{"id":485667,"date":"2010-03-29T17:11:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T21:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=15234"},"modified":"2010-03-29T17:11:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T21:11:03","slug":"keeping-nuclear-weapons-from-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/485667","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Nuclear Weapons From Terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Just hours after suicide bombers killed at least 36 people and injured nearly 100 others on packed subway trains in Moscow, Russian and American dignitaries expressed concerns that someday terrorist attacks could be carried out using nuclear weapons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201cI think that what happened today in Moscow is an act of brutal terrorism that is certainly, absolutely unacceptable,\u201d said Sergey Kislyak, Russian Federation ambassador to the United States. \u201cIt\u2019s just a reminder that terrorists wouldn\u2019t stop at anything, and they are willing to take innocent lives with disregard even to theirs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Ambassador Kislyak was preparing to speak at a nuclear weapons disarmament conference at Georgia Tech University in Atlanta today when news of the Moscow bombing broke. He pointed to the deadly rush hour attack as a grave warning that  keeping nuclear weapons out of the hands of terrorists means eliminating them completely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201cWe have more than 70 countries working with us in order to prevent this from happening,\u201d  Kislyak said.  \u201cI think it\u2019s a good example of what Russia and the United States can do together to address this issue. But it\u2019s not nearly enough. We need to double this effort.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Former US Senator Sam Nunn hosted Kislyak, along with several other academic, government and private sector experts, to discuss the possibility of a global elimination of nuclear weapons. He says the post-cold war drive to reduce them has gathered unprecedented momentum as nuclear capabilities spread beyond Russia and the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201cTwo major nuclear powers is one thing,\u201d said Senator Nunn.  \u201cPreventing materials from getting into the hands of terrorists when you have more and more nuclear powers is a nightmare. And that\u2019s the nightmare we hope to prevent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Nunn said recent reports that Iran is covertly attempting to develop nuclear capabilities suggest that nation is in clear violation of international treaties and has created tension around the globe. He also said Iran\u2019s known links to terrorist groups pose a security threat to the United States, Russia and Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201cEven if they stop short of nuclear capacity in terms of weapons, but develop the ability to very rapidly produce nuclear weapons, it would alter the whole balance in the region,\u201d Nunn said. \u201cIt would also encourage other countries to move forward with their own nuclear weapons.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Nunn and Kilsyak said they hope a new arms reduction agreement between President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev forges a new path to the reduction of nuclear weapons in other countries. Obama and Medvedev are expected to cut their countries\u2019 nuclear arsenals by a third when they sign the Strategic Arms Reduction Agreement or START on April 8.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201cWe have to have a long-term goal of reducing our own nuclear inventories and moving toward a nuclear-free world if we are going to get the support we need to deal with Iran and North Korea,\u201d Nunn said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just hours after suicide bombers killed at least 36 people and injured nearly 100 others on packed subway trains in Moscow, Russian and American dignitaries expressed concerns that someday terrorist attacks could be carried out using nuclear weapons. \u201cI think that what happened today in Moscow is an act of brutal terrorism that is certainly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}