J. Carson Black » Dark Side of the Moon http://jcarsonblack.com Author of the Laura Cardinal crime fiction series and crime thriller THE SHOP. Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:19:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Nevada Test Site hits first-responder milestone – J. Carson Black’s Dark Side of the Moon scenario http://jcarsonblack.com/2011/04/nevada-test-site-hits-first-responder-milestone-j-carson-blacks-dark-side-of-the-moon-scenario/ http://jcarsonblack.com/2011/04/nevada-test-site-hits-first-responder-milestone-j-carson-blacks-dark-side-of-the-moon-scenario/#comments Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:00:40 +0000 breakawayglenn http://jcarsonblack.com/?p=172 The Nevada Test Site training program reached a milestone with the graduation of the 100,000th student from a counter terrorism operations support school open since 2008 northwest of Las Vegas.  NTS trains emergency first responders from across the nation how to identify and handle threats ranging from a so-called “dirty bomb” radiological dispersal device to an improvised nuclear weapon.

Ironically, J. Carson Black’s Dark Side of the Moon depicts an all-too plausible scenario where a breach of internal security enables a group of terrorists to hijack a shipment of plutonium waste out of the Nevada Test Site.  Regular plutonium waste shipments leave the NTS, travel down major Interstate highways through Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico to the WIPP near Carlsbad.

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