Loose lips sink ships, house boats and can destroy hydro electric dams. It’s a good thing no one ever visits this website for ideas...
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But the point is that this is already a known threat.
It I, a lowly civilian, can put together an actionable threat, what could someone with significant resources and ill will do?
I also have thought of easy, cheap, methods terrorists could use to cause great damage to lives and property within the U.S.
I have not yet voiced them. But I am starting to wonder if I should. Having authorities possibly come up with contingency plans before an attack, or prevention of an actual attack, could save many lives.
Actually, most of the ideas have been around for years. The ‘airplane into the building’ idea was first floated by Tom Clancy in his book, “Debt of Honor” and Edward Abby wrote about blowing dams in “The Monkeywrench Gang,” even giving a few pointers. A movie came out years ago about the British effort to blow a well defended Nazi dam during WWII. That also gave hints about how to be most effective.
While most dams have a barrier of some sort to keep boats and/or debris from getting too close to the dam itself, a determined terrorist would have little trouble defeating it.
For the time being I’d suggest that people NOT live downstream from any large dams.