The AT&T building next to where Anthony Warner blew up his bomb? With the security of the world resting on it, some of these things perhaps should be wrapped and enclosed in massive metal domes.
The media buzzed yesterday, speaking of how Warner's attack on the AT&T building revealed how our nation's infrastructure is vulnerable to such attacks. With the whisk of a homemade bomb, Warner shut down 911 calls along with telecommunications in an area spanning a few states. You couldn't use your credit card. Flights out of Nashville were shut down. Etc.
The Nashville explosion caused regional harm. But, a coordinated effort to take down our infrastructure buildings could have national or even international consequences. It was noted yesterday that at one poinr, 60 percent of the internet was being operated out of buildings in Virginia. It was noted that the hardware behind GPS worldwide is located in two buildings on an Air Force base in Colorado.
Putting a lid on some of these buildings, so to speak, by covering them with metal domes or some such, might seem a little much. But, is it? We should weigh whether we should do it. We should consider it. Our vulnerability has been exposed. If we are wise, we respond by doing something to alleviate the danger.
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