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In reply to the discussion: I'll relate this story without specific locations: [View all]BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)Chemical plants and nuclear power plants have potential to be two of the worst-case scenarios, which isn't hard to imagine.
What is hard to imagine is how easy it would be and how little had been done to harden these targets, as of the time of the various reports/exposes. Perhaps more has been done to protect America from these, but in a post-911 world, I'd have thought that television reporting wouldn't have been necessary to get them either off their asses, or more willing to cut a couple of points off their bottom line. That doesn't seem unreasonable to expect in order to protect hundreds of thousands would suffer anything from major inconvenience and annoyance, all the way up to grim, agonizing death and all the points in between.
And that was 100's of 1000's per attack, not in total.