Obama said in his NPR interview that we didn’t have to worry about the use of these weapons by ISIL in this country. Of course he doesn’t even recognize radical Islamic terrorism as a threat, so why would he concern himself about them having a nuclear weapon.
But it is also important for us to keep things in perspective, and this [ISIL] is not an organization that can destroy the United States. This is not a huge industrial power that can pose great risks to us institutionally or in a systematic way. But they can hurt us, and they can hurt our people and our families. And so I understand why people are worried.