Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism: Threats to (Inter) National Security

The study presents a general perspective on the evolution of the weapons of mass destruction. The atomic bomb, which emerged in the context of the Second World War, ceased to be, shortly, the monopoly of a single power. There are two known cases of atomic bombings – on Hiroshima and Nagasaki –, which resulted in Japan’s exiting the second world conflagration. Nuclear bombs have never been used since then, which is explained by the fact that the great powers have realized that the implementation of these weapons would lead to a planetary disaster in which they would have no strength to gain. The tendency of a terrorist organization to seize nuclear bombs further jeopardizes international security. In the context of the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war in February 2022, a unique situation in history occurred, when foreign armed forces occupied a nuclear power plant, thus threatening the entire global security system.