New Novel Portrays American Doomsday Scenario
Sheldon Filger, a 9/11 witness to the terrorist attacks in New York City has written his first novel titled `King of Bombs`. The book talks in depth about the next attack to be launched against America by Al-Qaeda. With a gloomy, foreboding, and frighteningly realistic future outlook, `King of Bombs` expresses true concern over the safety of America`s future. One of the main themes of `King of Bombs` is the relative ease with which a terrorist group, with the assistance of rogue states, can assemble a nuclear bomb, and smuggle it through America`s porous borders.
In a series of radio interviews held in conjunction with the 4th year anniversary of the September 11th terrorist strikes by Al-Qaeda, Mr. Filger described his own reaction on that date when he first learned about the attacks on the World Trade Center. `I realized that the security I felt we Americans enjoyed, being protected by two oceans, was illusory,` Filger told radio talk show host Don Russell of WBT in Charlotte, North Carolina. A month after 9/11, New York City was again gripped by fear, as rumors circulated that government scientists were roaming Manhattan with radiation detectors. It later transpired that the rumors were true, the CIA had been told by an informant that Al-Qaeda had smuggled a 10 kiloton nuclear device into Manhattan, though the information turned out to be inaccurate. That incident prompted Mr. Filger to research the threat of nuclear terrorism. What he learned through open-source information alarmed him, and led to his writing `King of Bombs`.
The title of Mr. Filger`s book is based on an historic fact, the Russians designed and tested the most powerful nuclear bomb in existence in 1961, a behemoth which they called `Tsar Bomba` - Russian for `King of Bombs`. When it was tested by the Soviet Union over a desolate area, it detonated with the power of 58 million tons of high explsives, three thousand times more powerful than the atomic bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the closing days of World War II. Mr. Filger`s book presents a chilling possibility-North Korea and Iran, which are believed by U.S. intelligence to already have covert nuclear weapons programs, conspiring with Al-Qaeda to build a duplicate of the Russian `King of Bombs` device. How likely is such a scenario? In an interview with Washington D.C. radio talk show host Bernie McCain (WOL and WOLB), Sheldon Filger pointed out that North Korea already is the world`s leading proliferator of ballistic missiles, and sells hard drugs and counterfeit American currency through its diplomatic installations. `North Korea readily admits to processing plutonium for nuclear weapons, so based on their track record, it is very likely that they would sell these materials to the highest bidder, including terrorist organizations,` Filger said.
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