Chruser said:
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I recall seeing a show on Discovery over a year ago about terrorism, including various biological and nuclear threats. It turns out that in Russia has "lost" several "suitcase nukes" about five years ago. They are about the size of a backpack, loaded with 1 Mton of fission power (the same as the atom bombs used to attack Hiroshima and Nagasaki). Imagine if someone took a subway train to Washington D.C. from far away, set the timer to one hour and then left the train about one hour before its arrival, leaving the backpack behind. How often do you really think people check out forgotten backpacks on trains while they're moving? Not very often.
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You read up on this stuff. Nice.
By 1988 The U.S.S.R. had twice the amount of Nukes as the U.S., to the tune of almost 50 thousand. Russia is now broke. Their military is a skeleton of what it was during the peak of the Cold War. The Nukes are poorly maintained, the troops guarding them under funded, understaffed, and undersupplied. With the mafia element now in Russia and the utter poverty of even it's best soldiers, it doesn't take a genius to deduce that some nukes are missing, and more will be in the future.
Where are they?
Well, Iran likely has some. Iraq possibly does as well. China and Pakistan are other countries who potentially have some of them too.
Only one country in the history of mandkind has ever used a nuclear weapon in an act of war - US.
I feel WOMD (weapon of mass destruction) will be used again someday, by the year 2020 actually. Pakistan is the leading candidate in my opinion to use one, and probably on India. However, I would not rule out someone using one on us, by setting up another station in either Canada, Cuba again or somewhere else nearby.