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The u.s. among the nations yet to ratify the treaty amendment. nor is it a sure thing that the congress will ratify the s.t.a.r.t. treaty. the senate now back in session, a republican aide telling "the roll call" that until the president has a plan in place to modernize, their terms, this country's nuclear weapons he will not see support for the treaty. time now to call on the director of the strategy program, author of "the washington note," steve clemens. steve, good evening. >> good evening, keith. >> so the president's al qaeda nuclear reference yesterday and the ukrainian announcement tod...

Institutions and working collaboratively with other nations to move security up and to try to show that america can contribute in positive ways to the global community, rather than destabilizing global affairs. >> that treaty amendment called on nations to protect their own nuclear materials, essentially at their own discretion, which begs this question. why in this supposedly post 9/11 world has it taken more than eight years to address the nuclear terrorist threat specifically? >> well, there are two things going on. first, under the leadership of people like john bolton, who used to be unde...

The world's stockpile of nuclear materials at 1600 tons of highly enriched uranium and 500 tons of plutonium. that is enough to make 120,000 nuclear weapons. think concerns about nuclear terrorism are alarmist? group of 200 experts now holding a parallel summit to say they're not. the chief u.s. negotiator during the crisis of 1994 telling the associated press, quote, it is possible, plausible and overtime probable that a determined and well-financed group would set off a nuclear blast somewhere. in 2005 more than 80 countries having agreed to new standards to safe guard nuclear materials with...

States was largely absent from and at least not constructive towards, and i think right now they're trying to say we're getting back into building global institutions and working collaboratively with other nations to move security up and to try to show that america can contribute in positive ways to the global community, rather than destabilizing global affairs. >> that treaty amendment called on nations to protect their own nuclear materials, essentially at their own discretion, which begs this question. why in this supposedly post 9/11 world has it taken more than eight years to address the ...

We had the u.s./russia s.t.a.r.t. agreement and all of this is flowing into an every five year rue view of the nuclear proliferation treaty, and i think right now they're trying to say we're getting back into building global institutions and working collaboratively with other nations to move security up and to try to show that america can contribute in positive ways to the global community, rather than destabilizing global affairs. >> that treaty amendment called on nations to protect their own nuclear materials, essentially at their own discretion, which begs this question. why in this suppos...