Washington, April 13: US President Barack Obama today warned that terror groups like al-Qaeda were trying to acquire nuclear material for weapons posing one of the “greatest threats” to global security and pitched for concrete collective steps to deal with this challenge.
Addressing the Nuclear Security Summit here, Obama said the world would need “a new manner of thinking and action” to deal with the real problem facing the world peace and stability.
“Terrorist networks such as al-Qaeda have tried to acquire the material for a nuclear weapon. And if they ever succeeded, they would surely use it.
–Agencies