Author Topic: Weaponized Shipping Containers  (Read 1658 times)

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Re: Weaponized Shipping Containers
« Reply #25 on: December 08, 2021, 02:45:55 PM »
Yeah, but the nice thing about using fertilizer is that it can be made to look like an accident. A nuke not so much.
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Re: Weaponized Shipping Containers
« Reply #26 on: December 08, 2021, 02:54:31 PM »
If we're talking about ports, you don't need any ginormous bomb to take out the port. You just need something that will quickly break apart and sink the full container ship carrying the device just inside the port entrance. You're talking at least months to clear that out. Imagine if the current slowdown out of LA/LB was cut to zero containers getting on trucks and trains.

Hint: You don't have to imagine it. That scenario has already been tabletopped by Top Men and it's fairly devastating.
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Re: Weaponized Shipping Containers
« Reply #27 on: December 08, 2021, 03:05:38 PM »
I wasn't thinking about direct damage so much as assuming the leadership would add on so many rules changes as a result the ports would be moving at a snail's pace even compared to now.
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Re: Weaponized Shipping Containers
« Reply #28 on: December 08, 2021, 03:20:08 PM »
I wasn't thinking about direct damage so much as assuming the leadership would add on so many rules changes as a result the ports would be moving at a snail's pace even compared to now.

You meant more than they are now?
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Re: Weaponized Shipping Containers
« Reply #29 on: December 08, 2021, 03:24:16 PM »
You meant more than they are now?

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Re: Weaponized Shipping Containers
« Reply #30 on: December 08, 2021, 03:26:12 PM »
Don't ever assume that the government can't make something worse.  :P

Yeah I know. Never underestimate the government's ability to "fix" things.
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Re: Weaponized Shipping Containers
« Reply #31 on: December 08, 2021, 04:26:08 PM »
I’d sink a container ship in each channel of the Chesapeake bay bridge tunnel if I wanted to make a mess. Add in some containers of hazmat and a huge fuel leak or radiation if you want to slow cleanup. Shuts down Norfolk, Portsmouth, other natural gas and liquid petroleum terminals, Maryland ports, the naval response to such, etc.
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