How could we be attacked with nuclear devices?

     America is a giant commercial hub of the world. The amount of freight that passes through her ports is massive. One of the easiest ways that America could be attacked is through this system of shipping. Sure we could scan all the cargo that comes through but the problem lies in that it’s already on our shores! Someone could put a simple timing device on a nuke and the precise timing of cargo vessels will ensure an accurate delivery of a bomb on that particular port. Another way is with a dirty bomb, a bomb that is made up of conventional explosives and radioactive materiel. The purpose of this type of nuclear attack would be to spread radiation as far as possible and kill or sicken as many people as possible, the radiation will be spread by the wind and carried very far, just like traces of radiation from Japan have been found in New England. The ability of a group to build the bomb is only limited by the recourses need to construct the device. The knowledge is taught in most universities around the world in advanced physics and chemistry courses. It took one minute to find a workable nuclear schematic online, below.

The black market can be used to find all the material needed to build a bomb, like the one set up in Pakistan by Dr. A. Q. Khan. Dr. Khan is credited with the proliferation of nuclear material to countries like Iraq, Iran, Libya, and North Korea enabling these countries to start secret nuclear programs. Is it then such a far jump in logic to think that groups like Al-Qaeda that are sworn to destroy America and supported by countries like Iran and maybe Pakistan to one day get their hands one some nuclear material? Or that a country like North Korea that is financially bankrupt by American approved sanctions to sell some nuclear material to the highest bidder? These are possibilities that should really be looked at when people talk of “safe” nuclear power.