The Decision to Livestream a Nuclear Explosion! (Part One)

To be honest.

Before today's meeting began, many of the attendees had already had a rough idea of what it would cover.

After all, unifying everyone's thinking before a major push had always been standard practice for the Rabbits, and meetings of this importance were usually where matters that had never been made public before came to light.

But even with that expectation, and all the shocking plans that had already been laid out...

After hearing Li Jue's words, the room fell into its third silence since the meeting began.

Even Wang Ganchang and Zhou Guangzhao, who would later become celebrated figures of Two Bombs, One Satellite, had their eyes wide as saucers, as if their eyeballs might pop out at any moment.

Good grief.

A live broadcast of a nuclear explosion?

A moment later.

A round-faced, middle-aged man suddenly slapped the table and shot to his feet. His chair crashed to the floor behind him, but he didn't even notice.

"Director, I object!"

Xu Yun knew him well. He was Huang Zuqiao, the former head of the Light Nuclear Group, and one of the renowned Eight Directors in the Ninth Academy's Theoretical Department. Even among the academicians holding Huaxia's highest scientific title, he ranked among the very best.

Huang Zuqiao's slap brought many scholars back to their senses. The entire meeting room, like a melting glacier, began to resound with a rush of voices.

"Director, I object too!"

"What kind of joke is this? You want to broadcast something this important to the outside world? What if enemy agents sabotage it?"

"Exactly. And there's always a chance the experiment could fail. Without a live broadcast, at worst it would embarrass our Theoretical Department and R&D team. Outside the base, who the hell even knows who Lu Guangda and Wang