>What would have been wrong with "unavoidably detained" or "unable to keep this commitment"? Not very colorful, but definitely unimpeachable.
But those would've been lies, too. It was possible to avoid the detainment and it was possible to keep the commitment. Whether those actions would've led to nuclear war is another matter.
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