Decreasing nuclear security and increasing instability increases the risk of nuclear terrorism
Elisabeth Suh and Miriam Katharina Heß, 2021 – *research fellow in DGAP’s Center for Security and Defense from June 2020 until December 2023 **associate fellow at DGAP. Since April 2024, she works as an expert on religiously motivated extremism at the National Committee on Religiously Motivated Extremism. “Nuclear Terrorism: A Plausible and Pestilent Threat” German Council on Foreign Relations, 9/8, https://dgap.org/en/research/publications/nuclear-terrorism //DH
Yet, the threat of nuclear terrorism is neither distant nor theoretical in the current security landscape that is defined by intensifying geopolitical conflicts, regional instabilities, and diminishing nuclear security efforts worldwide. Simultaneously, interest in and the development of nuclear and radiological technologies for energy production or other applications is increasing around the globe and could potentially heighten the feasibility and, thereby, the threat of nuclear terrorism.