NATO and key members of the United Nations keep a very tight lid on nuclear technology. The chance of a terrorist organization actually capturing or developing nuclear technology and finding the materials needed to make it is actually extremely slim.
So slim it only happens in movies.
But in our modern era there is another way to cause widespread destruction and economic chaos:
PYROTERRORISM
And it is a far more dangerous threat to America and its allies. As demonstrated by the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina a country can deal with the loss of a city and will recover from the nuclear destruction of a city.
But pyroterrorism (or pyro-terrorism) presents a much more different threat because it can spread far beyond the reaches of a city's economy. It can raze forests, crops, livestock and force mass evacuations across whole states or provinces.
We can rebuild and fix cities like we did in New Orleans, but if a whole state is burnt to the ground we will have dramatically different consequences.
Can you imagine the deaths and economic devastation if a group of terrorists decided to burn all of the United States to the ground?
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