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| Washington TImes: Threat of seaborne Scuds. |
| 2008-08-07 |
| The threat is that of old, short-range Scud ballistic missiles being launched with nuclear or biological warheads from large container cargo ships from outside U.S. territorial waters, some of the nation's leading experts in ballistic-missile defense (BMD) warn. The entire populations of the U.S. Eastern seaboard and the West Coast, some 70 percent of Americans totaling more than 210 million people, are at risk from such attacks, experts have warned. Tens of thousands of container cargo ships are at sea every day going to and from the United States. More than 1 million cargo containers a day are unloaded at Long Beach, Calif., alone. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #1 Maybe the young UAV sensor operators should be training over the ships crossing the oceans before turning them loose on the battlefield? All branches have some version of remote-controlled vehicles and are adapting other existing planes. They could add sensors to detect on-board threats long before coming into port as well as missiles to pre-empt any attack. |
| Posted by: Danielle 2008-08-07 17:45 |