"So what we need now is a preferred plan, right?" The admiral said, looking at Jack, "Agent Tavol, forget it, I'll call you Jack.
Since you have successfully prevented a similar terrorist attack in Seoul, I wonder if you have the confidence to cooperate with the military's special forces to perform the same mission again."
These two tasks are completely incomparable, Jack secretly rolled his eyes, but considering that the big guy almost proposed to throw Rossi to Alcatraz as a negotiation expert before, he felt that it would be more certain for him to do it.
After all, in the original play, a biological and chemical weapons expert who has been sitting in the office for many years can complete the task with a nearly 70-year-old man, so it should be smoother for him to do it. Probably.
Thinking of a certain biological weapons expert, Jack turned to look at his boss, "Sir, I think I need a partner."