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from: Andrew Swallow
date: 2007-02-12 01:24:30
subject: Re: Military tactics in sci-fi?

Jeffrey MacHott wrote:
> Michael Harper wrote:
>> I was gonna use a
>> private plane into the side of the Empire State building, with a 
>> low-yield
>> nuclear warhead on board. Goodbye, Big Apple.
> 
> What, *another* airplane?  Isn't once enough for ANY building to get hit 
> by an airplane?
> 
Without explosives the 9/11 terrorists needed to speed (momentum) of
the aircraft to destroy the two towers.  A nuclear weapon could be
let off from a boat in the middle of the harbour.  For an air blast
a truck on the top of a multi-story car park will do.

Andrew Swallow
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