The Freedom Tower

The subject always comes up and winds up dominating conversations eventually. Will the new buildings going up on the World Trade Center site, the Freedom Tower and all the others, still stand in the event another terrorist attack sends airplanes crashing into them again?
“Patriotism has driven it from the start, with some inevitably kitschy results, starting with its height (1776 feet). The building is a solemn monument to the fallen, but also an obvious target, a test of our will and ingenuity to ensure that history doesn’t repeat itself, says Lakshmi Sandhana, writing for Wired News.
“Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, or SOM, the architects designing the tower, have taken that imperative literally: If terrorists pilot a fully-fuelled commercial jet into their building, they believe it will stand.
“Based on the identified threats there wouldn’t be a disproportionate collapse of the structure,” says Carl Galioto, SOM’s technical partner. “In many cases there wouldn’t even be a distortion; key elements of the tower would not be deformed out of place. The tower’s steel frame is interconnected with beams and columns to redistribute loads in the event of an impact or blast so it remains standing, enabling occupants to leave safely.”
Its not supposed to happen anyway. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security says so but they’ve been really busy trying to keep Mexicans from crossing the border.