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Obama stresses the importance of nuclear terrorism risk to New York and other cities

Obama says he’s more worried about the possibility of ‘nuclear weapon going off in Manhattan’ than Russian threat 

The President says the Russians ‘don’t pose the No. 1 national security threat to the United States,’ despite the Kremlin’s land grab of Crimea.

New Yorkers got a chilling wake up call Tuesday about just how badly terrorists want to strike the city.

The warning came straight from the top: President Obama.

During a news conference in Europe, Obama said he’s far more worried about the possibility of a nuclear weapon exploding in New York City than he is about the threat posed by Russia following its invasion of Ukraine.

“Russia is a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors, not out of strength, but out of weakness,” Obama said in The Hague, Netherlands.

“Russia’s actions are a problem. They don’t pose the No. 1 national security threat to the United States,” the President added……..

Anti-terrorism officials have long considered the detonation of a nuclear device in a major U.S. city the nation’s worst-case terror scenario.

Since 2007, the Department of Homeland Security has poured more than $118 million into the NYPD-led Securing the Cities nuclear detection program.The program pays for sensors — some stationary, some so small they are worn by first responders — that can detect unusual radiation as far as 150 miles from midtown Manhattan.

The sensors target both Hiroshima-style nuclear devices as well as “dirty” bombs — which use traditional explosives to spread radioactive material………http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/obama-warns-russia-ukraine-advance-article-1.1734113

March 26, 2014 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized