Obama warns nuclear summit to secure material from terrorists

Obama warns nuclear summit to secure material from terrorists

Saying that the prospect of nuclear terrorism had emerged as one of the greatest threats to global security, PresidentBarack Obama called on world leaders Tuesday “not simply to talk, but to act” to secure or destroy vulnerable stockpiles of nuclear materials.Obama, addressing a plenary session of the 47-nation nuclear security conference he had convened here, told fellow leaders that it was time “not simply to make pledges, but to make real progress for the security of our people.”Obama said that dozens of countries held nuclear materials that could be sold or stolen and that a weapon fashioned from an apple-size piece of plutonium could kill or injure hundreds of thousands of people.

Saying that the prospect of nuclear terrorism had emerged as one of the greatest threats to global security, PresidentBarack Obama called on world leaders Tuesday “not simply to talk, but to act” to secure or destroy vulnerable stockpiles of nuclear materials.Obama, addressing a plenary session of the 47-nation nuclear security conference he had convened here, [...]


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