World Trade Center Twin Towers

World Trade Center twin towers, 3000 died, 10 billion loss, insufficient fire protection to steel structure ... 

On September 11, 2001, the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center Twin Towers and U.S. Pentagon ended America s illusion that the continental shores of the United States were immune from direct attack by terrorists. American society was forced to change in many significant ways, the most common of which is the extraordinary precautions taken to ensure the safety of airline passengers. More shocking news came out later when it was reported that terrorists could be planning attacks on chemical plants and oil refineries. 

The amygdala sends axons to the hippocampus and these inputs are believed to enhance the memory that the hippocampus makes of highly charged emotional events. This is why, for example, everyone remembers where they were and what they were doing on September 11, 2001, when the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were destroyed, or, if they are old enough to remember when President John R Kennedy was assassinated. 

A dramatic illustration of the mass of the chemical repository is the catastrophic release of a small proportion of this reservoir that occurred with the tragic destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City on 11 September 2001. In addition to the dreadful loss of life when the Twin Towers were destroyed, the destruction of these two towers resulted in the dispersal of 1.2 million tons of building debris, along with some fraction of the 130 000 gal of PCB-contaminated transformer oil from the two transformers housed in the buildings, and the dispersal of PBDEs contained in the estimated 50 000 personal and 300 main frame computers (Butt et al., 2004). 

On September 11, 2001, two fully-loaded Boeing 747 commercial aircraft were hijacked and flown into the World Trade Center. Over 3,000 were killed as the fires inside the twin towers caused the building to collapse. If hydrogen was used as the fuel the damage would have been confined to the immediate crash sites, the buildings would probably be still standing and many lives would have been spared. 

That terrorist groups are willing to injure and kill civilians is, of course, not a new development. The use of explosives and firearms for this purpose is long established and on September 11 2001 A1 Qaeda hijacked two airliners and flew them into the World Trade Center (the Twin Towers in New York). The Pentagon, the Headquarters of the US Armed Forces was also attacked. A... 

On the morning of September n, 2001, some 3000 people died in front of our eyes in a crazy scene of airliners crashing into skyscrapers and of those skyscrapers crumbling within minutes. Anyone downtown in Manhattan that day, or anyone anywhere in front of a television screen who watched the collapse of the twin towers of the World Trade Center, has the memory of it seared into their psyche. The entire appalling event—from Manhattan to the Pentagon to a small field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania—sent political shockwaves across America and around the world that have not yet subsided. We now call that day 9/11 as a signature shorthand for the catastrophe, a logo for an event whose details quickly occupied the mind of nearly everyone on the planet. 

The incident on 11 September 2001 which led to the collapse of the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York is an example of structural... 

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