Germany's Federal Environment Ministry are considering fitting nuclear power stations with powerful smoke machines, which can be activated to quickly generate thick fog and hide the station from airborne terrorist attacks. Of course, if the aircraft isn't piloted by terrorists, the fog could cause an accident.

(Maybe they'll install one of those permanently next to the Whitehouse? That'll make for some interesting postcards; the symbolic seat of global US hegemony shrowded in foreboding black mists as if it were in the depths of Mordor or somewhere.)

Posted by: Alex | http:// | Thu Jan 15 10:18:02 2004

In 'Total Annihilation' for the PC, one is eventually able to deploy cloaking fusion reactors.

Why don't they just build nuke stations underground?

Posted by: Alex | http:// | Thu Jan 15 10:28:20 2004

Ach, I am taking much schadenfreude from the fact that it's the Federal **Environment** Minstry suggesting this.

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