The Grid Nightmare
Every so often the right wing driven media come up with a new way for the terrorists to destroy America. Of course real doomsayers are so obsessed with the 2012 fear of the end of the world and wonder if it will do better at the box office than James Cameron’s Avatar, we hope not. One is the turgid dream of a truly grand artist who spends years crafting this new thing we are told, and the other is this well crafted set of special effects with a story best ignored, usually, firmly set in the soap opera mould. Both look fun.
The real paranoia comes about when they suggest something that the “terrorists” may never have considered otherwise. It may seem comparably just a fashion statement to detonate your stolen atomic bomb off in Manhattan (for a terrorist, not for anyone else) when viewed through the Hollywood creation of end-times as a physical manifestation is perhaps harsher on the nerves of today than big blue lumbering magical creatures may seem. It depends on their writers making the highly unlikely seem real.
Conversely, the danger of the actual live scenario outlined on USA Today is truly apocalyptic. If the terrorists did not drop the bomb into Manhatten but shot it into space, they could cripple the USA communication, command and military.
Terrorists are not the target of this article. It is pointing out how Iran has rockets going into the atmosphere, putting things into orbit and now are planning on a nuclear capability (even if not to make a bomb), that instead of defending upon a unclear and not present danger (The former Soviet Union), they should find a way of defending their national grid while making friends with those who mutually can assure destruction.
Or is the USA merely announcing that it has this capability aimed at space above other cities?
