A terrorist attack on a space elevator happens to figure in the first episode of the TV series Foundation.
https://foundation.fandom.com/wiki/Bombing_of_the_Star_Bridg...
It’s about as devastating as you would expect.
https://foundation.fandom.com/wiki/Bombing_of_the_Star_Bridg...
It’s about as devastating as you would expect.
The elevators were developed for cheap space travel but unsurprisingly centralized the world's economic development around the owner countries. ie the other countries became increasingly reliant on them and the world segmented into (three) blocs. But the owner countries became increasingly protective / paranoid, leading to cold-war era developments where each of them secretly researched fancy space weapons and stockpiled more and more military assets around the elevators.
So some of the attacks were by poorer countries lashing out. Some attacks were to expose the military assets being hidden in the elevator (outlawed by intl treaty). Though most were probably just excuses to show things like giant robots vs death star.
A terrorist attack on a space elevator is a pivotal plot point in Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, which IMHO is a better work in basically every way than Asimov's magnum opus.
You look to be right:
https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/content/space-elevator
And I'm not the only one to notice the cross-reference:
https://www.reddit.com/r/kimstanleyrobinson/comments/pv6zh9/...
I think it's the first episode of season 2 or 3, not the first season. I remember someone else mentioning it, but I've only seen season 1 and don't recall that either.