Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 07/2010

Nuclear Terrorism Fact Sheet

April 2010

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University

Abstract

QUESTIONS ANSWERED IN THIS FACT SHEET: 1. Who could be planning a nuclear terrorist attack? 2. What nuclear weapons could terrorists use? 3. Where could terrorists acquire a nuclear bomb? 4. When could terrorists launch the first nuclear attack? 5. How could terrorists deliver a nuclear weapon to its target?