~consul wrote:
> and thus Adam H. Kerman inscribed ...
>> Sean Eric Fagan <sef@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> Without some specific steps, all you've got is a very dirty
>>> environment. (*That* is a reason to not be shooting at a car
>>> carrying a nuke, but the trade-offs are pretty clear: stop it now,
>>> and have some relatively minor contamination, or let the
>>> "terrorist" continue and detonate the nuke.)
>> I don't know the nature of this device. Was it designed to be
>> planted or was it a warhead? If it were a warhead or a bomb designed
>> to be dropped from a bomber, surely it's designed not to leak
>> radiation unless specifically activated.
>
> Given the dialogue, it had to be placed in a specific location, and
> also in sync with the others so it would go off together, thus the
> need for the tracking system inside the bomb. Though I forget why
> this particular bomb did not go off.
I thought Hawkins disarmed it. I may have simply assumed that. Do we
actually know there is a tracking device in the bomb? Why not in the J&R
vehicle? I would assume (there I go again) that had there been a tracking
device all this time, they would have already recovered the device...long
ago.
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