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"The atomic bomb is another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness" -- Harry
S. Truman
"Perhaps it will take a cataclysmic event to shake the great majority of Americans out of
mammoth
compared
this
with
their hubris and self-righteousness" -- Shintora Ishihara
devastation.
The Big Flash!
Except for the humming

This article was written by Joseph Huang in Australia a number of
years ago, and proves almost prophetic in light of the events of
September 11, 2001 and the horrendous possibilities that face us if
unbridled Islamic terrorism is allowed to spread its evil machinations
around the world.

As the news helicopters flew Except for the humming of the
over the scorched city below, recording numerous inquisitive helicopters in the
the terrifying scene on live-telecast for sky, dead silence fell upon this once
an eager world to see, the images were bustling metropolis. The winds did not
mind-numbing. Just the day before an clear out the radioactive smoke hovering
atomic bomb had devastated the city. above the city, restricting the helicopters'
Those on the outskirts saw a rising ability to record the destruction below.
mushroom cloud, and then city streets Those buildings that survived the blast
with tall buildings on fire. People were were gutted by the subsequent fires.
running in the streets screaming, their Dead bodies were scattered everywhere
clothes and hair on fire. When the bomb throughout the wreckage. Half-
vaporized at a temperature of several consumed human body parts could be
million degrees centigrade, creating a seen among the smoking ruins where
fireball and radiating immense amounts injured dogs had torn apart their masters
of heat, all civilians within a five and feasted on them.
kilometer range of the hypocenter were
doomed. Fallen houses and twisted commercial
buildings turned this once thriving city
Heat, radiated by the bomb, into an unimaginable rubble. The whole
burned every living soul more than three world stood still -- shaken -- as it
kilometers from the hypocenter. watched the unfolding horror on satellite
Instantaneous fires erupted over a wide TV. Three percent of the bomb's energy
area creating a firestorm that engulfed all was released in invisible neutrons and
major buildings around the city that had gamma rays. These rays affected people
not succumbed to the blast the day during the ensuing days as they spread
before. All ten square kilometers of the out through the air and water. Finally,
city had already been burnt out, while the message sunk in -- the city was New
some scattered fires were burning York, that Great City! Nuclear terrorism
throughout the metropolitan areas. had finally arrived! Some of you reading
Chernobyl would pale in significance this article may think this scenario is far-
fetched, but frightening indications and