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0 pointsparanoidrobot5y ago0 comments

I suspect it's not the use of the bomb that is the biggest concern.

I would think someone with a bomb on some kind of bulk Hazmat carrier and the threat of blowing it up would shut down traffic for a lot longer. Nobody is going to want to get close to do anything about it.

LNG or Oil are the two I can think of, but there's probably a lot of other bulk Hazmat carriers.

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gumby5y ago· 1 in thread

The major canals aren't around big population centers so blowing something like that up wouldn't make a huge impact. Also due to the structure of a canal (limited blast containment; most of a ship is above the surface) the actual damage would be limited.

paranoidrobotOP5y ago

I think you missed the point.

Someone hijacks a LNG carrier, parks it in the canal and says they have a bomb on the pressure vessel.

Regardless of what infrastructure it would damage or not, it will shut down shipping.

Who would be willing to get close to it to do anything about it? What do you do, stand off and launch a missile and definitely destroy it?

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