Grand Terrorist Attack

Taking down Rome unleashes the entirety of much of the rest of the world against them, *especially* if John Paul II is still in office at that point. It would probably see the Papacy transferred to Rio De Janiero at least temporarily, possibly permanently. With so many cardinals dead there would also be a good chance for the next one to be non-Italian as well. By taking out the Italian capital it also brings the entirety of NATO to bear against the terrorists, and I doubt that there will be a lot of blocks in the UN for further action with the whole of South America, Europe, North America, and probably South Asia and Australia as well.

First I wonder if the major targets are economic or political. Hitting oil fields would be considerably worse in the short term as would taking down large clusters of refineries. If they only have two can they cooperate with a rogue state to try and obtain more later? Or sell them at a massive profit to a rogue state/organization somewhere and get five to eight from their suppliers instead?
 
Everyone is ignoring Russia in all of the replies. They would have some explaining to do as to why 2 nukes got loose.
That assumes they come from Russia itself, but if they come out of say Kazakhstan then how much blame can be attributed?
 
That assumes they come from Russia itself, but if they come out of say Kazakhstan then how much blame can be attributed?

This. Granted security, it's most likely that these nukes will be lost in transit from Kazakhstan to Russia during the fall of the USSR.
 
Well the Pope is mostly in Rome, so he dies i guess, unless the vatican has an incredibly well built and deep underground bunker. (My guess is that they have not.)

They almost certainly do. But unless they knew what time the bomb was going off, I highly doubt they would have time to get to it.

BTW AlternateHistoryGeek? Is that you?
 
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