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From: schwartz@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz)
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Subject: Re: How Vunerable Are Cities To Terrorism ???
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Date: 11 Oct 89 03:36:48 GMT
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From: schwartz@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz)

| In the mid-70's, New York was hit by a blackout which resulted in complete
| chaos and looting in some low-SES areas.  

NOVA (on PBS) did a story on New York this week.  They said that 
part of the cause of the blackout was that it happened at night,
which meant that even though there are power stations on the island,
the people necessary to start them up were at home.  Today these
steam turbines can be activated remotely from a control center that
is manned 24 hours a day.

| Are cities really as vunerable as they seem to me?  Is their any defense
| against a small group with a clever plan?

This is more of a topic for comp.risks now, but surely bombing or
taking hostiges in the power control center, could do bad things to
NYC.