QUESTION: WILL THE JIHADISTS NUKE AMERICA?

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists/Graham Allison:

Faced with the possibility of an American Hiroshima, many are paralyzed by a combination of denial and fatalism. Either it hasn't happened, so it's not going to happen; or, if it is going to happen, there's nothing we can do to stop it. Both propositions are wrong. The countdown to a nuclear 9/11 can be stopped, but only by a combination of imagination, a clear agenda for action, and fierce determination to pursue it.

Graham Allison is director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is author of Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe (2004).

ANSWER: YES, IT COULD HAPPEN. AND WILL UNLESS WE TAKE ACTION.