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Defense > Weapons of Mass Destruction > Nuclear Terrorism
Accelerate and expand the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
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Background
The U.S. and Russia have launched this initiative to:
- Improve accounting, control, and physical protection of nuclear material and radioactive substances, as well as security of nuclear facilities;
Detect and suppress illicit trafficking or other illicit activities involving such materials, especially measures to prevent their acquisition and use by terrorists;
- Respond to and mitigate the consequences of acts of nuclear terrorism;
Ensure cooperation in the development of technical means to combat nuclear terrorism;
Ensure that states takes all possible measures to deny safe haven to terrorists seeking to acquire or use nuclear materials; and
Strengthen our respective national legal frameworks to ensure the effective prosecution of, and the certainty of punishment for, terrorists and those who facilitate such acts.
[White House - http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/07/20060715-3.html]
- Improve accounting, control, and physical protection of nuclear material and radioactive substances, as well as security of nuclear facilities;
Detect and suppress illicit trafficking or other illicit activities involving such materials, especially measures to prevent their acquisition and use by terrorists;
- Respond to and mitigate the consequences of acts of nuclear terrorism;
Ensure cooperation in the development of technical means to combat nuclear terrorism;
Ensure that states takes all possible measures to deny safe haven to terrorists seeking to acquire or use nuclear materials; and
Strengthen our respective national legal frameworks to ensure the effective prosecution of, and the certainty of punishment for, terrorists and those who facilitate such acts.
[White House - http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/07/20060715-3.html]
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