> Have you read The Sum Of All Fears? Basically, they had every thing you mentioned. You know as well as I that terrorists are backed by somebody with very deep pockets. In Fears, some Islamic mega-rich guy with a bone to pick against the US of A backed some Islamic terrorists who managed to get their hands on an older nuclear bomb that had fallen off an airplane during an aborted nuclear strike by Israel against Syria. One of the terrorists had a connection to German terrorists, who did bring in a whole truck load of guys with PhDs in chemistry and nuclear physics and what not. The machines used to make the bombs were taken from a telescope manufacturing company that the terrorists aborted setting up as a front for making bombs. Using the Plutonium from the bomb they found, and tritium that I believe they had at the telescope place, maybe they stole it, that part's a little fuzzy, they built a 15 kiloton bomb that they used to level the Super Bowl in Denver. They stuck it in the back of an ABC Sports truck and snuck it in through the media entrance.
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> Yes all that is a little far fetched, but my point is, it COULD happen. Nobody thought some little German guy with an ugly mustache could gas millions of people, either.

Not read it. I'm not a fan of Clancey, and I don't much like spy novels at the best of times.

But if I understand your plot summary, these terrorists got hold of a nuclear bomb, and then spent millions of dollars turning it into a nuclear bomb. Perhaps I should read the book just to see if that makes sense, but my gut reaction is that these people had more money than sense.

And, numerous Steven Segal films to the contrary, terrorist organisations do not have members capable of building nukes. Not ETA, the IRA, the LRA, New Dawn or any other organisation I'm aware of. I suppose it's possible that they might, but it just doesn't seem to happen.

If these experts have been coerced into doing it - well, I wouldn't like to be holding a gun to the head of someone making a nuke. Which leaves paying tham an astronomical amout of money. I imagine thatpaying the people in lab coats would probably cost about as much as building the lab.

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