June 2010: At a special conference of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, top American physicist Dr. Jason Lihua'de formally presented a report to the global scientific community and major media representatives. He detailed how a U.S. research team had, in May of that year, successfully developed and verified a nascent technology capable of controllably inhibiting nuclear fission chain reactions. The announcement of this technology immediately triggered widespread international concern and assessment regarding the potential disruption of the existing global strategic balance.
July 2010: The U.S. government, citing a major adjustment to its national security strategy, formally submitted documentation to the UN Secretariat announcing its resignation from its Permanent Member seat on the UN Security Council. Concurrently, it initiated the process of withdrawing from the entire United Nations system. This move marked an unprecedented structural shift in the post-war international order.
August 2010: The British government announced through Ministry of Defence channels that its research institutions had not only independently mastered the key technology for inhibiting nuclear fission but had also successfully produced the first tactical weapon prototype based on this principle. Designated the "STOPWAR" type fission suppression bomb, it demonstrated the initial capability to weaponize the technology.
September 2010: The Russian Federation, via its official news agency, released information confirming that its state-level laboratories had successfully replicated and mastered the same type of fission suppression technology. Specific technical pathways and potential applications were still under evaluation.
October 2010: The French Presidential Office issued a statement confirming that research teams at the French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA) had independently completed the development of fission suppression technology, giving France the corresponding technological reserves.
November 2010: A spokesperson for the German Federal Government announced that Germany's Max Planck Institute for Physics had also achieved an independent breakthrough, mastering the core principles of inhibiting atomic fission, while emphasizing that its research would focus on peaceful applications.
December 2010: The Chinese government announced at a press conference in Beijing that relevant research teams within the Chinese Academy of Sciences had fully mastered the key technology for inhibiting nuclear fission. On the same day, the Chinese government, through diplomatic channels, formally presented the authorities in Taiwan, China, with a clear timetable and political arrangement requirements for reunification. It publicly stated that if the demands were not accepted, it reserved the right to take all necessary measures, including 'military force,' to achieve national unification.
Christmas Period 2010: A small, local newspaper in mainland China was promptly shut down by relevant authorities for publishing an in-depth commentary article titled "When the Mask Shatters – On the Obsolescence of the Atomic Bomb Today." The article explored the profound potential impacts of fission suppression technology on international relations and national security.
January 2011: The leader of the Taiwan region publicly delivered a speech, explicitly rejecting the reunification demands from mainland China. They claimed this decision went against the will of some segments of the island's population and immediately announced the formal establishment of the so-called "State of Taiwan," intending to legally separate from China's territory.
End of January 2011: Viewing the Taiwan authorities' actions as an act of secession, mainland China initiated military operations against the Taiwan region, and conflict ignited in the Taiwan Strait. This event was later widely referred to by international relations historians as "the prelude to World War III," marking the entry of global geopolitics into a new, more uncertain phase of conflict.