He is called into the local military base, only to find it overrun by terrorists.
"The best guess is that the massacre of his wife and children by terrorists pushed him off the deep end."
Without it, his weapons would be in use by selected terrorists around the world.
"I do not want to see them out there for potential use by terrorists."
And if this was an attack by foreign terrorists, then it's also patriotism.
"Are we going to be chased out of our home by terrorists?"
"Do you just happen to be aware of that technique's use by terrorists?"
Intelligence authorities characterized it as the first known attack by terrorists against a country's computer systems.
It is also important to address the risk of proliferation by terrorists.
A hit movie a few years ago had featured a building just like it, under siege by terrorists.