Facing the nuclear terrorism threat

With enough nuclear material to build more than 120,000 Hiroshima-sized nuclear bombs spread around the globe, and significant amounts of these materials inadequately secured in dangerous regions, it’s time to get serious about rapidly locking down and reducing these dangerous stockpiles, write Alexandra Toma, program director at the Connect US Fund (and former Ploughshares Fund staff member), and Kenneth Luongo director of the Ploughshares-funded Partnership for Global Security

 

Toma and Luongo analyze the budget for the nuclear security agenda in the current fiscal year as well as four upcoming opportunities for the Obama administration and  Congress to expand the global coalition that can support the president’s goal of securing all vulnerable nuclear materials around the globe in four years.

 

The Hill