Posted on 08/15/2007 4:41:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
1.) Tragically, horrifyingly, but quite predictably, it’s going to happen. The only question being which American city or cities?
In a recent conversation with a former high level intelligence operative of our government, I raised the possibility of terrorists successfully detonating a nuclear weapon within the United States. His response was sobering in its hopelessness.
First, he stressed how grateful he was that he did not work in Washington, DC, and that his family lived far enough out to survive the coming nuclear blast. When I pressed him as to why he was so sure that Islamic terrorists – with or without the help of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez – would eventually hit DC or another American city with a nuclear weapon, his anger boiled out.
He pointed the finger squarely at our politicians and our politically correct, left-leaning media, who, in his opinion, have “sealed our fate.” He spoke of politicians from both sides of the aisle who consider border security nothing more than a cheap tool to be used for their reelection and enrichment. He despaired about a media that not only gleefully leaks our nation’s most trusted secrets for partisan gain, but then willingly acts as a propaganda tool for the very terrorists intent on our total destruction.
He warned of the hundreds of “loose nukes” floating around our planet. He patiently explained that the former Soviet Union (no matter what they or our government claim), can’t account for a number of their nuclear warheads. That North Korea may well have a few they are willing to sell to terrorists to prop up their totalitarian regime. That Pakistan – already a nuclear power – may soon fall victim to the Islamic extremists trying to overthrow that government. Of an Iran further ahead in their development of nuclear weapons than thought. And last, but not least, he spoke of the thousands of cruise missiles unaccounted for around the world. A number of those missiles being nuclear tipped.
In short, because of what he portrayed as a “betrayal by those sworn to protect us,” a nuclear attack within our nation, in his mind, is “inevitable.”
2.) When said attack comes, you and your family are on your own. Period. My friend stressed that “our government won’t be there to help us. It is broken beyond repair and incapable of assisting those most affected by the blast.”
He talked of critical infrastructures like water, electricity, fuel, banks, our food supply, medical services, police and firefighters, being unavailable for weeks or months. He warned of the blind panic that would follow such an explosion. Of the looting, of neighbor turning on neighbor to take what they don’t have for their own survival. Of our economy suffering an economic loss in the trillions of dollars.
Knowing this, are you prepared? Can you and your family ride out the frighteningly unpredictable weeks or months following the loss of an American city and its inhabitants? If you are not in the city hit, can you survive?
You must ask yourself this question. For, unless there is a miraculous epiphany about to be visited upon our self-centered politicians, then such an attack is certain.
If our politicians and the voters continue to suicidally put party and partisan politics before the welfare and security of our nation, then the terrorists will find the opening to hit us.
Our government and media are failing us. Prepare for the worst.
...and when it happens all our police and national guard will be dispatched to surround and protect the countries mosques from retailiation.
That’s nice too.
“And these terrorists would be unbelieveably lucky to engineer a 12-18 kT explosion - 0.5-1.0 kT is much more like it.”
That’s presuming they don’t get their hands on one of the dozens of missing weapons mentioned in the articles.
A small Soviet fusion weapon is in the 1 MT range.
My nightmare scenario doesn’t involve carrying things over the border on foot. It involves a cargo ship pulling into a busy port, with a Navy base (say, San Diego)...and suddenly the cargo ship is replaced by a 1+ MT fireball.
That would be a bad day.
I think the actual “suitcase bombs” that the SU had were larger than footlockers.
Correct. Two footlockers actually. One for the core and one for the trigger.
We have Jack Bauer to stop any terrorists!
My 300 Weatherby benchrest rifle shoots minute of Rivera at 1000 yards! ;^)
Might as well place blame now. Once it happens we'll be too busy panicking, and this time it won't be a three day affair like WTC911, but more like a week.
Knowing this, are you prepared? Can you and your family ride out the frighteningly unpredictable weeks or months following the loss of an American city and its inhabitants? If you are not in the city hit, can you survive?
In order: Yes, yes, and yes.
That said, I’m not buying the ‘thousands of nukes floating around’ assertion. At all.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
OK, sir. Well, why then, don't you fill us in?
- John
And stupid; all problem, no solution.
Atlas Shrugged Live
“”Lucifer’s Hammer” by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle is a good blueprint for what might happen. It’s about a comet hitting the Earth, but the human behavior described in the aftermath is exactly what we will see after a nuclear attack.”
Have you read “Alas, Babylon”? Many Florida high schoolers read it. Amazon has over 250 reviews of the book. Another recent catclysmic book and Pulitzer prize winner,”The Road”, is even more disturbing.
Valerie Plame?
...Scaremongering by a clueless asshat....
Don’t be so sure. I had a close relative that worked on Capitol Hill until recently and he said the same thing. He believes this will happen so much, that he moved his family from the DC area to a small Midwestern town.”
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Good post....sobering. It’s naive to think of such a threat as “scaremongering”.
Being a New Yorker and in the belly of the terrorist target beast so to speak, why is it so difficult for you to assimilate all of the intelligence and information out there? The financial district on a crowded day along with DC is ground zero for the Islamics. How many more times do you need to hear “its not a matter of if, but when” from the mouths who make their living in intelligence and triangulating this stuff until this sinks in? I know its hard to accept especially when you make your living in the NYC, have your home 17 miles away (5 towns?) and would be ruined “when” it happens. Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
If I happen to be a block away when a dirty bomb is detonated and I'm gone, I knew the risks and I took my chances.
But I know such an event will not bring the United States to its knees. I was in the crowd of people evacuating over the 59th Street Bridge on 9/11 and there was order, and a police presence and mutual helpfulness and support among New Yorkers.
If 9/11 couldn't erase the rule of law and the humanity of my fellow citizens, then another attack couldn't either.
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