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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jonrog1" data-source="post: 546367" data-attributes="member: 189">How about US Militant types?Not to start any fierce flame-wars or anything, but even a casual read of the testimony of multiple witnesses in the OK bombing incident reveals considerable evidence of both a.)another guy who was never caught and b.) a greater organization than three individual whackjobs.But just as the government executed Timothy McVeigh and never publicly pursued these leads, because the idea of a few isolated nutjobs was a more acceptable concept for the press, the government's image and the American people, you can be darn sure somebody took care of whatever business needed to be taken care of.(NOTE: I am in no way saying McVeigh was innocent, etc.  Not a separatist, not living in a bunker, just letting you know.)So in this scenario, US New World Order haters detonate the nuke, but are wiped out by secret government squads before they can claim credit.  The US government decides that an unsolved mystery is more palatable than the concept that American citizens would perpetrate this monstrosity upon other Americans.This solves your secrecy issue, why no other nation ever takes the fall for even being peripherally involved,  gives you a nice conspiracy to find clues to in the guts of your campaign, and perhaps even an enemy -- the reforming militant group who committed the crime in the first place.And having lived in New York -- you detonate even a low grade nuke in the harbor, your death toll's going to be 5 to 7 million around Christmas time.  Most people don't know the city's only a mile across and two or three miles long.If it's any use -- The agency in charge of this sort of thing is FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency.  The squads which search for rogue nukes are called NEST teams (can't remember what the acronym stands for exactly).  A website search of the Science mags might give you your worst-case scenario idea.  I think NEWSWEEK ust did an article, as did WIRED.I look forward to hearing more about the campaign.</blockquote>

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