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February 6th 06, 11:43 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave

wrote:
U.S.fed govt would/probally will nuke America and blame it on a furrin
country.
cuhulin

Well, something like that was almost tried before...

A new non-fiction book, "Red Star Rogue", tells about a rogue Russian
sub that in 1968 actually fired a 1 megaton missile at Pearl Harbor. Had
it gone off, the Russians were going to blame it on the Chinese.

As it turns out, there was a final fail-safe mechanism the rogue crew
either did not know about or did not know how to disable, so it blew up
in the sub's launch tube (NON-nuclear explosion) and sunk the sub.

The book goes on to describe how Howard Hughes built the 'Glomar
Explorer' that ultimately and successfully raised the pieces of the sub.

A really scary book--we came close to WW III--and it made the Cuban
missile crisis look like a walk in the park.

Fascinating book...