Oh, that big 1982 Siberian explosion?

Fort Worth Star-Telegram / The New York Times ^ | 2/3/04 | William Safire

[Valin]

Sometimes they're NOT bumbling fools.

[nuconvert]

Interesting.

[weegee]

There are many war stories from the Cold War that we will likely never hear. I will say that the same is true for the current war against terrorism (WWIV) that is being waged.

[Capriole]

I live in an area where a disproportionately high number of people are intelligence analysts or have some other connection with intelligence work. Several of them have separately told me that there are reasons we only hear about the CIA's failures. For one thing, they want the bad guys to think the CIA is run entirely by bumbling jerks, so they will be underestimated; they don't try to cover up most of the snafus. Also, some of the so-called mistakes aren't mistakes at all. The successes are never publicized.

[Brett66]

Reagan set them up the bomb.

[explodingspleen]

That's a keeper. :)

[Valin]

As I've said before much of this war is being fought waaay below the radar screen. Much of it is being fought by mid-level bureaucrats(little gray men) sitting in small cubicles at various federal depts. following the money trail.

[Valin]

Duping the Soviets - The Farewell Dossier



"We communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their credits, their agriculture, and their technology. But we are going to continue massive military programs and by the middle 1980s we will be in a position to return to a much more aggressive foreign policy designed to gain the upper hand in our relationship with the West."
Leonid Brezhnev. Remarks in 1971 to the Politburo at the beginning of détente.

http://www.videofact.com/english/farewell_dossier.html

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Great story!

[NormsRevenge]

Bump

[dts32041]

When was Red Storm Rising written, maybe it was a secret explosion as you think.

[SAMWolf]

"The pipeline software that was to run the pumps, turbines and valves was programmed to go haywire," writes Reed, "to reset pump speeds and valve settings to produce pressures far beyond those acceptable to the pipeline joints and welds. The result was the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space."

Gotta love it. Good find Valin.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Found this at Amazon.com

Publisher: Putnam Pub Group; (August 1986)

[DeepDish]

Red Storm Rising. August 1986.

[Grampa Dave]

Great Story!

By the time his second term as president was underway, President Reagan had all types of Trojan Horses underway for the Russians.

Remember the mean ole Bear lost in Afghanistan and basically everyplace they should not have been.

[GOPyouth]

All your computer chip are belong to us.

[DeepDish]

Gosh! I lose out to ernest at the beach by 11 seconds and you want all my chips. LOL

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

HeHe!

I got an AMD64 under the hood!

[DeepDish]

Still puttering along with 500Mhz slot A on a FIC SD-11. I am green with envy. I live in dial-up territory, so the speed of the box is not an issue.

As far as tricks played on the Soviets go, I always liked the tap the navy put on a cable in the Arctic Ocean which linked the Northern Fleet bases. The Sovs thought that line so secure that they hardly ever bothered to encode anything. Go Bubbleheads!