Locations in Jericho (TV series)
This article contains a summary of the fate of various cities in the American fictional drama/adventure television series Jericho. The attack According to episode "A.K.A.", the attacks destroyed twenty-three major American cities. The nuclear material used for creating the bombs in the attacks were brought in by the U.S. government. After the Soviet Union fell, neglected military and the satellite republics started selling nuclear material on the black market. So the Central Intelligence Agency started an operation called "Project Red Bell". The objective of the project was to obtain that material by any and all means necessary, but a few years before the events of the series a shipment disappeared on its way to the Department of Energy storage compound in Oak Ridge. The material was used to create twenty-five 20-kiloton devices, which were disseminated to extremist cells active within the United States. It was a cross-section of "domestic militia, anarchists and religious fanatics", terrorist groups that would never ordinarily collaborate, ideologically or politically. The only thing that connected them was the desire to take down the federal government of the United States. The entire plan was orchestrated by someone with deep resources, an ability to coordinate diverse groups and