Blog 39

So I am not quite sure what kind of hypothetical scenario I am supposed to make up but I’m guessing it is what could happen if a terrorist got their hands on a nuke. So anyways, if a terrorist managed to obtain a nuke somehow, probably either from stealing it or buying it from Russia, depending on who they were, they would most likely attempt to use it on either the US or Israel. Let’s just pick the USA to make things easier. Their next step would be to smuggle it in to the country. They would probably try to take it in on a boat or put it into a shipping crate. Only about 6 percent of shipping crates are actually physically inspected or x-rayed and it would not be very difficult for to smuggle a bomb into a major shipping port. Once in the US, the bomb could be detonated pretty much anywhere. Depending on the size of the bomb, an entire city could be wiped out and millions of people could die in a matter of a few violent seconds. This is a nightmare scenario for the US government. Not only could millions of people die instantly, but the nuclear fallout could kill many more people and force more millions to evacuate. The worst part would be that we would have almost no way to retaliate or prevent another similar attack without completely shutting down our borders and wasting billions of dollars checking every container that comes in.