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...using bolt cutters or Bangalore torpedoes, pipe-shaped explosives developed by the British army in India nearly a century ago. The terrorists would blast through outer walls using platter charges, directed explosives developed during World War II, giving them access to the heart of the plant. They would use gun-mounted lasers and infrared devices to blind the plant's cameras, and electronic jammers to paralyze communications among its defenders. They would probably be armed with precious information--hand-drawn maps, drawings of control panels, weak spots in the site's defenses--provided by a covert comrade working inside...
Japan also traditionally used unarmed private guards. In May 2002 the National Police Agency sent armed members of its Gun Measures Corps to augment security around the clock at the 16 plants that house Japan's 53 reactors. But there has been little public outcry over the plants' vulnerability. Japanese nuclear watchdog groups are mostly also anti-gun. Armed guards will just "intimidate local residents and infringe on their rights," says Baku Nishio, co-director of Tokyo's Citizens' Nuclear Information Center. Japan does not legally require nuclear-plant workers to submit to background checks...
...gun days of yore were a thing of the past, not because they needed to be, but because both Dawson and Fitzpatrick had agreed that they be. Each could have demanded that he be the center of the offensive system—but neither...
Chen was the victim of armed robberies in January and March 2004. He says he was knocked unconscious with a gun during the second robbery...
...creativity as a writer was being stifled in Hollywood, and he looked to start a new career in which he could communicate more directly with his reader, rather than “producing a blueprint for the actors” and, “working as a hired gun...