Washington, April 10: With terror outfits like al-Qaeda aiming to grab nuclear weapons, the US has warned that the risk of an atomic attack has increased and sought efforts to lock down the world’s vulnerable nuclear materials within four years and prevent them from falling into hands of terrorists.
“The nature of the threat has changed. We no longer live in constant fear of a global nuclear war where we’re in a standoff against the Russians with all of our nuclear arsenal on the ready, on a hair-trigger alert,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said yesterday.
“But, as (the US) President (Barack) Obama has said, the risk of a nuclear attack has actually increased. And the potential consequences of mishandling this challenge are deadly,” she said in her speech on nuclear non-proliferation at the University of Louisville, Kentucky.
–PTI