
Safer World Update:
News:
November 19, 2007
Washington, DC. On the Senate floor today, U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) addressed the issue of nuclear security and the need to improve efforts to prevent nuclear terrorism.
Click here to read Senator Casey's speech.
September 22, 2007.
An editorial "Nuclear insecurity: Russia, U.S. must push effort to stop terrorists seeking atomic bombs" appeared in The Columbus Dispatch following a last month's visit to Columbus, Ohio, by Mr. Phineas Anderson and Ms. Carie Lemack, members of the Safer World Action Network. The editorial outlines the continued effort carried out by the The Nuclear Threat Initiative and Families of September 11, aimed at "preventing terrorists from acquiring nuclear weapons":
"The Nuclear Threat Initiative and Families of September 11 are among the organizations trying to focus public attention on the need for speed in nuclear disarmament worldwide and for a lockdown of weapons and materials."
Click here to read the full editorial.
| Around the world, men and women are working to secure nuclear weapons and materials — to keep them out of terrorist hands. This project is focused on building public support for their urgent mission. |
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"A wake-up call for America and the world. We need an
all-out effort to lock up weapons-grade nuclear material scattered throughout
dozens of countries around the world. If we act now, we can protect the American
people and prevent disaster."
— 9/11 Commission Chair and Vice Chair, Thomas
H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton
Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett told
his shareholders to watch Last Best Chance, calling it "a fictional but
not fanciful" scenario.