Posted on 01/22/2007 1:30:58 PM PST by presidio9
If terrorists can get enough weapons-grade fissionable material, they can pay starving weapons techs or scientists to refurbish or create a new device. The terrorists don't have to know how, they only need money and fear to make others do it. All they would have to do is to kidnap the family of a knowledgeable person and hold knives to their throats, and they can probably get some uranium or plutonium with enough money. And they have a lot of money. So easy, a caveman with millions of dollars and a knife could do it.
Are you sure the movies were made DURING the war?
oh good grief...it was a suitcase nuke, not an ICBM
Oh, cut it out, its just a TV show. I think all this is more Fox hate. I am no more worried today after the 24 show than I was prior to it. Worried, but based on reality, not 24. Its just an entertaining TV show. However , it does recognize our enemy.
I'm sorry, but didn't Sony Picture Studios put out a movie about the entire United States being overrun with snow and ice in some Fantasia-meets-Global Warming tripe??? How exactly was that not 'too far'? The idea that we would all have to move to Mexico and the picture of Mexican border agents holding back the hordes of Americans trying to invade our southern neighbor was pretty freakin' inflammatory if you ask me.
If the Port of Los Angeles had to be closed for any length of time, whether due to radioactive contamination or whatever, it would be a huge blow to our national economy. Every company that is dependent on imports from China (like Wal-Mart) or exports to Asia would take a huge hit.
Also very stupid, I might add.
Not clear to me. The Port of Los Angeles would be an excellent target, as we our economy is dependent on a steady uninterrupted stream of imports from China. They already had a big hit on Manhattan. I don't think it had the impact they had hoped for.
I think that what is much more likely than a "suitcase bomb" is to sneak a foreign-made nuclear device into a shipping container in China or other foreign location and set it to detonate when it reaches the U.S. in either the Port of Los Angeles or the Port of New York.
I've been watching a lot of old movies, I just saw one about Bataan, they didn't have an ending, left you hanging as to what would happen, it was made in 1943. I commented to my hubby about the 'lame' ending, and he said, it wasn't done yet. I'll see if I can find it. There were a LOT of movies made during the war, while it was going on. And they were all pro war. Here's an interesting fact, Cary Grant donated all his salary for some movies to the war effort.
Obviously we know little about EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse).
Actually, yes, there was reference to that. Go watch the episode again.
Huh? Are you saying no Arab American can be a patriot? I was pleased with their depiction of the "CAIR" clone guy ratting out his fellow Muslims in detention. It is a great role model for Muslim viewers.
The depiction of a military corrections grunt who is a turncoat is also very feasible. This is what makes "24" a cut above. On pedestrian shows such as "Alias" everyone acts according to form. Life is not so simple.
Where is the flux capacitor?
"McClennan Forrester" (Season 4) was not "the villain". They were impeding CTU to cover their own ass, not to help the terrorists.
That is cool!
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