FOR the past nine months, America has been gripped by fears that terrorists will turn to biological, chemical or radioactive weapons. But the real lesson of 11 September is the ease with which terrorists could mount a low-tech attack by sabotaging everyday technology: the electricity grid, water supplies, high-rise buildings or transport systems. A massive, wide-ranging report has now made it clear that the US is ill-equipped to defend itself against such an strike.
The report by the US National Research Council says that all are prime terrorist targets, and that any attack could cause mayhem in modern cities that…
