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President-elect Barack Obama has a historic opportunity to drastically reduce the threat of nuclear terrorism and should appoint a senior White House official to take charge of countering the danger, according to a new report [2]released today. The author, Ploughshares Fund grantee Matthew Bunn [3], director of Harvard University's Managing the Atom [4]project, said that "despite all the challenges he faces, President-elect Obama cannot afford to let this sit on a back-burner...It will take sustained White House leadership to close the dangerous gaps that still remain in our efforts to keep nuclear bombs out of terrorists' hands.
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[1] https://ploughshares.org/file/348
[2] http://www.nti.org/e_research/STB08_Executive_Summary.pdf
[3] http://www.ploughshares.org/expert.php?id=134
[4] http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/project/3/managing_the_atom.html
[5] http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/11/18/america/NA-US-Obama-Nuclear-Threat.php