Nuclear Terrorism and Strategies to Combat it from the Perspective of international law

Context and There are stories in Medias and scientific and political communities’ organizations that acquire nuclear weapons. The latest and the most catastrophic kind of terrorism is nuclear terrorism. This paper deals with nuclear terrorism and strategies to combat it with an international approach. This paper is descriptive- analytic and library based. Since now nuclear terrorism in its narrow sense the use of nuclear weapons by terrorist groups- has not happened; but in its other instances, it has largely happened. Nuclear terrorism has become one of the biggest problems and concerns in the international level. This concern is serious that former UN secretary General Kofi Annan on 1 October 2001 at the General assembly stated that “a terrorist attack with nuclear weapons can kill millions while the world was not even able to prevent the 11 September terrorist attacks.” In addition, in his last major report in 2005, he considered the nuclear terrorism a global treat and the future challenge of international community. Also, the presidents of many western countries believe that nuclear terrorism is the greatest treat to their national security. Security council Resolution 1540 in 2004, amending the convention on physical protection of Nuclear Materials and ratifying the International Convention on the suppression of nuclear terrorism are among activities that have been done in international level to deal with terrorism.