Obama should appoint nuclear terrorism czar, says new report

President-elect Barack Obama has a historic opportunity to drastically reduce the threat of nuclear terrorism and should appoint a senior White House official to take charge of countering the danger, according to a new report released today.  The author, Ploughshares Fund grantee Matthew Bunn, director of Harvard University's Managing the Atom project, said that "despite all the challenges he faces, President-elect Obama cannot afford to let this sit on a back-burner...It will take sustained White House leadership to close the dangerous gaps that still remain in our efforts to keep nuclear bombs out of terrorists' hands.