"Karsten M. Self" wrote: [...]
Sounds like the feds are treating the current "credible threat" as broad and shutting down all options. Anyone care to posit a scenario in which GA could threaten a nuke?
Yep. Mr. Usr Bin Local records a video saying that a light aircraft that hits the <technobabble> at the power plant will cause it to release large amounts of <technobabble> Evil Radiation. The only thing to do is to escape upwind as quickly as possible and never come back within 20 miles or you will all die and your children will grow horns and tails. But the Government doesn't want the citizens to know because then it will cause panic, and the emergency services will be stressed by all the radiation-sick, and more people will die anyway of starvation, rioting, looting, & so on. Then release it to the media (of more than one country) just about the time the plane hits the concrete. so the locals will see the reports as they see the firetrucks screaming. Whether or not the plant is seriously damaged is neither here nor there. Actually, you don't have to make the video, because people will come the that very conclusion by themselves as soon as they see the expert types on the TV telling them that there is no reason to panic. Or say the plane is filled with lots of anthrax. Doesn't really have to be for the first-order effect - just has to be believed to be. Ken Brown