I am always on the lookout for obscure stories and things. A couple of days ago, the Russians released a threatening computer-generated animation. It showed a small nuclear weapon being detonated over the part of Washington, DC where major government centers are located. My antenna went up. Why a small nuclear explosion? Why not a big multi megaton warhead devastating the whole city?
Several countries including the US, Russia, China, and a couple
of others have very sophisticated spy satellites and radar systems. If a
nuclear war head is launched, they detect it in nanoseconds. I suspect
that this includes warheads launched from stealth platforms. Retaliation would
be quick. All the nuclear armed players including North Korea understand this.
However, if some nation or terrorist group smuggles a nuclear warhead
into a city and detonates it, it is hard to prove who did it. Retaliation
becomes problematic. Tom Clancy first raised this frightening
possibility 30 years ago when he authored the novel "The Sum of
All Their Fears." Palestinian terrorists smuggle a nuclear weapon into
the US and set it off while the Super Bowl game is being played in Denver. Some
200,000 people die.
President Bush II's expert on nuclear terrorism
wrote a documentary novel titled "The Right Of Boom." An unnamed
terrorist group smuggles a nuclear weapon into Washington. Some 80,000
people are killed. Six months later, the authorities cannot figure out who did
it.
One of our readers, Luah Fontana, is quite familiar with graphic
arts and animation. It is a labor of love to create any animated program or
presentation. Once all the work is done, in the bureaucratic Russian system,
ten approvals would be necessary before the presentation was released to the
public.
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