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President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference at the Nuclear Security Summit, Friday, April 1, 2016, in Washington.

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Leaders Warn of Risk of Nuclear-Armed Terrorists

WASHINGTON (AP) — World and harrowing threat: ter- work that remains,” Obama kind. This year, deep con- rial they most certainly
leaders declared prog- rorists getting their hands said, adding that the vision cerns about terrorism were would use it to kill as many
ress Friday in safeguarding on a nuclear bomb. He of nuclear disarmament the focus, as leaders grap- innocent people as pos-
nuclear materials sought urged fellow leaders not he laid out at the start of pled with the notion that sible,” Obama said.
by terrorists and wayward to be complacent about his presidency may not be the next Paris or Brussels So far, no terrorists have ob-
nations, even as President the risk of catastrophe, say- realized during his lifetime. could involve an attack tained a nuclear weapon
Barack Obama acknowl- ing that such an attack by “But we’ve begun.” with a nuclear weapon or or a dirty bomb, Obama
edged the task was far the Islamic State or a similar Despite their calls for further dirty bomb. said, crediting global ef-
from finished. group would “change our action, the roughly 50 lead- “There is no doubt that if forts to secure nuclear ma-
Closing out a nuclear se- world.” ers assembled announced these madmen ever got terial.
curity summit, Obama “I’m the first to acknowl- that this year’s gathering their hands on a nuclear
warned of a persistent edge the great deal of would be the last of this bomb or nuclear mate- Continued on page 3