The Real Radiation Hazard: Iranian Regime

Nuclear Terror: Japan’s Fukushima plant remains lethally radiated, and elevated-but-unharmful radiation was found in milk in California and Washington state. But just wait until Tehran commits nuclear terrorism.

The hundreds of Japanese workers saving their countrymen and women from a full-blown nuclear meltdown have “committed themselves to die if necessary,” according to the mother of one.

Few can read such reports of self-sacrifice in the wake of last month’s massive Japanese earthquake and not be moved — and even frightened, as they hear of Japanese fallout affecting food thousands of miles from Japan on the U.S. West Coast (though posing no health dangers).

But the disastrous release of radiation in Japan should remind us, above all, that without aggressive vigilance and active engagement in the continuing global war on terror, we will inevitably see a nuclear terrorist attack that will instantly kill tens or hundreds of thousands — and expose blast survivors to lethal doses of radiation.

The radioactive iodine in the underground water at the Fukushima Daiichi plant is now reportedly 10,000 times above safe levels.

Some of those hundreds of Japanese workers may die of radiation poisoning. Others will eventually contract leukemia or end up with cancerous tumors.

Compare that with the analysis undertaken by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory after the 1993 World Trade Center attack involving a truck filled with fertilizer-based explosive.

Had what was in that truck been a primitive five-kiloton atomic device (with the Hiroshima bomb, by comparison, being between 13 and 18 kilotons), most buildings south of Central Park would have been destroyed, millions of New Yorkers south of Harlem would have died of radiation, and millions more in the metropolitan area would have gotten acute radiation sickness.

“The detonation of a terrorist nuclear device in an American city is inevitable if the U.S. continues on its present course,” Graham Allison, founding dean of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and an adviser to Democratic presidents, has warned.

Radiation, moreover, isn’t the only fallout from such a terror attack. A well-organized, synchronized assault on the U.S. homeland with targets in several cities — in other words, a true nuclear 9/11 — could threaten the very existence of our government and our nation.

No one knows what the consequences would be of the mayhem and chaos unleashed by such unprecedented attacks. U.S. civil society could cease to function, the rule of law could collapse, the dollar could become next to worthless, and a financial meltdown could ensue.

Source: http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/567893/201104011922/The-Real-Radiation-Hazard-Iran.htm