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Future Force One:
WARS. TERRORISM. AND
THE NUCLEAR THREAT
The year is 1997. The place is New York City. It s a warm，
sunny spring afternoon. Office workers are just cleaning up
cups and papers from their lunches in Central Park， Bryant
Park， and other favorite outdoor spots.
But then the unusual big-city tranquillity is shattered by
news reports that begin to come through on portable radios
scattered around the grassy patches. A terrorist group of
some sort has taken over the observation deck on top of the
Empire State Building. The terrorists claim they have set
up and armed a nuclear device. It s quite a big bomb， they
say--more powerful than those dropped on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki.
As pedestrians gather in steadily growing clusters around
the available radios， more information pours in: The terrorists
are connected with some extreme anti-Israel faction. They
have chosen New York City as their target because it has a
larger Jewish population than any other city in the world--and
also because much Zionist activity is centered there.
Their demands are nothing short of staggering: a $1 billion
extortion payment..， freedom for scores of named terrorists
in prisons around the world..， a guarantee of the political
division of Jerusalem and the establishment of a sizable chunk
of Israeli territory as a Palestinian homeland..， their group is
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