The Threat Of Nuclear Terrorism In America

In November 1979, three Americans Hijacked a passenger plane with handguns and grenades set on massive destruction. Their goal was to crash the plane into a Nuclear Research Reactor unless their demands were met. They threatened to crash the plan into the facility, and when the threats weren't met, they forced the pilot to make a steep nose dive towards the facility. The government then met their requests, and later apprehended them in Cuba(Allison). There have been no actual threats of Nuclear terrorism since that day. There have been many Fakes and scares, but nothing ever that close to an actual disaster. Ther terrorists on 9/11 could have very well targeted Nuclear facilities, because there were Nuclear facilities within the fallout zone of New York, as well as on within fallout range of the Pentagon. Terrorists aren’t concerned with causing mass destruction, they want to cause mass terror. Proponents argue that Nuclear terrorism is not a major threat at all, while opponents argue that Nuclear terrorism is the Nation's top threat. If Terrorists are going to commit an act of nuclear terrorism in America, It will be the biggest disaster in American history. There are unaccounted nuclear devices out there,and if a terrorist organization that opposed the US gets hold of one, it will be …show more content…
World Leaders Like President Obama are exaggerating the threat that Nuclear terrorism is. “Terrorist networks such as al Qaeda have tried to acquire the material for a nuclear weapon, and if they ever succeeded, they would surely use it(Willner).” The Threat of nuclear terrorism is completely being blown up by major world influences; the possibility of a terrorist organization getting hold of a nuclear weapon, whether it is a dirty bomb or all out warhead, is so close to nil, it won’t happen in a long time. The chance of terrorists using nuclear weapons to cause terror is not going to happen anytime