Rampant Paranoia
While we’re hypothesizing about potential terrorists attacks, we might as well talk about nuclear materials being smuggled into the U.S. aboard cargo ships.
The scenario: cargo ship comes into a port in New Jersey. Inspectors hear strange noises from the cargo hold and detect some radioactivity. The ship is taken over by the Coast Guard, put out to sea and searched again. No radioactivity or strange noises. What happened?
My paranoid, caffeine-addled (aided?) mind goes to work. What if the radioactive cargo was smuggled in underneath the boat, attached to the hull somehow? What if the strange noises heard by the inspection team were made by terrorist divers removing the cargo during the brief period it was in port. What if terrorists were able to remove the radioactive payload via some other method while the ship was in port?
My guess is that the Navy SEALS were called in specifically to search the hull of the boat for a parasitic payload like this.
In other paranoid news, Silflay Hraka has determined that the Apollo moon landings were fake. Sure, we’ve got pieces of the Saturn rockets used to launch the Apollo missions orbiting the planet, but that doesn’t prove anything.
Thanks, Asparagirl, for the topic.
