Nuclear Terrorism

• Criminals attempt to steal a missile submarine and fire its nuclear warheads at a big city.
• The water supply of a large city is poisoned by highly lethal radioactive material by a terrorist group.
• A local commander seizes nuclear weapons and threatens to use them against the central government.

These scenarios are not from the pages of science fiction or scenes from a Hollywood thriller. They nearly happened. The next nuclear catastrophe after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when it strikes the victims, may not necessarily be in the form of bombs rained in a superpower nuclear war, but is most likely to be an act of nuclear terrorism.