Bond Month: The most ludicrous plots for world domination

You Only Live Twice (1967)

Pitch: Instigate World War 3 by hijacking US and Russian spacecraft, leaving China to emerge as the new superpower.

Suggestions: Real estate is expensive. Next time limit your liabilities by locating your scheme on a floating oil tanker.

On Her Majestys Secret Service (1969)

Pitch: Employ a bevy of brainwashed beauties to carry germs back to their respective countries, then blackmail the world with the threat of bacteriological armageddon.

Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

Pitch: Launch a diamond-encrusted satellite into space, then use its in-built ray gun to destroy nuclear installations in America, Russia and China.

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

Pitch: Start a global apocalypse with missiles taken from hijacked nuclear submarines, then begin a new underwater civilisation from your subterranean base.

Moonraker (1979)

Pitch: Eradicate all human life on Earth with a lethal toxin, then start mankind afresh with the perfect specimens you’ve got squirreled away in your orbiting space station.

A View To A Kill (1985)

Pitch: Manipulate an earthquake in California that will flood Silicon Valley, leaving you with a lucrative monopoly in the microchip market.

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

Pitch: Get exclusive broadcast rights in China by making it appear as if Great Britain has declared war.