Ebbie, American Hiroshima (I think there even was a Mudcat thread about it) is the theory that Al Qaeda will nuke roughly half a dozen (up to eight) American cities on the same day or within a very short time. Among those cities are New York, Washington, Chicago. The nukes they have already bought from Russia (not the government, but rogue elements) or some of the other states that formerly formed the USSR. The nukes are already in these towns and will be triggered at the appropriate moment killing millions and that will be the end of the USA as we know it.

I see this rumoured on what I consider very right wing websites that should not be taken serious. But it is a fun watching the predictions on those sites (I love looking at failed predictions and always am amazed how they never try to tell why an outdated prediction was wrong but only make a new one).

Dates I have collected for American Hiroshima: Start of Ramadan, end of Ramadan, Christmas (of course), August 6th (historical Hiroshima bomb), date of the Nagasaki bomb, and, last but not least, July 4th. These varying predictions are with us since about 2003.

Wolfgang