Amazing heroism! I want to see this as a movie!

it's ABC and Brain Ross what do you expect? this is the first I've heard of it, as I read it, I thought it sounded like the TV show 24

Just another example of the incredible HERO'S this Country produces!! These incredible men remind me of our Soldiers. God bless ALL of you and thank you.

Mr. Goel clearly doesn't get it. The story is not that there was possibly a nuke in NYC. It's the unselfish heroism of the team that volunteered to sacrafice themselves to save everyone else. They didn't know that their was no bomb. They did it so people like Mr. Goel could continue to complain about any non-PC story he sees.

We have men and women in the military, police and fire departments who volunteer every day to put their lives on the line, not knowing what threat they face. And right now, someone is doing the same for Mr. Goel and "cyberstudmuffin." They should thank their lucky stars that people are willing to die on their behalf.

Thankfully, Robot technology is finally being developed to help intervene in scenarios like this.

Having witnessed the entire horror first hand, it will continue to haunt for many years

The dumbest move ever. New York is too big for small elitist hero teams to search.

Sure panic kills. But not like a nuke.

And keep in mind they aren't really much of hero team when their failure kills the rest of NYC. That is not just self-sacrifice. That is British-like politics of "no problem" over the public good.

They should have a plan to ask citizens to help search for strange devices "but don't touch - call 666-BOMB. Cell phones from at least 100 feet distance".

Then they need a call center to receive all those strange calls and send 1st tier ex-military/police to screen called sites. The hero team should only come into view at the very end of a large process.

Thank God we have people willing to ATTEMPT to disarm a nuke. I can die in total blissful ignorance if they screw up.

Wasn't it nice that they were willing to proceed without telling the public to evacuate or help search.

Now how were they handling the search again? With the same "terrorists are ignorant and easily found" attitude that brought the Twin Towers down?

Thank God there wasn't really a bomb. We do need heroes -- but smart ones that don't think themselves God are highly preferred.

P.S. Doesn't NYC "disarm" 85% of bombs by setting them off under semi-controlled circumstances (container in street)? Only about 10% being simple or ineffective enough to dismantle on the spot. Then there is that 5% were the bomb goes off in bomb squad hands.

This is an amazing heroism story, wow. I will tell it to my son. There are must be several nuke bomb was planted in New York City, woww, good fantasy. Nuke bomb farms in NY.

What an incredible piece of nonsense. While it is admirable that these people were willing to risk their lives, the bottom line is that there was NO NUKE. The intelligence was faulty, which is par for the course under the current administration. What is also typical is the media's attempt to sensationalize a non-event and magnify it into something it wasn't. Now that they no longer have ashcroft and his rainbow of terror, they have to reach back several years to find a fake nuke scare no one knew about at the time to pump the populace full of fear. Lord knows we haven't had any satisfying terror alerts since November 2, 2004, so we're overdue.

It's a good bet that the "major motion picture" a previous poster clamored for will be forthcoming. Disney would never let the pulse-pounding tale of near-danger suffered by NYC and its protectors go untold. Not while there's money to be made and patriotic terror to be exploited.

The media has once again sensationalized something taken out of context. Anyone of those bomb techs would have done their best to resolve a life-threatening incident. Certainly the NYPD bomb squad knows their limitations and wouldn't tempt fate by making an attempt to disarm a nuclear weapon. There is a tremendous difference between a pipe bomb and a nuclear device. A paramedic wouldn't attempt brain surgery in an ambulance because traffic is bad, why would the NYPD attempt to disarm a nuclear device?

It is unfortunate that the media sought to squeeze a return on their investment through a story that cannot produce positive results. This publicy will be a black eye to a squad that is staffed with committed volunteers that understand that heroism does not require publicy. True heroism is an unselfish act to save others without expectation of reward.

Truer statements could not be said Xeno.

Don't know why those men needed to volunteer. One call to Jack "24" would have solved all their problems. He's an expert

How do you know the NYPD doesn't have any technicians among its thousands of officers who is trained to disarm a nuclear bomb?

With NYC being one of the main targets in the world for nuclear terrorism, I'd think that it is probably likely that the NYPD thought to hire a few nuclear experts. And this stuff isn't impossibly difficult. There are nuclear bomb plans in college libraries. It would be negligent for any major city - NYC, London, Paris, DC, Moscow, etc - to not have a police unit with knowledge of nuclear bombs.

Are you kidding me? This is the biggest line of fluff ive heard out of 911 to date. I mean if the "official" story didnt already stink of hopped up powder cowboy renditions of false heroism. It sure does after this bogus report. C'mon folks; stop slobering over planted mug shots, and start thinking about the immoral idiots financially benefiting from this kind of fodder. Its your children dieing in Iraq; and soon to be Iran, not theirs. WAKE UP USA

The story is true, but no bomb was found, but this is why Bush was flown to a secure center and why so many feds were leaving DC and NY. Bomb squad stayed, but many feds fled.

Some of you people really surprise me by your responses. Some of you just spew party lingo, and others just discount truths which exist in such circumstances, with total disregard for what might be true. You want to announce that there is a nuclear bomb in the city, and evacuate everyone, as well as ask everyone for help finding the device. The technology exists to locate these types of weapons, and besides, if the wrong person was able to locate the bomb, how do you know that he wouldn't set it off himself - after all, these things are worth a lot of money. But, reality aside, some of you guys need to wake up to the fact that the government isn't necessarily going to announce to the public that a nuke got through, as long as they are able to disarm it. If it goes off, then the focus should not be who let it get into the country, as who set it off in OUR country. Wake up, stop the political BS, and start being Americans. If you really believe that there is that much political BS difference between the two parties, then you are more too naive to debate something as significant as a nuclear attack on OUR country.

It is difficult to question the patriotism or courage of another without being in the situation. There are endless incidents in which police, fire, EMS and don't forget military personnel have risked all for a greater good.

The subject of this group diatribe is about 3 1/2 pages of an entire book. Anytime we mixed profit motive reporting with reality we get a distortion. This is a perfect example.

The capability to disarm a nuclear device is far more difficult than assemblying furniture from Ikea. Having designs for weapons from open sources isn't going to help anymore than having the formula to make penicillin. Not to mention, will you trust your life to designs found on the internet? The NYPD bomb techs are smarter than that.

Any nuclear weapon is a conventional bomb first. The conventional bomb is precisely timed to make a plutonium or uranium core into a critical mass. Anything that messes with that process will get you something that is still nuclear, but with much-decreased yield. Ask the North Koreans.

An experienced conventional bomb tech could probably keep a nuclear weapon from going off at full yield simply by removing one or more blocks of the explosive surrounding the nuclear core. Any explosion after that point would be a "dirty" bomb that spreads several kilograms of plutonium around its location, but not a multi-kiloton blast that eviscerates Manhattan. Ditto for just deactivating one portion of the detonation sequence, or delaying it by milliseconds.

And more generally, if the convenional explosive can be prevented from going off, the nuclear weapon is by definition no longer a nuclear weapon. Deactivate the trigger mechanism and it's a lump of plastic explosives and plutonium that is radioactive but otherwise inert.

This is not a NEWS article, it is an ad for the book.

last posting is rite on
I was nuke assembly and maintenance specialist
provided terrorist didnt put in anti tamper stuff
every nuke is a conventional explosive 1st.
stop it from going off like it should and it wont perform.
hey we need to win this war in iraq
a loss will be unretreivable without
expenditures in blood that are unimaginable.

Its a good think they never told anyone since all of the briges and tunnels out of NYC were closed...