to purchase enough plutonium to make a nuclear weapon. Others place the estimate as high as twenty or thirty million dollars (2). The problems of obtaining money and scientists are not big. The Soviet Union has left many of its top nuclear scientists without jobs and money. Many would be happy to get out of their crime ridden country to work for a terrorist group or another country associated with terrorism like Iran or Iraq. Money is not a problem for these two countries who hold some of the world's biggest oil reserves. This paragraph represents only one type of terrorism that can be done with money and talent but what can other terrorist groups do who don't have very much money?One very vulnerable terrorist target is the nuclear powerplants. Scott D. Portzline, who has a Ph.D. is nuclear physics, writes that :Considering the fact that a nuclear plant houses more than a thousand times the radiation as released in an atomic burst, the magnitude of a single attack could reach beyond 100,000 deaths and the immediate loss of tens of billions of dollars. The land and properties destroyed (your insurance won't cover nuclear disasters) would remain useless for decades and woedCorinne Brown, and Robert Munroe. Time Bomb, Understanding the Treat of Nuclear Power. New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc, 1981Knelman, Fred H. Nuclear Energy The Unforgiving Technology. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 1976.Mitchell, Christopher K. Nuclear Terrorism. 14 Nov. 1996 Available : http://www.nucl.com/terror.html.Nuclear Waste: The Big Picture. 10 Nov. 1996. Available: http://www.sfo.com/~rherried/waste.html.Portzline, Scott D. Nuclear Terrorism. 10 Nov. 1996. Available: http://www.nci.com/terrorism.html.Ralph Nader, and John Abbotts. The Menace of Atomic Energy. New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 1977.Silver, L. Ray. Fallout From Chernobyl. Toronto: Deneau Publishers & Company LTD, 1987.The Problem. 10 Nov. 1996. Available: http://www...
