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Researchers from the U.S. and Russia today issued a joint assessment of the global threat of nuclear terrorism, warning of a persistent danger that terrorists could obtain or make a nuclear device and use it with catastrophic consequences. The study recommends measures to tighten security over existing nuclear weapons and the nuclear materials terrorists would need to make a crude nuclear bomb, along with expanded police and intelligence cooperation to interdict nuclear smuggling and stop terrorist nuclear plots.
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William Tobey is the Director of the US-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism. He is a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center and has been a key part of the Belfer team working on the Initiative since its inception. He is a former Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation at the National Nuclear Security Administration and has years of experience working with Russian and foreign counterparts on nuclear issues.
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