AHC: Trigger a War

Sir Chaos

Banned
Okay, this is quite a bit tongue-in-cheek, but who says we can´t have a bit of levity?

The challenge is this: take one of the following events, create a POD related to it and a chain of events leading from there to a war involving at least 2 internationally recognized nations. The POD cannot be that the event in question does not happen; it need not concern the event as a whole, but can stem from one part of it. No ASB elements are allowed.


Events:
The 1906 San Francisco earthquake
The 1923 Kanto earthquake
The 2010 Eruption of Mt. Unspellable on Iceland (the Eyawhatsover... you know what I mean...)
The publishing of the Harry Potter novel series
The publishing of Gone With The Wind
The publishing of The Godfather
The Launch of the Sputnik satellite
The Apollo 11 mission
The invention of color TV
The invention of contraceptive pills
The internet becomes available for the public
The 1986 Soccer World Cup
The 1972 Summer Olympics (okay, this one should be easy...)
The assassination of President Garfield
The assassination of President Kennedy
The assassination of Anwar Sadat
The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
The 1995 Tokyo Subway attack
The 1995 Oklahoma City bombing
The 1988 Lockerbie bombing (for bonus points, a war other than US versus Lybia)
The 1910 or 1986 appearance of Halley´s Comet

All right... have fun!
 
Apollo 11: Mission itself goes off without a hitch, but an error with the inertial navigation system results in the capsule splashing down in the Soviet portion of the Bering Sea. At great risk, a U.S. Navy vessel attempts to rescue the astronauts, setting off the sonar of a patrolling Soviet Navy submarine which, in accordance with protocol, sinks it. The outrage of the sinking combined with the capture of the Apollo 11 astronauts and capsule by the Soviet Union provokes a low-intensity conflict which ends with an exchange of astronauts for spies.

Meanwhile, Apollo 11 itself is reverse-engineered and examined by the Soviet space program for possible improvements, before being put in a museum in Moscow. Its return continues to be a bone of contention between the U.S. and Soviet/Russian governments to this day.
 
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