EVEN IF TERRORISTS GOT A BOMB, THEY COULDNʼT DETONATE IT. [Karl Kamp, Head of Foreign and Security Policy Section of the Konrad-Adenauer, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Jul/Aug 1996, Vol. 52, Issue 4, p. 30] However, even if a terrorist organization managed – perhaps by working with illegal arms dealers – to obtain complete nuclear weapons from ex-Soviet stocks, it could not necessarily detonate that weapon. Apart from the fact that most nuclear weapons would be highly unsuitable for terrorist use – due to their size and difficult of transporting them – nuclear weapons have a series of builtin technical and security safeguards, including self-destruct mechanism that can be overridden only by a small and specially trained circle of technicians.
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