[2banana]

It is extremely tough to destroy a bridge - thousands of pounds of explosives in a car bomb would only scratch the paint..it is not a soft target unless terrorists have unrestricted access to interior section for many, many hours...

[Ralph the Hun]

That's what I use to say about wanting to take down the World Trade Center.

We should never underestimate these animals.

[atomicpossum]

It is extremely tough to destroy a bridge

It's also extremely tough to bring down two major office buildings.

[bra]

The placement and type of charges are the important part. This bridge could be disabled very easily with the right know how.

[Abathar]

""It is extremely tough to destroy a bridge - thousands of pounds of explosives in a car bomb would only scratch the paint..it is not a soft target unless terrorists have unrestricted access to interior section for many, many hours...""

Actually it depends on the type of bridge and how it was designed. A cable bridge has one big flaw, the cables. This bridge could be taken down easily with a few shaped charges placed at deck level on the cables, drive up, attach a magnetic slice charge to the cable covers and drive off. These cables have to be tensioned at both ends at the same time to keep the upright supports strait, building this kind of bridge is a balancing act more than anything. Detonate the charges between two towers on a windy day, drop the roadway and I doubt that the support towers will stand the unbalanced load from one side only. It would be a terrible thing though, I don't like giving the French credit for anything but this bridge is one of the most beautiful things they have done in a long, long time.

[Darksheare]

But it was built by the French.
They built an aircraft carrier that had opaque windows on the flight ops bridge, dropped it's props on the sea floor, had a dangerously undershielded reactor, and whose flight deck was too short.

How hard could it be to undo the twine, duct tape, and bubblegum holding that thing togetehr?
/ joke.

[TheRatHunter]

Tough bridge or not, a commercial airliner would make quick work of it. And the French pray to the PC god, so anyone of an arab persuasion would get a free pass through any French airport.

[Prime Choice]

It is extremely tough to destroy a bridge...

It was once thought that destroying a single skyscraper was "extremely tough." That "conventional wisdom" (sic) pretty much went out the window on 9/11.