Posted on 06/22/2006 2:41:23 PM PDT by RDTF
"Ah yes my good man. However if you were to get a classic thermoheat conducting element, say a beef burrito, and insert an paperclip with 3 plastic coffee stir sticks, ala McGiver, aguh-hey! Then read adjust the osolation point of the thermomanic field, you would effectively create a burratic energy wave that could melt a cube the size of a gorilla." A-hay, ggirva nurf 
The delivery would have to be controlled and positioned precisely, a skill not demonstrated by any third world nuclear power.
Finally, it would have to get off the ground. And, of course, the responsible country would be just as vulnerable to the same sort of damage, plus the more intimate up-close and personal type, delivered courtesy of the Air Force and Navy.
Oh right. We haven't even thought of this possibility. We don't have hardened assets. /sarc
You may be right. However, I find it difficult to believe that the NYSE doesn't have backup computers able to come back on line without enormous delay.
Nope.
I think as a weapons system it is highly over rated – but it does make great headlines.
They do have extensive backup computers and files kept offsite. The delay would be about a day, but that day delay represents a loss of around 1 trillion dollars in transactions that can not be cleared. If after the one day delay you then have a flight to safety, ie. a selloff into cash or bonds or commodities it could be about 5 trillion dollars in capital out of stocks and the market even with the circuit breakers wold drop a bunch.
Terror isn't about real harm its about the perception in the victim's mind and their reaction to it. Kill one terrorize a thousand.
How did you get my picture????
Hmm.. It seems I'm woefully behind on the subject. :-/
Everything old is new again.
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