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Just read bout the following proposed terrorist incidents today, from a book on US counter-terrorist forces- neither of which OTL eventuated- but WI such nightmare scenarios had occurred ?
-1975- a ransom note was sent to the US govt stating threatening to detonate a nuke in Boston unless $100m was paid, with the purported blackmailer also sending sketches & diagrams of the bomb he'd designed, to show that he was serious- however, although arrangements were made to pay the ransom, no word was ever heard again of this threat (was it a hoax ? if not, WI a nuke had been detonated in Boston in 1975 ?)

-1985- The Covenant, the Word & the Arm of the Lord (CSA) showdown with law enforcement at the CSA compound near Elijah on the MO-AR border- the FBI, BATF & local police officers surrounded the CSA compund & eventually persuaded these Christian Identity white supremacists to surrender peacefully, then afterwards recovered large quantities of arms, C4 plastic explosives, & according to some accounts large quantities of cyanide which they were inten ding to use to poison the water supply of some unnamed city. WI this confrontation in April 1985 hadn;'t ended peacefully, & a Waco-style armed confrontation occurred ? Or, alternatively, if these CSA wackos had indeed managed to implement their plan to cyanide-poison the water supply of the major city targeted ?
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