Combining terrorism with nuclear weapons could empower the weak

Evidence

Terrorism historically is the weapon of the weak, that is, of those who do not possess conventional military power. Since World War II, nuclear weapons have also been the weapon by which the weak compensate for conventional inferiority. In the past, terrorists could do only limited violence, killing a few people here or destroying a facility there. Massive military forces were required to do massive violence. At some point, however, a few terrorists will be able to produce massive violence and massive destruction. Separately, terrorism and nuclear weapons are the weapons of the non-Western weak. If and when they are combined, the non-Western weak will be strong. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 500

Categorization

• SEED: The convergence of terrorism and WMD as an era-defining threat could anchor an essay on asymmetric warfare and the democratization of destructive power.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in asymmetric power and how technology transfers capability to the weak, paralleling the diamond-trade extralegal systems where norms substitute for state power.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 500