Not every seemingly insidious government plot is just a whacky conspiracy theory. Throughout the course of history, government regimes have gone ahead with a number of underhanded proposals that they probably wouldn't be too happy with the general public knowing about at the time. Many plots that were been carried out by government secret services have since been uncovered, from political assassinations to bizarre, unethical experiments. Of course, it can only be assumed that there are many more that have yet to be revealed, or perhaps never uncovered at all. On occasion, there have been some truly scary plots proposed that came incredibly close to succeeding. Thanks to certain individuals, incompetence, or just blind luck, these plots never actually managed to happen though, which retrospectively turned out to be a very good thing. Although many of these plots never went past the proposal stage, declassified documents have since made the plans public. This list takes a look at 10 terrifying government plots that (thankfully) were not successful in either their objective or starting up in the first place. With questionable weaponry, defamation schemes, and war plans that would cause widespread destruction, you can be thankful that these government plots were never successful.