Do any fringe groups have the ability to attack with nuclear weapons?

[PlanetJosh]

^ Is that Old Testament or New?

 

[pmv]

we spend hundreds of billions of dollars on national security to more or less guarantee success.

fate is just a belief with no evidence. much like faith. science, on the other hand, relies on empirical observation, experimentation, understanding, and a constant testing of ideas and theories.

I don't think it's "fate" so much as just an asymmetric situation. As the IRA (IIRC, unless some journalist invented it) said to Thatcher after the Brighton bombing "you have to be lucky every time , we only have to get lucky once".

 

[pmv]

^ Is that Old Testament or New?

I think it's the Church of the Children of Atom.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

I think it's the Church of the Children of Atom.

Could also be the Church of the One Winged Angel, a lot of crossover there.

 

[hal2kilo]

This question could be brought up in numerous other threads but since it's now another thread we'll see. A fringe group could be a country like North Korea which is an evil fringe to many or most western countries. Or it could be a buddy with a country like Russia.

I just want to know if fringe groups don't have the technical ability or if they're afraid of being nuked in retaliation. The material from their bomb can be traced to them. So is the main thing just Mutual Assured Destruction or MAD? Seems like something else is behind it and I'm trying to figure it out.

Sometimes I think the world would breathe a sign of relief if "some unknown country" just happened to nuke the shit out of anything that might possibly be a nuke facility in North Korea. Would there be an investigation. I guess people would probably be upset with fallout, but I laughed at the idea that eating snow has nuke fallout in it when I was a kid (and there was) and I'm still around. Would Russia or China attempt to retaliate or would they also be happy?

 

[Moonbeam]

I got nutten other than my opinion that any group with access to nuclear weapons ipso facto can't be considered a fringe group.