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by Mark Lawrence
With so many threats facing the US
and allies, what are the top threats that may take place first and cause
the most terror?
Here are five worst case scenarios to
be prepared for in the months and years ahead.
EMP has been talked about a lot by a lot of people:
Americans, from media, to government, to churches, and disaster organizations
recognize our nation’s fragile power grid and are rightfully concerned that a
rogue nation could bring us to our knees and back to an age prior to the advent
of electricity.
How close is an EMP to actually playing out? In a
moment we’ll spell that out. There are a handful of other likely worst case
scenarios to put on your radar first.
First Danger
1. Hazardous Substances
Hazardous substances are a danger no one is talking
about. Every day and every hour hazardous materials are being shipped or
transported by rail, truck, tanker, and cargo plane to industrial sites in just
about every U.S. state.
The hazardous materials industry (and a segment of the
trucking industry) now includes the threat from terrorism (both domestic and
international origins) in its training materials for drivers and a percentage
of dock workers and warehouse staff.
But even with this training, there’s no way to
adequately protect the large amount of hazardous materials that are transported
every day and every hour. One day suddenly there’s a major terrorist attack
that may look like this:
Tom, a truck driver who works for ABC Chemicals is
transporting a tanker carrying 5,000 gallons of dangerous chlorine gas.
His truck has all the warning markings to be in
compliance with the feds and he sets out for a delivery 100 miles away near a
major metropolitan area.
He’s pulled over by police and what looks to Tom like
a state transportation inspector. No big deal. Tom has all his shipping papers
in order.
Unfortunately, this is a ruse — the police car and the
state inspector vehicle are not actually official. Tom’s tanker has just been
hijacked.
And now 5,000 gallons of dangerous chlorine gas are in
the hands of a terrorist group who plan on releasing the gas a few blocks from
a major sporting event, where the prevailing winds will carry it right into the
stadium, resulting in mass casualties, and the scariest terrorist attack since
9-11.
Here’s an even scarier scenario:
An American based company owned by an overseas Chinese
corporation has a close connection to the Chinese government.
Over the last few years they purchase companies that
manufacture and distribute hazardous materials within the U.S.
Chinese engineers and chemists are staffed at various
levels within the American based company.
One day they fill a fleet of 75 tanker trucks and
tractor trailers carrying drums of two hazardous materials that should never be
shipped together, according to regulations.
The reason they shouldn’t be shipped together? When
certain types of chemicals come in contact with each other, which include
poisons, they can create lethal doses that can take the lives of a large number
of people within a certain vicinity or they can simply explode into huge
fireballs.
Welcome to chemical warfare.
That’s also a reason that a number of industrial sites
within the U.S. that manufacture certain dangerous chemicals are high value
targets for terrorists.
For instance, a tank battery that stores a large
quantity of a dangerous chemical gas can be attacked, releasing that gas into
the air.
If it’s a dense gas, it won’t simply dissipate — it
can be carried by prevailing winds into an adjacent metropolitan area and start
killing everyone it comes in contact with.
Mass casualties. Massive terror attack.
Second Danger
2. Nuclear Suitcase Bomb
A danger during the Cold War and still a viable danger
today.
Following the Cold War it was reported that the former
USSR had developed small nuclear weapons that could be carried in a suitcase,
rather than fired from a missile.
This would enable Soviet agents (think KGB or others
contracted by Soviet agents) to smuggle in and plant nuclear bombs in U.S.
cities.
To think that only the Soviets would develop nuclear
suitcase weapons is ridiculous. Any country with the means would be smart to
consider a nuclear suitcase bomb as a means of attacking (or simply deterring) an
enemy nation.
With that in mind, it is highly likely these weapons
have been developed and most likely have been smuggled successfully — which
makes a nuclear suitcase bomb one of the “top 5 most likely worst case
scenarios” facing the USA.
Third Danger
3. Infectious Disease And
Bioweapons
Iranian scientists are reportedly seeking deadly
pathogens…
The New York Times reported in this 1998 report: Iranians, Bioweapons in Mind, Lure
Needy Ex-Soviet Scientists
* * *
MOSCOW — Iran is scouring the former Soviet Union to
hire scientists who once worked in laboratories tied to Moscow’s vast germ
warfare program and has succeeded in recruiting some of them to take jobs in
Teheran, according to Russian scientists and American officials.
Iranian officials who report directly to the
leadership of the Islamic state have approached dozens of scientists who once
made germ weapons, offering as much as $5,000 a month to people who earn far
less than that a year in the increasingly chaotic Russian economy.
Russian scientists say that most of these entreaties
have been rebuffed. But they acknowledge that at least five of their colleagues
have gone to work in Iran in recent years.
