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| Flight attendant turned author reveals terrible security vulnerability she fears could trigger nuclear apocalypse |
| 2024-08-21 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 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. |
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