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According to the Nuclear Emergency Support Team (NEST) in late 1974, President Gerald R. Ford was warned that the FBI received a communication from an extortionist wanting $200,000. It was claimed that a nuclear weapon had been placed somewhere in Boston, so a team of experts rushed in with scientists from the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Unfortunately their radiation detection gear arrived at a different airport; federal officials then rented a fleet of vans to carry concealed radiation detectors around the city, but forgot to bring the tools they needed to install the equipment. As one of the researchers commented, "if they were counting on us to save the good folk of Boston...well it was bye-bye Boston."

As we all know, on May 1, 1974 the nuclear weapon went off, signalling the first major nuclear incident since the U.S. dropped the nuclear bomb on Nagasaki in 1945, and the first recorded incidence of nuclear terrorism. How would history have been different had the bomb never detonated or had been a hoax?


(OOC: For those people who think this is an ASB event, please check out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Emergency_Support_Team )
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