Will We Ever Be Safe Again?

摘要

Boarding a jumbo aircraf't with a weapon is shockingly easy, as anyone who has packed a Swiss Army knife into his carry-on knows. Slipping onto an unguarded plane is a cinch, as federal agents conducting security checks have shown time and again-including at Boston's Logan Airport, where they smuggled pipe bombs and guns aboard planes in recent tests. The nation's vulnerability extends beyond threats from the skies, however. Packing yourself with Semtexto blow up hundreds of commuters at a train station… dropping a bomb into a stadium… releasing nerve gas at a packed concert: in a world where 767s can turn into guided missiles, nothing seems impossible, ludicrous-or, worst of all, even preventable.