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.
My point is that the tone of this article is right up there with Odovacar is at the gates and we should prepare for wholesale rape and plunder.
Will be be attacked? Who the heck knows. We are at war, which is what the media and rest of the idiots have forgotten.
I often wondered how much land would be needed to prevent an attack. If I were a looter and I thought that you had someting that I wanted, I might just lob a gasoline bomb on you house and shoot the people inside as they ran out.
Dogs would be shot and eaten of course before attacking.
Getting close enough would be hard if there were more than a few acres of flat and treeless land around the house.
\not a looter
All that you have mentioned were prototypes, one-offs, or experiments, except for the land mine, which was deployed in small numbers and never assembled into a workable configuration outside of the US. It was considered too dangerous to use offensively, and was slated as a denial weapon. Also, all of these "projects" were initiated in the 1950's during a period of great advancement in nuclear weapons design in the US.
None of these lightweight and advanced implosion designs could be built by terrorists with a 3rd grade education using a hammer and a grenade pin in some cave somewhere, and none of these designs exist in any arsenal today. Security, storage, and usability make them impractical footnotes of history, nothing else.
Ding... ding... ding... we have our winner.
And yes, I have plenty of the above (except for canned spaghetti --gag.)
9/11 wasn’t a wide area radioactive event. Contaminated areas will not see delivery of much needed supplies including refrigerated medicines. First responders will be at home with their families. Unless you’ve got lots of cash tucked away to move and establish a new life, your home and perhaps other hard potentially contaminated assets (read metals which absorb strontium 90, cesium and Carbon 14) will be worthless. And something tells me New Yorkers will be screaming loudest about living in a FEMA trailer.
You would have thought that Hurricane Katrina would have proven that what he’s saying is true, and a nuke would make that look like a cakewalk.
If this happens, woe be the inhabitants of the ME.
“Protect the food!”
Who said canned? The water is to keep my italian MIL alive to cook.
And if you were completely honest with yourself, you would embrace the ammo comment, wouldn’t you. I know I do every spring when the cotton heads that pop up over the head rests of the huge Lincolns and Continentals start arrving back north.
I’ll give you fifty bucks to keep them over the summer? Just tell me where to send it.
Neither would a dirty bomb be.
Unless you’ve got lots of cash tucked away to move and establish a new life, your home and perhaps other hard potentially contaminated assets (read metals which absorb strontium 90, cesium and Carbon 14) will be worthless.
If I survived, my home would be fine and my firm would take up residence in its disaster recovery facilities in PA. It would lengthen my commute significantly.
And something tells me New Yorkers will be screaming loudest about living in a FEMA trailer.
A FEMA trailer would be more spacious than the average Manhattan studio apartment.
In the event of a nuclear attack on US soil, the US Northern Command is in charge of crisis management and consequence mamagement.
Next.
“All that you have mentioned were prototypes, one-offs, or experiments, except for the land mine, which was deployed in small numbers and never assembled into a workable configuration outside of the US. It was considered too dangerous to use offensively, and was slated as a denial weapon. Also, all of these “projects” were initiated in the 1950’s during a period of great advancement in nuclear weapons design in the US.
None of these lightweight and advanced implosion designs could be built by terrorists with a 3rd grade education using a hammer and a grenade pin in some cave somewhere, and none of these designs exist in any arsenal today. Security, storage, and usability make them impractical footnotes of history, nothing else.”
Nice rewrite of history, shame it isn’t true.
Here is what your “never assembled....” project became:
The Davy Crockett was deployed with U.S. Army forces from 1961 to 1971. Between 1956 and 1963, 2,100 were produced at an estimated cost (excluding the warhead) of $540 million (in constant 1996 dollars).
The point of bringing this up is that the hardware and knowhow exists here and most likely in the former USSR. Depending on who you believe there are many nuke devices missing around the world. The Universities churn out PHDs in Nuclear Physics every year.
The now aging hardware is around, and the know how to make it work is also around. Take some firebrand USA haters and some cash, you never know what they will come up with.
America needs to quit thinking our enemies are a bunch or uneducated camel jockies. Bin Laden, for one, is highly educated, and he isn’t the only one.
Sure, they have their wingnuts, but we do too.
*ping*
I hereby expose you as a plagiarist who stole that line from a piece of papper in a fortune cookie!!!! 8~)
You sound like someone a day before 9/11..
Amused at the concept of two planes hitting the trade towers and the trade towers falling down going BOOM..
SLAP SLAP Wake up.. This could happen.. A mere theater nuke in say Detroit/Chicago or New Yawk City would have devastating results on the economy, finacial system, and scare the living hell out of literally EVERYONE.. i.e. successful TERRORISM..
After then the terrorists would have to merely threaten..
-OR- someone would be elected to nuke back in return..
Thats when the terrorists would attack MALLS, schools or some other people gathering sites.. or bridges or dams..
CLUELESS?... Denial is not a river in Egypt..
“Unfortunately, I don’t think even a nuke going off would wake this country out of its stupor. After one nuke, you’d have the NYT (if NY got nukes, substitute the WAPOST of LATIMES) calling for immediate negotiations, urging restraint, and stressing the many benefits of diversity and free-trade. Maybe if they took out Washington DC, NY, Boston, and LA it would do the trick. Very sad, but I suspect true. The reality-free liberal mindset is so entrenched in this country that it would take the death of a massive number of them to spur action.”
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I agree with you 110%
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