Treaty boosts efforts to prevent nuclear terrorism

The arms control treaty being completed by the United States and Russia represents another step toward closing the books on the defining struggle of the final half of the 20th century, says an analysis in the New York Times.   “The larger meaning is the delegitimization of nuclear weapons,” said Kenneth N. Luongo, president of the Ploughshares-funded Partnership for Global Security, a nuclear security group pushing for aggressive efforts at the upcoming nuclear security summit on reducing nuclear terrorism threats.   “Obama will be able to go, and Medvedev as well, and say, ‘Here’s what we did on disarmament. Now we need to get serious about nuclear terrorism and nuclear materials.’ ”