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To: 2ndDivisionVet
A nuclear attack on the U.S. (by Iran) is not just a threat, but is very real and "on countdown" mode IMHO....it's only a matter of time and is very scary...this from the book "Epicenter" by Joel Rosenburg...

(Quote)"With Iran's countdown to the apocalypse, the stakes could not be higher.

Were Iran to smuggle nuclear bombs across the Mexican border, for instance, entire American cities would be vulnerable to cataclysmic terrorist attacks with little or no warning. Experts say the blast from a single ten kiloton nuclear bomb in Washington, DC, for example, would destroy everything within a half mile of ground zero, contaminate 3,000 to 5,000 square miles with toxic levels of radiation, and kill 300,000 people within a matter of minutes."(/Quote)

Mr. Rosenburg goes on to say...

(Quote)"With a similar bomb detonated in the heart of Times Square in New York City, a leading expert on nuclear terrorism says, "The blast would generate temperatures reaching into the tens of millions of degrees Fahrenheit. The resulting fireball and blast wave would instantaneously destroy the theater district, the New York Times building, Grand Central Terminal, and every other structure within a third of a mile of the point of detonation. On a normal workday, more than half a million people crowd the area within a half mile radius of Times Square. A noon detonation in midtown Manhattan could kill them all. Hundreds of thousands of others would die from collapsing buildings, fire, and fallout in the ensuing hours. The electromagnetic pulse generated by the blast would fry cell phones, radios, and other electronic communications.(/Quote)

I am very very afraid for the future of our children and grandchildren...

12 posted on 05/01/2007 4:39:41 AM PDT by ~Vor~
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To: ~Vor~
With a similar bomb detonated in the heart of Times Square in New York City, a leading expert on nuclear terrorism says, "The blast would generate temperatures reaching into the tens of millions of degrees Fahrenheit. The resulting fireball and blast wave would instantaneously destroy the theater district, the New York Times building, Grand Central Terminal, and every other structure within a third of a mile of the point of detonation.

Oh my God! The New York Times Building? We need to step up our diplomacy and make nice with these people!

13 posted on 05/01/2007 4:58:17 AM PDT by GWB00 (Barbara Streisand barely made it out of high school.)
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To: ~Vor~

.................I am very very afraid for the future of our children and grandchildren...................

And yet, many, many conservatives believe that the most important issue to rally behind in 2008 is a candidates’ stance on abortion.

Folks, if we don’t belly up to the candidate that will squash islamofascism, we won’t be wanting to have any more children!


26 posted on 05/07/2007 5:17:52 AM PDT by aShepard (Oh little Mohammad, Couchy, Couchy Coo; your momma is so proud, you'll make the cutest little suici)
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