An unmarked, blacked-out, rusting hulk of a freighter slowly cruises off the East Coast. Outside U.S. territorial waters, standard cargo containers are prepositioned on deck with their doors ajar. Hidden inside are Scud ballistic missiles that can be fired within minutes.
No defense exists today to protect Americans against launches of this type involving short-range ballistic or cruise-missile attacks aimed at targets within a few hundred miles of the U.S. coast.
Armed with biological, chemical and nuclear or radiological warheads, these cheap and easily acquired weapons could cause massive death and destruction. Seventy-five percent of the population, 80 percent of U.S. economic wealth and 75 percent of domestic military bases fall within 200 miles of the vulnerable U.S. coastline...
Cruising for Trouble
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