Absolutely on both items. The latter is extremely unsettling yet so many portray our concerns as paranoia and even racist.

A number of years ago I read a book that told in detail the story of the gassing of the Tokyo subway in 1995. It was done by a religious sect They unleashed sarin gas.

My biggest take away was while this group was planning and searching, their thrust was to use a nuclear weapon on the subway, and what was shocking....nuclear weapons were in fact available. Many, because of the timing, were available due to so many missing weapons from the USSR. The only thing that stopped them and sent them to gas was their timeline and having trouble coming up with the money.

Now, given we have Iran who has been stalling the USA for a few years now and with whom we still are talking about some sort of agreement, has the capability and the product and given we now have terrorist groups WITH LOTS OF MONEY, and there now exists much smaller delivery systems it would be my opinion, that should any of the disasters posted here as a fear ever took place, the devastation would be so great and the loss of life so terrible, no planning would help.

I also believe that IF something like this would occur, it might not be the ISIS of the world....it could very well be a smaller group as was the group in Japan in 1995.

Marshall law could well be deployed in such an occurence and I offer this because in my thinking, THIS is how any kind of massive attack might take place. Not necessarily in a subway, although we just recently heard talk of such a thing, but anywhere where this kind of WMD could be delivered to make the most damage.

There is so much hate right now in this world. Democrats hate Republicans, blacks hate whites and vice versa......I use those two because they are internal and real and again, not outside the realm of possiblity because we see that hate flame fanned each and every day.

With all the money some groups are able to get...and the hate..all that is missing is the availability and the group in Tokyo were able to go to the "black market" and actually find such things. With ebola in the news, I am not in the weaponary business but could that be delivered with a weapon to cause mass destruction ?

It is a scary world and those who say "chicken little" are kidding themselves. It CAN be done.

With all the recent military cutbacks do we even have the manpower for nationwide martial law? I'm not going to lose sleep worrying about this.

It bothers me that you actually believe it. :doh:

I think there is clearly a gradualism of increasing Federal intervention occurring ... not martial law per se obviously.

Just take a look at the IRS, EPA, etc ... you may agree / disagree with their policy objectives, but the reach of regulatory control especially is objectively expanding. That may be what the poster was referring to.

I agree....thanks!!