Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism: Threats to (Inter) National Security
Journal: Romanian Military Thinking
Year: 2025

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