ID | 109560 |
Title Proper | Seoul nuclear summit |
Language | ENG |
Author | Pomper, Miles A ; Dover, Michelle E |
Publication | 2012. |
Summary / Abstract (Note) | IN APRIL 2010, Barack Obama convinced leaders from forty-seven countries to meet in Washington and discuss a topic to which most had previously paid scarce attention: securing vulnerable nuclear materials. Most of these leaders cared little about the matter at hand but were eager to please a popular new U.S. president with the goal of securing all nuclear materials within four years. The desire to cultivate Obama's favor had an important payoff: high-profile attention to an issue that has often lingered in obscurity, even compared to other concerns in the abstruse world of global nuclear politics. And that attention meant potentially significant progress in keeping nuclear-weapons materials from terrorists. |
`In' analytical Note | National Interest vol. 2012, No.117; Jan-Feb 2012: p.47-54 |
Journal Source | National Interest vol. 2012, No.117; Jan-Feb 2012: p.47-54 |
Key Words | Barack Obama ; Seoul Nuclear Summit ; Global Nuclear Politics ; South Korea ; Lee Myung-bak ; North Korea ; United States ; Nuclear Terrorism |