# Which James Bond villain's plan would be most likely to succeed?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 3, 2004, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-james-bond-villains-plan-would-be-most-likely-to-succeed/262956 "2004-09-03T14:29:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![FlippyFly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FlippyFly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlippyFly)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-james-bond-villains-plan-would-be-most-likely-to-succeed/262956/1 "2004-09-03T14:29:38Z")

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Inspired by this recent thread

> **[If no gold standard, why do we keep fort knox?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=274369)**
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> Inspireded by the other thread. If we don’t use the gold or silver standard, why do we keep fort knox? What good does it serve us? Wouldn’t the government do better paying off some debt, or perhaps filling fort knox with SP500 shares?

about fort knox, I started thinking about Goldfinger. In your humble opinion, would this plan have worked?

For those unfamiliar, Goldfinger owned a lot of gold. In fact, he loves gold, only gold, he loves gold (haha). His plan was to detonate a nuclear device in fort knox in order to irradiate the entire US gold supply. This would decrease the world’s gold supply, and as any economist will tell you, decreased supply with steady demand will raise prices. This would make Goldfinger’s gold that much more valuable.

In addition, I am curious what James Bond villain you think had the most sound plan. To be fair, I have not seen all the movies and my memory is a bit foggy, so please describe the plan when you post.

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-james-bond-villains-plan-would-be-most-likely-to-succeed/262956/2 "2004-09-03T15:05:28Z")

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Kanaga’s plot from _Live & Let Die_.

Double or triple the number of heroin addicts by giving away huge mounds of the stuff free?  
Yeah. That will work fine.

Also, it had the best soundtrack.