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Flight attendant turned author reveals terrible security vulnerability she fears could trigger nuclear apocalypse.

 A former flight attendant who became a successful thriller author has
revealed a terrifying security weakness that she fears could cause a
nuclear apocalypse.

New York Times bestselling author T.J. Newman, 41, got
the idea for her most recent book ‘Worst Case Scenario’ after asking pilots
to share their scariest fears. One pilot told her that he often worried
that a plane could crash into a nuclear power plant, which ‘planted the
seed’ for her third novel, Newman said.

She soon started to research his
fear to see if there ‘was any validity to his fears,’ and soon figured out
that even though reactors – the heart of nuclear power plants – are
hardened, the material stored outside of them could cause a major disaster.
‘The research terrified me, and it became very quickly apparent that what
became the premise of the book is completely plausible,’ she said.

 Daily Mail 21st Aug 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13763249/tj-newman-new-book-worst-case-scenario-airplane-security.html

August 23, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | safety