IF A 10-kiloton nuclear weapon, a midget even smaller than the one that destroyed Hiroshima, exploded in Times Square, the fireball would reach tens of millions of degrees Celsius.
It would vaporise or destroy the theatre district, Madison Square Garden, the Empire State Building, Grand Central Terminal and Carnegie Hall (along with me and my building). The blast would partly destroy a much larger area, including the United Nations. On a weekday, some 500,000 people would be killed.
Could this happen? Unfortunately, it could - and many experts believe that such an attack, somewhere, is likely.
The Aspen Strategy Group, a bipartisan assortment of policy mavens, focused on nuclear risks at its annual meeting here last week, and the consensus was twofold: the danger of nuclear terrorism is much greater than the public believes, and the United States government hasn't done nearly enough to reduce it.
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NEW YORK - American and Pakistani authorities fear a 'second string' of Al-Qaeda leaders is plotting a major new attack after a terrorist summit in Pakistan, Time magazine reported.
Some United States officials fear the meeting could have been a key planning session ahead of a major attack, similar to the way a 2000 meeting in Kuala Lumpur was ahead of the Sept 11 terror attacks in the US.
'The personalities involved, the operations, the fact that a major explosives expert came here and went back,' Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf told the magazine, 'all this was extremely significant.'
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Until we get serious about terrorism, and recognize who the real enemy is, I will refuse to read another terror article.
Either shut down the damn border and lock up ALL islamics, or go to sleep and wait for the next attack...because it will happen...and we will have only ourselves to blame for allowing PC and leftist ideals to win over common sense and patriotism.
When a murderer is in your house, and you allow him sanctuary therein, then who is to blame when he slits your throat as you sleep? [This must be too simple a concept for our government and the islamic apologists here on FR]