apparently the six devices were actually five and a half, very primitive, Hiroshima type weapons, and if my memory serves me, the delivery system was Buccanneer, but was never tested, even with 'blue' bombs.
I agree, nothing short of a nuke would have had the US in there like a rat up a drainpipe.
Question, though...would every pallet of cargo be opened and inspected after a fire in the cargo hold? The bomb/BGS would have been disguised, would the chances of discovery have been higher if the Heldeberg had diverted?
Or was the divert not permitted for reasons of operational urgency? November 87 was quite a time up north...as the man says, would PW have actually nuked them?
Anyone read the book, 'The Mini-nuke Conspiracy'? good reading. In addition to providing fair insight into the whole Red Mercury thing, it alleges that mini-nukes with a yield of a kiloton or less were actually used in Angola by SA forces.
