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Note that with the exception of Denver and Atlanta, all the cities that were attacked -- whose pushpins we could see -- were port cities. Denver and Atlanta are major rail freight interchange points for containers -- Denver being Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe, and Atlanta being CSX and Norfolk Southern. Nuclear weapons hidden in containers could be programmed to detonate at freight yards in the interior rather than at the ports.

Someone has been reading a rail map.

Back in the Eisenhower years, the Pentagon did a study as to how long it would take for the country to recover after a general nuclear exchange with the Soviets. The study showed that it would take 800 years before the standard of living progressed as far as Europe had been in the medieval period, specifically the 13th Century.

That's a VERY GOOD point. Rail lines and ports would sure make it easier for terrorists to move portable nuclear deviced into position. It's impossible to check every single rail car and every single ship coming into every port in the country. The 9-11 Commission and Democrats always throw that at the GOP but never seem to mention the part about the TENS OF BILLIONS of dollars it would cost and the impossible logistics it would take to do it. Funny how the Democrats always say what they think should be done, but never identify HOW to do it. So convenient. :) I think anti-gravity tech should be developed to make it cheaper, easier and quicker to move freight and make the internal combustion engine obsolete, but that doesn't mean it can be done or that I know how to do it or pay for it. That's the Democrats today.

But I digress. The border, and ports are clearly the way that this kind of attack could be done in reality. The Soviets have admitted that a dozen or more portable briefcase nukes are "missing" and unaccounted for. They weigh near or more 100 pounds, so they're more like suitcases not briefcases, but it wouldn't be hard to getthose into different vehicles, with clean cut looking terrorists driving them in teams, one device per vehicle, out in the boonies somewhere, each team with a predetermined location to go to in each target city, and a predetermined time to get there, and a predetermined time to set the devices off, compensating for time zones. And ports would make this even easier, using small private cabin type cruisers, which no one really checks if they don't look suspicious, and it wouldn't be hard for people to get such boats and their legal papers. This is very doable and very real and quite scary. I don't know what scares me more; the reality that Islamo-Fascists COULD do this, and it is not logistically impossible if done right, which wouldn't take a genius level of intelligence to pull off, or if it scares me more that there is an apparent genetic level of retardation among some Americans who think such an attack isn't possible, or don't really worry about it. As 9-11 proved to be, an Islamo-fascist terrorist nuclear strike on America is a matter of WHEN, not IF. That's my opinion, and I hope I'm wrong but I don't believe I am. It only takes ONE nuke detonated in a large U.S. city, a port probably, to kill millions of Americans, and change the United States for many decades at best, and cause the economy to drop to its knees. People don't seem to understand the repercussions of this if it happened. It would make 9-11 look like a fart in a tornado.

"Back in the Eisenhower years, the Pentagon did a study as to how long it would take for the country to recover after a general nuclear exchange with the Soviets. The study showed that it would take 800 years before the standard of living progressed as far as Europe had been in the medieval period, specifically the 13th Century."

Bring out your dead!

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Bring out your dead!

Note that with the exception of Denver and Atlanta, all the cities that were attacked -- whose pushpins we could see -- were port cities. Denver and Atlanta are major rail freight interchange points for containers -- Denver being Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe, and Atlanta being CSX and Norfolk Southern. Nuclear weapons hidden in containers could be programmed to detonate at freight yards in the interior rather than at the ports. Someone has been reading a rail map.

Interesting.

The show opened with the lead character riding into Denver on a train. And in episode 3, the kid found an abandoned freight train (supposedly just outside of Jericho).