| Some say that terrorists with nuclear weapons is | | | | especially if they could set one off in a major |
| not a matter of "if" but when, and that is enough | | | | Western world City or even Tel Aviv, Israel. Now |
| to scare anyone. Perhaps, you'd like to learn a | | | | there can be nuclear terror even if a terrorist |
| little more about just how serious this is. If so, let | | | | organization has no nuclear weapon, just the |
| me recommend a very good book for you to | | | | thought of that, or such a group claiming to have |
| read: | | | | one, is enough to terrorize folks. |
| "Will Terrorists Go Nuclear?" by Brian Michael | | | | Mr. 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 RAND | | | | rather believable, this is known by us and the |
| Corporation Think Tank, so he's pretty darn | | | | terrorists. How would a group like Al Qaeda get a |
| credible explains something most folks are not | | | | nuclear weapon, well what if Pakistan's |
| thinking about, and that is there is a huge | | | | government failed or was overthrown, it is known |
| difference between; Nuclear Terror" and Nuclear | | | | that Osama bin Laden's AlQaeda came very close |
| Terrorism or Nuclear Terrorists. You see, there | | | | to getting a nuclear weapon in 1990. |
| are no actual nuclear terrorists today as far as | | | | After the fall and breakup of Russia most |
| we know, as no terrorist organization has a | | | | everyone was concerned with all these |
| nuclear weapon(s). But that will surely one day | | | | Bio-Weapons scientists selling their knowledge and |
| change. | | | | expertise to the highest bidder. A nuclear scenario |
| Will a terrorist organization use such a nuclear | | | | along those same lines is more than plausible and |
| weapon once they acquire one, well, this is also | | | | unfortunately all too real in the present period. |
| unknown, but it stands to reason that they would, | | | | |