How Likely Is a Nuclear Terrorist Attack?.
Terrorism has always been a problem around the world.
in the Middle East, to Asia, to Europe, many countries have been targets of groups of .
people focusing on causing Chaos. Though, the United States has been a hated country of .
most of these groups, never was the country itself attacked. Many people couldn't believe .
that terrorism could strike home, that it was something distant, and that America could .
not be targeted by a large scale attack, let alone a nuclear one. This all changed with the .
events of September 11th, involving a very well planned attack on America. Now, after a .
year and a half, questions begin arizing of new threats of even greater destruction in the .
future. The U.S. wasn't isolated from the world, it too could be a target of a terrorist .
group, or the rouge nation backing it. So, post 9/11 How Likely is a Nuclear Terrorist .
Attack on America? Very likely.
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Al Qaeda, currently the largest, and most known about terrorist orginization has .
spent many years trying to find ways to assemble a nuclear device. Headed by the FBI's .
most wanted man, Osama Bin Laden, it's been known that he has been searching for the .
bomb for quite some time. In a CIA intercepted E-mail from a Bin Laden underling .
itstates that "Osama bin Laden was planning to carry out a "Hiroshima" against .
America."(Bulletin of Atomic Scientists).
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Nuclear weapons in the hands of terrorists is a frightening prospect. Even a small .
blast with a 5-kiloton bom, roughly 1/3rd the destructive power of the bomb dropped on .
Hiroshima could destroy a good portion of New York city. Spreading radiation across .
the rest of the city and onward for miles.
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So, has Al Qaeda recieved these Weapons Grade radioactive materials in an effort .
to make a bomb? Officials for the president say Bin Laden has not found rich enough .
materials to make a bomb effecient enough for one of it's atom's to split.
