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The Hunt: How do extremist groups attract everyday people to commit acts of terrorism?

WASHINGTON — How do terrorist sympathizers get radicalized in the first place?

In this week’s edition of The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green, Nikita Malik, a senior research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society in London, says the internet and real-life scenarios provide multiple opportunities.

WTOP photo tour: Historic nuclear power plant at Fort Belvoir to be dismantled

The red button was always there — just in case. Most people never knew the United States' first nuclear power reactor to provide sustained electricity to a commercial power grid was — and is — on the grounds of Fort Belvoir, the U.S. Army installation in Fairfax County, Virginia.
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