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http://www.calgarysun.com/2012/03/23/nuclear-threat-a-clear-and-present-danger

Nuclear threat a clear and present danger
By Jessica Murphy ,Parliamentary Bureau
First posted: Sunday, March 25, 2012 12:00 AM MDT

OTTAWA - Threats of a Cold War nuclear attack sparked by aggression between the Yanks and Ruskies are 20 years behind us. But the world is now wrestling with a different nuclear threat - there's enough highly enriched uranium and separated plutonium lying around to produce more than 100,000 nuclear weapons, and not all of it is properly secured.

So this week, Prime Minister Stephen Harper will join over 50 world leaders and UN, International Atomic Energy Agency and European Union representatives in Seoul, South Korea, for the second Nuclear Security Summit aimed at tackling that very murky threat.

It's not just about securing the stockpiles of weapons in nuclear states - the U.S., U.K., Russia, France, Israel, China, Pakistan and India - against terrorists. It's also about facing and fixing the myriad security gaps in the nuclear power industry at large.

"There is more (weapons grade) material on civilian sites than all weapons stockpiles put together," says Matthew Bunn, a nuclear security expert with Harvard University.

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