Whew, hang on to your socks for some late Cold War subdued aggression goodness. Unless you're not into huge nations squabbling to the detriment of the overall human achievement...
The year is 1982 and the CIA has been receiving reports about the KGB's vast network of industrial spies that have been siphoning information from America's technical achievements. The agency has taken measures to falsify development of fictitious programs and imaginary inventions in hopes of poisoning the Russian's stolen information stream. And it is working; there are numerous CCR industries that just couldn't get American technology off the ground, from aircraft to machine parts to chemical tech.
But word filters through about a Russian desire for pipeline automation software that the US government has officially denied them access to. So when KGB agents pilfer the code from a firm in Canada, they are blissfully unaware of the CIA trojan sleeping deep in the lines. The pipeline is built and is operational for a few months when the subroutine springs into action.
The controls are set to over-capacity pressure and after enough joints and welds are compromised, the pipeline ruptures in a three kiloton blast. Sensors at NORAD spike indicating a nuclear test, but no launch trajectory is conformed. The CIA calmly tells various arms of the defense department not to worry about it, but the records remain classified, and the explosion a mystery, for 14 years until 1996.
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