Unsung Bomb Squad Heroes: Volunteered to Die to Disarm Rumored Nuke in New York

The Blotter ^ | March 02, 2007 11:34 AM | ABC News

[weef]

According to a new book by ABC News reporters: In October 2001, the fires were still burning at Ground Zero when New York City was faced with the threat of a nuclear bomb planted inside the city, a threat so dire that no city official, including the mayor, was informed of it by the secret team assigned to prevent the device from going off.

Some details of the still-classified incident have crept out over time, but until now it never has been reported that a handful of senior New York City Police Department bomb technicians, including at least one grandfather, had volunteered to disarm the device.

[oldenuff2no]

That's what I said, that it isn't too hard to keep it from having a "nuclear yield". That means a huge bang with a big mushroom cloud. They are made so that everything has to happen exactly right or it will not give you the big bang. Blowing it up or detonating the conventional charges inside without the proper sequence of inputs will result in a dirty bomb fallout situation. I think we are having Nuclear Weapons 101 here.

[oldenuff2no]

That's what I said, that it isn't too hard to keep it from having a "nuclear yield". That means a huge bang with a big mushroom cloud. They are made so that everything has to happen exactly right or it will not give you the big bang. Blowing it up or detonating the conventional charges inside without the proper sequence of inputs will result in a dirty bomb fallout situation. I think we are having Nuclear Weapons 101 here.