Four Years After 9/11, Is An American Hiroshima Next?

The next post September 11 terrorist attacks on America orchestrated by Al-Qaeda are likely to involve the use of nuclear weapons, claims the author of a new book about a future 9/11 plot. Unless the threat is taken far more seriously, nuclear terrorism in America may be inevitable, resulting in massive loss of life that will make 9/11 appear insignificant in comparison.

(PRWEB) August 17, 2005 -- Sixty years after an American B-29 bomber dropped a uranium fission bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, and 4 years after Al-Qaedas September 11 terror attacks on New York Citys World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington, America may be on the verge of experiencing a Hiroshima of its own. Those are the views of the author of a recently published novel, KING OF BOMBS, which is based on a future act of nuclear terrorism occurring on American soil. Sheldon Filger, who was a resident of New York City during the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, believes that the next 9/11 may very well be a nuclear detonation in a large American city.

The overwhelming impression I formed of 9/11 is that its perpetrators, Al-Qaeda, have a hate-driven determination to murder Americans in massive numbers, with the only restraint on their lust to kill being the technical means of destruction that are available to them," Filger said. If, God forbid, they were ever to acquire a nuclear weapon, I have no doubt that they will employ it, with the objective of creating a Hiroshima on American soil."

KING OF BOMBS(www.kingofbombs.com) is a fictional account of a future 9/11 plot by Al-Qaeda involving a nuclear device of vast destructive power. The title of the book is the actual name of the most powerful nuclear weapon ever built, a relic of the Cold War built by the Soviet Union, with the destructive force of thousands of atomic bombs of the type that leveled the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the closing days of World War II. Experts who have examined the risks of nuclear terrorism have long speculated on the danger that Al-Qaeda and similar organizations could exploit the large amount of weapons grade nuclear material and many under-employed or out of work nuclear weapons experts left over from the former Soviet Union. Mr. Filgers novel is based on such a scenario, in the process dramatizing the apocalyptic consequences posed by the threat of nuclear terrorism.

Commenting on the reasons why he wrote a novel about a future Al-Qaeda terrorist attack on America involving weapons of mass destruction, Sheldon Filger spoke about the imminent threat of nuclear terrorism being inflicted upon America. As someone who lived through the horror of September 11, 2001, I like so many others who were in New York City on that fateful day have been waiting ever since for the other shoe to drop. Unfortunately, there is a disconnect, especially within the government, that has led to a dangerous complacency towards the acute danger confronting us. I hope my book might help shake things up, and stimulate public discourse on what I believe is the number one threat to human civilization, before it is too late."

Filger mentioned that weapons grade nuclear materials are located throughout the world, frequently under poor security. A U.S. government program aimed at safeguarding such materials located in Russia will not be completed for another thirteen years, based on the current slow pace of implementation. It takes only thirty-five pounds of highly enriched uranium, or as little as nine pounds of plutonium, to manufacture a simple but effective nuclear weapon, that could kill upwards of one million people in large urban areas within the United States. For the American government to treat this threat as being of such low priority that it can be dealt with on a time scale measured in decades, is to invite inevitable catastrophe. Unless our behavior towards the threat of nuclear terrorism is radically altered, it is only a matter of time before we all witness the next 9/11 attack in the form of a mushroom cloud," Filger warned.

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