Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center has created this site as a resource for the Cuban Missile Crisis. Designed to help policymakers, students, and interested citizens draw lessons from these critical events half a century ago, this site not only provides background on the crisis that brought the world to the brink of nuclear disaster in October 1962 but also offers tools to understand how it can inform contemporary policy.

QUESTIONS ANSWERED IN THIS FACT SHEET:

WHO could be planning a nuclear terrorist attack?
WHAT nuclear weapons could terrorists use?
WHERE could terrorists acquire a nuclear bomb?
WHEN could terrorists launch the first nuclear attack?
HOW could terrorists deliver a nuclear weapon to its target?

Nuclear Terrorism Fact Sheet