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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
Hi,
If a terrorist breaks a long distance electrical line (which we already have and use all the time), what happens? We lose electricity.
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The difference being right now we dont supply geographic areas with 1-3 lines, we generate power in the region to supply the region, blowing up lines may only affect a city or city blocks because there is redundancy in the grid. Also terrorism is not necessarily about killing people, creating chaos or economic disruption are weapons as well and have spin off effects.
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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
If a terrorist blows up a nuclear power plant, or gets a hold of some plutonium and uses it in a dirty bomb, or dumps it into a water supply, what happens? You get a lot of dead people and/or a ruined area.
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Nuclear plants are already bomb proof, the containment structures are designed to contain a small scale nuclear blast in the event of a failure. Do you not think that this has not been the holy grail of the terrorist movement, its extremely well gaurded stuff. You probably have 1000x better shot at killing the pres.