Re: What can we do now??

["Jim Nelson" <nelsonjima@HOTMAIL.COM>]

Sandy,



I think we are kidding ourselves if we say it can't happen.   It doesn't 

have to involve a nuclear plant.  From my reading, there are apparently 

enough nuclear suitcases and the potenntial for dirty bombs to scare most 

people.  Whay are you so secure it will not involve nuclear?  That thinking 

appears to be the same trap we fell into with airliners.



My question was what can we do to be prepared?



Jim Nelson





>From: "Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@EARTHLINK.NET>

>Reply-To: "Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@EARTHLINK.NET>

>To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

>Subject: Re: What can we do now??

>Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 14:50:32 -0700

>

>In my opinion, terrorists need not go after anything remotely related

>to "nuclear" .. This is nothing more than the typical hysteria that

>surrounds the term. Let's assume that the terrorists did crash into

>a containment building. There might have been some immediate

>deaths due to the crash .. the passengers and some on the

>ground. The containment building would probably have held. If not,

>the THREAT of contamination would have loomed for days on end,

>in the media. There would have been fears (similar to TMI). Around

>the Washington, DC and NYC area there are many nuclear plants

>and labs. They didn't go after them. What is the reality .. they

>chose a target where there would be a significant number of

>immediate deaths. There would be greater fears, due to hitting us

>right in our own back yards. Mass destruction, and nothing to do

>with a nuclear plant.

>

>The next attack, and the next .. won't have anything to do with

>nuclear. They don't need to, to accomplish their goals. They have

>already essentially shut down our aviation, they have affected our

>privacy and other rights, they have caused serious damage to our

>financial institutions. And, nothing to do with a nuclear plant.

>

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