Editing Nuclear terrorism (section)

== Acquisition ==
Nuclear weapons may be acquired by non-state organisations such as terrorist groups via purchase or theft, either in whole or in part, from state entities. State involvement may be either intentional&mdash;as an act of policy&mdash;or inadvertent&mdash;through failure to exercise sovereignty within their territory over nuclear weapons or materials with which to build them. [[Robert Litwak]], vice-president of the [[Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars]], deemed it unlikely that terrorist groups would be able to effectively create nuclear weapons without [[enriched uranium]]. Nevertheless, he speculated that [[ISIS]]'s control over much of Syria and Iraq, and therefore much of their infrastructure, could lead to them developing "state-like WMD ([[weapons of mass destruction]]) capabilities". Litwak therefore stated that the United States's primary strategy had been to curtail ISIS's territorial gains to deny them the capabilities of a state.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Litwak |first=Robert S. |date=2017-01-02 |title=Recalibrating Deterrence to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0163660x.2017.1302739 |journal=The Washington Quarterly |volume=40 |issue=1 |pages=55–70 |doi=10.1080/0163660x.2017.1302739 |s2cid=157982040 |issn=0163-660X}}</ref>