Alcuin
Banned
At 21:20 hours on Friday, 10 April 1992, a bomb consisting of 100 pounds of semtex and a ton of Fertiliser (as an accelerant) exploded outside the Baltic Exchange at 30 St Mary Axe (the site of what is now Credit Suisse aka "The Gherkin").
Now just suppose, I alter that slightly for a PoD around 12 hours earlier... At 9:20 hours on Friday 10 April 1992, a bomb consisting of 100 pounds of semtex and several million individual quartz crystals exploded in the City of London...
When hit with a hammer, a quartz crystal emits a small electromagnetic pulse, enough to interfere with televisions for a few tens of yards around. Millions of crystals produce a huge EMP, that might well be enough to fry the (then unshielded) computers of the stock exchange, Baltic Exchange, Several major merchant banks, Reuters etc.
As London's stockmarket crashes at the beginning of a days' trrading, share prices worldwide begin to fall...
What happenes next?
Now just suppose, I alter that slightly for a PoD around 12 hours earlier... At 9:20 hours on Friday 10 April 1992, a bomb consisting of 100 pounds of semtex and several million individual quartz crystals exploded in the City of London...
When hit with a hammer, a quartz crystal emits a small electromagnetic pulse, enough to interfere with televisions for a few tens of yards around. Millions of crystals produce a huge EMP, that might well be enough to fry the (then unshielded) computers of the stock exchange, Baltic Exchange, Several major merchant banks, Reuters etc.
As London's stockmarket crashes at the beginning of a days' trrading, share prices worldwide begin to fall...
What happenes next?