After the Bomb ...

Simply an article that scared the shit out of me as I know in my heart NYC, my hometown, is the number one target in the world for these lunatics and the possibility of a nuclear weapon going off in Manhattan at any time is something that weights heavily on my mind each day. I am amazed how so many either block it out entirely or simply believe that because it has not happened that it will not.

My biggest struggle is over living with fear or giving in to it. It's nice to play brave but there is no way to underplay the horror of what we are discussing. It's very tough in the cross hairs.

Op-Ed Contributor
After the Bomb
By WILLIAM J. PERRY, ASHTON B. CARTER and MICHAEL M. MAY
Published: June 12, 2007

THE probability of a nuclear weapon one day going off in an American city cannot be calculated, but it is larger than it was five years ago. Potential sources of bombs or the fissile materials to make them have proliferated in North Korea and Iran. Russia’s arsenal remains incompletely secured 15 years after the end of the Soviet Union. And Pakistan’s nuclear technology, already put on the market once by Abdul Qadeer Khan, could go to terrorists if the president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, cannot control radicals in that country.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/12/opinion/12carter.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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