When asked if the United States will get through this decade without another massive attack on the homeland, former vice president Dick Cheney replied that he thinks something even worse than the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks is coming.
I doubt it, Cheney said. I think there will be another attack and the next time I think its likely to be far deadlier than the last one. You can just imagine what would happen if somebody could smuggle a nuclear device, put it in a shipping container, and drive it down the beltway outside Washington D.C.