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The fourth protocol was meant to prohibit the non-conventional delivery of nuclear weapons i.e. by means other than being dropped from aircraft or carried on ballistic missiles. This included postal delivery services or being assembled in secret close to the target before being detonated.

In Frederick Forsyth's book he has the Soviets launching Plan Auroro

Plan Aurora involves smuggling the component parts of an atomic bomb into England - in contravention of the Fourth Protocol to the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty signed by all the superpowers which bans such activity - to explode near a USAF base a week before the general election. Evidence will be left that the explosion was an accidental detonation of an American weapon, leading to a wave of anti-Americanism, support for unilateral disarmament and for the only major party committed to disarmament, the Labour Party. The day after they win the election, the Hard Left will take over.


What would be the effect of the plot being successfully discovered before detonation - would it be broadcast to the world or would it, as in the book be classified (IIRC the argument given was that the leaders of the SU at the time were a known quantity - revealing what some of them had planned could bring in unknowns).

What would be the effect of the plot being successful (for the Soviets) and a detonation occuring?​
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