BTW 9/11 was not the first time a hi-jacked airliner was taken with a threat to destroy a government installation. It happened in Tennessee in the 1970's.********************
# 49 by cva66snipe
Do you have a link to that story?
If not a link, could you tell me about it?
How serious do we take national defense? In this same area is the first TVA dam that was build about 15 miles upstream from Oak Ridge. While the Manhattan Project was going on during WW2 the dam had gun placements below it. There was concern that a rouge plane from Japan or Germany, or possibly a stolen plane would work it's way up the Missippi & Tennessee River and take it out. Oak Ridge was a secure city and the old guard stations still stand today in some places. The Air Force up till I think the late 1960's operated a radar base north of Oak Ridge.
We need to rethink our International Water Boundry and set it to at least 15 miles out with a Coast Guard beefed up to enforce it.