HISTORY 224 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: List Of States With Nuclear Weapons
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Terror: terrorists fall into three categories: terrorists who threaten to use force to compel a particular performance. They have objectives that they hope to achieve and the objective limit the means used. Nuclear weapons are irrelevant here: terrorists who want to punish. Objectives do not limit the means used. The higher the level of force terrorists use, the greater the destructiveness of reprisals will be. The greater number of terrorists involved, the likelier they are to be detected before the event and to be identified, traced, and apprehended after it. The amount of destruction terrorists decides to inflict is limited less by ends and more by logistics. Fear of possible disruption of terrorist networks. These terrorists do not worry about the survival of their network of saboteurs and assassins. These are the ones who will try to get hold of nuclear materials and weapons.
