RAND; al-Qaeda has become the world first virtual terrorist nuclear power without possessing nuclear weapons.

Brian Jenkins, a senior adviser at the RAND Corporation think tank, said: "al-Qaeda appears to have figured out that fomenting nuclear terror does not require possession of nuclear weapons at all. Their communication has been so successful on this issue that al-Qaeda has become the world first virtual terrorist nuclear power without possessing nuclear weapons."

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