Preview of next week's Nuclear Security Summit

The threat of nuclear terrorism "is the rational behind next week's Nuclear Security Summit here in Washington, DC,"  said Alexandra Toma, co-chair of the Fissile Materials Working Group (and a former Ploughshares Fund staff member), as she welcomed reporters to a press briefing about the summit.  "The twin threats of nuclear terrorism and nuclear proliferation represent the most serious challenges to the security of the globe.  That's why there's a growing bipartisan consensus among military and national security experts who are promoting a new nuclear security agenda aimed at the reducing and eventually eliminating this threat.  This consensus is being woven into every aspect of the Obama Administration's nuclear security agenda as well...It is the rationale behind the fundamental shift we saw in this morning's Nuclear Posture Review."  Toma introduced nuclear security experts Kenneth Luongo, Matthew Bunn and Elizabeth Turpen.

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