I believe you're referring to "The Fourth Protocol," which detailed a rogue Soviet plot to detonate a low-yield nuclear device on an American air base in the UK in order to initiate anti-NATO actions.
In both the book and the movie, the field expedient nuclear device was a joke, as were the materials handling, assembly, and arming protocols. If you're familiar with the design and handling of nuclear devices or their components, read the book for a good laugh. If you really want to roll on the floor, watch the movie. Even the chemical initiator components were a laugh riot. The electrical system had to be the very best, though, with an old-style miner's light battery wired live without any shunt, safety system, or shielding of any kind to an electrically-driven clockwork contact switch, and everything hanging loose near an all-metal frame. Electromagnetic discharge, anyone? Respectfully, Adam Phillip Churvis Member of Team Macromedia Advanced Intensive ColdFusion MX Training ColdFusion MX Master Class: July 14 - 18, 2003 http://www.ColdFusionTraining.com Download CommerceBlocks V2.1 and LoRCAT from http://www.ProductivityEnhancement.com The ColdFusion MX Bible is in bookstores now! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Haggerty, Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 3:59 PM Subject: Help Me Out with the Name of a Book > I am having trouble remembering the name of a book. I read it about 15 years > ago, I thought the author was Robert Ludlum but it looks like I was wrong > (but I could be wrond about being wrong). Many of the events, names, and > places are now lost in the recesses of my memory, but something tells me > they will all come back the moment someone mentions the name. > > It was made into a movie > Someone was sent to kill someone, I think from the SU to the US (or a US > station in the UK) > I had a name in the following format: The [some noun] [some word referring > to a plan of action but not protocol - more diplomatic than that] > The reason someone was sent to kill someone else was to set off a chain of > events that would lead to the event for which the book was named taking > place > I think nuclear weapons played a prominent role in the book, but I may be > confusing it with another novel > It was not 'Gorky Park', the 'Hunt for the Red October', the 'Bourne > Identity', the 'Icarus Agenda', the 'Chancellor Manuscript', or 'Apocolypse > Watch' - more obscure than that. > > The name has been escaping me for three days now, and I must get an answer > before I go home tonight. > > Can anyone help? > > M > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
