[hoagy62]

So here’s my nightmare scenario: Times Square, New Year’s Eve. The crowd is screaming out the final few seconds of 2015. People are watching on TV and the Internet all over the US. At the stroke of midnight....the feed goes dark.

People all around the area surrounding Manhattan see a bright flash. A mushroom cloud rises above what used to be Times Square. Buildings collapse, fires rage, and hundreds of thousands of people are killed.

With all the buildings in the area, what’s the possibility that terrorists can slowly, piece by piece over a number of days, smuggle a nuclear device into one of the buildings? Build it in an office that some shadow corporation has rented for the purpose. Detonate it by remote control or timer.

Could this happen?

[Boardwalk]

Maybe more like the suitcase nukes in conjunction.

[nopardons]

No, because the police won't allow backpacks, bags, etc. in the area, and haven't since 9/11 happened.

Maybe a gun can get through, but no pressure cookers, nor anything else like that.