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Special Report - USA - "Scenario: Bomb in a Box"
New York,NY,USA -IEEE Spectrum -31 Aug 2006: -- If terrorists decide to strike again, are we prepared? Not really, as these scenarios of extremism make clear: On 20 March 2007, North Korean dictator Kim Jong‑Il blackmails the world’s wealthiest nations, threatening to detonate a 2-kiloton atomic bomb hidden inside a shipping container somewhere in the port city of Hong Kong unless he receives US $50 billion in gold bullion within 48 hours... Kim says in a videotaped message addressed to the U.N. Security Council and broadcast by CNN that any attempt to disarm the device would result in “a nuclear holocaust for Hong Kong and the crippling of the world trading system.”... The threat sends the city of nearly 7 million into a panic, with many deaths reported as people attempt to flee by any means available... The “bomb in a box” scenario is perhaps the worst of all potential terrorist threats. A small atomic device detonated at the Kwai Chung port facility in Hong Kong would indeed kill some 87 000 people within hours, says Matthew McKinzie, a scientific consultant to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) who ran simulations of such an attack for IEEE Spectrum using software designed by the Pentagon... Stephen Flynn of the Council on Foreign Relations, in New York City, one of the world’s experts on transportation security says, scanning all containers at every port would change the degree of difficulty for a dirty bomb scenario from a 2 to a 7... Such a system would also allow a suspicious container to be tracked back to its origins, much as surveillance cameras deployed throughout the London Underground enabled investigators to rapidly identify the culprits of the July 2005 bombings...
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