Reply #23: Wolfowitz linked Heritage Foundation simulates "suitcase" nuke attack... [View All]

On Houston.



Dec. 15, 2002
By MICHAEL HEDGES and RACHEL GRAVES
Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle

"The nuclear bomb is small enough to be hidden in a briefcase, but its force levels downtown Houston, flattening most of the 58 skyscrapers and killing about 130,000 workers.

Stunned and injured, those who can walk among the approximately 15,000 survivors downtown stagger away from ground zero covered with invisible and deadly particles of radiation and dust from crumbled buildings.

The bomb explodes outside City Hall, destroying that building, the Houston Police Department's headquarters and the Harris County administrative offices. It kills most local leaders and law enforcement officials, crippling the city's immediate ability to respond to the disaster.

The wind drags the deadly radioactive cloud through the East End and beyond the Loop, killing 10 percent of those in its stream and sickening thousands more.

This doomsday scenario comes from a computer model used by the Defense Department called the Consequences Assessment Tool Set. Officials use the software to calculate the impact of catastrophes and figure out how to respond.

The Center for Media and Public Policy of the Heritage Foundation, a Washington think tank, acquired the software and programmed in real-time data for Houston. Using factors such as local weather, wind patterns and number and type of buildings, the Heritage computer analysts determined for the Houston Chronicle the impact of catastrophic events if unleashed on a typical recent day."

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