Terror In Two Towns

Eugene Shuffield

Category-Fiction
 Allan found out about Ahmad’s plans and started running toward Ginger. They started

toward the Core Room; they were going to stop terrorists from blowing up the nuclear plant.

Allan had just gotten a job at the largest nuclear power plant in Nevada. He was going to

be the new Security Leader on the Special Weapons and Tactical team. He had 24 members on

his SWAT team. Eight officers assigned to his full time team and sixteen assigned as collateral

duty officers. Allan’s men all carried .40 caliber handguns, and each man had been issued either

a MP-5 sub machine gun or a Benelli shotgun. His men also had stun and flash grenades, high

explosives for blowing doors off hinges, and very accurate, high powered sniper rifles.

Allan thought about the early days when he first joined the Army. He remembered when

Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh complained about having been a part of a Gulf War

experiment that implanted a chip in his butt. Now Allan wonders what the public would think if

they knew he had a chip implanted in his neck under his hair. What improvements the Army has

made since then, 1 terabyte of information, all the schematics of the nuclear station, all the top

secret passwords of the Army Intelligence Committee. Army intelligence was inputted to his

chip daily from satellite. His first computer in 1995 held only 546mb. The chip in his neck held

almost 2,000 times more information than the hard drive from back then.

Allan was a very handsome man; women had told him so. Six foot two, six pack abs,

blond hair and blue eyes, had made more than one woman swoon. He wondered why he wasn’t

with any of them.

 Earlier that day, he got a flat tire on his new V8 Hummer 3. He realized he had no lug

wrench. A beautiful woman had stopped and changed the tire for him. He stood in shock as she

changed the tire, but was able to pull it together to get her phone number before she left.

He had just graduated with high honors as a Ranger at Fort Benning, Ga., where he was

trained as a nuclear weapons detonator expert. He had been there since 1996 when Gen.

Alexander Lebed from Russia told CBS 60 Minutes that there were 100 suitcase nuclear bombs

missing from Russia. The Russian officials quickly denied this, but the Army had intelligence

that the bombs were real. This is what Allan had trained for.

At Fort Benning he had a lot of friends, and they would drink for hours. But now these

were serious times. Intelligence had heard that Al-Qaeda was up to something. Allan was

excited to be working at San Pablo the new four-reactor nuclear generation station. The reactor

could withstand a commercial airline or an F-16 crashing into it.

Ginger had just returned from a two-week trip to China where she had danced in a

promotional event. Ginger was a dancer and cheerleader with the Phoenix Suns. She lived in

Phoenix, Ariz., during the basketball season and in Tonopah, Nev., the rest of the year near the

new nuclear generating plant. She had graduated from ASU and was a surgical RN and had

trained on how to survive a dirty bomb or suitcase bomb. In the event of either, she knew to get

inside a shelter, shut off the ventilation system, take off her clothes and wash with soap, drink

bottled water and of course, take potassium iodine. She had just received Nuke pills she ordered

from an Internet site.

Ginger was a beautiful woman in her 20s, athletic looking and always had a smile. In her

free time she liked to read mystery books and listen to classical rock music. Ginger allowed the
thought of Allan to cross her mind and was not surprised when she found herself hoping he

would call soon. Ahmad, one of Islamic prophet, Muhammad’s, many names, had just arrived at

Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. . He took out his new iphone and typed in an

encrypted text message.

“Do you have it ready?”

The answer was almost immediate. “Yes.”

He texted another. , “Is everything ready to put into place?” “Yes, everything is ready,”

scrolled across the screen Ahmad couldn’t forget his training in Afghanistan. His leader Osama

Bin Laden had taught him well. He had been an Al-Qaeda leader in the war against the U.S. He

had killed many Americans and was famous in his country. He was there when Bin Laden had

bought 20 nuclear suitcase bombs from renegade KGB agents for $25 million. He and other

members of his group had gone to Georgia to meet the KGB agents to take possession of the

precious cargo. They smuggled them on an American cargo ship and then took them overland to

Pakistan.

