Obama to Pursue Nuclear Safety, Security, Nonproliferation at Summit
March 22, 2012
President Obama is preparing for the second Nuclear Security Summit next Tuesday in Seoul. The president and other world leaders hope to better secure stocks of nuclear weapons and make nuclear energy safer.
Keeping the world's nuclear weapons under control and out of the hands of terrorists are top goals for more than 50 leaders who will gather in the South Korean capital.
They hope to build on the commitments they made at the first Nuclear Security Summit, hosted by President Obama two years ago in Washington.
"Two decades after the end of the Cold War, we face a cruel irony of history - the risk of a nuclear confrontation between nations has gone down, but the risk of nuclear attack has gone up," he said then.
Keeping highly-enriched uranium away from terrorists is imperative, says nuclear expert Joseph Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund. He spoke recently in New York at a forum hosted by The Korea Society.
"The number-one threat to the national security of the United States is nuclear terrorism, a group getting a bomb or the material with which to build a bomb and detonating it in the United States - a "nuclear 9/11," Cirincione said.
The heavily-guarded demilitarized zone along the border with nuclear-armed North Korea is also on Obama's agenda. He is expected to meet there with U.S. soldiers.
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