Nuclear Weapons and Terrorism - An Evil Mix

Some say that terrorists with nuclear weapons are not a matter of "if" but when, and that is enough to scare anyone. Perhaps you 'd like to learn more about just how serious is this. If so let me recommend a very good book for you to read: "The terrorists go nuclear?" By Brian Michael Jenkins, Prometheus Books (2008). Mr. Jenkins, who also works with the think tank RAND Corporation, so he 's damn pretty credible explains something that most people are not thinking about, and that is there is a huge difference between; Terror "
nuclear and nuclear terrorism or nuclear terrorists. You see, there is not any?? No real nuclear terrorist for all we know today, that no terrorist organization has a nuclear weapon. But that surely change daily. One use of a terrorist organization nuclear weapon so once you buy one, well, this is also unknown, but it stands to reason that, especially if you could set one off in a major Western city or even Tel Aviv, Israel in the world. Now you can have nuclear terror even if a terrorist organization has no nuclear weapon, just the thought of that, or this group that claims to have one, is enough to terrorize people. Mr. Jenkins suggested that nuclear terror is already embedded in our minds and after 911, it seems somewhat plausible, it is known by us and the terrorists. How a group like al - the Qaeda gets a nuclear weapon, well what if Pakistan 'is known s the government failed or was overthrown him that Osama bin Laden' s Al Qaeda came very close to getting a nuclear weapon in 1990. After the fall and the disintegration of Russia's most everyone was referring to all these scientists of Bio-Weapons selling their knowledge and expertise to the highest bidder. A nuclear landscape along those same lines is more than plausible and unfortunately all too true in the current period. Mr. Brian Michael Jenkins reminds us how far back the nuclear deterrent is an incentive far more convincing, he would be for a nation now use it as an offensive weapon. I recommend this book for anyone who cares about our national security, ports, borders or our war on terror. Think about it.