[5thGenTexan]

Times Square on New Years Eve would be the scariest scenario for a terror attack in my mind. A panic stampede from a relatively small incident would cause many, many deaths.

[SamAdams76]

I think that every time they drop the ball on New Year's Eve. At least since 2001. I was in the city the day before New Year's Eve last year and the police were already setting up the barricades, limiting access for that entire area and literally caging in groups of people who have to be in place by 1PM. Totally necessary for security purposes but on the other hand, it reduces the people there to penned-in cattle. I hear that once you get herded in there for the event, there's no easy way getting out, not even to use a bathroom, until the event is over. Not that local establishments will even let you in to use one, unless you were a customer. I want no part of that! Much rather see the ball drop in front of a TV with a glass of champagne in my hand.

[hoagy62]

So here’s my nightmare scenario: Times Square, New Year’s Eve. The crowd is screaming out the final few seconds of 2015. People are watching on TV and the Internet all over the US. At the stroke of midnight....the feed goes dark.

People all around the area surrounding Manhattan see a bright flash. A mushroom cloud rises above what used to be Times Square. Buildings collapse, fires rage, and hundreds of thousands of people are killed.

With all the buildings in the area, what’s the possibility that terrorists can slowly, piece by piece over a number of days, smuggle a nuclear device into one of the buildings? Build it in an office that some shadow corporation has rented for the purpose. Detonate it by remote control or timer.

Could this happen?