The annual Nuclear Security Summit, aimed at
reducing the world's nuclear weapons, gets underway Thursday in
Washington with President Obama hosting a series of meetings with the
leaders of several Asian nations to talk about efforts to prevent North
Korea from becoming a bigger threat.
But the gathering of more than 50 world leaders
will focus primarily on keeping terrorists from obtaining the
ingredients for a dirty bomb, a concern heightened by last week's terror
attacks in Belgium.
"Given the continued threat posed by
organizations such as the terrorist group we call ISIL, or ISIS, we'll
also join allies and partners in reviewing our counterterrorism efforts,
to prevent the world's most dangerous networks from obtaining the
world's most dangerous weapons," Obama wrote in a Washington Post op-ed.
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Source: NBC News
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