Obama: Nuclear terrorism is “gravest danger” to US

DPA
Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Washington – Barack Obama Wednesday charged that the Bush administration has failed to confront the threat of nuclear terrorism and vowed that if elected president, he would lead the effort to corral errant nuclear materials and stay one step ahead of biological and cyber threats.

Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, aimed to bolster his credentials on national security with the gathering organized by his campaign – billed as a summit on 21st Century threats at Purdue University in Indiana.

While Obama is seen as strong on major domestic issues such as health care and the economy, polls show the electorate believes Republican Senator John McCain, a downed Navy pilot in Vietnam, is stronger on security and military issues.

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Obama called nuclear terrorism ‘the gravest danger we face.’ He called President George W Bush to task for spending nearly 1 trillion dollars on the war in Iraq, which had no active nuclear programme, while 50 tons of highly enriched uranium at civilian nuclear facilities around the world often is ‘poorly secured.’

‘Now, we worry – most of all – about a rogue state or nuclear scientist transferring the world’s deadliest weapons to the world’s most dangerous people: terrorists who won’t think twice about killing themselves and hundreds of thousands in Tel Aviv or Moscow, in London or New York,’ Obama said.

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