If President Obama is correct that—as he said in Prague last year, and his Nuclear Posture Review repeated a week ago—the risk of terrorists acquiring a nuclear weapon is now the greatest threat facing the United States, the Washington "nuclear security summit" this week is arguably far more important than the New START treaty he signed last week with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. New START takes modest steps to wind down a standoff that, hopefully, belongs to history. Nuclear terrorism, by contrast, is a new threat that the international community simply isn't organized to confront. The gathering of 47 world leaders in Washington to discuss this suggests everyone is beginning to realize it. Obama's challenge will be to translate unease into action.
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