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Will the Nuclear Security Summit Help Stop Terrorists from Getting the Bomb?

| March 31, 2016

"Today and tomorrow, world leaders will gather for what will likely be the final international summit on security for nuclear weapons and the materials needed to make them—a key tool for preventing nuclear terrorism. The last time this group met, at the 2014 Nuclear Security Summit in the Hague, they declared that preventing terrorists from acquiring nuclear weapons or weapons-usable materials remained “one of the most important challenges in the years to come.” Yet, since then, nuclear security has improved only marginally, while the capabilities of some terrorist groups, particularly the Islamic State, have grown dramatically, suggesting that in the net, the risk of nuclear terrorism may be higher than it was two years ago..."

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For Academic Citation: Malin, Martin, Matthew Bunn, Nickolas Roth and William H. Tobey.“Will the Nuclear Security Summit Help Stop Terrorists from Getting the Bomb?.” The National Interest, March 31, 2016.

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