Nuclear Terrorism Threats & Risks towards International Security

Abstract

Nowadays, the quantity of nuclear fissile materials as well as radiation-emission materials is rapidly increasing. Many terrorist groups have already expressed willingness in getting access to these materials or executing terrorist attacks over nuclear power plants and nuclear waste depository sites.  the purpose of this paper is to examine whether or not non-state actors can make a nuclear weapons from radioactive waste materials (including low-level and high-level of nuclear waste), and what can be done on the field of preventing nuclear terrorism in future. More precisely, to examine the likelihood for a non-state actor(s) to make a nuclear bomb from the nuclear waste; the possibility of non-state actors to get nuclear-state-sponsorship and how likely is a non-state actor(s) to use nuclear bomb for their targets? In the second part, I analyze and propose pre-event and post-event policies for preventing of such as terrorists attacks from occurring in future.