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Originally Posted by armymom1228
Let me really scare you.. cannot remember where I heard/read it, but a couple of years ago the FBI relieved a White Supremist group in Maine of a 'dirty' bomb.
I worry less about Iran than our own homegrown loonies with thier own personal copy of the 'terrorist handbook". Remember OK City and all that?
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Respectfully Armymom a dirty bomb would not be fun, but it is completely survivable, take out one city, any city and it is my belief that the country will rally and destroy whoever is responsible. On the other hand if you were to suddenly take out all electricity in the US it would take us back 200 years and tens if not hundreds of millions would die in the first year alone. No water, no heat, no food transportation, no refrigeration…etc, most people in our country couldn’t survive one week without the above let alone the possibility of years. Our country would cannibalize itself and it might take decades to recover if we ever did.
In my former military life I was involved with lots of contingency plans for disasters of all types, including some cataclysmic NBC ones, I was also briefed regularly on current and potential terror threats both at home and abroad, I'm well aware of many of the current threats that face this nation, and while home grown extremists are a threat as Reaper has said, they are not the threat that keeps me up at night.
Iran with one weapon placed on top of one of their existing weapons could bring this country to it's knees. Would we destroy them, probably, but do they care....I would argue that some high up in their government don't. To take a line from The Peacemaker I'm not scared of the country with 100 nukes I'm terrified of the man with just one.
Just my .02