Indian Point is about 35 miles north of New York City. What is Indian Point? It's a nuclear power plant where security is loose and planes fly legally overhead. The virtually unsecured pools of glowy fun each contain about 20x as much radioactive material as Chernobyl. One of the flights that hit the World Trade Center flew right by it, and if it had veered left and crashed into the plant, the whole of NYC and surrounding areas would be wiped out in about three hours -- that's about 20 million people.
Rory Kennedy produced a documentary that premiered last night on HBO that explores why the industry and government maintains that there need not be a no-fly zone over the facility, and that security is just fine, even though Rory herself was able to rent a helicopter without showing any ID, and flew just 2000 feet over the plant. As she pointed out, if they had ill-intent the aforementioned doomsday scenerio could have taken place in a matter of minutes.
Maybe we should spend less time on terror alert colors and more time on securing or eliminating extraneous resources that could devastate an entire coastline.
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