Chapter 411: Washington Metro Explosion (Updated)

Car bombs, roadside bombs, RPGs, snipers, the Iranians quickly learned to fight urban guerrilla warfare, constantly consuming the Americans' manpower. Even if the Americans occupied Iranian cities, they would not have a day of peace. Like today, a car bomb almost razed the headquarters to the ground! If the resident division commander was not temporarily away from the headquarters, he would have almost died!

The only way to make the Iranians surrender is to kill them all!

At the same time, what Americans did not expect was that the war not only spread within Iran, but soon spread to the United States!

Washington, subway station.

In the late 1970s, Washington's economy was already very developed, and the full name of this system is the Washington Metropolitan Area Rapid Transit System, which is the second busiest urban rail transit system in the United States, second only to the New York Metro. It has been in operation since 1976. The service area includes Washington, DC and the neighboring Prince George's County and Montgomery County in Maryland, and Fairfax County, Arlington County, and Alexandria in Virginia.

In the subway station, Mike, a young man who had been tired after a day of work, was playing a game made up of small blocks on his handheld game console.

"Mike, I really don't understand what's the appeal of this thing. You spent half a year's salary just to buy such a game console!" said Mary, a fashionable girl next to Mike.

MadeinJapan, this is a game console exported from an island country. Because the United States imposes high tariffs on industrial products from island countries, the prices of these goods are extremely high. Such a handheld game console costs 16,000 US dollars! It is twice as expensive as the most advanced computer!

Is a brick-like game console worth so much money? As a lover, Mary was very confused about Mike's behavior, and what made Mary even more speechless was that Mike's interest in her had greatly decreased since he bought this game console! The bed exercises that she had been looking forward to the most were now a luxury! Mike had been holding this thing since he got off work and went to bed!

Just as Mary thought, Mike ignored her and continued playing the game console, so Mary finally got angry.

"Mike, you'll have to live with this game console from now on. I've had enough!" After saying that, Mary got on the subway that had just arrived at the station without calling Mike.

Mike didn't catch up, and Mary felt her heart was broken. The moment the subway started moving, she couldn't help but look back at Mike for the last time. In the crowded subway, she only saw a flash of Mike, still playing with the brick-like game console. She dragged him to the subway every day, but tonight, was he going to play here all night?

Mary turned her head back, tears streaming down her face. At this moment, she really wanted to smash that company called Nintendo! How many Americans had been harmed by the game!

Through her tearful eyes, she seemed to see that there was an extra thing under her feet. That thing was square, like a package.

What is this? She bent down and tried to pick it up. At this moment, she suddenly felt a huge impact, a flash of fire in front of her eyes, and a huge roar in her ears.

"Boom!" The subway, which was running, suddenly made such a loud noise! ​​In the explosion, the entire subway was blown up, the carriages derailed, the passengers at the center of the explosion turned into pieces, and the passengers in the other carriages also screamed.

The explosion was heard in the station. Passengers on the platform screamed and ran outside. Mike, who was holding a brick-like game console and playing the small cube game, still lowered his head and played his game. He had just scored 7,000 points, breaking the record! He had to keep working hard and get 8,000 points!

The noise and explosions around him had nothing to do with him. At this moment, Mike put his whole body and mind into the game. For a person addicted to the game, the game is his whole life.

November 3, 1979 was a very ordinary day, but for the residents of Washington, the capital of the United States, this day was extraordinary. During the rush hour after work, an explosion occurred in the Washington subway, killing more than 100 people and injuring more than 500 people!

The explosion quickly alarmed the government. Just half an hour after the explosion, senior American officials who had returned home gathered again at the White House.

"Stan, have the cause of the explosion been determined?" President Carter asked. It was quite unusual for a subway explosion to occur in the country.

"It was not a natural accident, but a human error," Stan said. "The specific cause is still under investigation, but we are sure that someone deliberately placed a time bomb on the subway. We detected the chemical composition of military explosives in the air."

Deliberately placing a time bomb! Everyone at the scene gasped when they heard this. This is a war against the US mainland!

"Therefore, we suggest that strict security measures be immediately set up in all our public places, including subways, buses, banks, shopping malls and other departments. The criminals were able to succeed so easily this time because we were lax in our defenses." Stan said: "In order to prevent similar incidents from happening again, we must be vigilant."

Set up strict security measures! For the United States, which advocates freedom, this will greatly inconvenience ordinary people's travel! Imagine that if you go out for a cup of coffee, you need to have strict security measures at the door of the coffee shop, which will make people lose any interest! Moreover, the establishment of these security facilities will greatly increase the investment of the United States! For the current economy of the United States, the Iran war has seriously overdrawn the country's financial resources. If you do these again, the investment of the United States will be even greater!

"Since someone secretly placed the bomb, we must find out who planned this action." Carter had become calm at this time. Since it was controlled by someone, as long as the mastermind behind it was found, the incident would be naturally resolved. There would be no need to tread on thin ice and impose martial law across the country, which would be very disadvantageous to the country.

"We will definitely investigate this matter, but we speculate that the guys in the Middle East are definitely behind this organization." Stan said, "Everyone, the problem we are facing now is still very serious. Is it necessary for us to continue the Iran war, which is costly and has skyrocketing casualties?"