Nuclear policy
Nuclear summit: In fear of the terrorists
US President Barack Obama has written to the nuclear safety to the Flag and to the nuclear summit loaded. After the terrorist attacks in Brussels is clear: The matter is serious. But all too concrete steps.
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US President Barack Obama and his guest from London, British Prime Minister David Cameron (in the article image to the right, stopped in the middle of Obama’s national security Advisor Susan Rice) rather embarrassed faces, was also due to the first issue. At the conclusion of the international nuclear summit in Washington, participating States have warned strongly against the growing danger that nuclear material could fall into the hands of extremists. This risk continues, “while”, – was stated in the final Declaration of the approximately 50 participants in the summit.
The US President said the “Crazy” of the jihadists militia Islamic state (IS) would not be afraid of an attack with nuclear Material. So far, it has managed none of the terrorist group, to gain possession of a dirty bomb, said the summit host Obama. However, there are hundreds of military and civilian facilities worldwide is about 2000 tons of nuclear material, “and not everything is properly secured”. Even the smallest amount of Plutonium in the wrong hands could kill hundreds of thousands of people, or infringe upon, warned the US President. He urged to secure fissile Material and the use of uranium and Plutonium for civilian purposes curb.
The summit-hosted Obama at his speech
Nuclear safety must remain a “permanent priority”, emphasises the final Declaration. You were attached to five action plans, the coordination of the participating countries, with institutions such as the International atomic energy Agency (IAEA) and the international police to improve the authority of Interpol.
According to the IS-attacks in Brussels on the 22. March had reported the Belgian media, the terrorists had tried to build a bomb with radioactive Material. In this context, a Belgian nuclear expert had been monitored by video camera. For security reasons, were evacuated immediately after the attacks at the airport and in the subway of Brussels nuclear facilities in Parts.
Without Russia
In the case of the two-day summit in Washington it was already the fourth Meeting of this kind. Obama in 2010, had initiated the first nuclear summit, and more were in Seoul and The Hague. In Washington, about 50 heads of state and government took part now, including China’s head of state Xi Jinping, French President François Hollande and his Turkish colleague, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as well as the heads of government of the United Kingdom, Japan, and India. Russia boycotted the summit. Obama said in his final press conference that he would negotiate with Moscow on a further mutual reduction of nuclear arsenals. But that could be just: This US President is only until the end of January in the office.
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