30-Dec-13 World View -- Saudis pledge $3 billion to Lebanon

[alezy]

For those interested in reading more about a scenario for future nuclear war, this links to excerpts from the book's chapter on "War Comes to America" which describes the scenario of terrorists obtaining nuclear weapons and detonating them in American cities. In his scenario the first weapon is detonated in San Antonio. This surprised me. As I've mentioned in another thread, if the terrorists are looking for a target close to the Mexican border, Houston to me is the obvious choice. Another thing people should consider is that suitcase nukes may already be present within the US.

[NoOneImportant]

San Antonio has five major military installations: Houston, Lackland, Randolph, Brooks City-Base, Camp Stanley Storage - 4000 acres with 630,000 sq ft under roof.

San Antonio makes perfect sense, additionally it is also the home of SWRI - Southwest Research Institute - a low visibility organization with several divisions that used to do a fair amount of classified extensive government "thinking" - first hand knowledge. While there are other areas in the US that have very large military installations, San Antonio, arguably, has five of them. Always wondered about the merit of having so much in such close proximity to each other.