Nuclear Attack Countdown

Atlas readers know the score but even so. It's like those nightmares where you are screaming and no sound is coming out of your mouth.

Top police officer warns that nuclear attack is inevitable Sunday Herald hat tip Michael

A nuclear attack by terrorists causing widespread panic, chaos and death is inevitable and will happen soon, a senior Scottish police officer has warned.

Ian Dickinson, who leads the police response to chemical, biological and nuclear threats in Scotland, has painted the bleakest picture yet of the dangers the world now faces.

Efforts to prevent terrorist groups from obtaining materials that could be made into radioactive dirty bombs - or even crude nuclear explosives - are bound to fail, he said. And the result will be horror on an unprecedented scale.

"These materials are undoubtedly out there, and undoubtedly will end up in terrorists' hands, and undoubtedly will be used by terrorists some time soon," he declared. "We must plan for failure and prepare for absolute terror."

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He said: "An incident will continue for days and all the public will see is people dying without reason. What will we do when our children come home from school with blisters on their skin and their parents don't know what to do?

"What happens if 10 deaths, 50 deaths, 100 deaths start occurring in an unconnected and random way all over the country? The public will be rightly and understandably terrified."

Casualties caused by radiation, which most people don't understand, would trigger widespread "panic and fear", said Dickinson. And the response of the emergency services "would be chaotic" because of a shortage of resources.

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Dickinson delivered his dire warnings to an international conference in Edinburgh last week. More than 300 experts from 70 countries were taking part in a high-level meeting organised by the UN International Atomic Energy Agency on the risks of nuclear terrorism.

Comments

[Surak]

There has been a World War against the West since at least - 1979? (hostage-taking in Tehran) - early 1970s? (plane hijackings) - early 1800s? (Barbary pirates) - Muhamad's death? (jihad)

3000 murdered on the streets of New York City, suburban Washington, DC and rural Pennsylvania was not enough to get this country to fight back and DESTROY our enemies. What will be the tipping point? What will it take for the leftards to figure out that it's their lives at stake?

What if - as Professor Hugh Akston asked in Atlas Shrugged - what if the leftards don't really want to live?

What if we allow them to run the greatest nation in history into destruction?