Talk:American Hiroshima

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Is there any source for this?

The G2 information is proven to be incorrect as the 60th anniversary has already passed. There are credible sources for the American Hiroshima threat. The leading one is the book called American Hiroshima by David Dionisi. Also the book Nuclear Terrorism by Allison Graham and Countdown to Terror by Congressman Curt Weldon. The threat is also described in the documentary by the Nuclear Threat Institute called The Last Best Chance.

[edit] Cleanup

I've done some major cleanup to this article. After initially just revising the text to be more grammatically sound and to include appropriate links, I found I had to remove most of the text because the basic premise — a nuclear attack on the U.S. — wasn't supported by it. In particular, I removed these revised passages for the following reasons:

"American Hiroshima" is a term used by Osama bin Laden to urge a new attack on the United States, similar to the September 11, 2001 attacks.

This version of the opening line, as well as the original text, stated that "American Hiroshima" is a bin Laden term for another 9/11. There is no source provided for this, and the one I did find that actually defined "American Hiroshima" said it meant a terroist nuclear attack, which makes more sense.

During an October 6, 2005 speech, U.S. President George W. Bush stated that "at least ten serious al Qaeda terrorist plots" had been disrupted since the 9/11 attacks. [1]

Nothing in Bush's speech uses the phrase "American Hiroshima", and it offers no specific description of any such proposed attacks.

Number 2 on the list of ten thwarted attacks in the White House fact sheet was an American Hiroshima attempt. [2] The specific attack was an attempt by Al-Qaeda to blow up the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant/Spent Fuel Pond in New Hampshire. This facility is 40 miles north of Boston. If the attack was successful, 89 million Americans would have been exposed to radiation poisoning.

Again, the cited source, a White House fact sheet that accompanied the speech, makes no specific mention of the target or of an "American Hiroshima". The closest it is to being on-topic is #3, "The Jose Padilla Plot", in which he supposedly "discussed the possibility of using a "dirty bomb".

A few of the sources are right wing and have been proven to be at least partially incorrect. For example a service on the Internet called G2 said this would happen on the 60th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing which has already passed. On a related note G2 cites a book by author Paul Williams as a source for its American Hiroshima information.

There was no link provided to the incredibly common term "G2", and "a book by author Paul Williams" isn't an adequate source.

All that was left were three books and a documentary. Of these, all I've found so far is Dionisi's eponymous book's website, which isn't especially illuminating at first glance, and contains links to a letter to the editor of a paper and an Amazon review that appear to be identical, which smacks of a promotional campaign.

Based on at least one news link I found, "Tancredo to request al-Qaida nuke briefing" from WorldNetDaily, I suspect there is good material for an article out there, but it needs to be collected, synthesized, and cited properly. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:33, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

--- Quick comment, I am sure that I've read Bin Laden say "We will give America it's Hiroshima" in a speech somewhere. In something that might be somewhat related this article (http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/08/22/amanpour.binladen/index.html) mentions Bin Laden has been cleared by an islamic cleric to kill 10 million Americans.