In The News: Steering Committee Member Irma Arguello published in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

The global impacts of a terrorist nuclear attack: What would happen? What should we do? explores the consequences of a nuclear terrorist attack. The detonation of a nuclear device by a state or non-state actor is possible, as an improvised nuclear device is technically not very difficult to create. “For more than a decade, Al Qaeda, Aum Shinrikyo, and other terrorist groups have expressed their desire to acquire fissile material to build and detonate an improvised nuclear bomb. None of them could fulfill that goal – so far. But that does not mean that they will not succeed in the future.”