Complacency May Raise Risk of Nuclear Terrorism

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama optimistically opened a 47- nation nuclear summit Monday, boosted by Ukraine's announcement that it will give up its weapons-grade uranium. More sobering: The White House counterterror chief warned that al-Qaida is vigorously pursuing ingredients and expertise for a bomb.

International nuclear experts meeting at a "parallel summit" said too many governments around the world don't believe terrorists can "go nuclear" and that complacency is slowing efforts to lock down the makings of atomic bombs.

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Complacency May Raise Risk of Nuclear Terrorism

"There are a number of people inclined to think that maybe concerns about nuclear terrorism are alarmist, that terrorists could never make a functioning nuclear weapon," said former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans, co-chairman of an international nuclear study commission.

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