Ahmad thought the Americans were stupid. They had the nukes aboard one of their ships,

but nobody noticed. When they arrived in Pakistan, Bin Laden paid Russian scientists to transfer

the bombs to backpacks with hot wires so they could be attached to potential suicide bombers.

These portable nuclear weapons are known as atomic demolitions munitions. Each backpack

yields at least one kiloton, the equivalent of 1,000 tons of TNT, enough to kill 100,000 people,

and now Ahmad had three in Nevada.

Ahmad had a trick up his sleeve – he would use one bomb attached to a suicide bomber

to blow up the radioactive waste stored under the nuclear plant facility. At the same time, using a
special application he had created for his iphone, he would detonate another bomb in one of the

reactor cores. The third would be detonated in Las Vegas by another suicide bomber. The plan

was that all three would detonate at exactly the same time.

Ahmad’s mind drifted back to when Bin Laden told him that in 1996, he had met a young

man that was a math mathematician and an expert computer programmer. The young man was

inventing the new IPV6 protocol. The young man said to Bin Laden, the Internet Protocol

version 6 (IPV6) is the next-generation Internet Protocol version designated as the successor to

IPV4. IPV4 has a decreasing supply of unallocated Internet addresses. Because of current times

when everyone has a computer, phone, printer, or reading device on the Internet, plus now there

are over 6 and a half billion people that there are insufficient publicly routable IPV4 addresses to

provide a distinct address to every Internet device or service. Think of it this way an IP address is

like a Social Security Number, no two can be a like. IPV6 has 128-bit address whereas IPV4

uses only 32 bits. Whereas IPV4 only had 4 billion addresses, IPV6 has trillions more that that.

Bin Laden saw an opportunity to gain a powerful weapon in his battle against the infidel.

He asked the young man to place inside the IPV6 protocol a mathematical address that would

connect to the world’s root servers on the Internet and to a server that could be used to send a

virus that would shut down the Internet. They would use Bit torrent clients to send the virus and

disguise the file as a famous music group download. The root servers are finally using IPV6.

Ahmad will use this plan to shut down computers and communications for the nuclear plant and

also Las Vegas.

Allan calls Ginger on the phone.

“I know Ahmad’s plans.”

 Allan is on duty at the nuclear plant when Ginger leaves to go to the plant. Allan finds

the atomic suitcase bomb and knows somehow he will have to disable the bomb.

It was made in the 1960s and he knows it consists of three coffee-can sized aluminum

canisters in a bag. All three are connected to make a single unit with a detonator of six inches

and a battery. Just cut the wire to the battery. But, the bomb is still counting down.

Using a backdoor software code the Russian defense contractor put in, Allen types in

555-555-555. As the timer stops, Ginger reports the rest of the Swat team stopped the suicide

bomber and they are out the door to stop Ahmad and his group.

It’s New Year’s Eve on Fremont Street in Las Vegas. Mayor Goodman has announced

there are more than 100,000 people there. The Homeland Security special team goes unnoticed

as special officer, John, calls Allan to ask where the bomb is.

Allan and his team having just discovered Ahmad and his men were exiting the water

sewage inlet tunnel. Ahmad knew that when the computers shut down the water sewage inlet

tunnel automatically shuts down the flow of water and drains the tunnel for emergency

evacuation.

As Ahmad and his men come out of the tunnel, Allan and his men are waiting. When the

gun battle was over, two of Allan’s men and all nine of Ahmad’s were killed in the bloody battle.

When Ahmad was captured, he was forced to tell Allan where the suicide bomber was in Las

Vegas.

At midnight a man entered Freemont Street in Las Vegas and was shot dead by four snipers

before he could detonate the bomb he was carrying in a backpack.

When the excitement died down, Ginger whispered in Allan’s ear, “We’re going on a vacation.

How about the Caribbean Islands?”