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This paper argues that a 100 percent solution to preventing nuclear terrorism would eliminate the supply of nuclear weapons and weapons-usable materials and counter the nation-state demand for these weapons and materials. Interest notwithstanding, the author argues, non-state actors cannot unleash nuclear terror without first accessing weapons or weapons-usable materials. According to him, these weapons and materials will continue to exist as long as some countries continue to covet them. Therefore, the ultimate solution to nuclear terrorism prevention, he proposes, is to achieve verifiable nuclear disarmament and to phase out demand for non-weapons use of weapons-usable nuclear material.