Why would the 777 need to be melted down, given it would be vaporized in the process of delivering the weapon?
Of course, first you'd need to rescue the 777 from Davey Jones's locker, South Indian Ocean District.
Who writes this crap?
Commercial airliners are no longer one of the "normal shipping methods?
I must have missed the memo!
Its plausible and to my mind a fact that our Islamic enemies will construct nuclear weapons to use against the USA.
Its plausible that they would attempt to steal a commercial jet, to possibly deliver a weapon or two. However, the attack with the most bang for the buck and will be a simultaneous attack on 10 or more port cities that are easily reached by normal shipping.
I’ve looked at the data and the 777 is at the bottom of the Indian Ocean and it will likely take nearly 100 years for its discovery much like the Titanic....
I work in Nuclear Medicine.
A few weeks ago, I received a telephone call from an 84-year old patient of mine that I did a bone scan on a couple of days earlier. He told me that he was on line at a 7-11 buying a lottery ticket when a police officer came into the building with a radiation detector, walked right over to him and started interrogating him to find out why he was setting off his Geiger-Muller meter.
Even after 20-plus years in the industry, his phone call stunned me. The fact that they had detectors that could sense a very tiny amount of (almost-decayed) radiation circulating the blood stream of a man almost two days after his procedure was amazing to me, as even the detectors that I use in my office stop beeping the minute a patient moves just a few feet away from them.
This incident convinced me that there’s just no way that anyone can get any weapons-grade isotopes into this country, as our satellites and other detectors that we have will probably spot them the minute they depart for one of our coasts.
At least I hope so.
Next, could you post articles on how to poison reservoirs and shut down power grids? There’s so much to learn.
Conversion of a ship to allow for the launch of a medium range ballistic missile is a distinct possibility. A launch within a few hundred miles would provide little to no warning.
A sympathetic US politician will help. Maybe, oh, someone representing a district in Minnessota. Or possibly military brass that is a soldier of Allah first and an American officer second...Sounds crazy right?