tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14600985.post8862578560423540178..comments2023-11-03T14:59:31.910+00:00Comments on The Growlery: Terrorising ourselvesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14600985.post-3200247474846021762009-08-23T11:15:00.253+00:002009-08-23T11:15:00.253+00:00Updated thought: there are close parallels with th...Updated thought: there are close parallels with the "dynamite terror" of the late 1800s, when Fenian bombings in English cities led to a cultural paranoia about dynamite (whose invention had greatly increased the ability for someone to clandestinely deliver and explode a bomb). See <a href="http://segalbooks.blogspot.com/2009/08/explosions.html" rel="nofollow">Explosions</a>.Ray Girvanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05556764642402680159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14600985.post-71388679513019543482009-05-17T17:40:00.000+00:002009-05-17T17:40:00.000+00:00Pauline: I like the Cecil extension :-)
I shall...Pauline: I like the Cecil extension :-)<br /> <br />I shall rip it off and pretend I thought of it myself, next time I use that quotation!Felixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13179787011325615414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14600985.post-90632076122158108242009-05-17T17:39:00.000+00:002009-05-17T17:39:00.000+00:00Cecil:
"If you believe doctors, nothing is wholes...Cecil: <br />"If you believe doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe." <br /> <br />And if we believe the media, <B><I>the sky really is falling!</I></B>Pauline Laybournnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14600985.post-22030981057916850762009-05-15T18:14:00.000+00:002009-05-15T18:14:00.000+00:00I was going to comment on the TTMF post, but it re...I was going to comment on the TTMF post, but it required some kind of registration.<br /><br />I think the portability (luggability, more like) issue is just a scary red herring. Even with the non hand-luggage variety, it has <I>always</I> been feasible to deliver a nuclear device covertly. It would be well within the capacity of a nation-state to secrete one in a civilian ship or aircraft and, as Jim suggests, I've no doubt this always was, and still is, somewhere in the scripts of how a nuclear exchange might play out. Most likely, due to the difficulty of landing, getting past inspections, and travelling on foreign soil carrying ruddy great nuclear McGuffins, the targets would be major ports. If I can think of that scenario, the military will have, long since. So what's new, apart from 9/11 having caused a "conceptual jump" of making people more aware that such close-to-home scenarios exist?Ray Girvanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05556764642402680159noreply@blogger.com