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...Hyperion will publish "Firehouse" by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David Halberstam. The book will be a portrait of Engine 40 Ladder 35 on W. 66th Street, which lost 12 men in the WTC attack. According to the publisher, "In the tradition of John Hersey?s ?Hiroshima,? Halberstam tells the story of the community within this firehouse, before, during and after the cataclysmic events of September 11th." The book grew out of an article commissioned by Vanity Fair, where Halberstam is a contributing editor...
...creators and those whom it was sent to destroy. Setting fictional characters against a historical landscape, the Canadian author traces the life of Anton B?ll, a German scientist who was a star of the Manhattan Project, as his journey entwines with that of Emiko Amai, a little girl from Hiroshima who lost her face to the world's first atomic blast...
...uranium oxide). It would take about a year to complete the job. "There's little question that the only remaining obstacle is the acquisition of the material," says Paul Leventhal, the institute's president. Less than 110 kg of active ingredients could yield 10 kilotons of explosive power--a Hiroshima-size weapon. Even if the terrorists didn't get the recipe quite right, a 1-kiloton yield could still devastate a city. And forget the suitcase: a truck will do, or a container ship to float the bomb into an American port...
Pacifism is the way to utter disaster. Outrageous terrorism should perhaps be repaid in kind, in the present case by destroying Afghanistan, just as leveling Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended the war with Japan. This could be done without endangering the lives of our armed forces and will send an undisputed message to international terrorists. EDWARD G. NISBETT Navarre...
...years ago, in an eerie foreshadowing of the World Trade Center attack, the writer John McPhee explored with nuclear physicist Ted Taylor the question of how you could topple the Twin Towers with a small atomic bomb. Positioned correctly, McPhee reported, a nuke a tenth as powerful as Hiroshima's could knock a tower into the Hudson River...