Not trying to be a smartass here but they also thought about hijacked aircraft. And we just saw it happen.
I absolutely agree they have nearly idiotproofed the system. But there is always...ALWAYS a better idiot. The coast guard does not inspect all ships. China has parked subs off the coast just outside the 12 mile limit for decades. And the Navy can’t do anything about it because they adhere to the international suicide pact.
Iran was just boasting about sending their navy over. In all honesty, who here thinks that this regime would provoke an ‘international incident’ by sinking them in international waters? But since their stated goal is obliterating us, and Allah has instructed them, there could easily be a china/Russia purchased nuke aboard. And any point along our coasts could get heavy fallout if not a direct hit when they blew it in those international waters.
Here’s a dirty little secret.
You wouldn’t need to actually touch off a nuke, radioactive dirty bomb, or bio weapon dirty bomb to bring the country to it’s knees.
Having a bomb of this type in place and having it “discovered” before it went off would cause mass panic on a scale most people can’t imagine.
Tens of millions of people would start fleeing the major cities all over the country because of the possibility of a second bomb.
To get an idea of what it would be like, look at what happened during hurricane Rita after the mass panic that was created by hurricane Katrina.
People didn’t want to risk getting caught in another New Orleans post Katrina type situation and millions tried to flee before the storm.
I saw it first hand, and it looked like something from an apocalyptic syfy movie.
Tens of millions of people would be trying to go somewhere safe without any idea where they were going.
With the amount of traffic on the roads you’re lucky to go 100 miles in 24 hours.
Small town gas stations run out of fuel on the first day.
Thousands of cars are abandoned because they run out of gas.
Store shelves in small towns are stripped.
The one saving grace that kept people somewhat in line and not turning into desperate mob willing to do anything was the fact here in Texas people are armed.