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Umm, you do realize that there are organizations that aren't "countries" and that could care less about their reputations.. and that there are many factions that operate sole out of total hatred toward other factions.. You do realize that, right? No?
But I do applaud you proper usage of "whom".
And that is why it could actually happen.
I actually think a nuclear event is more likely than a chemical or biological attack; do you know how easy it would be to smuggle a few grams of uranium? You probably do not want to know.
Again these tiffs have been going on for years, and the possibility nukes and/or nuclear material have switched hands on the black market has been a reality since the mid to late 50's. Looking more specifically at our current time the collapse of the soviet union has almost guaranteed that there are free floating nukes, I would be surprised if Russia, or even the US could account for all of their cold war era nuclear weapons (bio and chem along with them.)
The fact is these factions have been fighting with each other for ever, and if using nuclear weapons as a solution was indeed a possible outcome it would have happened. Especially in places like Chechnya and North Ireland where conflict of territory, and religious influence has been raging for decades (in some cases over a century).
Again you are living in a deranged form of Paranoia. Nuclear materials have been available to these rouge groups for decades and not a single event has occurred where nuclear arms were involved.
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you sound like some kind of global nuclear communist. Why don't we just supply all of the un-contacted tribes of Africa, South America, and India with a bunch of M16s to help them defend themselves?
You do know that Nuclear technology provides more than just weapons correct? Actually nvm you probably don't since that was the first conclusion you jumped too.