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Securing Russia’s loose nukes: Progress since 9/11

Four years after a bipartisan Task Force recommended an acceleration of programs to secure Russia's vulnerable nuclear weapons and materials by 2009-2011, a report by the Henry L. Stimson Center and the Center for American Progress finds that the United States may not reach that goal until 2020-2030. A distinguished panel featuring Graham T. Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government and Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and others discuss the threat and comment on the report. Robert O. Boorstin, Senior Vice President for National Security at the Center for American Progress, moderates. The authors of the report -- Brian Finlay, Senior Associate at the Henry L. Stimson Center, and Andrew Grotto, Policy Analyst at the Center for American Progress -- answer questions.
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