Re:What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today
by sliverstorm on Monday November 27, 2017 @12:48AM
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What a world we live in, where environmentalists are the scariest ghost around for the all-American red-blooded special forces hero to go chasing.
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> What a world we live in
Well that's the thing: The book comes from a different world. More precisely, it came from 1998, when the Soviet Union (Tom Clancy's traditional antagonist of choice) was long gone, but Islamic terror wasn't yet the obvious replacement. He wrote a string of books with odd antagonists (eg, Japanese nationalists) during the period.
There were even some acts of environmental terrorism at the time, so it was probably an idea ripped from the headlines.
Of course, in reality we had French special forces committing acts of terrorism against environmentalists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior
>The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, codenamed Opération Satanic
Who names their covert terrorism op that? That's just asking for it.