posted on December 8, 2002 04:03:26 PM new
gravid,Just think of the ones who will will be safe after a Nuke attack,and they repopulate the world.....EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
We wont miss nothing!
The neighbors are very upset but there is some humour....
From the Washington Post...
"Yeah, I'd like to know more," said Carol Hindle, who lives on Davis Street. "But I do not trust that what I hear would be the whole truth. This is Washington, after all."
And because it's Washington, the situation also is laced with political humor.
"I just got back from Connecticut," said Warner. "When I mentioned this to my nephew, he said maybe [Cheney] is drilling for oil."
posted on December 8, 2002 08:31:12 PM new
The Japanese tried floating ballons across the Pacific in WWII which was crazy. One did float down somewhere on the west coast during the war and blow up a couple picnickers. Just amazing that someone with the authority to spend the resources had no concept of the distances and odds of doing any damage. But then the V2 rockets raining on England from Germany were not much better. All they could really count on was hitting an entire city - not any particular building even.
Today with GPS units and model aircraft you could make a miniature cruise missile in your garage for a couple thousand dollars that would get your warhead within 20 foot or so. Terminal guidance to an individual car/window or even person could be done by video imaige either compared to a file or by live TV with a remote operator. I can see a balsa and fabric plane with steel wool around the engine and electrionics to absorb radar. It would be very very stealthy. The Israelis make small aerial robots and paint the bottom sky blue and put a small spot light on a boom hanging underneath to shine on the bottom just bright enough to make it invisible from the ground against the sky.
Ground penatrating bombs are harder - but there are commercial components available to make ground penatrating sensor packages that are used to explore for minerals.
posted on December 8, 2002 11:41:40 PM newBut when was the last time that a foreign power dropped a "smart bomb" or a cruise missle on U.S. soil.
The last time a foreign power dropped a bomb on US soil was Pearl Harbor in 1941. The weapons you mention were, of course, not in existence at the time (although there were the V-2 rockets from Germany, but that is neither here nor there).
I seriously doubt it could happen today, either, what NORAD's radar & communications systems which could easily detect inbound missiles.
While we are on the subject, when was the last time (other than the 9/11) was U.S. soil attacked by a foreign power. And Where?
February, 1993. Ramzi Yousef & four other Muslim fundamentalists drove a bomb-laden van into the underground parking garage in the World Trade Center. 6 people were killed & over 1,000 were injured.
Technically, I suppose you could also count the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000, since the ship would count as "US soil."
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Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there --Clare Booth Luce
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posted on December 9, 2002 06:51:06 AM new
Any attack on a US embassy is an attack on US soil. Any embassy is sovereign ground of the nation it is representing.
A few years ago one of the middle eastern embassies in London, Iragi or Libian I think, shot an English police woman dead who was working in front on the street from within their walls and they did nothing. Made no attempt to arrest the person at all because it was from inside their sovereign haven.
posted on December 9, 2002 02:52:21 PM new
Latest update on the blasting at Cheney's residence is that it will continue every day from 9 to llpm for the next eight months!
I suppose that means that the war will not escalate until late next year?
posted on December 9, 2002 06:38:55 PM new
They are probably more worried about domestic threats than foreign. Especially as control is tightened down during the next term. The homeland is going to be very, very secure folks.
