Politicians love to scare the wits out of people by talking about nuclear terrorism. Osama bin laden said he wanted to use such weapons if he could get them. Most experts agree that acquiring materials and knowledge for building either weapon is far beyond the reach of most, if not all terrorists. George harper's delightful 19 79 article in analogue entitled 'Build your own weigt' shows just how difficult it is to actually make a bomb. Can you imagine somebody like the shoe bomber, or these idiots who can't even light a fuse and blow themselves up, doing anything remotely like this?
In this special episode of the podcast Michael Shermer honors the 20th anniversary of 9/11 with a commentary on the truth about that event and how it changed our lives, 7 myths about terrorism that need debunking if we are to understand how we should respond to this threat, and why we need not sacrifice liberty for security.