Nuclear Weapons and Terrorism - An Evil Mix

Some say that terrorists with nuclear weapons isespecially if they could set one off in a major
not a matter of "if" but when, and that is enoughWestern world City or even Tel Aviv, Israel. Now
to scare anyone. Perhaps, you'd like to learn athere can be nuclear terror even if a terrorist
little more about just how serious this is. If so, letorganization has no nuclear weapon, just the
me recommend a very good book for you tothought of that, or such a group claiming to have
read:one, is enough to terrorize folks.
"Will Terrorists Go Nuclear?" by Brian MichaelMr. Jenkins suggests that nuclear terror is already
Jenkins; Prometheus Books (2008).embedded in our minds and after 911, it seems
Mr. Jenkins, who also works with the RANDrather believable, this is known by us and the
Corporation Think Tank, so he's pretty darnterrorists. How would a group like Al Qaeda get a
credible explains something most folks are notnuclear weapon, well what if Pakistan's
thinking about, and that is there is a hugegovernment failed or was overthrown, it is known
difference between; Nuclear Terror" and Nuclearthat Osama bin Laden's AlQaeda came very close
Terrorism or Nuclear Terrorists. You see, thereto getting a nuclear weapon in 1990.
are no actual nuclear terrorists today as far asAfter the fall and breakup of Russia most
we know, as no terrorist organization has aeveryone was concerned with all these
nuclear weapon(s). But that will surely one dayBio-Weapons scientists selling their knowledge and
change.expertise to the highest bidder. A nuclear scenario
Will a terrorist organization use such a nuclearalong those same lines is more than plausible and
weapon once they acquire one, well, this is alsounfortunately all too real in the present period.
unknown, but it stands to reason that they would,