By DAVID E. SANGER
Published: April 11, 2010
WASHINGTON — President Obama met on Sunday with the leaders of two countries that gave up nuclear weapons and two that are building more, and he prepared for his nuclear security summit meeting by warning that Al Qaeda was still seeking materials to build an atomic bomb.
“The single biggest threat to U.S. security, both short-term, medium-term and long-term, would be the possibility of a terrorist organization obtaining a nuclear weapon,” Mr. Obama said.
Al Qaeda, he said, is “trying to secure a nuclear weapon — a weapon of mass destruction that they have no compunction at using.”
Mr. Obama greeted the presidents of South Africa and Kazakhstan, Jacob Zuma and Nursultan Nazarbayev, in sessions meant to showcase countries that once possessed nuclear weapons and relinquished them. Mr. Obama has argued that the security of both countries improved thereafter.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/world/12prexy.html?fta=y
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