what if K-129 was a false flag operation

A Golf class sub K-129 went down supposedly 360 nautical miles west of pearl harbor. The Thinking of this is that K-129 was a rouge sub outside of its assigned launch box attempting a strike on Pearl with the attempt of tricking the US into thinking that the Chinese were the culprits and start a war with their new enemy. What would have happened if K-129 succeeded. Would the US Military known it was the Soviets? If so would that bring an all out attack on the Soviet Union or would this trick bring a reign of destruction on China? Any thoughts?
 
Alternates...

Uh, IIRC, 'tis rogue rather than {Jewellers'} rouge, which is a form of iron oxide...

IMHO, the K129 had a stale missile leak corrosive hypergolic fuel, resulting in the blown hatch, after which it sank in the usual way: Like the torpedo accident during that exercise in North Atlantic...

The off-the-wall alternative is Stross' disturbing 'Gravedust' notion from his 'Jennifer Morgue'...
 
Come on, do people actually take Sewell's book seriously? The US knew perfectly well the Chinese didn't have a SLBM nuke capability in 1968. That was only 3.5 years after the first Chinese nuke test. China's nuclear weapons were still in the Fat Man catagory.
 
LBJ: Yo Mao, WTF
Mao: Huh?
LBJ: Brezhnev said you nuked Pearl!
Mao: ...no we didn't.
LBJ: Oh yeah? Prove it!
Mao: What hit Pearl?
LBJ: Boomer launch...
Mao: Yeah, see...(consults the Genocide) we're slated to get our first boomers in 1974.
LBJ: And it's 1968...
Mao: Yeah...
LBJ: BREZHNEV YOU MOTHERF***ER IMA COMIN FOR YOU
Mao: ROFL MAO

:p
 
LBJ: Yo Mao, WTF
Mao: Huh?
LBJ: Brezhnev said you nuked Pearl!
Mao: ...no we didn't.
LBJ: Oh yeah? Prove it!
Mao: What hit Pearl?
LBJ: Boomer launch...
Mao: Yeah, see...(consults the Genocide) we're slated to get our first boomers in 1974.
LBJ: And it's 1968...
Mao: Yeah...
LBJ: BREZHNEV YOU MOTHERF***ER IMA COMIN FOR YOU
Mao: ROFL MAO

:p
That pun was the whole point of that little tale right? ;)
 
Ha! Jaybird nailed it.
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Harold Wilson: LOLWUT, mate?

Sir Humphrey Appleby: [talking about nuclear fallout shelters] Well, you have the weapons; you must have the shelters.

James Hacker: I sometimes wonder why we need the weapons.

Sir Humphrey Appleby: Minister! You're not a unilateralist?

James Hacker: I sometimes wonder, you know.

Sir Humphrey Appleby: Well, then, you must resign from the government!

James Hacker: Ah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not that unilateralist! Anyway, the Americans will always protect us from the Russians, won't they?

Sir Humphrey Appleby: Russians? Who's talking about the Russians?

James Hacker: Well, the independent deterrent.

Sir Humphrey Appleby: It's to protect us against the French!

James Hacker: The French?! but they're our allies!

Sir Humphrey Appleby: Well, they might be now; but they were our mortal enemies for centuries, and old leopards don't change their spots.

Ah, you can find somewhat relevant quote on every subject in that show. :cool:
 
And now we have Cameron-Clegg...

...Buddying up with the French:rolleyes:

Fit gearing to Sir Humphrey's coffin, attach it to a generator and you can say goodbye to EDF (Electricite de France).
 
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