But as you said above, the US saw it coming anyways and planned accordingly.
It wasn't so much planning as accepting. Makes you wonder what was in some American diplomatic pouches.
But as you said above, the US saw it coming anyways and planned accordingly.
It wasn't so much planning as accepting. Makes you wonder what was in some American diplomatic pouches.
And getting them out of a country is as risky as getting them in ...
Worst case the Embassy is expelled and the country is left with egg on its faceNow what happens if an Embassy is caught smuggling nuclear weapons either in to a country or out?
Well, "decapitate"; at least one of the cabinet officials will most likely be out of town, and SAC HQ is at Offutt in South Dakota...
Worst case the Embassy is expelled and the country is left with egg on its face
Concealing a nuclear device in another country's capital is going to have more serious consequences than just "egg on face". If the USSR was caught doing it to the US in a way that the US government couldn't hush up, public opinion would probably have forced us to suspend grain sales, reinforce our forces in western Europe, abrogate arms treaties, and generally make it very clear how upset we were. This is as serious a provocation as I can think of that doesn't involve actually shooting at people.
If you thought the Cuban Missile Crises was bad it would have nothing on this, and if it's a country like North Korea thats doing the smuggling.....