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President Obama has scaled back his goals for nuclear security

Obama steps back from sweeping nuclear security goal Centre For Public Integrity, The administration looks for incremental gains in locking up nuclear explosives, rejecting demands by outsiders for a major new international agreement to prevent nuclear terrorism By Douglas BirchemailR. Jeffrey Smith  16 June 15 “………….

Obama set a high bar five months after his election when he said that nuclear armed terrorism was “the most immediate and extreme threat to global security” and promised that he would lead an effort to lock down all vulnerable nuclear material around the world within four years. But more than six years later, there is a consensus inside and outside the government that such a sweeping achievement remains out of reach.

Over the course of his presidency, Obama has scaled back his goals in this area and settled for what a senior White House official publicly described in 2012 as “the incremental nature of success,” rather than throwing his full weight behind the creation of global security standards for nuclear materials that independent experts say could have a more lasting and significant impact………http://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/06/15/17471/obama-steps-back-sweeping-nuclear-security-goal

June 17, 2015 - Posted by | general

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