Mr Obama and Nuclear Weapons

Islamic State: Mr Obama has called for global action to prevent jihadists from getting hold of nuclear weapons or material for a dirty bomb , while speaking at a fourth leaders’ nuclear security summit yesterday, according to Nine News Australia. The first summit was held in Washington six years ago at Mr Obama behest, where he sketched out a vision of a world without nuclear weapons. US President Barack Obama has warned that extremist madmen from the Islamic State would not hesitate to launch a catastrophic nuclear attack if they had the means, at a global summit in Washington. Yesterday, he seemed eager to complete as much of his agenda as possible before his term finishes, as Republican front runner Donald Trump garners attention with unorthodox calls for South Korea and Japan to be nuclear-armed. He also shifted the focus on to North Korea provocative nuclear tests, the recently agreed nuclear deal on Iran and the threat from ISIL. That ISIL threat has loomed large over the two-day summit, amid revelations that the terrorist group carried out video surveillance on a top Belgian nuclear scientist."ISIL has already used chemical weapons, including mustard gas, in Syria and Iraq," Mr Obama said."There is no doubt that if these madmen ever got their hands on a nuclear bomb or nuclear material, they most certainly would use it to continue to kill as many innocent people as possible. Such utterances, Mr Obama said, "tell us the person who made the statements doesn't know much about foreign policy or nuclear policy or the Korean peninsula or the world generally."He used the summit to push for technical measures to safeguard fissile materials and limit the civilian use of the most dangerous uranium and plutonium. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.