[shadowman99]

I have a feeling he's refering to Chernobyl, but I fail to see his point. Reagan did not attack Chernobyl. And there's a great deal of tinfoil that someone (the US?) attacked N.Korea. I don't buy it. Bush isn't looking for another conflict.

[dufekin]

No, I'm not talking about Chernobyl (which is in the Ukraine). I'm talking about a massive 1982 gas-pipeline explosion. Basically, the CIA formed front companies to sell the Soviet Union technology to control the flow of natural gas. The computerized technology was programmed to work normally so as to pass quality-control testing. A preprogrammed "bug" suddenly caused a pressure buildup in the natural-gas pipeline so severe that the pipeline burst over a wide area, causing a huge explosion and fire. This explosion appeared as a nuclear blast--except that it wasn't nuclear. Because it occurred in a remote part of Siberia, there were no casualties, although consequent delivery problems seriously damaged the struggling Communist economy.