Nuclear Theft

The International Atomic Energy Agency's Mohamed El Baradei had some cheerful news yesterday:

The possibility of terrorists obtaining nuclear or other radioactive material remains a grave threat. The number of incidents reported to the Agency involving the theft or loss of nuclear or radioactive material is disturbingly high - nearly 250 in the year to June 2008 alone. Equally troubling is the fact that much of this material is not subsequently recovered. Sometimes material is found which had not been reported missing.

CATO's Christopher Preble says: be not afraid of nuclear terrorism. If only it were that easy.