Baddaboom update.

Was it a message?

Or a test? As in, a test of response times and effectiveness of delivery?

We’ll likely never know the details, but I personally feel it was a message being delivered between factions within state. That no one was killed, that there were warnings of several minutes (15 minute countdown! Plenty of time to get out of range but nowhere near enough for EOD to get in and stop it.) tells me specifically this was NOT terrorism as defined by political objective. This was a strategic move and a message.

Our infrastructures are technologically amazing. And about as fragile as a china teacup. If this had taken place on a Trunk line or backbone hub,,, Now I know most of those points are hardened against such an attack, but anyone that has played in the realms of EOD or seen from a distance, the concussion bubble of HE, can tell you even hard points have a fail point. When you see the very air distort light from being compressed at supersonic speeds, you know that what was at the center was serious.

I have no clue what was used in Nashville, but from the views and information available. I CAN say what it wasn’t. It was not a black powder blast. It may have been ANFO, but I have my doubts. But who ever put this together knew what they were doing, had access to good materials, and were able to tie it together with a warning system and very probably had inside information about infrastructure locations. This wasn’t Billy-bob jerkin’ around with Tannerite. UPDATED: Matt has an opinion and a method that completely slipped my wee mind. Field expedient improv but effective.

And I think this may be the beginnings of more such, yet to be seen or imagined. A message of this caliber wont be ignored, but it may not be interpreted correctly either: at least not by those it was meant for.

Its still early on, and there is more to come and information that may never see the light of day.

See updated paragraph above in Italics. I stand by the rest of my post as to t hi is potentially being the opening salvo in a civil war going kinetic.