12 Sep
2002
12 Sep
'02
12:41 a.m.
In the book Prometheus (sp?) they load a large freighter with Ammonium Nitrade (with
the right additives) then stack the deck with tons of Magnesium ingots and then expode the
whole thing in the port in the capital of a South American country. The effect is like
that of an atomic bomb (anybody remember what happened in Texas City?) PLUS the flaming
magnesium fell for miles outside the blast area and created thousands of fires that
combine to form a fire storm. (Remember Toyko in early 1945? The fire storms killed more
people than both of the atomic bombs.)
I'm convinced that our "leaders" always get most of their plans from
movies, TV and books. (R. Reagan watched StarWars one too many times!)
Joe
At 06:06 AM 9/12/02 -0600, you wrote:
One good OT deserves another... In Clive Cussler's latest book,
terrorists attempt to sail a supertanker full of propane up to
the dock and explode it. In the book Dirk Pitt speculates the
WTC towers would not collapse, but the rest of the area would
be badly damaged.
The printing history: First hardcover edition: August 2001
Regards,
Clint
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 Innfogra(a)aol.com wrote:
And here I am contributing to the way way off
topic..... I understand one of
Tom Clancy's novels deals with the subject, flying large airliners into a
building. Written in the mid 1990's. I am trying to find out which novel it
is, he is very prolific.
Paxton
Who is looking for a novel to take traveling to Fiji and wondering where he
will find the internet there?
Hmm.. When I was last there (1990) the telecom system was run on intel
multibus and the airport on a microvax. Does that make this on topic.