# What do you think is the likelihood that something HUGE and terrible will happen?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 19, 2003, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-the-likelihood-that-something-huge-and-terrible-will-happen/156010 "2003-02-19T00:31:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-the-likelihood-that-something-huge-and-terrible-will-happen/156010/21 "2003-02-19T21:57:35Z")

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I’m not especially worried about Tucson, but but I AM anxious that something terrible will happen in Washington or London or L.A.

I thought about this topic from reading the current issue of Newsweek in which it says, “a group of CIA analysts makes a prediction: ‘By the end of the project, the analysts judged that under the stipulated scenario there is a 59 percent probability that an attack on the U.S. homeland involving WMD would occur before 31 March 2003, a 35 percent probility an attack would occur at a later date, and a 6 percent probability and attack would never occur.’”

Yikes!

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