Crackdown Sought on Nuclear Material

The Wall Street Journal ^ | April 7, 2010 | David Crawford and Peter Spiegel

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A proposed communiqué calls for leaders from more than 40 countries to endorse a global crackdown on the illicit trade of nuclear material at a summit in Washington next week.

The communiqué, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, calls for tougher criminal prosecution of traffickers, better accounting for weapons-grade nuclear materials and more international collaboration in such cases. The international community must "effectively prevent and respond to incidents of illicit nuclear trafficking," the draft says.

The U.S.-led initiative comes as Washington has been pushing for tougher sanctions against Iran in connection with Tehran's nuclear program. Though Iran isn't officially on the agenda of next week's meeting, officials said Tehran's suspected nuclear-weapons program and the international effort to contain it have lent the meeting an additional sense of urgency.

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Israeli military police in November with weapons, seized from a ship near Cyprus, that were bound for Hezbollah from Iran.

Who's gonna stop terrorists from obtaining nukes?

Sounds like a scenario from the 2002 film The Sum of All Fears.