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nonsense.
good thing you didn't claim to be an engineer, too......

No, I am not a professional engineer. However, I did serve for many years as a demolitions expert on a Special Forces A-Team. I will say that suspension bridges are the toughest demolitions problem I have ever encountered. The main cables on the bridge are huge, and extremely difficult to secure effective charges to cut them. I shall not go into detail with the problem of dropping a tower, but it is a problem. You might recall the terrorists gave up on the Brooklyn Bridge, and I have no doubt that cutting the cable was the problem. Granted, one might be able to drop another section of the bridge, but unless one of the main cables is cut or one of the towers dropped the best you can hope for is a partial demolition.