"(Sssshhhhh....actually I'm concerned about bio/chem WMD in this regards more than nukes.)"(Domestic Church)
From Los Alomos? I didn't think they did much Chem/Bio there?
Smallpox could be worse than any type of nuke though.
NYPD Confirms Subway Explosive Was Crude Bomb
By N.J. Burkett
(New York-WABC, July 20, 2004) — Just what caused the explosion at a Times Square subway stop? Eyewitness News' N.J. Burkett reports that a former police officer is part of the investigation as cops try to figure out what happened.
Sources have told Eyewitness News that police have identified a prime suspect -- a cop with a troubled past.
N.J. Burkett reports from Times Square.
The NYPD Commissioner has confirmed it was a crude homemade bomb that blew up in the subway station, sending hundreds into a panic at 8:00 on Monday night. Now, nearly 24 hours later, the motive remains a mystery.
Detectives spent much of the day searching for eyewitnesses, anyone who may have seen someone leave a pack back at the 43rd Street entrance to the Eighth Avenue subway.
Ray Kelly, NYC Police Commissioner: "It was black gunpowder, it was in a PVC pipe, it had b-bs inside the pipe."
Police say, it was an off-duty New York City transit patrolman who said he discovered the bomb, claiming it went off moments after he first noticed it.
Sources familiar with the investigation identified the officer as Joseph Rodriguez, a 4-year veteran of the department, whose last assignment was a transit division's Manhattan task force. NYPD officials would neither confirm nor deny that Rodriguez is a suspect in the investigation.
The bomb was found on a landing just inside of the subway entrance, where there are no surveillance cameras.
Tom Moutemarano, Witness: "I was in my third floor apartment in the Times Square Hotel, and it shook. And the boom was so loud that it could not be fireworks. That's how loud it was."
Witnesses say the explosion was terrifying. One of those was veteran TV talkshow host Joe Franklin.
N.J. Burkett: "What did it sound like to you, Joe?"
Joe Franklin, Television Personality: "It sounded to me like a bomb. I was hoping it was only a prank, that it was only a firecracker, but it sounded to me like a bomb. It sounded very scary. People were running out of restaurants. There's a school in this building, and a lot of mothers were running up, 'I want to get my kid out of the building.' They thought this was another 9/11, or another explosion. But happily, luckily, I think it was only something on the staircase. People were afraid it was something inside a subway car where people were being blown up and destroyed inside. Everybody was fearing the worst, people were trembling, they were shrieking, they were hysterical."
Officer Rodriguez was the only one hurt in the case, and he was treated at Bellevue Hospital for what were described as minor burns.
Let's make this perfectly clear, the NYPD will neither confirm nor deny that Rodriguez is a suspect in this case. However, Eyewitness News has learned that the FBI and the Joint Terrorism Taskforce are no longer investigating this case.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/WABC_072004_timessquareexplosion.html
CDC, Fort Detrick, Plum Island, etc...and of course the universities...all could be targets or could have "internal shrinkage."