Others have accepted contracts that allow them to
continue living in Russia while conducting research for Tehran, the scientists
said.
* * *
Fast forward to 2015 … That New York Times report is
dated December 8, 1998. That’s over 16 years ago —
The Iranians have had a long time to work on a deadly
germ bioweapons program.
In the hands of the wrong terrorist group or rogue
regime, germ warfare is a real threat and probably will take the lives of a
large number of Iran enemies (namely Americans) at some point in the coming
years.
Fourth Danger
4. Traitors
Americans who willingly sell their souls for sex,
money, and power… A percentage of U.S. politicians might as well be
prostitutes.
Sex has long been a tool of spy agencies, including
the former KGB (now FSB), and several officials over the years have been
convicted of taking bribes and selling state secrets to foreign governments.
Traitors at the highest level of government or those
with access to the highest level of classified intelligence present the
greatest dangers.
“Inside” men and women can simply “open the gates” to
outside threats, and let in any number of deadly ingredients needed for a U.S.
fall.
Fifth Danger
5. EMP
Lights out for America…
It can’t be said enough … a successful EMP attack on the U.S. would be disastrous
and bring the U.S. to its knees and take us back to the 1800s prior to the
advent of electricity.
Rogue regimes like North Korea and Iran are top
threats, but their allies also present threats, namely Russia and China.
North Korea’s regime is like a mad dog — it doesn’t
seem to care whether or not it’s vicious aggression will be the death of it.
Iran’s threats toward the U.S. and Israel are
apocalyptic and driven by Koran teachings — the Shiite Muslims and Ayatollahs
in power in Iran believe that Islam is destined to rule the world and that
“Allah” is on their side.
They are not likely to stop in their beliefs and will
only continue year after year to seek this goal.
In the end, here are two countries with nuclear weapon
capabilities and people lacking sense at the top levels of government — North
Korea’s “mad dog” Kim Jong-un and Iran’s crazed Ayatollas (forget the reports
that Iran is seeking a nuclear weapon … its safer instead to assume
they have a few by now).
How To Survive A Worst Case Scenario
This article has described five scenarios that are
likely to take place considering the scope of threats facing the U.S. and its
allies.
The massive cyberattacks originating from Russia and
China (which include several intrusions into U.S. national defense computers),
the fanatical desires of radical Islamic governments like Iran and Islamic
extremists like Al Qaeda and ISIS, and the position the U.S. has made for
itself as the most hated nation on earth by other nations, makes one of these
scenarios highly likely in the near future — that is my estimation.
So, if one of these worst case scenarios was to play out,
how will we survive?
With so many threats ramping up in the world, this
sure looks and sounds Biblical to me. We’ve talked about the end of days before
on this site.
So what did Jesus have to say? A lot in fact, when it
came to topics on the end of days.
Jesus said in one passage, “the end will come like a
flood.”
If you read further, according to what’s recorded in
the Bible, it’s not supposed to be an actual flood that God uses to judge the
nations, but a number of disastrous events in no short order that will
instead seem like a flood.
I believe in a life surrendered to God is what is
called for as a primary first step to surviving the end of days — only faith in
the living God is going to be the way out of what is likely heading our
direction sometime in the coming years.
That’s the spiritual aspect of survival as the Bible
lays it out. What about the physical aspect of survival?
In order to survive, we are going to need:
1. Alternative
Food – Emergency food stockpiling, farming, fishing, hunting, trapping,
survival seeds, gardening, small scale agriculture, etc.
2. Alternative
Water – Emergency water stockpiling, boiling water to kill dangerous
bacteria found in lake, river, and pond water; filtration to remove
contaminants; water distillation and salt water desalination; well water (where
still considered safe); etc.
3. Alternative
Security – Community peace officers, security patrols, armed guards, night
patrols, scouts, etc.
4. Alternative
Transportation – Bicycles, motorcycles, horses, off road vehicles, engines
that can operate on alternative fuels, boats, etc.
5. Alternative
Communications – Ham radio, cb radio, two-way
radios, booster antennae, paper communications, printing press, signal mirrors,
morse code, etc.
In a world following a number of successive disasters
and any scenarios like these (or others not mentioned that may take place) life
for a “westerner” is likely to look a lot different than the comfortable lives
many live now.
A look at war-torn nations elsewhere in the world and
other nations that have suffered massive natural disasters like Haiti and
Indonesia in recent years give us a glimpse into what life may end up looking
like for the rest of us. God help us all.
Mark Lawrence, survival writer and regular contributor to Secrets of
Survival
https://secretsofsurvival.com/worst-case-scenarios/
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